Mark of Heroes??? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Mark of Heroes??? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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lokycat
03-21-05, 10:31 AM All in this FaQ i have herd thise thing....thise cards that you use in ECS.

1)Whay wuld you nead Cards if you are plaing a "Table Top RPG" :confused:
2)Were do they com from :confused:
3)Has card games infectead the only safe Realm in SciFi that i had left :confused: :P
a_psh
03-21-05, 10:48 AM The cards aren't for Eberron, they're for "Mark of Heroes," which is just the RPGA's Eberron game (like "Living ______"). They come from the RPGA, and end up at cons and in magazines and the like, I believe.

Why do they need cards? Well, most of them are just promotional material, really. Weird rules twists that someone felt like adding. Most of them seem game-breaking or cost so much that it's not worth using them, in my opinion.

The character-creation cards, however, serve to limit the number of people who can make a specific character. If you're playing your home game and everyone wants to make a kalashtar, the DM can easily ask you to choose other races or just take the all-kalashtar party and roll with it. If you're administering a massively-multiplayer quasi-worldwide D&D game, that becomes harder. So instead you give people a limited list of what they can be, and then give out little cards to those who want something exotic. I think the limit on character creation cards (you can have like 1 or 2 at most, IIRC) also serves to keep strange combinations out of play... e.g. you can't be a kalashtar scout, because that's two separate cards.

They really do need some kind of limiting mechanic like that, given that they've included practically *EVERYTHING* from all the splatbooks, so the world is kind of a hodge-podge of random stuff. Given that the only thing doing that are cards, and that there is probably a massive temptation to print a whole lot of these cards as promotional materials, I don't expect it to work too well.
lokycat
03-21-05, 11:12 AM Ty for assering my Q.

I hope this "Card thing" in Table top RPG is nothing BUT a tiny fad.
Im alredy geting SICK of peapol coming up with card game names wen i say RPG. :P

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lokycat 03-21-05, 10:31 AM	All in this FaQ i have herd thise thing....thise cards that you use in ECS. 1)Whay wuld you nead Cards if you are plaing a "Table Top RPG" :confused: 2)Were do they com from :confused: 3)Has card games infectead the only safe Realm in SciFi that i had left :confused: :P
a_psh 03-21-05, 10:48 AM	The cards aren't for Eberron, they're for "Mark of Heroes," which is just the RPGA's Eberron game (like "Living ______"). They come from the RPGA, and end up at cons and in magazines and the like, I believe. Why do they need cards? Well, most of them are just promotional material, really. Weird rules twists that someone felt like adding. Most of them seem game-breaking or cost so much that it's not worth using them, in my opinion. The character-creation cards, however, serve to limit the number of people who can make a specific character. If you're playing your home game and everyone wants to make a kalashtar, the DM can easily ask you to choose other races or just take the all-kalashtar party and roll with it. If you're administering a massively-multiplayer quasi-worldwide D&D game, that becomes harder. So instead you give people a limited list of what they can be, and then give out little cards to those who want something exotic. I think the limit on character creation cards (you can have like 1 or 2 at most, IIRC) also serves to keep strange combinations out of play... e.g. you can't be a kalashtar scout, because that's two separate cards. They really do need some kind of limiting mechanic like that, given that they've included practically EVERYTHING from all the splatbooks, so the world is kind of a hodge-podge of random stuff. Given that the only thing doing that are cards, and that there is probably a massive temptation to print a whole lot of these cards as promotional materials, I don't expect it to work too well.
lokycat 03-21-05, 11:12 AM	Ty for assering my Q. I hope this "Card thing" in Table top RPG is nothing BUT a tiny fad. Im alredy geting SICK of peapol coming up with card game names wen i say RPG. :P