Falling Rock Fanmade set

sithicus 2015-05-20 20:56:37 UTC #1

Does anyone have any interest in the Fall Rock fansets? I think that the cards and the extra factions look super fun. The creator does a great job. Has anyone tried to build some casual play decks using the cards?

For anyone who isn;t familiar, I think the URL is Doomtown.fr

otomo 2015-05-21 02:20:16 UTC #2

Yup, I've got the PoD copies of all of them. They're super fun but I need some folk close who are interested in playing with them.

sithicus 2015-05-21 15:23:00 UTC #3

I wish we could get the cards up on OCTGN. I tried to contact the creator of FR and he says it is too much work. The guy who coded the regular Doomtown cards for OCTGN said the same. Each set is, like, 20 dollars for the print on demand. That's a lot of money to drop with no play group >.<

thesmallman 2015-05-21 19:23:56 UTC #4

I sorta feel like I barely have the time to get familiar with the normal DTR cards every six weeks, let alone fan made cards. Plus, I like to have my mind crisp for playing in tournaments.

I often wonder -- and would be interested to see -- how these cards are play tested. I assume AEG playtests DTR, which maybe could be me putting too much faith in them, but even then, the community at large is playing with them, so they're getting beat up. Not so with Falling Rock. I always wonder what they're like by comparison.

Anywho, cool looking, thankful for their dividers (which I use), but less excited to play with them...

Balder 2015-05-21 19:27:37 UTC #5

I have it on good authority that AEG indeed playtests every card that goes out (and then some).

sithicus 2015-05-21 21:19:55 UTC #6

Eh, I just think that four factions is a little small. I like that FR adds some of the older stuff back into the game. OCTGN would be the perfect platform for friendly games using fan made cards. Do any other virtual CCG clients supports Doomtown Reloaded? Maybe it would be easier on a different platform.

emptyvacuum 2015-05-21 21:22:50 UTC #7

I'm definitely impressed by how much material he's putting out, and I really love some of the additional factions, but I do wonder how much all of it "works" once it's all interacting in-game.

Atropos 2015-05-22 01:20:09 UTC #8

It looks pretty neat, but has a SERIOUS case of the throw-it-ins. There's, what, five new loaded keywords, two new types of spells, eight DT Classic factions plus the four DTR factions plus four new factions plus three "seasonal" new factions (I am guessing that the harlots are Valentine's Day) that might or might not count... That's either 16 or 19, which is pretty crazy.

Probably fun to mess around with, though.

thesmallman 2015-05-22 15:41:00 UTC #9

Didn't mean it as a slam, force of habit. Multiple times with other companies I've made statements assuming playtesting and people have scoffed at me, or said, "yeah, but here's the crappy way they do,etc". Just covering my bases linguistically. I literally assume people playtest the heck out of it.

Balder 2015-05-22 18:44:22 UTC #10

Didn't think of it as a slam. Just wanted to assure you, since you seemed to question AEG's play testing procedures.

Whizzwang 2015-05-22 18:46:03 UTC #11

Dodgy folks those playtesters

Atropos 2015-05-26 00:21:37 UTC #12

There was another FR release today. Two, actually: "The Blue" and "The Grey", for Agency and Texas Rangers.

Not only does it add another type of spell, that spell has its own special mechanics including the use of tokens. That's just getting silly at this point.

sithicus 2015-05-27 15:31:21 UTC #13

I think those Texas Ranger Voodooists look super fun. I love the idea of copying cards' abilities. I appreciate the creativity in FR. I'm not seeing the same level from the actual AEG stuff.

emptyvacuum 2015-05-27 15:57:39 UTC #14

The actual AEG stuff includes the whole game, so I think they're doing fine creativity wise.

Atropos 2015-05-27 17:52:32 UTC #15

It's easy to be "more creative" when you're just making new mechanics all day and not sticking around to support any one of them, or worrying about complexity scaring off newer players. If AEG was doing what FR was doing, everyone would be mad at them because WHATEVER theme or faction you liked, it wouldn't be getting nearly enough support, and it'd be near-impossible to recruit new players.

Also, the word isn't "voodooist"! It's "bokor"!

EDIT: Also, I realize here, he has a kuchisake-onna Dude card that's aligned with Maze Rats, when the kuchisake-onna myth is A: Japanese, not Chinese, and B: from the mid-1970s. You have no idea how much this bothers me.

Not as much as it bothers me that El Chupacabra is a monster that officially exists in the setting, when El Chupacabra was created in 1996 by a woman who saw the movie "Species" and didn't quite get the distinction between fantasy and reality. But it still bothers me.