Anyone buying Dreamblade?

[Festivus]

I've played it. It's an interesting game, pretty fun blend of board-strategy and miniatures strategy. But yeah, you have to evaluate it as a stand-alone strategy game. Pretend it's from some other gaming company, and try not to value it in terms of D&D or DDM.

I mean, you guys play Puerto Rico, Settlers, Shadow Over Camelot, and other games, right? When put alongside those, Dreamblade stands up fairly well.

-z

Hopefully better than Hetacomb or whatever it was called... yick. Also, I demo-ed AAM and didn't care for the volume of D6's you had to roll to resolve combat, but then I don't think I was their target demographic. The miniature tanks look nifty though.

 

[Uder]

Their scale is a bit wonky. I have little interest in playing the game, if a figure comes up that looks cool I might buy a single on ebay.

 

[The Human Target]

I played it, and watched it being played.

Not a bad game, just wasn't my cup of tea.

I can't see it becoming super popular really.

Its just a bit odd.

 

[Felon]

I'm sure too, but doesn't that exclude age 9 to 23 due to image perception alone? It just doesn't make good business sense to me.

I don't know, maybe high school/college has gotten a lot more accepting/less ridiculing since my day Those are your disposable income/buying toys demo, right?

Hey, wave your geek flag, more power to you, I'm past the point of caring what other people think/say about my hobby. But 9-23 year olds usually don't have that perspective...unless heavily medicated for depression

??? Where's this "geek flag" nonsense? You don't have to wear the minis around your neck.

Ten-year olds aren't exactly a bunch of hipsters. When I was a kid in the 1980's, the cut off age for buying comic books and playing with "plastic dolls" (which, as most folks are aware, go by the more masculine title of "action figures") was somewhere around thirteen or fourteen.

And of corse, neither Dreamblade, nor Magic, nor D&D play to the "cool" crowd anyway. They play to the brainy, "nerdy" crowd. By high-school age, the nerd gets a driver's license and doesn't have to play with his toys in the middle of a schoolyard.

And college age kids? They do whatever they want to when they're not in class.

Trust me, image-consciousness didn't stop MageKnight and HeroClix from taking off.

 

[Drowbane]

Dreamblade?

Nope!

I throw enough money at WotC with my D&D textbooks and D&D minis!

Instead of this "Dreamblade" crap, WotC should have set up a Singles line for D&D Minis (beyond the Iconic Dragons). Every DM I know would go out and buy 2 or 3 Beholders, and other classic MM monsters.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I've bought some- the game is OK, but I like some of the minis better than the DDM or WizKids stuff. Basically, I'm buying it instead of the HorrorClix.

The bases are a bit large, and as for scale of the minis- the game does not have a set scale. The "homicidal sciscors" are on a base the same size as that of the "chain golem." Some of the sculpts are quite nice, and almost none of them fit any monster you'd name easily. Most of the paint jobs are all right, but at least one dissapointed me (the one of the lady with the crescent sword on one of the booster boxes)- it was a bit sloppy, turning what could have been an awesome mini into something merely average. Hopefully, its just my particular mini, and not indicative of that mini in general.

It does have a Rare/Uncommon/Common distribution, so if you like the minis only, you're probably better off waiting to pounce on singles online.

 

[blargney the second]

If the bases were useful for D&D, I'd probably pick up a few packs. As it is, the base size happens to be perfectly inadequate for D&D's 1" grid. There are actually some figures that'd make great Quori.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

While some of the figures are gorgeous, I will not throw my money on a different minis game other than DnD, and those minis are rarely bought anyway.

 

[thulsadoomson]

Not much interest in this game myself. I saw it at gencon and it looked sort of cool, just not my cup of tea. I think this game will mostly be played by the super competitive type of ccg players, due to the cash prizes given out at the tourneys. While the prizes aren't nearly as much as given out for Magic and Vs. system, I still think it will bring in that sort of player.

 

[Graf]

Like magic cards or D&D books weren't geeky enough, now ...

You're -posting- on a message board devoted entirely to a hobby where you sit around a table and pretend to be an elf with magical powers.....

It may be a bit too late for you to start worrying about how geeky you look.

[/ontopic]
Already picked up some figs. Obviously its tricky to find people to play right now but Tweet's never made a game that wasn't good and my impression is that this was his baby.