Eureka....first look?

[GMforPowergamers]

Tonight on scifi Fargo and his new girlfriend are playing a mini skirmish game...it looked like WotC minis, and cards and a d20.


I know wotc has a new skirmish game ready for playtest...could this be it?

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Seems like a weird place to have your new game show up for the first time, but since I don't do TV these days, I can't see it. So I got nothing but that would be cool.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

later in the show Will Weaten's character (and we know he has conntacts at WotC) calls it D&D, and one of my friends claimed the cards said Dungeons & Dragons on them...

Could Will be a playtester who was givien permision to use them in a quick scean...

 

[Kelvor Ravenstar]

After watching this episode I'm pretty sure it wasn't the new skirmish game.

1. It used a d20. The announcement at GenCon said the game would be diceless.
2. The game already had printed cards. The new skirmish game will have open playtesting so I doubt they have a final version in print yet.
3. To me those cards looked like the punch out cardstock cards from the 4e Red Box.
So, it was either the Red Box, or perhaps it was Wrath of Ashardalon? I think it uses similar cards and only a d20.

 

[wlmartin]

Tonight on scifi Fargo and his new girlfriend are playing a mini skirmish game...it looked like WotC minis, and cards and a d20.


I know wotc has a new skirmish game ready for playtest...could this be it?

Ummm.... what is Fargo?

 

[Selganor]

Fargo is a character on the SyFy series "Eureka".

My guess on the game: It's just regular 4e D&D

You can see the top of the essentials style character sheet and the spell used "Fountain of Flame" is one of the newer wizard daily powers introduced in the Red Box/Heroes of the Fallen Lands.

 

[wlmartin]

Fargo is a character on the SyFy series "Eureka".

My guess on the game: It's just regular 4e D&D

You can see the top of the essentials style character sheet and the spell used "Fountain of Flame" is one of the newer wizard daily powers introduced in the Red Box/Heroes of the Fallen Lands.

I am praying that in this years BBT there will be some D&D action.
Come on... its got Will Wheaton in it, self proclaimed D&Der.. its got nerd links to comics, WoW, boardgames, computer games of all kinds, sci fi shows etc... the missing link here is D&D.

Anyways... Could you have been mistaken into thinking it was just the normal D&D minitaures game? This has existed as long as the minis come with Power Cards that players can use to fight vs Style against other minis.

I doubt WotC would have just slipped the new mini game into a SciFi show without at least making some kind of notation of it on their website (ie see the new D&D minis in the latest episode of Eureka) and it sounds like their release is well off in 2012.

Did the minis look like any current models that one would see?
Do you have a way of linking to a clip (say a youtube snippet or something?) as I could download it and look myself but I am not a fan of the show (tried to get into it 5-6 times but it is just pants imo) and dont really want to sit through the episode if I can avoid it

 

[cpendlet]

I just watched the episode this morning and the cards definitely had Dungeons & Dragons on the back. I don't have any of the other D&D board games or anything that has cards (Fortune cards, etc) so I don't know if it was from some other D&D product.

Edit: Most of you seem to be making an assumption that all the stuff shown actually came together in a single box. For all we know that cards were Fortune cards (I've never actually seen them so I don't know if thwey actually look like what was shown on not) and the dice and minis they grabbed from the props warehouse (pretty sure that they had another scene with people playing a roleplaying game a few seasons ago - also included Fargo) and the gameboard was from some other game.

 

[Scribble]

I doubt WotC would have just slipped the new mini game into a SciFi show without at least making some kind of notation of it on their website (ie see the new D&D minis in the latest episode of Eureka) and it sounds like their release is well off in 2012.

I remember when 4e first came out, they put a scene in that Terminator TV series where one of the reprogrammed terminators was playing D&D with one of the programmers. They were using Dungeon tiles and the 4e DM screen, along with a bunch of minis.

No mention of it until later when people posted about it on the forums.

I agree with you though- this was probably not the new skirmish game. I'm guessing it was the redbox or something people can get a hold of now.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I remember when 4e first came out, they put a scene in that Terminator TV series where one of the reprogrammed terminators was playing D&D with one of the programmers. They were using Dungeon tiles and the 4e DM screen, along with a bunch of minis.

John Henry: "I attack the umber hulk. Twenty."

Murch: "Wow. Okay, that's a crit with the vorpal longsword to the umber hulk. Unbelievable. Lucky roll."

John Henry: "Hello, Ms. Weaver. I just delivered a crit hit to the umber hulk."

<snip>

John Henry: "Mr. Murch? I'm ready to confront the mind flayer now. Twenty."