Mystery Man
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Went over to one of the players in my DND game that I run with my shoe box full of minis and we sat down and actually played this mini game.
It was a lot of fun actually. For some reason the first game we played ended up a good vs evil game with him having a ton of "good" minis and me with an "evil" medusa and some (four pieces total) other "evil" cannon fodder. One of the rules is that your minis has to be of like alignment and the other being that you couldnt have over a hundred points worth of minis (the medusa herself is worth like 62 points) in your army. My medusa mopped the floor with all of his "good" minis. He was like, "boy your evil characters are powerful!" So I didn't play the medusa the next game but traded her for a couple of lower numbered pieces, the bearded devil and something else. Again I creamed his good aligned party. So we traded alignments and my party leader was a cleric of Correlan Larithan (sp?) and he cleaned my clock with a barghest and umber hulk (sweet momma they're fearsome!) and some other cannon fodder.
We had a blast anyway and we don't have all the minis but I wonder if there's a balance issue with the evil minis being too overpowering?
It really is a lot of fun but it would never replace DnD. What it will do is bring new people into the hobby, that I'm sure of.
It was a lot of fun actually. For some reason the first game we played ended up a good vs evil game with him having a ton of "good" minis and me with an "evil" medusa and some (four pieces total) other "evil" cannon fodder. One of the rules is that your minis has to be of like alignment and the other being that you couldnt have over a hundred points worth of minis (the medusa herself is worth like 62 points) in your army. My medusa mopped the floor with all of his "good" minis. He was like, "boy your evil characters are powerful!" So I didn't play the medusa the next game but traded her for a couple of lower numbered pieces, the bearded devil and something else. Again I creamed his good aligned party. So we traded alignments and my party leader was a cleric of Correlan Larithan (sp?) and he cleaned my clock with a barghest and umber hulk (sweet momma they're fearsome!) and some other cannon fodder.
We had a blast anyway and we don't have all the minis but I wonder if there's a balance issue with the evil minis being too overpowering?
It really is a lot of fun but it would never replace DnD. What it will do is bring new people into the hobby, that I'm sure of.
