Wednesday, December 08, 2004

DDM News from GenCon...

From Dagni:

"I got a chance to talk to Ian Richards, head of Organized Play for DDM, just a few hours ago, right at the very end of the Con. He was very informative, and I'll try to write up a full rumors/advance news posting later in the next couple of days.

"A quick major highlight, next year's Constructed Championships should be basically like this last year's. As in, it will be at GenCon Indy, with Qualifiers beforehand, and there won't be Draft finals, straight Constructed.

"However, there will also be a Sealed Championships next year! This will not be at GenCon Indy, it will be a few months later, in my own backyard, at GenCon SoCal. It will have it's own series of Qualifiers with plane tickets for the winners, same as the Constructed one. It will be Sealed with Draft finals.

"Oh, another tidbit I'll post now lest I forget about it again. I asked RobH about reprinted stat cards for the old sets. His immediate answer was basically, ehh, not really happening. However, I then suggested something along the lines of using the league kits as the means to doing reprinted stat cards, and he thought that was a good idea, and wrote a note to himself about that.

"Certainly Rob himself is in agreement with me and many of you guys on the boards that the old stat cards look terrible next to the newer ones. So we at least have an advocate for our cause, but as RobH said, WotC's policy so far has been against anything involving printing of extra stat cards."

And from Rob Heinsoo: (some guy connected with Wizards DDM design...)

"Amusingly, the people who came to play tournaments at GenCon SoCal had so many good ideas that I got to spend a lot of time listening and asking questions instead of being interrogated until I cracked and blabbed about everything that was coming soon. People who want news about upcoming stuff don't have long to wait: preview articles for Deathknell are starting soon."

From Tried:

"Dagni, Guy F and Rob H did play in the unsanctioned Titans tourney, only to fall to the unstoppable Mr. Derry. I will post the top 4 warbands when I get a chance to catch up at work!"

From Synedoche:

"One tidbit I discovered that I haven't seen reported is that it looks like 6x6 terrain tiles are coming. I saw two at the WOTC desk: a crumbling fountain and one divided into multiple little rooms. I haven't really thought through the ramifications of this yet, but I do think that tile placement is a major, and underappreciated, aspect of the game."

From Fenris:

"RobH mentioned in passing that he's somewhat dissatisfied with how routing creatures don't give any victory points when time is called, even when there's no commander that could possibly rally them. He & I chatted about possible workarounds for that, but neither of us could come up with a simple & fair "fix" on the spot. So I guess maybe in the future there might possibly be a rule change about that, but probably not soon and maybe not ever. "