Duel of the Ages.

[swestrup]

Spent the day playing "Duel of Ages" with sps. As games go, its a winner. Many years ago, him and I invented a game that pretty much consisted of each rolling up 5 magic items from the AD&D magic tables and trying to kill each other with the results. Sometimes it was lame (My best item was a +1 rock. His best item a +27 Iron Golem with a bazooka), but sometimes it was lots of fun as well.

Well, "Duel of Ages" is the same idea, only with many different characters, and with weapon and equipment from four different eras. We had lots of fun, although due to the luck of the draw I ended up being seriously outclassed both games. I was very proud that I managed to seriously beat up on Ghengis Khan when he made the mistake of attacking my character with only a weed whacker for offensive weapon...

Comments

[ims.livejournal.com]

I recognised "Strange Synergy" as being essentially the same game. Pick 9 superpowers each from the deck, assign three each to your three character, and have an arena battle for no readily apparent reason.

[sps.livejournal.com]

DoA is, however, a full-fledged game. It has a modular map with interesting terrain (surface features, altitude, tunnels...), 120 pre-built characters built on a dozen or so stats, and, I dunno, 300 items in a trading card stylie, a combat system that is reasonably streamlined (2 rolls of 2d6 with quick chart lookups for the arithmetic impaired) but also fairly varied.

What went wrong was, I kept drawing characters with henchmen. My henchmen had henchmen. It was a little like being China, I was everywhere! And poor Sti had only three pooks on the board, valiantly trying to avoid getting made into pook jam.

Sorta thing.

Hey, I got to have a future saint in powered battle armour *and* Genghis Khan with a weed whacker.

...I like the *pieces* of this game, they sem quite amenable to the improvisation of new rules/games, too.