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The AV Card Creation Process Continues

Mon, 07/16/2012 - 08:31 — Evil ColSanders
Card Design 4a

So I took BubbleChuck's idea and ran with it.

http://www.bgdf.com/node/6815

I've HASTILY worked on an unfinished copy in my own stylings. As much as I LOVE his card, I want the gritty, dull, browned colors I've been working with. It doesn't look half as good as his but again, this was hastily put together in the morning with no sleep.

The sword has been replaced with a fist.
The hat is now leaning the same direction as everything else.

Newest Card Design (3)

Fri, 07/13/2012 - 17:37 — Evil ColSanders
Card Design 3

Here's the latest card design based off of the second card.

Tell me what you think.

Arcana Victoriana Cards part 2

Wed, 07/11/2012 - 02:40 — Evil ColSanders
AV Card 2

Here is the second card. I'm a bit partial to the first but the 2 card ideas were given to me so I made both.

If you care to voice your opinion on what you prefer, leave a comment.

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This is a lot more tidy than the first. It takes up more space because of that.
The tabs to the right of the grid make it easier for people to know/remember what the stats mean and allows for quick reference. The first card does not have this. The first card relies on reading the rules and seeing the diagrams of the card which state what all the boxes, icons, and numbers mean.

Arcana Victoriana Cards

Wed, 07/11/2012 - 02:37 — Evil ColSanders
Card Design 1

After a long hiatus, I'm gotten back to working on my game. I got tired of having to use sheets of paper with 8 characters printed out on each. After about 2-3 weeks of discussion of the layout, I banged 2 possible card layouts in 3-5 days totally about 6 hours of actual work time. I can't put both in one blog post so I'll post the First submission here, then another in another blog. I'd like to have some input on whether you'd prefer this card or the second card I've posted.

Here are some of the differences:

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Arcana Victoriana: Setup and Scenarios

Thu, 04/26/2012 - 17:02 — Evil ColSanders

Been a long time since I posted anything up. I've just been buying, basing, and painting steampunk figures and anything else I could get my hands on to pose as the characters for my miniatures game. You can't really get people into play testing if things aren't painted... Finally got off my ass as this army of one and started making rules changes and scenario play.

SETUP AND SCORING

Arcana Victoriana: Finally! A successful play test!

Fri, 06/03/2011 - 08:43 — Evil ColSanders
Play Test of Arcana Victoriana

After play testing AV twice today, I made some headway.
Strengthening Ranged helped.
Lowering Defense helped.

Rules we played by:
3 Fate Coins were given. They were used to either add a die to attack or Gear Down your difficulty to hit.
Fate Coins do not replenish.
Initiative is rolled after every round.
While engaged in combat, you may leave combat at half speed without provoking a model's attack.
While engaged by 2 enemy models, you cannot move.
Charging a model allows you to move at 1.5x speed. Example: Mov 5+2.5= Charge distance of 7.5

Arcana Victoriana: Still not happy with the change.

Tue, 05/31/2011 - 07:45 — Evil ColSanders

I'm really missing the 3-dice system. I trashed the idea after I was told the dice system was too dice-y. In other words, the numbers swung too much. I don't know if I'll ever go back to fix it. "Real" wargamers want hard numbers. They don't want to leave attacks to chance even if the dice allocated are based on a stat.

I've since been working on the d12 system and I'm running into options and having to choose 1 route to take.
Attacker gets X dice. He needs to roll Y Number or higher to successfully hit/damage.

Arcana Victoriana: Character Stat Rewrite

Wed, 05/18/2011 - 08:23 — Evil ColSanders

As the title says, I'm rewriting the stats of every character I've made so far. Printing them out is going to be a problem. I don't know what the layout on the cards will be. Sure, I could just print them on a big white sheet of paper, but it gets difficult finding what character you're using when nothing is bolded and you have several pages.

Arcana Victoriana: Alpha Playtest

Fri, 05/13/2011 - 09:56 — Evil ColSanders

I tried a short and sweet, proof of concept playtest thursday night with Wes. It worked out alright but Wes thought it was a bit too random. It would work better as a "light narrative wargame/role-playing game". Basically, all those hours of work are for not. It's fine though. Live and learn.

:EDIT:

Really??? You beat me to my own game???

Mon, 04/04/2011 - 04:54 — Evil ColSanders

Saturday, at 4 in the morning, I finished v3.0 of my game (to which I believe will be the final version). I was looking at the newest Game Trade Magazine after I got off of work that afternoon and read through all the new games coming out.

I come across this game coming out in May 2011 called "Letter Flipz", "Flip Cardz", or something to that effect.

"A game in which players frantically flip over cards with letters printed on them to create words as fast as possible."

***** Expletive removed *****

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