The new Arcane Wonders online store is now up and running

https://store.arcanewonders.com/home.php

The old store is now offline and will soon be replaced with a new CMS for all sorts of fun AW and MW content.

If you had an account on the old store it has not been transferred as the new and old e-commerce systems use different encryption methods.

If you have any issues with the new site please post them here and I will look at them ASAP.

I am just collecting some answers to questions about the new forum. If you have a question you think should be included post it here and I will add it.

Q: Is there any way to stay logged in?  Everytime I visit the forums I must re-enter my login and password.
A: Use the login page and then select the "Always stay logged in" option in the form.

Ran into this yesterday. Invisible Stalker is in a zone with a creature with Guard. Stalker is Invisible and has Elusive and Pest.

Elusive lets you ignore creatures with Guard but as soon as the Stalker declares an attack it loses Elusive.

We eventually decided that since the Guard trigger and the loss of Elusive happened in the same step that I, as the controlling player, could determine what order they happened in.

I am just wondering if that was the correct solution?

Just wanted to start a discussion about tie breaker rules based on an earlier suggestion

as for tie breakers after time runs out, here is my idea.  others are welcome.

use a point system to determine tie breakers.  give points for different conditions that encourage different strategies.  for example.

1 point for most remaining health (difference between life and damage)
1 point for most controlled zones (encourages creature heavy)
1 point for most remaining zone exclusive conjurations (encourages destruction of conjurations)
1 point for most equipment (encourages equip heavy melee builds and dispells)

During our event today (I'll post about it later) we discussed tie-breaker conditions and I was pointed to this post.

I thought it might be useful to take the discussion of tie-breakers out into its own topic to help focus discussion and make it easier for people to find.

I think it would be useful to have three or five (an odd number) conditions that people could use to judge games where their is no clear winner. The points above are a very good starting point but I did have a few comments.

I think that it would be easier if the conditions we just a single point and you got them for meeting the condition and also that the conditions not be tied to a specific type of build but to more general conditions

So some suggestions:

Reaping: your opponent has no creatures
Cower in fear: your opponent is still in their starting zone
Strip them bare: your opponent has no equipment remaining
Control the arena: you control more Zones by having the only creature or conjurations present
Overwhelm: you have twice as many creatures or conjurations than your opponent

There are, I think, a few issues with some of the original suggestions

Health: Remaining health is to necessarily an indication of damage done. Having a lot of equipment or using a lot of heal spells can give an opponent a low amount of damage that is really just indicative or a type of play-style or build

Equipment: this would just reward, and with the Health condition re-enforce, a specific style of build.

At comments, suggestions or changes?

We will be running a Mage Wars demo evening at Myth Games in Calgary AB on November 26th, at 6pm.

More details on the Calgary Gamers site as they become available.

http://www.calgarygamers.net/forum/index.php?topic=1204.0

The folks at Trilogy Games in Calgary Alberta are working at getting organized Mage Wars gaming running at the store. They have the OP kits on order and are a registered tournament location.

Let me know if there are any gamers here from the Calgary area that are interested in getting together for some games.