Continuing the guidelines on building a good Epic Duels deck. So you know why you’re doing a deck, and you know, typically in a combination of 4-6 cards, it’s path to victory. Now what? 3. Bread-and-butter offense: I used to call this the “signature card” but bread-and-butter is a better descriptor, and I’m intentionally adding …
With many new folks joining the Epic Duels deck-making community over just the past couple of years, I thought it might be worth a refresher on deck-building. Although volumes have been written on this topic over the past 10 years, I wouldn’t know where to find much of that written right now. Furthermore, most of …
I write about this concept a lot, and want to spell it out with examples of the games that do it best. There are many different ways to achieve it, here we go: Building Agricola The Uwe Rosenberg worker placement game is sort of my classic do-something game. Even if you don’t win, who doesn’t …
You might have heard that there’s a new Star Wars movie out in theaters. Every new film has brought us new characters worthy of representation in Epic Duels, and this one is no exception. WARNING: Light spoilers ahead. I’m not giving too much away when I say that not all of the characters are who …
“We designed this for 8-to-10 year-olds to last 3 months,” — Rob Daviau. In case it didn’t come through the interview as I wrote it, Mr. Daviau was genuinely surprised to be talking about this game in 2018 with someone as old as myself. He’s made many games, why did this one stick? Instead of …
After seeing a recent surge of interest in Epic Duels here and on the Wiki, I contacted Rob Daviau , the original creator of Star Wars Epic Duels, and requested an interview. He agreed, and we met in person at the NYC Toy Fair in February. This is the third part of our 10-minute conversation: Rob (continuing): That was a fun time. …
After seeing a recent surge of interest in Epic Duels here and on the Wiki, I contacted Rob Daviau , the original creator of Star Wars Epic Duels, and requested an interview. He agreed, and we met in person at the NYC Toy Fair in February. This is the second part of our 10-minute conversation: Roman: I feel like that [Yoda] deck, …
I’m at the Toy Fair in NYC and I spent a few minutes chatting with Rob Daviau, creator of Star Wars Epic Duels and many other titles. I will have the complete interview posted later in the week but I wanted to post a few fun snippets: “I came up with the Yoda deck first. …
Mostly some small things: Updated Snoke and Luke Grand Master. Added some HP to Jyn (then undid it), Cassian and Chirrut. Adjusted the Vassal X-Y coordinates of most of the Disney decks including Kylo Ren, General Hux and all the Rogue One decks; only Rey and Finn were unaffected. Now, all 10 of these decks …
**Spoilers ahead** But if you’re a fan of Star Wars, why haven’t you seen The Last Jedi yet? Anyways, I won’t give too much away, but there’s no discussion of Epic Duels without discussing the fate of some of the characters. As for the film, I’ll say I enjoyed it but it was missing something …