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Originally Posted by Dan Davenport
Sounds like a potentially amusing game...
How do the game mechanics work?
And how do the barbarians manage to take on the lizards and their high-tech weaponry?
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Howdy Dan...
The mechanics are painfully simple -- basically, you just roll as many D10s as you can, and add them up. So you stack your attribute + item bonus + other bonuses and so on, and roll. Beat a Target Number or your opponent's roll.
The alien weaponry can be pretty devastating, but the barbarians and their pure bloodlust see the aliens as just another potential prey/hunting trophy. Furthermore, barbarian superstition can be equally potent. A barbarian's Special Bloodstained Club (5) is just as deadly as a Efficient Non-Lizard Lazer Gun (5) or what have you.
I suppose my sly little play in the game is that the barbarians and the aliens are essentially the same -- the space lizards just have cool technology at their disposal, but they raid and plunder and loot just like the barbarians. In the end, the tools used are irrelevant -- it's all about the passion.
Thanks for the review, Matt.
From the game's author,
Nathan Hill