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  1. I'm going to post three, because the last time I played was a tournament.

    Misaki

    Shang

    Ototo

    Yamaziko

    2x Torakage

    Thunder Archer

    Ten Thunders Brother - Trained Ninja

    Corrupted Idols

    Vendetta

    Breakthrough*

    Assassinate*

    Power Ritual

    Take Prisoner

    - I was up against Hoffman, and struggled because 1) first time against Hoffman, any edition, and 2) I don't really have a lot of counters to armor. I did get rid of his mechanical attendant, but I didn't take care of it early enough and just didn't have time (real time) to recover.

     

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    Youko

    Chiyo

    Hinamiatsu

    Bill 

    3x Bunraku

    Ten Thunders Brother - Trained Ninja

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    Plant Explosives

    Hold Up Their Forces

    Search the Ruins*

    Dig Their Graves

    Power Ritual*

    Harness the Ley Line

    - I was up against Seamus, and his Terrifying, so my bunraku were at a disadvantage. This was a very close game, but I didn't get my explosives out, and ran out of time, again.

     

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    Mei Feng

    Forgeling

    Kang

    Metal Golem

    3x Rail Worker

    2x Metal Gamin

    Turf War

    Detonate Charges

    Deliver a Message

    Outflank*

    Search the Ruins

    Assassinate*

    - I was up against a Dreamer crew. Didn't really know how to handle Dreamer, in the slightest, and got crushed. The player got first, so I'm not salty. I did get a Pneumatic Toss off against LCB, so I count that as a moral victory for the game.

     

    I think I have a grasp on what masters are good with what pools, but I don't really know how to build against specific masters yet.

     

  2. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. It is highly unlikely that we are getting a whole bunch of dual faction masters out of the Explorer's Society. The reason the Ten Thunders were like that before, was because their concept was that they were infiltrating the other organizations and groups. That isn't the case for the current part of the story. Dual faction masters are also much less common in general this edition. And that's without including the fact that for balance reasons they would have to add eight new masters if they did, and they wouldn't all be explorers.

    That said, the ideas presented here wouldn't have to be dual faction to work either.

    I like the idea of a phantom thief/gentleman thief as well, I think that could provide some really interesting mechanics.

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  3. 2 hours ago, mattbird said:

    Played 5 games with the following Mei list, and liking it greatly: 

    Mei
    Forgeling
    2xGamin
    Golem
    Kang
    Sparks
    Rail Worker
    Low River Monk

    Rail Workers are amazing. I was playing this weekend and I was put in a situation where I had the opportunity to throw Lord Chompy Bits. I didn't win that game, but that was very much a moral victory.

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  4. 13 hours ago, dalezzz said:

    Any plans to put Genbu ( the tortoise) and Pasha ( the March hare) in? Ideally as individual hireable models ( you know it makes sense wryd!) but just as proxy cards would be fine  . 

     

    This is is assuming they are not already and I’m being dozy of course

    Genbu is an alt Izamu, so you have to go under Izamu and select Genbu from the drop box.

    Pasha is an alt Blessed of December, so follow the same as above, except for the model in question.

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  5. 6 minutes ago, Hagisman said:

    If you ask how your opponent could complete any of the schemes when crews are revealed I feel like that is not unreasonable or during game ask how they could complete any of the schemes in the scheme pool.

    the point of schemes is that they're secret. So if you know how they can do the schemes, when they do it, you have a level of knowledge on what they're trying to do.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Beta said:

    Have you looked at the pictures in original size and compared the system/app text with the cards? Especially on the tablet screenshot I don't call that subtle.

    It's not subtle, but it's not as extreme as you're claiming, even when I zoom to full size on a pc monitor.

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  7. 52 minutes ago, Nathan Caroland said:

    It's a game. 

    If I wanted true world bias, bullshit and politics, it would be something completely different, and to be honest, wouldn't grab my attention in the least. Sure, we take bits and pieces of it that we like, or want to expand upon, some with carte blanche, others with complete and utter ignorance that turned into a happy hap stance or a wince after the fact. We try not to offend folks outright, but at the same time, not going out of our way completely not to either as quite bluntly people get offended just by someone else breathing air they thing belongs to them these days. 

    I'm of the opinion that games are there to be enjoyed. If you don't enjoy it, or find something that is truly offensive and intolerable to you, then find another outlet, avenue, or avoid altogether if it causes someones blood pressure to fluctuate terribly. Are there things that I would do differently in hindsight - yeah, probably - but there are just as many things that I'll happily troll for good fun because of my rather dark sense of humor. Believe me, the guys and gals here keep me in check ...  :)

    Hell, when people kept pushing for a nude female way back in the day, they got topless Zoraida for their trouble ...

    I'm glad you chimed in. This confirmed for me the ethos you have when designing the game, and as I said, I respect the way you've gone about things. Anyone who is being serious on the subject of things that people might be offended by isn't going to tell you never to implement those things. They'll just say, hey, be careful when you do. And Wyrd is a company that doesn't just do these things on a whim, even if Nathan would like to sometimes, as he's said. And that is very respectable.

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  8. 38 minutes ago, DarrenG said:

    I've just been reading over the replies.

    I did post the same question on Reddit about a week prior and sadly by the time I got back to catch up on it I found that it had been closed. A lot of the comments weren't too constructive, kinda veering off into abuse, accusations of 'political correctness agendas', SJW-insults, that kind of thing. I had kinda hoped that the conversation would be a bit more convivial on the official forum. 

    To clarify a few of the questions, I don't work with any organisations or publication groups intent on censorship, like @Necrokamo mentioned. I'm not sure where you got that idea from. I'm not asking that anyone be offended on the behalf of anybody else like @Scoffer mentioned and I'm not telling anybody that they should be offended, like @katadder mentioned - in fact, I didn't even use the word 'offended' in my original post at all. Nor did I say that I want, as Scoffer put it, everyone involved to immediately stop doing things they were doing and start making me comfortable.

    But hey, 22 downvotes and four pages of people telling me what they want me to have said? I don't think this is the game for me, so thanks for the time. 

    By my count you have two pages of people riffing, a page and half of honest discussion on the subject and a half page of non-sequiturs. I didn't see anyone telling you what you should say in response. You also didn't actually respond to anyone's commentary on the subject; and this says to me what I've mentioned to others, that your post was not made in good faith and possibly was intended to stir the pot, which is exactly the response that was received. I'm saddened that if you were honest you wouldn't be willing to at least discuss what you have problems with further and completely leave the game, which I've heard is one of the best miniatures games on the market.

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  9. 7 minutes ago, Daniel Walker said:

    Wait a second. World of Malifaux is not safespace for everyone. It’s the world of guild terror, dead children that are trying to kill you, and savage neverborns, who hates humanity at all. World of cruel necromancers, and cunning criminals. Any of that things can trigger a lot of people. One should not come and ruin the whole magical world by trying to explain that it can hurt to someone. There is no rainbows and unicorns (only bloody Ulix unicorns) in this world. Bad things happens.

    You're not wrong. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have the conversation. Ignoring and dismissing what others find make them uncomfortable makes the game something that they can still enjoy. Just because the setting isn't sunshine and daisies doesn't mean that we have to treat the people who play the game like they're unwelcome unless they don't see issues. I find the concept of reanimating corpses detestable onna fundamental level. My solution is to not play characters who do that (with one exception for personal reasons). Does that mean I don't think Resurrectionists shouldn't be in the game? No, just let people express their opinions about the game and its lore without dismissing them because you disagree. 

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  10. 29 minutes ago, Hot4Perdita said:

    So if Wyrd is shipping all these faction books, why do none of the distributors or local game stores have them yet? According to my local game store, his distributor website says September release for the books (got a few days left to make that). 

    Also, he has been waiting on the Brutal Fate Box which has been on order since like July with no product in sight. 

    Wyrd releases happen at the end of the month they're released. Meaning releases hit store shelves either the last week of the month or thr first week of the month following. 

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  11. 26 minutes ago, ChoriQueso said:

    I play games to escape reality, escape news, politics, religion, etc... It's a fantasy world where ANYTHING can happen. It is not a place to look for and be triggered by instances in the story or characters in the game which inadvertently resemble real life to you. To bring it up in the context that I have read in this thread is to imply that Wyrd made a conscious decision to do something inappropriate. I never claimed your issues weren't serious in any way. This just isn't the place IMO.

    Admittedly, I never should have looked in this thread... so I'll leave you all to this fun and positive energy! 

     See you all in the hobby discussions!!!

    If someone with a trauma finds something that triggers a response in the game, that is something that should be talked about.  You are misusing the term 'Trigger' in this light. it makes light of people who have responses to things related to traumas (fireworks are a trigger for people who have combat related PTSD). One does not choose to be triggered by something. This is absolutely a place to discuss things about the game and its lore that make people uncomfortable on any level, including such subjects as cultural appropriation, and possibly triggers. You aren't the only one who plays the game to escape from reality, and discussing ways that it might make people uncomfortable and thus, unable to do so.

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  12. 1 hour ago, Hagisman said:

    I'm glad Queeg has lost the "Master" title to his name. Originally "Master Queeg", he carries a whip. 

    For those who don't know who Queeg is a reference to check out the Caine Mutiny:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caine_Mutiny

    If he was just Queeg it would have been fine. But calling him Master really crossed the line. Additionally having a Henchman model called "Master' is kind of confusing.

    Unless I'm missing something, the only problem with calling him Master is the confusion issue. Please elaborate, because I (and others) are confused on this.

  13. 2 minutes ago, TheJoyInGaming said:

    The different experiences of the people illustrate what I mean well. I know people that would not be offended in the slightest by Big Jake (almost used his initials there...) and these are people that look like, except for that they have a dad-bod. You know people that are uncomfortable with how he looks. Why is this a case of cultural appropriation rather than a case of divergent opinions about a more easily communicable sculpt for a Native American model? 

    On another note, do you view Joss as better example of a Native American model? 

    Big Jake definitely tows that line, I could ask a few of my friends who would be able to chime in more on this.

     

    As for Joss, let's just put it that there's a reason his name is Joss and not what it used to be.

  14. 2 minutes ago, CD1248 said:

    Cultural appropriation is a nonsense concept.

    What you're actually talking about is the use of archetypes to represent a thing in fiction. If you want to represent pre-modern Chinese culture in a work about a lot of different things you do not have time to re-write Romance of the Three Kingdoms to ensure accuracy, so you grab a known archetype, put whatever your unique spin on it is, and now everyone is on the same page.

    If you aren't allowed to do that, then alt-history fiction just isn't allowed as a genre.

    It's actually not. There are a lot of problems when dealing with other cultures and power dynamics. It's not about not being allowed to do it, it's about being sensitive that there are issues when you use stereotypes. Wyrd is actually really good about this, and I respect them a lot for it. Notice that I used the term Stereotype and you brought out archetypes which are vastly different things, and suggests that you may not be coming into the conversation on good faith (Meaning you don't have any desire to actually have the discussion and just want to discredit all arguments fallaciously based on your own biases).

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  15. 1 minute ago, TheJoyInGaming said:

    Can you elaborate? What are some examples and why are they edging on cultural appropriation?

    If you do view them that way, how would you recommend Wyrd go about representing so many vastly different cultures through minis? In other words, how do they convey a culture through a model without edging this line whilst also not requiring someone to minor in Asian studies, or visit the forums for an explanation, to tell the difference? 

    Any time you utilize stereotypes of marginalized groups you start pushing that line. It's a tightrope for sure. There is no easy answer, you just gotta be careful and if someone calls you out, you need to address it. There are other forms of cultural appropriation, but that's not really something that this market in particular really has to worry about.

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