jacksonm
Warlord
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River City
 | | 11/23/2006 6:02 AM |
| Posted By Idzy on 11/17/2006 10:30 PM
Doh, that only leaves me with an 8 point cushion.Â
4 points. 
Here's the official updated Dreamblade standings with the results of the last 2 weeks put in.
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ShadowLord XT
Commander
2627 Posts
Plane of Shadow
| | 11/23/2006 6:34 AM |
| | icetroll, I thought you hated Dreamblade? Why do the standings say otherwise?? | |
Disipline is the only way to overcome chaos.
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Knight of Golems
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"anyway..shadow..you've figured women out. KUDOS." - raye_kino16 | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/23/2006 7:51 AM |
| Posted By ShadowLord XT on 11/23/2006 6:34 AM
icetroll, I thought you hated Dreamblade? Why do the standings say otherwise?? I guess he secretly loves Dreamblade. Maybe he's even going to come out to play this Friday. 
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Ice_Troll98
Sneak
154 Posts
In your closet
| | 11/23/2006 12:25 PM |
| I do hate it!!!!!!!!!! And NO, I'm not in love with it and defenitly NOT coming on friday (unless magic is good) And I only have a rating because I played in the first tourny OK?!?! I didn't know it sucked then!
and on the other hand...... help bunny!
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/23/2006 1:57 PM |
| | No minis for me tonight, to many other things to take care of. I'll see everyone for Dreamblade tomorrow. | | | |
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The Beer Baron
Underboss
1551 Posts
"Champion of the Centaur Commander. Knight of the Gnoll Druid. Vindicated Champion of the Dragon Wrought Kobold!
| | 11/23/2006 4:47 PM |
| There was 5 players, and I was forced to put myself in the game to even things out. Then a 6th showed up.
Sigh...............
Unless someone comes down here really quick and makes my day. Anyone...anyone...? | |
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The Beer Baron
Underboss
1551 Posts
"Champion of the Centaur Commander. Knight of the Gnoll Druid. Vindicated Champion of the Dragon Wrought Kobold!
| | 11/24/2006 8:37 AM |
| Well, I got work done on my storeroom last night and 1 quick game in with Jory at the end of the night.
I updated the gameday thread. If you are planning to come please check it out. I'm still looking for a few more volunteers for some games. I'm also looking for players to sound off on which games they are playing. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/24/2006 8:49 AM |
| | As it stands now I think we might have more games going than players. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/24/2006 9:16 AM |
| | So, who's comming out for Dreamblade tonight? | | | |
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Idzy
Commander
3081 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 11/24/2006 11:21 AM |
| I'll be out as well. Hopefully I'll avoid getting hammered into the ground tonight. Didn't have time to put together a new warband, so we'll have to go with the same one as last week.
Fortunately, ebay will be providing some reinforcements in a couple of weeks. Hopefully in time for the December 8th tournament.
Rob, which two were you still looking for to complete your base set? | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/24/2006 11:26 AM |
| Posted By Idzy on 11/24/2006 11:15 AM
I'll be out. Might be a bit late though. We'll wait for you, or award you the first round bye should there be one.
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/24/2006 2:51 PM |
| | Off to Dreamblade in a bit. See you all later. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/24/2006 10:06 PM |
| 5 people out for Dreamblade tonight (Rob, Richard, Nico, Scott, and Paula), not too shabby for a quickly thrown together tournament. Paula was the winner going 3-1 plus a bye so congradulations to her.
Let's hope to see everyone out for the 200 point Sanctioned D&D game tomorrow. The first chance to play the new Blood Wars minis in a constructed event. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/25/2006 7:36 AM |
| | Off to play some Star Wars minis and then run D&D minis for everyone in the afternoon. Have a nice Saturday everyone. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/25/2006 4:13 PM |
| 4 people out for Star Wars minis today, Kyle, Andy, Scott, and myself. Scott was the big 3-0 winner.
5 players out for the sanctioned D&D event. Scott, Nico, Jay, Chris V, and Norman. Chris V won the tournament going 3-0 with his double Ogre Mage double Chraal warband. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/26/2006 7:20 AM |
| | Gameday is here and I'm off. See you all there! | | | |
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Ice_Troll98
Sneak
154 Posts
In your closet
| | 11/26/2006 12:44 PM |
| Yo all, I've been thinking, (I know what the answer probably is, but why not ask?) all of you minis hot-shots have been running demos and are pretty much judges, so why can't I run a demo or something? I know the rules pretty much as well as some of you hot-shots, yet no one asks me! The Troll needs a little love here!
...and of course...
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I'm not afraid of competition, it's mind over matter.
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/26/2006 5:00 PM |
| | Thanks to Scott for running/hosting the big Gameday event. Hopefully evenyone who atteneded had a good time. | | | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 11/26/2006 6:40 PM |
| | How'd it go? | |
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ShadowLord XT
Commander
2627 Posts
Plane of Shadow
| | 11/27/2006 6:37 AM |
| For what it's worth, I might be leaving DDM. I've been substituting my DDM time for time with friends and anime. I just haven't been coming for a while and when I did I didn't get the fun rush I used to be having.
p.s. Icetroll, don't call me about me selling my collection. I'm not quitting yet. | |
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Knight of Golems
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Idzy
Commander
3081 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 11/27/2006 9:51 AM |
| Overall the game day was lots of fun, I had a good time with my 3 Dragon ante demo and won the DBM edge tournament, with my only loss to Paula.
the new tables and chairs are great too.
Thanks Scott for hosting. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/28/2006 5:32 AM |
| The DDM scene has been a little down over the past couple months, attendance just isn't where is use to be. I think WotDQ wasn't very good for the skirmish scene, the 2-3 must play or you lose minis from that set made the game less fun. Hopefully Blood Wars injects a little life back into the scene.
Still, it wouldn't hurt to get a little conversation going on what we can do to boost attendance and make it more fun for everyone. Should we have more themed games? More or less sanctioned games?
I've been toying with the idea of starting a D&D minis league for a while, maybe playing once a month. WOuld anyone be interested in that?
Here's what I'm thinking for a format. Each player starts out with 2 boosters of their choice to build their warband like in a Sealed event. In each game you play you are allowed to build a 200 point warband from the minis in your booster, essentially if we did three matches in a night you could play with three slightly different warbands.
Each month the players would have the opertunity to buy a new booster and add it to the pool of potential minis for their warband. When you add the 8 new minis that player must remove 8 minis from his warband pool so no player has more than 16 minis to work with. Buying a new booster each month would be optional though.
I think it could be a lot of fun but let me know what you all think. | | | |
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The Beer Baron
Underboss
1551 Posts
"Champion of the Centaur Commander. Knight of the Gnoll Druid. Vindicated Champion of the Dragon Wrought Kobold!
| | 11/28/2006 10:46 AM |
| I like the idea. We did a league thing a couple of years back and it proved successful at first. It was out of the minis handbook, and it started off with a 50 point warband. As your got more play, it grew in point size to 100, then 150 and so on. There were rules to make your commander more powerful as the game progressed. And magic items your character could get if he defeated a foe with one, and so on. I don't have a copy of the book, but I suppose I could order one.
I like the pool idea. The only problem I see is if someone gets a totally awesome combo, it could be unbalacing. But I suppose they could be voted off the island!!!
Which set of minis would be used? Blood wars? Or any set? What about when you add a booster?
Once a month shouldn't be a problem. Would it be Thursdays or Saturdays? Another day maybe? Could it be 1 game every week before the regular games start (or after)?
Should we sanction it? I guess it is technically limited. It might be easier to leave the sanctioning out other than maybe to "kick off" the league.
When would it start and run until? Fixed time or open?
Post some ideas gang! | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/28/2006 11:22 AM |
| Well I was thinking it could be any set the player wishes to purchase. Possibly it could be a good use of one of those Deathknell cases you're sitting on. We could set it to being just Blood Wars or something else entirely.
Having someone get an advantage with lucky pulls is always a risk in a limited event but I'm thinking over time it will balance out as people get to add a new booster to their pool of 16.
Sanctioning the kickoff wouldn't be a bad way to go assuming enough people are interested.
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Idzy
Commander
3081 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 11/28/2006 11:50 AM |
| There is also the way that wizards does leagues at the big cons.
You start out by buying a booster and a starter. Thats your pool.Â
Then each time you play a league game, each player gets a roll (2 for the winner, pick the best roll) to pick a new mini from the organizers collection of prize minis that they can add to the pool. Going with 2 boosters to start would be fine too.
And the option to add an additonal booster once a month would be ok while removing 8 figures from your pool would be an interesting twist.
Does the 8 minis removed from the pool have to be all older figs or could you dump minis from the new box too?
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/28/2006 12:17 PM |
| | I think the option of which minis you keep in the pool would be up to you. So when you open the new booster you have the option of adding any of the minis to your pool of 16. Once the decision has been made to remove minis from your pool or to not include ones from the new booster that decision is final. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/28/2006 12:41 PM |
| Some other thoughts I have to keep the league interesting and prevent a lucky draw from dominating.
Losers of games could be allowed to retool their warband between matches to hopefully produce a better result.
Within in the league we could change the point format from time to time, possibly one month would feature a 100 point event or possibly a non-standard amount like 150 or 300. Who knows, if everyone is lucky enough to have an epic mini in their pool we could do 500 points.
Other ways to go to shake things up might be doing a night where you can only use your comons and uncommons. Or where the 8 figure limit is abandoned. | | | |
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Universally_Hated
Sneak
85 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
| | 11/29/2006 1:05 PM |
| Remember back in the day when we did the quasi league here at the store and almost everyone went with snig and the thayan knight. that is going back a few years now. <- i should have read scott's post before saying that.
i would love to do a league style. grab your commander, and he is always your commander which will level up and get better with your wins. i don't know though it's not like i can come out on a lot of thursdays, but for something like that i would love to come out. that way i could at least make use of all the minis i have bought since starting here.
it would be really nice to not only have the 16 mini limit, but maybe do it magic style where you have a sideboard. minis that aren't really in the 16 figure pool, but that can be brought in if you think it will help your warband, again it could be from a new booster that you buy or whatever. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/29/2006 2:14 PM |
| | I think the key thing to consider is to emphasize the fun and make sure the competative aspects don't get in the way of having a good time. | | | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 11/29/2006 4:25 PM |
| If you're thinking of running a campaign, have you considered the Eternal Campaign?
http://happyhikers.ca/EternalCampaign/index.php | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/30/2006 8:12 AM |
| | So, who's comming out for DDM tonight? | | | |
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Richard II
Commander
3663 Posts
| | 11/30/2006 11:03 AM |
| | I should be out tonight. They claim to have fixed my vehicle. | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/30/2006 11:09 AM |
| Posted By Richard II on 11/30/2006 11:03 AM
I should be out tonight. They claim to have fixed my vehicle.
Been having van trouble?
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Idzy
Commander
3081 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/30/2006 12:54 PM |
| | For sure we shouldn't make things too complicated. | | | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/30/2006 2:05 PM |
| Alas, no minis for me tonight. Other things have come up.
I was going to play a Tundra Scout, King Snurre, Fire Giant Forgepriest, Rakshasa, Dragonmark Heir of Denith, Dire Rat, and 2 Kobold Miners.
Oh well, have a nice night of minis everyone. | | | |
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Omand
Commander
3118 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Omand
Commander
3118 Posts
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 11/30/2006 4:11 PM |
| Posted By Omand on 11/30/2006 3:30 PM jacksonm, Everything OK? I should be out to minis in roughly 45 minutes, give or take. Cheers
Nothing serious. I should be out for Dreamblade tomorrow.
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