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Follow-up #QuestionOfTheDay what's a work that you think is underrated/overlooked because of who made it/the series or franchise it was packaged under/the company that released it/etc?

For example, a game made by a company famous for action games that was not an action game so people tuned it out or dismissed it, or a song that's very different from the expected style of a musician, a movie released under a franchise that was a good movie but did not fit the franchise, etc

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#QuestionOfTheDay what's a work that you think is underrated/overlooked because of when it came out? (for example, it came out right between 2 major releases and got overlooked, or right after or right before the much more successful thing that redefined the genre it is in, or it came out when the genre/topic/style was out of fashion or it came out before the genre/topic/style got hot, etc)

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Hubworld: Aidalon, 2 players

The Earthborne Games team did a fun little thing and released a free demo deck for their upcoming LCG, Hubworld Aidalon. Just pay shipping and they'll send you a physical deck, and they let a TTS module of it out into the wild as well. It's sort of a rebirth of netrunner, with many similar concepts but without a clear offense/defense player split.

It's a nice, tightly put together package. Really good game if competitive CCGs are your thing, especially ones with a lot of deception that aren't clear card fighting games. I was pretty impressed. That said, I don't know that I'll be getting the finished product when it goes up for crowd funding---I just don't have room in my life for a 1-2 times a year non-coop LCG. I play most of my competitive games online, without much room for a deck building game that would feature lots of thrust counter-thrust ideally against a regular opponent. It took about an hour, and was kinda slow on TTS because a lot of it involves revealing cards which can be a lengthier thing than it would be in person. The decisionmaking felt quite sharp and the economic considerations were extremely brutal.

One thing to call out in the game is that it looks *great.* It has a totally cohensive art style across all of the cards. It's sort of a late 1970s Legend of Galactic Heroes anime style crossed with Moebius style European cartoons of the era. Whomever is the art director is killing it---all of the card art pulled in exactly the same direction, which is a tough thing to pull off. By comparison, my Arkham LCG player card set came in and the difference was palpable---Arkham has art styles all over the place and struggles to create any sense of place.

Anyway, huge recommend that you try this one out if you're in the competitive LCG/CCG audience. Shipping was ~7 USD.

#hubworldaidalon #earthbornegames #michaelboggs #corydevore #boardgames #tabletop #tabletopgames #tabletopsimulator #ccg #lcg #netrunner #bgg #boardgamegeek

I've been playing Clans of London, a Vampire the Masquerade digital CCG currently in early access. Some thoughts.

- It is Marvel Snap, but vampires.
- The gameplay is thematic, choices are meaningful, it is a fast, fun and engaging experience
- I have no clue why London. Seems arbitrary and inconsequential.
- Clans are not part of the mechanics, but clan members broadly support certain concepts.
- Disciplines are not a thing.
- Art fits with V5

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This is less of a sure thing, but if you want to support the development of the game, you’ll be able to get PRISMATIC REFLECTION OF PASSION, an add-on with foil, full-art versions of some of the cards in the box. Exact details to come on this one!

None of the products is randomized; you buy and you get what you need, no boosters nor loot box drops.

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WITCHES’ REVEL is an extensible card game of small witches with big personalities, fighting over petty grudges with the most devastating spells, before settling for bragging rights over tea.

ETERNAL RHAPSODY is a 2-player box containing all cards in the game, in the form of two preconstructed decks. Embody explosive Celosia or unquiet Nymphaea to see who is the best among the two most passionate of witches!

#QuestionOfTheDay if you had to be roommates with a fictional archvillain, who would you choose?

(Define archvillain as a major villain, chief villain, leader, etc whoever you would see as one of the "main" villains in something and not merely a minion or lieutenant, if they're primarily the villain of a story despite working for a greater evil they can still count for the purposes of this question (Shredder, Sauron, Moff Tarkin, etc), my intent is just for people not to pick like Iago from Aladdin or something)

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Follow-up #QuestionOfTheDay from yesterday: what is an interesting/creative adaptation of something you like/care about? (any adaptation from one medium to another counts, so it can be video game to anime, comic to movie, movie to video game, board games, books, myths, poems, theatre, etc, anything counts as long as it went from one medium to another)

It doesn't have to be good or bad or even accurate, just creative or interesting in a way you want to talk about!

bonus points for explaining why it's interesting to you or why you think it's creative

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