The Syndicate starter makes β3 now 1/5 complete. As I wrote earlier, the 2 starters for β3 will differ from the baseline starters of β2 by spread and difficulty to master. The Syndicate starter has only 3 Agents, and no Illuminati. The Agents are SecOps, Legal Ops and Research ops. Each of the Agents has an inbuilt… Read More β3 Syndicate starter
All 52 cards for the β2 are ready for initial play testing. After we drive them through couple of 2 player games – we send the set to the printers. The set should be at printers before January. Gameplay reference is updated for all the new keywords etc. and can be found from the page Playing the game. The… Read More β2 print and play (draft 3)
Complete Action deck has 5 Instants, 5 Events and 5 Runs. This enables 6 turn demo game with 2 players. First draft version of print-and-play sheets for the Action Deck: The 3 new Actions for the set are: Burner: a ” mod” Instant that works like Protege and adds an action Gas Leak: an Event… Read More Closed beta 2 Action deck
Small (actually huge) update to Open Beta 2 release plan: 11 Card Order starter 11 Card Cult starter 25 Actions 25 Assets This makes the Beta 2 playable with 2 players and on demand printable in a box. The release should be finished by the beginning of Jannuary. The Cult Starter Cult Starter will follow… Read More Beta 2 goals and Cult Actions
Beta starters will each contain 1 of each basic Action, 4 Agents and 4 Locations. The card distribution change reduces the volatility of the starting turns and enables core gameplay elements for each faction. The Agents for the order will be (point scores may change before release) The Grey, Remover, Envoy and Keeper. The card… Read More The Beta Order Agents
After a welcome hiatus to https://thequickrpg.wordpress.com I’m slowly returning to this project. Current goal for B2 is fixing all actions and core decks before february 2017. This should make the game playable with the new ruleset and terminology. Without further ado – here are some previews.
The first layout test of Open Beta Assets is the Remover. An Illuminate Agent able to burn an Event card as a Run. The Removers are highly effective troubleshooting assets trained by the the Order, who work for those who can can persuade the Removers to their case. This is reflected by having a copy… Read More The Remover
Fixing the Run mechanic with Draw +1 and turn order with summoning sickness opened a completely new design path: the toolbox Trifles can now be deprecated. Gear Up! and Rip the Veil are two Runs that used to be Trifles. Gear Up! is an early variant of Torn starter deck’s Far Reaches “generic action card” whereas Rip the Veil is a direct Trifle to Run conversion. Development notes:… Read More Open beta: Toolbox Runs
Consecrate and Own the Night are the Open betas more complex Runs. The cards have limited use in most scenarios, but can be game changing in the right deck. Consecrate is a mesh of two earlier cards. It works with one of the three main keywords (Anomaly, Illuminate, Witch) and gives the player an ability… Read More Open beta: Advanced Offense
In the original concept game – offense failed miserably. It took multiple iterations of the decks to make the offense competitive and few more to make it balanced without a need to stack extra Reactions to each starter deck. Echelon Op and Leverage are class examples of the original offence concept. Losing Influence and less… Read More Open beta: Basic Offense
