[Card Game]: Fist of Dragonstones, reviewed by ShannonA (5/3)

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10734.phtml

Shannon Appelcline's Summary:

A filler auction game with some nice fantasy color and some interesting chaotic elements, by Bruno Faidutti and Michael Schacht.

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Post originally by Brian Ridge at 2004-10-06 06:32:35
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Another good review, Shannon.

I was looking forward to playing FoD when I first started reading about it, but it quickly fell out of favor among my group because of the highly-repetitive nature of the auctions. And by highly-repetitive, I mean really, super, frickin highly repetitive. Decide on a bid, and put your fist out again, again, again, again, again, and again. And then a few mroe times for good measure. It grew stale quite quickly and has been collecitn dust ever since.

I like Mystery of the Abbey a lot, but Citadels and this game do absolutley nothing for me.

Brian

Post originally by Shannon Appelcline at 2004-10-06 11:42:26
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Yep, the repetitiveness is one of those things that I didn't catch the first time through but has been more obvious through additional plays.

I still really like the online version, and wish it were more available, because it can go fast enough that the repetitiveness doesn't get old before the end of the game.

Shannon