Storm Magic Tournament?

Rushputin · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:49 am Post subject: Storm Magic Tournament?

I'm not going to be able to make it to the Toys For Tots shindig next weekend, but I'm still digging on doing something / seeing something done with Storm of Magic, either the complete, fully erect Arcane Fulcrum version or the less emphatic "throw in some extra units if you'd like" version.

Clearly, it couldn't be done until January.

Is there interest in this?
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ExecutionerofKhaine. · Shade Joined: 30 Nov 2010 Posts: 2420

Sure, I'd be up for giving it a whirl
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Darkblood Skullpulper · Earthshaker Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 195

Me too, though we'd need to find a way to get info in people's hands well before the tourney. I wouldn't want to buy the book just for a one-shot, and I suspect others would feel similar.

Plus, I've been perusing Harry's copy for a couple of days (prep for T4T) and am thinking that there is so much new and wacky stuff that it could really drag out a game for a significant amount of time. A two game tournament at a 3-4k size limit might be much easier than 3 games of 25oo.
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Skipschnit · Herr Pyramid Dictator! Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 2274

Hell yes. I'd like to see the SoM option be viable in all game play and be a part of your army instead of "in addition to". That way you could cap the army points at say 3000 with 25% being SoM. this way it is an option for players without forcing others to buy the rules/models. But that's just me. Wink

If there's an interest, I'll put on an event plus a day of SoM so players can get the jist of it.
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Rushputin · Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 8:23 pm Post subject:

I'm totally down with running this, for the record. I try to not volunteer other people for stuff. Smile

- Doing things at 3-4K will very much price some folks (myself included) out of participating. It's a no-go.

- I'm hard for making the bonus SoM points optional. It's so much freaking cleaner: if you want to run your normal list, run it. If you want to swap in wacky [censored], great. I'd do it at 2,500 points; 50o points of which can, optionally, be spent on SoM choices (wizards, scrolls of binding, SoM items, pacts)

- Concerns about requiring the book are totally legit. I think these can be mitigated, however. ArmyBuilder has all of the SoM stuff in it: with sufficient noticed, it'd be negligible for me to print up SoM allocations for folks, which would cover the at-the-table lookup problems. The spinner can easily be replaced by a printout and a d8. Is there a copy of the book at GPC to review and make choices?

- That said, folks would have to bring something they normally don't: Arcane Fulcrums. They wouldn't have to be from the kits or anything, but they would have to be something and comparable in size. To mitigate that, I think I'd do a "coolest fulcrum" award. It'd be two per. Also, opponents of players using soda can fulcrums get a reroll each game (or something).

- No Seven Secret Sigils of Summoning. Too difficult to manage in the context, I think.
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Rushputin · Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 6:38 am Post subject:

Is there sufficient interest in this to justify my putting it on the calendar?
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