Here’s a review that Dave posted to a local gaming Facebook group, after learning to play Android: Netrunner and had a chance to try a few games at our place one weekend. Further comments are from Emma, lifted from the same group, which Dave thought deserved to be included after I asked him if I could replicate the review here for posterity. Note ( Read more... )

Some of the design decisions in Android: Netrunner (A:NR) seem to be a little arbitrary and detrimentally remove some of the facets of the original Netrunner (O:NR) game. I've already written in a previous article about some of the distinctions between the old and new versions of the game. Where that was a dispassionate consideration of the version ( Read more... )

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A problem in many of the (collectable/trading) card games is that there is a collective refinement of the various deck builds. Cards entering the pool are quickly evaluated and the results are rapidly communicated across the community through game-devoted forums, or articles on the web from game aficionados. Deck ( Read more... )

Here's a summary of the main points of distinction between Fantasy Flight Games' (FFG) Android: Netrunner (A:NR) and Wizards of the Coast's [Original/Old] Netrunner (O:NR), as well as a bit of off-the-cuff analysis. Keep in mind that I'm coming from an "old school" point of view and so may use "Clicks" and "actions", and "Credits" and "bits" ( Read more... )

Lang overdue for posting to the journal, here's the last of the setting entries that I have composed at the moment. Enjoy!

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Here's a bit more of an introduction into the world of the campaign that we're finally building up to running. It would probably serve as the opening text were this to ever be published as a proper roleplaying game. Not that I have any such ambitions at the moment, too much other stuff to write up, I reckon.

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More setting information about the Champions X campaign as I am developing it up. Need it be said that the author seeks to assert his copyright, no matter that this is available for public consumption? If so, it is said. the work is mine, and I retain all rights to it.

That said, for those who wish to delve a little into how things ended up being ( Read more... )

The following is a mostly unedited email from me to the player group, which may explain the informal tone here and there. It’s mainly a series of questions to try and get the players to think about the interactions within and without their super team and to help to sort out some of my own preconceptions of the game.

I always think it’s important ( Read more... )

The game, as I see it, is meant to be a contrast between the four-colour idealism of the superheroic PCs (and like NPCs) and the dark cyberpunk future of the meta-humans.

Meta-humans are drug-enhanced normals who have little remorse and lesser moral standpoints to the superheroes due primarily to the effect upon their psyche of the Meta-Human ( Read more... )

For the general public, I’m about to start running a new Champions campaign. I’m going to share some of the ideas and setting information here on my dust-covered blog, on the basis that the spiders and other things that have set in to populate an otherwise abandoned space might like some reading material.

I had originally intended to try and make ( Read more... )