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What to do about L5R, and more adventures in the Mythos
It's been a while since I wrote an entry that really felt like a journal entry. The last several entries have been either mentions of my latest art or some sort of rant or comment. This one is less news and more thoughts.
I discovered earlier today that the previews have started up for the next L5R set. I'm badly conflicted about what to do about L5R. For the most part, the only times I get to play are at tournaments. I hate the thought of paying for a lot of cards and then having to pay again to play with them. I've skipped the last few tournaments at the Tower in favor of other activities since I haven't felt like driving all that way to spend money to play in tournament games, which are inherently less fun that games just played for fun. I really enjoy building decks, so I get some of my money's worth out of them even if I don't play, but it's frustrating to build a deck and never use it. I can't decide if I should A) Abandon L5R completely, B) Buy significantly less L5R, or C) Continue to throw money at it because building decks is lots of fun. I'm concerned about the direction the game is going in, too. This whole "Dark Lotus" possibility is unsettling. Shadowlands crap seems to have a lot of support from players these days, so it looks pretty grim. I really don't know what I want to do. I've got until some time in April to decide, I guess, since that's when the new set comes out. If I'm going to buy any Enemy of my Enemy at all, I figure I should do it as soon as it comes out so I can trade for cards that I didn't get while trading is the most active.
Speaking of CCG decks I'll never use, when I was sick for a couple of weeks I spent a lot of time making decks for the Mythos CCG. I had played a game with my friend Tom, who likes the game, and I was thinking that even though we rarely play, we still play with the same old decks that we've played many times. Since I was too sick to write or work seriously on art, I cobbled together decks from the extra cards I had lying around...about a dozen decks, actually. I was sick for a long time. Anyway, I know that most of them will never see any actual use. I see Tom maybe once a month, and we aren't necessarily going to play Mythos whenever we see one another. Still, it was an amusing exercise. I treat deckbuilding for CCGs as a sort of puzzle. Mythos in particular has a puzzle-like feel to it, as one tries to figure out which adventures can be combined most effectively into a deck that will be fun and interesting to play. Tom and I have played once since I put all of the new decks together, so at least I got to play a deck with "Yuggoth Attacks!" in it, which has been something I've wanted to do since New Aeon came out all of those years ago. Ah, the Mi-Go. Such fun.
I discovered earlier today that the previews have started up for the next L5R set. I'm badly conflicted about what to do about L5R. For the most part, the only times I get to play are at tournaments. I hate the thought of paying for a lot of cards and then having to pay again to play with them. I've skipped the last few tournaments at the Tower in favor of other activities since I haven't felt like driving all that way to spend money to play in tournament games, which are inherently less fun that games just played for fun. I really enjoy building decks, so I get some of my money's worth out of them even if I don't play, but it's frustrating to build a deck and never use it. I can't decide if I should A) Abandon L5R completely, B) Buy significantly less L5R, or C) Continue to throw money at it because building decks is lots of fun. I'm concerned about the direction the game is going in, too. This whole "Dark Lotus" possibility is unsettling. Shadowlands crap seems to have a lot of support from players these days, so it looks pretty grim. I really don't know what I want to do. I've got until some time in April to decide, I guess, since that's when the new set comes out. If I'm going to buy any Enemy of my Enemy at all, I figure I should do it as soon as it comes out so I can trade for cards that I didn't get while trading is the most active.
Speaking of CCG decks I'll never use, when I was sick for a couple of weeks I spent a lot of time making decks for the Mythos CCG. I had played a game with my friend Tom, who likes the game, and I was thinking that even though we rarely play, we still play with the same old decks that we've played many times. Since I was too sick to write or work seriously on art, I cobbled together decks from the extra cards I had lying around...about a dozen decks, actually. I was sick for a long time. Anyway, I know that most of them will never see any actual use. I see Tom maybe once a month, and we aren't necessarily going to play Mythos whenever we see one another. Still, it was an amusing exercise. I treat deckbuilding for CCGs as a sort of puzzle. Mythos in particular has a puzzle-like feel to it, as one tries to figure out which adventures can be combined most effectively into a deck that will be fun and interesting to play. Tom and I have played once since I put all of the new decks together, so at least I got to play a deck with "Yuggoth Attacks!" in it, which has been something I've wanted to do since New Aeon came out all of those years ago. Ah, the Mi-Go. Such fun.