The Chosen strike back
Monday, December 1st, 2008With tcgplayer.com not coming out of the woods, here is what you apparently have been waiting for, The Chosen:

With tcgplayer.com not coming out of the woods, here is what you apparently have been waiting for, The Chosen:

The week has been short - and tomorrow another one starts already. So I am moving this one up on the time table.
And now… here is their first Warlord.

It’s when the Chosen get pressured, that they respond in force.

The Masters of The Chosen all wear elaborate masks, puzzling our heroes as to what hides behind them.

The Chosen have strange naming practices. Since their names tend to be unpronouncable, the telling names are translated into English.

… in with the new they say.
Did you find the lost treasure Florian (who is too modest about his rookie contribution as a Design Team member - he was invaluable!) hinted at?
I’ll shed some light on that, too.
When we took over the licence for Warlord we had to reevaluate our many ideas. When you pitch such a thing to yourself, a lot of ideas sound great. When you are actually tasked with carrying through, you need to be honest to yourself.
We wanted old and new at the same time. It was obvious that many players remember Warlord fondly from the “yonder years”, but that Warlord has developed into a direction where it left a lot of players behind. So we want to capture some of that old school feeling.
At the same it was apparent that we would need something to kick players awake and remind them that Warlord is the greatest card game on Earth (hey, I am allowed to be biased). Besides having RPG Superstar Christine Schneider work on the background and the new bold traits you have already seen we decided on this: (more…)