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Alpha Mutation Deck Building

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#1
clevername
Feb 22, 2011 11:10:54 I imagine I am in a similar position as a lot of GW GMs. I am the one that has purchased all the gaming matierals. No stores within 50 miles are carrying the boosters, so I too have purchased a lot of the cards online. I do not have a full set of cards, but about 45 of them.

So, while I am okay with just handing out the Omega tech as I see fit, I would like my PCs to have their own decks of Alpha mutations to personalize thier characters.

My group is just not going to sit down a read every card.

What I did for my first game is had out 5 cards to each of them and told them they could discard two cards into a pile, face up, that everyone could then re-draw from. This worked pretty well as I coached them on looking at overcharge bonuses and characteristic mods to make a selection. Still this took a little while.

I have considered doing this MtG draft style as well, but that would take even longer.

What are you doing?

#2
FlashbackJon
Feb 22, 2011 14:30:31 I've considered simply grouping the alpha mutations by type and letting them pick from the deck that suits them. (I would let them have their own decks, just so we're clear, they just presently do not.) Any type of forced draw (from the GM's deck, etc) would then come from a randomly determined deck.
#3
sirkaikillah
Feb 22, 2011 23:55:32
I have access to 3 gm decks and just over 100+ booster cards. As a group we have a lot of cards. Yes when we play GW we share cards. My idea is to put all the common, uncommon and 2 of the Gm decks up for play in Pc decks. So all rare and one of the gm decks will be part of a GM mega deck, along with all cards not taken into player decks. We will not be playing with the cards RAW. I have some different guidlines for building decks;

10 card decks both Omega and Alpha mutations

A player can have only two of the same cards, but can have as many pairs as desired.

Only one uncommon card per deck. (because we only have so many uncommons)

We place all the cards for Pc decks on a table face down and scramble them all about the table. After that it is first come first serve. The group I play with are really good at working together so I am sure they can work out any issues over who gets what card.

So I am not to concerned about players picking cards that may not work well with thier pc's. They will learn and I will let them switch cards during extended rests.
#4
Tony_Vargas
Feb 24, 2011 12:36:45
So, while I am okay with just handing out the Omega tech as I see fit, I would like my PCs to have their own decks of Alpha mutations to personalize thier characters.

That's a pretty good aproach. One thing you could do is let it evolve, organically. Put all you cards together in a DM deck, and have players draw alpha mutations. When they get one that seems to fit their character, that they really like, tell them to hold onto it. Once they get 7 or more such cards, they have a deck.

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#1 clevername Feb 22, 2011 11:10:54	I imagine I am in a similar position as a lot of GW GMs. I am the one that has purchased all the gaming matierals. No stores within 50 miles are carrying the boosters, so I too have purchased a lot of the cards online. I do not have a full set of cards, but about 45 of them. So, while I am okay with just handing out the Omega tech as I see fit, I would like my PCs to have their own decks of Alpha mutations to personalize thier characters. My group is just not going to sit down a read every card. What I did for my first game is had out 5 cards to each of them and told them they could discard two cards into a pile, face up, that everyone could then re-draw from. This worked pretty well as I coached them on looking at overcharge bonuses and characteristic mods to make a selection. Still this took a little while. I have considered doing this MtG draft style as well, but that would take even longer. What are you doing?
#2 FlashbackJon Feb 22, 2011 14:30:31	I've considered simply grouping the alpha mutations by type and letting them pick from the deck that suits them. (I would let them have their own decks, just so we're clear, they just presently do not.) Any type of forced draw (from the GM's deck, etc) would then come from a randomly determined deck.
#3 sirkaikillah Feb 22, 2011 23:55:32	I have access to 3 gm decks and just over 100+ booster cards. As a group we have a lot of cards. Yes when we play GW we share cards. My idea is to put all the common, uncommon and 2 of the Gm decks up for play in Pc decks. So all rare and one of the gm decks will be part of a GM mega deck, along with all cards not taken into player decks. We will not be playing with the cards RAW. I have some different guidlines for building decks; 10 card decks both Omega and Alpha mutations A player can have only two of the same cards, but can have as many pairs as desired. Only one uncommon card per deck. (because we only have so many uncommons) We place all the cards for Pc decks on a table face down and scramble them all about the table. After that it is first come first serve. The group I play with are really good at working together so I am sure they can work out any issues over who gets what card. So I am not to concerned about players picking cards that may not work well with thier pc's. They will learn and I will let them switch cards during extended rests.
#4 Tony_Vargas Feb 24, 2011 12:36:45	So, while I am okay with just handing out the Omega tech as I see fit, I would like my PCs to have their own decks of Alpha mutations to personalize thier characters. That's a pretty good aproach. One thing you could do is let it evolve, organically. Put all you cards together in a DM deck, and have players draw alpha mutations. When they get one that seems to fit their character, that they really like, tell them to hold onto it. Once they get 7 or more such cards, they have a deck.