Experimental Deckbuilding – Scions of Arnor Testing Report

With our Dunedain decks all ready for testing (even if the published link doesn't represent the current version - for that, see the end of this article), it's time to ask ourselves the important questions about these decks. What are the potential weak points? The first and most obvious issue is shadow effects. The combat …

Experimental Deckbuilding – To Isengard!

So, technically this series is still doing detailed deck testing for the Scions of Arnor fellowship, but I've had some deckbuilding ideas that were exciting enough that I had to explore them anyways. Most of these deck ideas are based around cards that hardly ever get used, and today's is no different. Let's talk about …

Returning Home

November is over, and with it went NaNoWriMo. This years experience was thoroughly disappointing, unfortunately. I learned that trying to carve out dedicated writing time with 2 small children at home is difficult, and that that schedule is compounded by 10 hour work days. I learned that the word vomit approach that typifies NaNoWriMo doesn't …

A Small Hiatus, and Other Stories

As you might have noticed, things have slowed down here at the White Tower of late. I was in a car accident earlier this month, and the recovery from that delayed some things. That was followed by a shift change at work that required significant alteration to sleeping habits and resulted in the loss of …

Horrors of the Forest

My apologies for not getting out the Conflict at the Carrock narrative. I was in a car accident a couple of days ago, and the recovery and fallout from that has rather impacted my focus. I had this post and video already ready to go, so I'm going to throw it out there. Further updates …

Experimental Deckbuilding – Scions of Arnor

So, Grant Thomson of the excellent podcast Card Talk has given us a request for the theme for our next Experimental Deckbuilding post. So, today, we will be building a fellowship oriented around the Dunedain of the North. The Dunedain are an interesting faction in the game. They've been developed in a couple of different …

Shadows of the Wild – Deck Testing, Part 2

Welcome back to Experimental Deckbuilding! It should be noted that I had planned to release the narrative of the Conflict at the Carrock before this post went live, but it isn't ready yet, and this one was. In our last installment, we went through the first two quests of our testing regimen for the Shadows …