There can be only...two?
Aug. 21st, 2009 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
triadruidSo, years ago when most of my visits to the Internet were done through the telnet protocol, there was a MUD called Valhalla that hosted an electronic version of the Highlander: The Card Game*. I was enamored of it beyond reason (okay, some reason... I enjoyed both the original film and the TV series a LOT), and got pretty good at the game, taking 9 or 10 heads as I recall in their ongoing tournament-style play. But the game died out due to being too narrow-focus, I guess, and I never got the chance to play in the real world...this was about 96-97, when Magic: The Gathering (no relation) was huge.
*The game was more-or-less a Magic-style duel, but with sword combat taking the place of (most of) the monster attacks. You could make an attack, your opponent would either play a defense, a Special, or "Exert" through 5 cards of their deck to try to find something to pull their butt out of the fire. Take 15 points of damage and you lose the combat. BUT the bigger danger was if your opponent started whittling you down, your hand got correspondingly smaller and you had less options at your disposal. If they managed to get off a Head Shot that you couldn't block or avoid, they'd take your Quickening (special ability) and your deck is essentially DEAD. There's more to it than that (including some very cheesy stuff in the 2nd Edition), but at its heart it's a card-based swordfight.
Fast forward to this week. A random Google search, or something, leads me to a small ProBoard website about the Highlander CCG. Turns out not ONLY has a new company started to put out a "2nd Edition", but they're essentially based at 31st Century Games in Olathe! I'm at ground-bloody zero of game development, and they play locally in at least two FLGSs, not including tournaments.
I am unreasonably, stupidly excited by this. Anybody else who might want to play?
*The game was more-or-less a Magic-style duel, but with sword combat taking the place of (most of) the monster attacks. You could make an attack, your opponent would either play a defense, a Special, or "Exert" through 5 cards of their deck to try to find something to pull their butt out of the fire. Take 15 points of damage and you lose the combat. BUT the bigger danger was if your opponent started whittling you down, your hand got correspondingly smaller and you had less options at your disposal. If they managed to get off a Head Shot that you couldn't block or avoid, they'd take your Quickening (special ability) and your deck is essentially DEAD. There's more to it than that (including some very cheesy stuff in the 2nd Edition), but at its heart it's a card-based swordfight.
Fast forward to this week. A random Google search, or something, leads me to a small ProBoard website about the Highlander CCG. Turns out not ONLY has a new company started to put out a "2nd Edition", but they're essentially based at 31st Century Games in Olathe! I'm at ground-bloody zero of game development, and they play locally in at least two FLGSs, not including tournaments.
I am unreasonably, stupidly excited by this. Anybody else who might want to play?
