(Message davew:1369)
Subj: Re: [L5RINFO] [Andy, ED] Hero Concern
From: David Williams <l5r@TSTONRAMP.COM>

  To: L5RINFO@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 18:20:01 PDT
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>While I am all for the Heroes set....
>
>I also wanted to express a voice of concern. In adition to playing l5r I used
>to play Highlander, Thundercastle put out numerous special sets of fixed
>cards. Now the problem with these sets is that they ran about a $100 for
>about 30 cards, much the same as Heroes.

Let me say that I am a Highlander player as well (although only a
casual player  with one tourney under my belt, I'm fairly familiar
with the swordmaster scene)

>Now the problem was that the cards in these sets were unable to be obtained
>elsewhere, in addition these cards were the foremost powercards of the game.
>To put an equivilant to l5r it was though you could only get shinsei shrines
>wedges and simular type cards through these sets.  The average player that
>did not fork out the money for such sets paid very heavily in game play.

Yeah, I'm familiar. I tried to design the cards so that they would
all very VERY cool, and fun to play, but that none of them would be
"killers" or absolutely necessary for a playable deck.

>The secondary proble, to these sets was the fact that they were specific to a
>certain faction. So if you didn't use that faction you were S*** out of luck.

All clans are represented in Heroes.

There's another one you missed. The Duncan and Methos collections
were notorious for having ONE LESS card than was necessary for a play
set (e.g. if there was a 3 card limit for the card in your deck, then
the collection had 2 of them) - making it necessary for you to buy 2
copies of the collection to have a full play set. Heroes was set up
that so that you only need one copy of each card for a full play set.


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David Williams
l5r@tstonramp.com
Lead Designer - Legend of the Five Rings CCG, Deadlands CCG
Alderac Entertainment Group

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