| From: | Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: SRTCG and rec.games.trading-cards.misc |
| Date: | Tue, 9 Sep 1997 05:12:57 -0700 |
> > put together I'm sending them to FASA as a submission. (Actually,
> > I've emailed Mike, asking them if they are accepting subs, with no
> > response yet.)
> If you do get any response forward it to me. I am thinking about
> throwing together a web page for a NERPS like expansion to SRTCG.
> Probably going to be called NERPS, for all the cards use mailing
> listers think up. Also let me know if you just can not make the 150 I
> would like to contribute to any thing you have. And if FASA wont take
> them send them to me for the NERPS site.
Well, I'm going to have to stay out of the project for now. I don't
want to end up with anyone feeling I plagiarized them, although from the
few postings so far, there are definitely some common threads...
I *know* I have 150 cards in my head, don;t worry :) And plenty of
weird ideas to fit them out with. I used to playtest for L5R, so at
least I have some experience in this field..
> > From another point of view -- I like SRTCG a lot more than the White
> > Wolf-inspired games (*far* too many attributes on cards, those) and
> > more than what MtG became (rules lawyerism at its bestest!). SRTCG
> is bloody -simplistic-, and to me, that's one of its best selling
> points.
> > You actually can play with just a starter and two boosters (try
> *that* with Rage of Jyhad!)
> I counted 21 attributes possible one any one runner card (14 skill & 7
> traits). Thats alot and not any more than Jyhad. Jyhad was a very
> good game in the beginning, but WotC keep 99% of its resources tide to
> Magic.
> That really showed in that the expansions were not tested enough and a
> lot of cards were broken. Hopefully that does not happen with SRTCG,
> hopefully SRTCG gets better with each expansion.
> I have to defend Jyhad it was my favorite CCG until I lost interest
> after the bad expansions.
Well.. we have differing opinions. IIRC, though, there were even more
traits on a Vampire card (clan and skills - I may be blending this into
Rage..) But I ended up with a lot of cards that were only usable by,
say, Ventrue, and only getting two or three Ventrue made that card (cool
as it might be) useless. Starter decks _weren't_; I can remember more
than one that was utterly unusable. And there were a lot of cards that
were only usable by one particular clan, or one particular skill.
Not that SRTCG doesn't have 'class' cards, but so far I've gotten a good
mix of cards (with the exception of deckers, as I only had nine (!)
Gear.Matrix cards after an entire box of boosters. But that's evened
out now.) And a lot of the Gear.Items are usable by any Runner.
Don't know about the Jyhad expansions (wasn't even sure there were any!)
I can say this, though, that with the deliberate "we're going to reprint
X cards", SRTCG has the feel of a beta release. Hell, if they needed
playtesters, I woulda volunteered.
