Cult Of Games XLBS: How Do You Make Magic Feel EPIC In A Miniatures Wargame?
October 23, 2022 by warzan
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Good Happy Sunday morning.
Any chance you’d recently had your COVID booster before lucid dreaming… I had one the morning after.
AI and bias is a fascinating topic. Who curates the source learning material? Who provides the feedback to ‘correct’ the learning?
Not been called up for my jags yet. Should be soon though.
I had my covid jab and all I got was a lousy sore arm
the 3D printed spaze dorfs are slightly bigger then the GW ones
Warren’s Dream reality; When Warren was licking the window, Andrea woke up look across and thought what is that idiot doing now…dear god.why is he licking the window. I’ll just go back to sleep and pretend I dreamt it.
Gerrys dream reality; He spoke to some poor random woman on the bus about a theme week, trying to ping ideas off her.
So @warzan is going to discuss silicon heaven with AI… that could be fun
By the way am picking the Witcher back up again… please don’t tell me the end, it will leshen the experience for me…
Making magic epic means making it rare. If everyone has spells it makes it feel commonplace.
That’s the difference between Middle Earth and Forgotten Realms.
One has 5 Istari in the world. The other has millions of spell slingers.
Obviously this observation is more applicable to RPG’s than wargaming.
Hi XLBS COGz.
Gaming challenge.
Not in the right mindset to delve in and come up with my own version, but lots of the mechanics reminded me of the let’s play I have seen of the Plastic Soldier Company WW1 game. I think that game has lots of interesting hooks to hang similar ideas from, but I believe they have more randomness than you would like. I think if you give that game a good look and drag any random elements out of it it would be worth your time just from an ideas standpoint.
Warren was in that street in Holland with the interesting window attractions.?
@warzan How about taking a look at the Star Wars Legion command hand system. There is no randomness as each player has the same number of cards of each number of “pips”. But in your game the pips equal the amount of magic your wizard is drawing that turn. To Justin’s point, the player that reveals the lowest number of pips either goes first or gets a free move, the other player will be more powerful magically that turn. Over the course of the game it all evens out, but the strategy is in when you use your big magic… Read more »
Cut an paste like most journalist’s nowadays do I think.
My Windows is testing me it fcuked up an update an now it’s glitchy an temperament an I’m ready to launch it some time’s.
Audible is you friend @warzan
I got through the simarillion thanks to them.
Ooh the smell of hospitals Yay.
Get him neutered and he won’t be as smelly as a smelly cat @warzan.
Check out at the back of the Ark @avernos ?
Magic in game’s should look like the toon LOTR film at helm’s deep.?
Nice one guy’s.
Interesting chat as usual. Well done to the GB winners this week, lovely looking stuff. The game design chat this week had me thinking of Stratego as a wargame that is very close to chess. Certainly worth looking at for the every unit type is known and have related abilities.
I know it has been done, but a Hello Kitty Spaz-Marine chapter…
Happy Sunday,
May gods good grace shine on you today and you are able to watch the Greatest Movie ever made.
I liked Gerry’s idea of blood magic, you want to do some minor magic then debuff one your units to power it, you want to do something spectacular then you have sacrifice one (or more) of your own units to power the spell. Something like that could work, you might have to make sure you dont end up with an army of chaff that are just there to power a wizard.
So you suck off your levy to cast a spell? Count me in!
Sounds like a good bit of fun, I’ll take a crack at this no randomness design and see what I can do.
Happy Sunday .. erm Monday! 00:00 Lucid dreaming? Oh oh 03:00 Basic Instinct – OH OH 04:45 The more you know… the less you want to know 06:45 Skelletons riding spiders? oO 09:30 You cannot program cardboard! 10:30 99+ unread emails… *eyes twitching* 12:45 A Hard to your what?! oO 18:00 Old stuff? On the internet? Impossibru! 20:00 I want to hear Ben. Please let Ben talk… 21:00 Outch 22:00 Uhm…. 23:00 Fresh! 24:00 Nailstamps. They to exist. 25:20 Why wouldn’t I put Hello Kitty on the shields? 28:30 But why do that on facepage? The Zuck will harvest your… Read more »
Warren shaves and licks a window, Justin discusses rotten mangos, Gerry advocates blood magic, Ben subtly makes a politcial statement and a cat has returned to XLBS… just like the old gypsy woman foretold!
Enjoyable episode all round chaps!