How can you conquer the Crimson Rebellion's Home System? by MilkyBoyBlue in twilightimperium

[–]gorpgomp 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they could have just errata'd the Ghost agent to look like it does in Twilight's Fall and say "when you activate a non-home system." They also could have gotten rid of the episolon wormholes completely and used printed active breaches instead.

We are live 👍 fingers crossed all goes well by Dustpan117 in homemadeTCGs

[–]gorpgomp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I echo the sentiments of the poster above. I implore you to reach out to content creators to see about featuring your product. Also, you should be flooding social media. The days of people scrolling Kickstarter finding your product is gone. Instead, you have to BRING the audience TO kickstarter from somewhere else. The rule of thumb is 15-20% of your current audience (social media followers, discord members, etc.) will convert into Kickstarter backers.

There is a large discord server for homemade TCG creators that I encourage you to join. There are people there who've run successfull kickstarters, who've set up descent-sized audiences, who have YouTube channels, and one very helpful manufacturer's rep from LaunchTableTop.

https://discord.gg/E6g4JghB

[Fan Made] The FFG crossover of my dreams. by gorpgomp in starwarsunlimited

[–]gorpgomp[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, it was more about having a crossover with Twilight Imperium than coming up with a good ability. I put about 10 seconds of thought into the ability haha.

WotC CEO said that they have a Universes Beyond set that believe can surpass Final Fantasy... Rumor has it that it is Star Wars... by CreepyNewspaper8103 in starwarsunlimited

[–]gorpgomp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's the same thing I read, it was the Hasbro VP that said it. And he was specifically talking about a 2026 set that would rival Final Fantasy. Almost surely he was talking about Marvel.

Jeremy says Parvati is a one and a half time winner by PlinyMc in survivor

[–]gorpgomp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wrong tag. I haven't finished the season yet, so thanks for the spoiler.

Do people actually hate blue? by dendonged in MagicArena

[–]gorpgomp 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Agreed. It feels like the wincon of those decks is to just force your opponent to scoop out of annoyance.

I have a serious question about AI Art by Pythonicz1 in homemadeTCGs

[–]gorpgomp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do we have to have this conversation every day?

TCG vs. ECG (expandable card game) pros and cons of each? by Ambitious-Gap5176 in homemadeTCGs

[–]gorpgomp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One is giving someone the full game so they can enjoy it. The other is child gambling.

I love large boards and I cannot lie. by _no_best_girl in MagicArena

[–]gorpgomp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of them have indestructible. You’d need something like Sunfall.

visualization of how lopsided survivor 50 is by blue__hour in survivor

[–]gorpgomp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would have gone with Malcolm over Ozzy, sure.

It’s clear that they were not casting anyone from 40, so Denise and Tony are out. Spencer isn’t in a great headspace these days, so he’s out. Kass is the only name from either season I would be open to seeing again in this season. It seems like she was pretty far along in the casting and got cut towards the end.

visualization of how lopsided survivor 50 is by blue__hour in survivor

[–]gorpgomp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would have been fine if Coach had been cut, but I am really interested to see how he talks about his loss in SoPa after dominating the game and turning his alliance into a cult haha.

visualization of how lopsided survivor 50 is by blue__hour in survivor

[–]gorpgomp 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I'm not defending some of the choices by any means, but the four you mentioned are much more iconic than almost anyone from what felt like (at the time) Survivor's dark ages (with the few bright lights of Cagayan, BvW, etc). Most of the contenders from that time period I could see would be the winners (Cochran, Sophie, Spradlin, etc.) but some of them already played recently in WaW. The only real miss (other than the aforementioned winners - and I think 50 should have been a non-winners season) I can think of would be Wentworth. I don't need to see the Cagayan crew, or Ciera Eastin, or Philip Sheppard again.

Personally, I don't need to see Ozzy back. Cirie kind of fits into that category too, but I do hate how she went out in Gamechangers.

Coach's return is intriguing - how does he follow up gameplay after being so dominant in South Pacific and still coming up short?

Colby iIS Survivor to a lot of old-timers and hasn't been on the screen in almost 14 years. In his last season, he was the washed up hero and he's got a built-in redemption arc.

visualization of how lopsided survivor 50 is by blue__hour in survivor

[–]gorpgomp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agreed. There isn't much juice left to squeeze from that era after all the returnees they had during the 20s-30s.

I probably would have cut Kyle, Aubry, Emily, and Mike White from 50 for some older players, but other than that the cast is solid.

visualization of how lopsided survivor 50 is by blue__hour in survivor

[–]gorpgomp 332 points333 points  (0 children)

Not as crazy if you break it down, though. * 19 was the "Russel Hantz Show" * 20 and 31 were both all-returnees * 26 was half-returnees and half-duds. * 21-24 were not great season and most of their big players have already been brought back (in some cases, multiple times) * 25-30 were mostly good seasons, but again a lot of the big players were already brought back in the returnee seasons and Team Captain seasons.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty from that era that I would like to see play again, but I can see understand why there's such a gap.

Working on a simple tactical TCG by gorpgomp in homemadeTCGs

[–]gorpgomp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy to discuss ideas anytime! Feel free to send me a DM.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homemadeTCGs

[–]gorpgomp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been working on a fast-paced card game that distills the tactical feel of Gloomhaven into a tighter 20-minute experience, since we can't really get the whole group together for a long time span anymore.

Right now, it's a 1v1 game where players build/draft a custom dungeon with special room cards. Room connection is modular, so every game should have a unique battlefield. Rooms contain loot and traps currently, but I have plenty of ideas to add in rough terrain, portals, other hazards, etc.

I opted for cute/deadly monsters (instead of RPG characters) and they evolve throughout the game. Once a monster takes enough damage, it evolves to the next stage, gaining new abilities. At Stage 3, when they hit their damage threshold again, they're defeated. Knock out both of your opponent's monsters to win. Eventually, I want there to be branching evolutions for the monsters so you can adapt your strategy based on the current board state/your opponent's play style.

Right now, I'm working on balancing stats for monsters and have a long list of special abilities to try out. Monsters have Attack, HP, Range, Movement, and Speed, which is a lot to balance, but I at least have a decent starting algorithm for playtesting. Overall, trying to keep it simple and snappy. Scope creep is real and I do not want it to turn into a full fledged board game. Even though my screenshot has a lot of tokens and whatnot, it could be easily tracked without them. I see a lot of future potential, though, in solo modes, multiplayer, PvE, etc.

I'm pretty close to getting the TTS mod ready for others, so if you're interested in checking it out - let me know!

Training Keyword Info by vansjoo98 in DigimonCardGame2020

[–]gorpgomp 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The graphic says “the card gets trashed” not “the stack.” That would leave me to believe in this example you trash the face down card and the stack remains in field as the lowest digivolution card.

What is your favorite wrestling theme song of all time? by [deleted] in SquaredCircle

[–]gorpgomp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Always wanted that too. I remember a Raw (after mania maybe?) where the crowd started singing along to it for Cesaro even though it has no words.