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Comment on Dong Chensheng vs. Aliens by Jonathan Walton

Jonathan Walton — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:36:52 +0000

Thanks for reminding me about this! You inspired me to brainstorm a possible direction for this to go in today.

http://thouandone.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/nine-suns-tragic-co-op-board-game/

Comment on Dong Chensheng vs. Aliens by Nine Suns: Tragic Co-Op Board Game? « one thousand one

Nine Suns: Tragic Co-Op Board Game? « one thousand one — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:30:32 +0000

[...] Suns: Tragic Co-Op Board Game? Someone commented over on Secret Wars, asking if I’d given up on finishing Nine Suns Must Fall (a.k.a. the Shang Dynasty divination [...]

Comment on Dong Chensheng vs. Aliens by xialongnu

xialongnu — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:53:42 +0000

Oh my, please tell me Nine Suns isn’t an abandoned project. It looks all kinds of awesome. I’m a professor of early Chinese art history and this just makes me happy.

Comment on Skyflower by shreyas

shreyas — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:49:43 +0000

Yeah, I think playing the avatar game will clarify this game in useful ways—it went unsaid, but it should be, that all the assumptions that game makes that this one doesn’t specifically change are still in place, like the length of scenes and the nature of characters (young non-adult people).

Thanks, too! We just tried the setup thing a couple of nights ago with four people, and we came up with a really pregnant setting.

Comment on Skyflower by John Harper

John Harper — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:19:41 +0000

I finally sat down and read this through. I’m really interested in the idea of this game, but I’m not quite seeing the play yet. Or, I see the shape of it, I guess. Not having played the Avatar game is keeping some of it dark, I think.

But the set-up phase is especially grabby. There’s a lot to love there.

Comment on Slave to the Inside Light by shreyas

shreyas — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:48:20 +0000

Well, love is what you make of it, right?

But you have me thinking that this is like, maybe not the story, but in the game it is, there are these spiritual organs and each one has a definite polarity…everything can potentially exalt you or make trouble for you, but Crowns do it by exerting power over others, and Swords do it by engaging in struggle, and Shadows do it by blinding your wisdom….

Comment on Slave to the Inside Light by Jonathan Walton

Jonathan Walton — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:54:20 +0000

Honestly, I think this is awesome, but I would rather it was not expressed as a dualism, because I feel like that’s a bad way of looking at the world. Seems like Crown could be as bad or worse than the Shadow anyway. Can they be paired traits without one seeming to have a negative valence? For example, the Crown & the Sword?

Comment on Slave to the Inside Light by Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:41:06 +0000

I think this is the most exciting idea I’ve seen from SotS so far.

Comment on Catharsis, Pact with a Blue Devil, Angola by Jonathan Walton

Jonathan Walton — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:04:06 +0000

Yeah, it is pretty cool to see some of that. I thought Motivations and Intimacies in Exalted 2nd were also a slight indicator. Also, Ben heard from someone that a bunch of the Wolfies are playing a lot of Polaris, which is way cool. And they got Jared to write "Monster Garage" for the Vampire Chronicler's Guide.

Comment on Catharsis, Pact with a Blue Devil, Angola by jenkins

jenkins — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:55:48 +0000

One of the things you can see in the new World of Darkness games (Promethean especially) are so-called Indie Game elements taking if not a front seat, then a much more noticable on the team.