Hey guys,

For clarification I need some help with allowed maximum quantities in different ways.

On the counter:
- Maximum life is infinite (i found out in this forum via sunfire amulet).
- Maximum mana also?
- Maximum channaling also? (I will never reach that last marker anyway. More theoretic)

On gameboard:
What happens when markers and? No more expansion on board possible or switch to using helpers?
- More creatures possible? (Action markers run empty)
- More burn and other effectmarkers possible? (Playing with 2 mainsets gives more markers here)
- more vine-markers possible? (That question brought me here and i nearly forgot it)
- more mana and damage markers possible?

Cards maximums are clearly ruled.

I guess these were are all things that can get empty while playing too slow .

Thanks for a summery!

Just stacking life or whatever would be very enchantment like.
But there are way more possibilities thinking of timing and tactic. Imagine 2 or 3 bobcats with 2 life left. They join and are back to 6 life and hit with lots of melee. Regarding my last post this would be case 2. This triple bobcat would then be one target and still killed quite easy. There would be no triple defense!

If those three would stay 3 targets the question is if they act as one creature or three. Thematically I would say one. So losing 2 actions should result in a huge advance of attack or life. It would then be possible to kill one of three bobcats in that staple. Regarding the idea they could split up again they would more or less need apostate actions. But also attacking separate would break the whole idea down to something like aegis. “other swarms in your zone get melee +1. This can stack up“.
... Still not that bad. Maybe keeping in that simple is the way to go.

I like the idea. It remains me on a swarm idea where a swarm of bees could split up ...http://forum.arcanewonders.com/index.php?topic=15908.0
Maybe those two mechanics should be connected in one concept. Anyway great idea!

I love the idea of card sized condition markers a lot. After reading the initial post here I created some colorful ones on my one. It took a while making those cards, so playtesting will be next week. A helping background or stuff like that would have been helpful. If anyone is interested I can upload a printable pdf. Minor optical defects included

For damage and mana I switched to very small red and purple dice.

What I really really still miss is a way to play outdoors. Plan is now to play around with metal tiles and small magnet balls to fix cards, because the main problem is wind.
Has anybody tried something like that? Playing in a park would definitely open up big time slots for battles while nice weather! At least in Germany...

I really don't know you and a lot of other people here. I am not doing much in the forum bit reading. But I always thought you are deeply connected to arcane wonders and have some job like “creator of alternate ideas of playing“.

I can really feel your problems you are telling about the search for players. I was searching a lot, too. At the end I guess I am happy to have found some players after about two years.
I don't know your region, but people behave in 1000 different ways. Don't take tips too serious. It is always easy to say “just do that“. At the end playing groups are very different. Some are more close friends and quite internal, some more competitive and visible to public.
Mage Wars is hard to learn and the main reason I got people to play is to have a cool evening together. For some this means showing them awsome cards, to others I tell some crazy strategies and there are also those who just want a beer and the rest is kind of happening.
Anyway: maybe you are really just unlucky with your region. That is possible and was never discussed as a real option!

Coming back to the topic: I guess you have some reasons to leave this forum. But from what I was reading, nobody was confronting you or did want so. Opinions can be different. That beeing said, you will definitively leave a hole in the creative sections.

Thanks for sharing you ideas and good wishes for whatever you do with your time.  It must be quite a lot looking at your posts

Maybe we meet on octgn !

Oh, how i wish some creatures was named using my language

We have 42 letters in our Alphabet

Problem is, when you look at translated words from scifi or fantasy, they didnt sound that cool and sometimes they sound unapropriet.

Where are you from? Or what's the language?

I like that concept of splitting very much.

But I think thematically they should get regenerate1 for the swarm is growing all the time. It is a bit fast forward for reproduction, though. Thinking like that a growth maker would also be an option. Every round at the end of their action, if they have full health they earn one up to 3.

What I don't see is that defense. Well it is maybe hard to catch them... It is more a kind of etherial but also not really.

I also would definitely add rage+1.

With the splitting option and all those traits I think 11 is worth it even without hitting armored enemies. (Target can not be a confirmation I guess)