Witcher themed Board Game
Hi everybody.
I came to ask a / few simple question / questions.
But first perhaps a bit what this is about.
In year 2013 December. I made a Witcher themed Board game. I contacted Marcin about it through this forum and CD Projekt Red was really happy to see what I have to show. So I was preparing my material to sent images and description of the game when my personal life got turned upside down as someone I love got seriously ill. Needless to say I basically put / threw everything in my life aside and decided to spend every possible moment with her.
So Marcin and Project Red never got to see my board game. I did send a few days ago new private message to Marcin about the game, explaining my situation and if they are still interested in it but he has yet to respond and I imagine they are really busy with Witcher 3 and what not. This is not meant to be about my personal life but just a short description of events I guess.
I don't like to judge the games I make they are more or less done for friends and people I know so that we play them together. But with this game and my love for the witcher books and games I wanted to give it my best and at least show it to the guys and get their opinion and didn't want to just leave it at one of those games made for my friends. It was them who liked it and pushed me towards trying to do something about it.
And so I am here making this post. It may result to nothing who knows. But life is too short, to not give it your best and pursue the things you love and in general wish to do. So I guess this is my try at that, to the best of my abilities even though it may result to nothing.
A BIT ABOUT THE GAME AND HOW IT PLAYS:
- You assume the role of a witcher. It can be played from 1-6 or theoretically more people. Each person who joins is another witcher.
- The map is made out of the "entire" Witcher world From Nilfgard and The city of the Golden Tower up to the northern Kingdoms and city of Lan Exeter
- You traverse the land and hunt monsters for a living. You take up a job and upon success you collect your reward
- The map consists out of many kingdoms (witcher world) and each kingdom of many cities. Each kingdom has a capital. There is where you get your missions.
- Sometimes you know what to expect setting on a mission. Other times there are only rumors about it and you don't know what you will find until you reach the destination. Sometimes just like in the books, you seek for a job but you have trouble finding it in that particular area.
- There are seasons in the game, there is weather in the game, there is night and day, there are rivers, forests... all play their part in your journey as also making it harder or easier to travel.
- Some monsters you will meet only when certain conditions are met
- Some monsters get stronger and more dangerous, or more fragile depending on many factors. To know your monster, to know its habitat and advantages as weakness is essential.
- You can gather information on monsters but you have to nose around and pay the price for people to talk
- The more you know the likelier you are to succeed , the likelier it is you will do your job more efficiently, the likelier it is that you wont get killed
- Surviving through the game is not your only goal however. Witcher does his job not only because he kills monsters, but because it is his living.
- Witcher does not only fight monsters, he sometimes has to fight people as well and sometimes....
- You use silver for monsters, steel for humans, you use the signs as well but you have to learn them and to learn them you have to travel the land.
- You may travel on foot or you may seek other means of travel which are faster but they too come with a price.
- Tactical planning and decision making is crucial. You can decide to take one road but it may have been better that you would have taken the other. You may take a job but it may be more than you expected or can handle. Dont think everything will always go as you plan, account for that and adapt, but most of all prepare and think before acting. Managing to do just that may be the difference between a highly efficient and not so menacing witcher, managing that may be the difference between a live or a dead one.
.....
The game is set to be involving and I try to did my best to transfer the world I read in the books on to the board game so you actually feel like a witcher when playing. It is easy to learn, it is easy to play, but it is not a simple minded game it has what I would call a soul and a lot of content. You may manage to get by without thinking too much about it and playing casually for pure fun and exploring, adventuring, but the game will always reward those who immerse themselves into it and try to use all of what the game has to offer.
Like I said I don't like and cannot objectively judge my games, but people who played it enjoyed it and pushed me towards doing something about it. and so I came to ask this community
Would you be interested in something like this?
Does it sound interesting to you or not?
Would you be interested to learn more and perhaps give it a try?
All those questions and more I guess
I apologize for taking your time with this post and I really do thank anybody who will spend some of it reading this and perhaps taking additional effort to write something back.
Regards
Lan
Hi everybody.
I came to ask a / few simple question / questions.
But first perhaps a bit what this is about.
In year 2013 December. I made a Witcher themed Board game. I contacted Marcin about it through this forum and CD Projekt Red was really happy to see what I have to show. So I was preparing my material to sent images and description of the game when my personal life got turned upside down as someone I love got seriously ill. Needless to say I basically put / threw everything in my life aside and decided to spend every possible moment with her.
So Marcin and Project Red never got to see my board game. I did send a few days ago new private message to Marcin about the game, explaining my situation and if they are still interested in it but he has yet to respond and I imagine they are really busy with Witcher 3 and what not. This is not meant to be about my personal life but just a short description of events I guess.
I don't like to judge the games I make they are more or less done for friends and people I know so that we play them together. But with this game and my love for the witcher books and games I wanted to give it my best and at least show it to the guys and get their opinion and didn't want to just leave it at one of those games made for my friends. It was them who liked it and pushed me towards trying to do something about it.
And so I am here making this post. It may result to nothing who knows. But life is too short, to not give it your best and pursue the things you love and in general wish to do. So I guess this is my try at that, to the best of my abilities even though it may result to nothing.
A BIT ABOUT THE GAME AND HOW IT PLAYS:
- You assume the role of a witcher. It can be played from 1-6 or theoretically more people. Each person who joins is another witcher.
- The map is made out of the "entire" Witcher world From Nilfgard and The city of the Golden Tower up to the northern Kingdoms and city of Lan Exeter
- You traverse the land and hunt monsters for a living. You take up a job and upon success you collect your reward
- The map consists out of many kingdoms (witcher world) and each kingdom of many cities. Each kingdom has a capital. There is where you get your missions.
- Sometimes you know what to expect setting on a mission. Other times there are only rumors about it and you don't know what you will find until you reach the destination. Sometimes just like in the books, you seek for a job but you have trouble finding it in that particular area.
- There are seasons in the game, there is weather in the game, there is night and day, there are rivers, forests... all play their part in your journey as also making it harder or easier to travel.
- Some monsters you will meet only when certain conditions are met
- Some monsters get stronger and more dangerous, or more fragile depending on many factors. To know your monster, to know its habitat and advantages as weakness is essential.
- You can gather information on monsters but you have to nose around and pay the price for people to talk
- The more you know the likelier you are to succeed , the likelier it is you will do your job more efficiently, the likelier it is that you wont get killed
- Surviving through the game is not your only goal however. Witcher does his job not only because he kills monsters, but because it is his living.
- Witcher does not only fight monsters, he sometimes has to fight people as well and sometimes....
- You use silver for monsters, steel for humans, you use the signs as well but you have to learn them and to learn them you have to travel the land.
- You may travel on foot or you may seek other means of travel which are faster but they too come with a price.
- Tactical planning and decision making is crucial. You can decide to take one road but it may have been better that you would have taken the other. You may take a job but it may be more than you expected or can handle. Dont think everything will always go as you plan, account for that and adapt, but most of all prepare and think before acting. Managing to do just that may be the difference between a highly efficient and not so menacing witcher, managing that may be the difference between a live or a dead one.
.....
The game is set to be involving and I try to did my best to transfer the world I read in the books on to the board game so you actually feel like a witcher when playing. It is easy to learn, it is easy to play, but it is not a simple minded game it has what I would call a soul and a lot of content. You may manage to get by without thinking too much about it and playing casually for pure fun and exploring, adventuring, but the game will always reward those who immerse themselves into it and try to use all of what the game has to offer.
Like I said I don't like and cannot objectively judge my games, but people who played it enjoyed it and pushed me towards doing something about it. and so I came to ask this community
Would you be interested in something like this?
Does it sound interesting to you or not?
Would you be interested to learn more and perhaps give it a try?
All those questions and more I guess
I apologize for taking your time with this post and I really do thank anybody who will spend some of it reading this and perhaps taking additional effort to write something back.
Regards
Lan
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