Code-name: "The Goblin Game"

[Mark]

This looks like WotC is trying some new strategies to draw online players of various games -

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=goblinz/welcome

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/news/20060825b

 

[Enkhidu]

That sounds exactly like an old PBM game played through a browser.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I demand a Goblipedia next year that uses that art and the world-building stuff, but for D&D!

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

I love the art, especially the two miners at the bottom of the second link. They look like they might have breathed a bit too much noxious fumes...

AR

 

[VirgilCaine]

New double weapon! Double-bladed shovel!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

If this game can be played during the work day by doing a turn when the work day is slow (I'm on hold or waiting for people to call me back a lot), I'd be up for paying for a game or two.

But I'm serious about them using this fluff for D&D, too.

 

[blargney the second]

That looks like fun

 

[Agent Oracle]

Ooh.. i hope someone is resurrecting Goblins and Grenades!

Player 1 "I move my jungle goblin forward six, and left three, and chuck the pineapple!"

Player 2 "The pineapple? That's a fruit, not a grenade! You eat it to restore one health!"

Player 3 "Too late, he already threw it. so it does one spiky rind damage to your Aquatic goblin."

Player 2: "Owie."

 

[ephemeron]

That sounds exactly like an old PBM game played through a browser.

Agreed. I remember several companies trying similar things in response to the effect that the rise of online gaming was having on the PBM industry, but I don't remember any of them lasting all that long.

I'd love to see the return of big turn-based strategy games, but it seems an odd thing for Wizards to invest in right now.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Agreed. I remember several companies trying similar things in response to the effect that the rise of online gaming was having on the PBM industry, but I don't remember any of them lasting all that long.

I'd love to see the return of big turn-based strategy games, but it seems an odd thing for Wizards to invest in right now.

I suspect it's a board game that they're testing the waters on before rolling it out in hard copy form.