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Date:    Wed, 02 Dec 1998 10:17:14 PST
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From:    "Luke Peterschmidt" <Lukeout@frpg.com>
Subject: Luke into the fray!

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Thought I'd answer some questions, give some feedback, boast, etc... On to
the fun.


>On the Duqaq's School topic: my experience is that City Sections are now
almost exclusively Duqaq's Schools and 1-3 >Merchant Quarters (3 is a bit
high), with the exceptions of Senpet (2 Thieves Quarters) and Qabal (one
Jewel, just >because you can). The increased starting water _and_ hand size
are just too much... and this lower variety is, of course, bad >for the
game, IMHO. Do you have anything different in your play groups ?

Duqaq's is definitely the most popular way to get extra water and expand to
5 groups. I personally don't use any though. In my Qabal deck I use two
Thieves Quarters, Two Jewels of the Desert, and one River Quarter. I don't
even use a merchant quarter (although I might put one of these in, I'm still
looking at it). I know it's prbably weird that I use Jewels of the Desert,
but I have a fairly unusual play style. I spend all the tokens from the
Thieves quarter first. Then, later in the game, I almost always use the
Jewel's special ability and put all of my water tokens on that Section to
protect myself from raids. This leaves me with only having to keep one
unbowed hero to defend, while I can raid freely (or bow to use some night
actions). Ideally, I get the anti-raiding fortifications going on that space
as well. I have lots of other stuff in the deck now that supports this
method and it's proven very effective to date (0 losses!). The key is that I
have a lot of cheaper heroes and high fate value cards so that I can soak
damage with the best of them to protect myself from losing city sections -
helps with deuling to (that and I give my little guys all the berzerk
trait...)


> anybody notice in Scrye how
* Luke/Scrye spelled it "Ashalon"?)

Damn Spell check.

> Is Koku, Dinari and Ghost Rock interchangeable?  Can I use Koku and Dinari
for Doomtown cards?  Can I use Ghost
* Rock for LBS cards?

Yes they are.

The cards in Black Hand Black Heart look really good. It should spice up the
mix here. So that you all know, we have another release planned for March 99
called "Blood and Ivory", then we have the basic set coming out next Jun
(along with a "learn to play" booster). Then a release in October of 99.

Later!
Luke


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