Re: LNH: Looniverse Fight Chronicles Trading Card Game #0: Designer's Notes

On 2023-09-13 20:19, Drew Nilium wrote:
> On 9/13/23 3:08 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
> <snip>
>> About five years ago I revisited the game, and put in a "House Player" 
>> for solitaire play.  That playtest came down to Total Conversion 
>> (representing the Playtester, if I remember correctly) vs. Evil Wyatt 
>> Ferguson (House Player) during an omniversal merge.  That 
>> confrontation was equalized when Evil Wyatt drew a Solar Flare Cannon 
>> card. Fortunately he was evil, so he could use it, and House Player 
>> rules said he had to.  Unfortunately, the cannon tends to blow up the 
>> entire Earth if anything goes wrong - and it did.  With all the Earths 
>> having merged, *everything* blew up and the player characters all 
>> ended up in Limbo. Game victory went to a couple of devil priests from 
>> a dystopian world, because they had at least escaped their world.  8{D>
>
> Now that's what I call quality marriage of mechanics and flavor. n.n

Why thank you.  8{D>

I cracked open the game last night, replaced its Freemason faction with 
Powernauts so as to make the game more exciting, and started another 
playtest.  So far, the game has been a feud between an old set of 
"Strange Invader" aliens from an obscure 1990s story of mine, and an 
absolutely unpublished villain* - mostly taking place on the Powernauts' 
earth.  Guest stars abound...  This could actually become an interesting 
Powernaut comic of the post-2015 era.

* As this villain, imagine a guy in the future who buys a replica 
Captain America shield of Russian manufacture at a Florida swap meet, 
then gets cursed by a devil and caught in a cosmic ray storm at the 
Nexus of Realities.  I'll seriously have to put this guy in fiction 
sometime, if I can only avoid Marvel hating me for swiping so many of 
their concepts then.  8{D>

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