(Rapid Thought) Another RT Game Done on JOL

Mostly for Kevin and anyone else interested in how this is going. Just finished a RT game on JOL with Jonathan Sciari and Flarkit. I won with the same kinda deck I won the previous one with--weenie POT long range junk with computer hackings. This one might have had a splash of dominate in it. Jon was playing a weenie disguised weapon rush deck. Flarkit was playing a Ventrue votey kinda deck. Once again, Rush combat is very good in this format. Jon got killed pretty quick, and then I mangled Flarkit down to 1 guy, and Pentex Subverted him. Flarkit didn't seem quite entertained by the degenerate nature of the game. I think we were just using the "no Blood Doll/MT/Villein/Tribute" rules. I was trying all sorts of dumb pool gain masters--I has Failsafe, King's Rising, and Instability in my deck, and used a couple of them. No huge impact. Peter D Bakija pd...@lightlink.com http://www.lightlink.com/pdb6/vtes.html "It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?" -Gaff

Peter D Bakija wrote: > Mostly for Kevin and anyone else interested in how this is going. > > Just finished a RT game on JOL with Jonathan Sciari and Flarkit. I won > with the same kinda deck I won the previous one with--weenie POT long > range junk with computer hackings. This one might have had a splash of > dominate in it. How many Kindred Spirits were you running?

In article <JqDTl.34183$ZP4....@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com>, LSJ <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote: > How many Kindred Spirits were you running? -Statement taken at face value: Me? None. -Statement taken as some sort of comment on whether or not Kindred Spirits totally breaks the format: I still maintain that I don't think that Kindred Spirits is as bad for this format as people seem to think. Yeah, you can just S+B upstream and win that way, but lots of other decks can do that too (you can vote upstream and rush upstream just as well as Kindred Spirits upstream). That, and 'cause rush decks are extra effective in a 3 player format, I'd expect that there would be a lot of rush. And Kindred Spirits decks get generally eaten for lunch by Rush decks. So I'm unconvinced that they are that big of an issue. But I'll need to see more of them in action. [ quoted text not captured ]

[ quoted text not captured ] Well, Marcus, Kevin and I were playing in a different Rapid Thought game, and Marcus had the misfortune of being Kevin's predator. Kevin kept bleeding backwards, and Marcus found it "unfun" to the extreme, and pool sacked. At that point, Kevin and I called it. Still not clear whether KS is broken in this format, but it may be unfun, which might be enough to ban it... best - chris

On May 29, 1:18 am, librarian <aucti...@superfuncards.com> wrote: > Still not clear whether KS is broken in this format, but it may be > unfun, which might be enough to ban it... I'm still unconvinced that KS allows you to do anything that Bum's Rush or KRC don't allow you to do--if you want to go upstream, you can go upstream. Yeah, KS gives you pool too, which is a plus. But KRC/ Voter Cap is 2 cards that allow you to go upstream and gain pool just like KS/Stealth. In terms of "fun" in this format, it strikes me as a format that exists to play completely degenerate, single minded, totally evil decks. As games are (when played in real life) a maximum of 45 minutes. So if your game sucks, you die and play a new one in half an hour. I'm surprised that people don't understand this. It strikes me as a total selling point of this format that you can make a horrible, evil, abusive deck. And you can play it against two other such decks. And not have to worry about table dynamics and "looking like a threat" and cross table shenanagins. And if your deck works, you do well and the game ends quick. If you do badly, you die and a new game starts very soon. So my suggestion for selling this format is "Play the meanest deck you have. And expect to get killed by even meaner decks. But the game is over in 45 minutes, so don't worry about it." -Peter

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