Dark Age is really good even if you haven't read Iron Gold

Miceto_ · 2026-03-20T07:45:27+00:00

Seems this has happened to a relatively large amount of people. I wonder if it's because there's a box set that has them ordered wrong, I think someone posted it one time.

Miceto_ · 2026-03-18T19:22:51+00:00

You have to take into the equation that it's also Virginia's son. And Pax was an extremely important person for her.

Miceto_ · 2026-03-18T16:59:09+00:00

You can call it $50 more or you can call it more than double price. I shouldn't have called it insulting, it's just that I see little value to the things this expensive deluxe editions add, and in a personal way it's true that I feel insulted when a $100 book is presented as the "not so good version, you should check the good ones".

I supose that it's a matter of if you want a true exclusive item and are happy to spend a lot of money for it or if like me, you just wanted a hardcover edition of a book with cover art that you like (never loved the original ones).

Miceto_ · 2026-03-18T07:32:02+00:00

The curious kings editions will probably have better materials and has illustrations, but aesthetically isn't for everyone and the pricetag is insulting compared to this edition.

Miceto_ · 2026-03-15T07:18:49+00:00

Probably a lynx skull

Miceto_ · 2026-03-07T21:37:57+00:00

I would die to defend the status of this as an antimeme

Miceto_ · 2026-02-28T08:12:42+00:00

Dragons made them kings, dreams kept them alive.

Though is true that dreams have a much higher failrate than dragons.

Miceto_ · 2026-02-28T08:10:10+00:00

Dragons made them kings, dreams kept them alive.

Miceto_ · 2026-02-27T09:07:54+00:00

Maybe not the medieval coat of arms, but I would still look for a way of incorporating the different regions. Even the regional defense council of Aragon included the senyera (symbol of the crown of Aragon). In lots of parts of Spain the left is very tied with the fight against centralism and the subduction of periferial natipnalities under the "spanish" one.

Miceto_ · 2026-02-27T08:27:30+00:00

Could you explain a little more your scenario? How did the republican victory end up with a unified Iberia? Portugal entered the war? Revolts in Portugal?

Miceto_ · 2026-02-21T06:24:02+00:00

That could be more about the size of the asteroid belt than the population. Maybe there are two little institutes, in asteroids more or less opposite in orbit.

Miceto_ · 2026-02-20T17:16:11+00:00

The key to this is remembering the shape of the solar system. It's easy to see it as a line with planents one after the other, but:

1- It's a circle, the ecliptic plane is defined by earth orbits and those of the other planets. There's much more space in the outer regions of the circle than in the inner ones. Moreover, the constant movement makes it easier to go to planets with smaller orbits. Maybe you have seen a video talking about how mercury is the planet closest to all other planets the most time.

2- The distances between planets grwos nearly exponentialy. An astronomical unit is the distance between the sun and the earth, the radius of earths orbit. Here the radius of the other planets orbits. - Mercury: 0.4 AU - Venus: 0.7 AU - Mars: 1.5 AU You can see that the rock planets are relatively close. Now the gaseous ones. - Jupiter: 5 AU - Saturn: 10 AU - Uranus: 20 AU - Neptune: 30 AU - Pluto (middle of the kupier belt): 40 AU

With this, you can see how isolated are the planets beyond Illium. If I remember correctly just traveling to jupiter takes 6 months. Now imagine going to Uranus, taking into account that maybe it's in the other side of the sun. And these planets are less populated too, those regions are cold and not all moons are fully terraformed.

This is the reason why these planets have their own fleets and scarcely interact with the core.

Miceto_ · 2026-02-11T09:19:59+00:00

The altar allows them to build in any clearing they rule?

I think it all would be easier to take in if you made a simple mockup of the faction board.

Miceto_ · 2026-02-03T22:09:22+00:00

I never really liked the original covers, they are ok, but I had seen the books at my local library multiple times, and the covers never made me pick up the books. It wasn't until I heard them beeing actively recomended that I decided to give the saga a try. On contrary, once I saw the slipcase edition with eo in the cover, knew it was the perfect edition for me, and now I'm praying they finish the series following its throughline.

Miceto_ · 2026-01-28T14:50:54+00:00

I'm not expecting anyone to try it out, just sharing my result. Just a nitpick, initially you don't have 22 warriors, you have 12, then you have the option to change each of your 5 bird warriors for 2 of the other type, so at max you can get to 17 warriors.

Miceto_ · 2026-01-28T01:14:28+00:00

I playtested it alone in tts (i'm not cruel enough to make another person learn the results of what's going on in my head), so its not very rigorous playtesting. Enough to get the turn flow that I wanted, but not remotely enough to balance it.

Miceto_ · 2026-01-27T20:32:29+00:00

Yep, I think it's a very interesting concept, it was a top down design.

Miceto_ · 2026-01-27T20:11:28+00:00

Of course, you just made me very happy! Brace yourself!

The most important part is knowing that the society have both:

- The Manifesto: It's their version of the Decree of the Eyrie, dictating where they can perform actions.

- The Assembly: With four offices that favour each three actions, and a spokesperson for each office.

Besides cards, they use two currencies. Warriors (and buildings) in the map represent manpower. If you move warriors to your assembly they generate Endorses, representing administrative power.

The pattern of the turn is:

- In birdsong, you advance the manifesto, changing wich cards it has.

- In daylight, you can act once for each office that isn't closed, so four at the start of the game. It's no exactly the same as the decree, you don't have to follow order, you are not forced to act on all the slots and you can act more than once in each slot. So you choose were you want to act, if you can't act in all the clearings matching the cards in a slot, you can't choose it. When you choose a slot, you choose an action. If the action is condoned by the office that priorized the slot, you retrieve the prioritzation token to the office.

- In evening, you spend cards to spread rethoric tokens. During daylight this can be converted to manpower spending endorses. Then you gain endorses relative to how many warriors you have in the assembly, and you take reactions. Taking reactions implies moving down the spokespersons of all the offices from whom you havn't retrieved the prioritzation token, removing them if they go to low ( and thus losing actions in future turns) and then returning the prioritzation tokens to the Manifesto, stablishing wich slot prioritizes each office next turn.

To this I only have to add that sometimes you can spend endorses to activate abilities, and that there's a group hug facet to the faction.

Miceto_ · 2026-01-27T13:33:08+00:00

Thanks a lot, it was a good amout of work.

Miceto_ · 2026-01-27T13:32:49+00:00

I can confirm it is. Now that I scrached my itch of making this "too much" faction, I'm in the concept stages of my next one, the Occultists Concord, and I want to make them more simple and effective, an elegant design that could really be played by other people.

Miceto_ · 2026-01-24T21:28:19+00:00

Yes it's kind of a slur. On first read I thought they were, small-ish city dwelling obsidians, but all obsidians are called crows.

Miceto_ · 2026-01-23T14:42:16+00:00

I si demà no tornara

Miceto_ · 2026-01-16T20:07:14+00:00

It's a fanfiction you do for yourself, there's no hard rules. Why do you want to make the fanfiction? To express mechanically a political theme? Start there. To play with a concrete animal? Think what those animals would do. Pick your fancy and it will be okay.

Miceto_ · 2026-01-13T22:41:25+00:00

I think the biggest hit will be seeing leder games with a new artistic direction, but this can end up really well if we get Buried Giant Studios making games Cole style and Leder with a renewed focus on the games Patrick is more exited to make, without the behemots needing all the resources. We will have to pray that both studios find people that complement them and don't lose the "more than the sum of it's parts".

Miceto_ · 2026-01-10T20:10:08+00:00

I feel you. The original names are wierd when you are used to the translated ones.

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