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Title: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: Shapeshifter on June 27, 2018, 01:17:43 AM
For those who weren't around at the time(like me), or for nostalgic reasons, here's a compilation of Lotr TCG game design articles retrieved from Decipher's defunct website. They range from covering the evolution of a particular card/set to more general information and trivia. I've only edited them in terms of formatting, consistency, etc.

Enjoy some TCG history! ;D

Articles for blocks: FotR, TTT, RotK, Reflections and WotR. These are zipped PDF-files.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11TtnmR-S0j8jthr2f5kex4e43axybF3u (https://drive.google.com/open?id=11TtnmR-S0j8jthr2f5kex4e43axybF3u)
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: FingolfinFinwe on June 27, 2018, 12:15:36 PM
These are awesome - thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: menace64 on June 27, 2018, 06:41:01 PM
I love you.

This might also be my best chance to ask: does anybody have any archives of the old Decipher BBS - specifically, of course, the Dream Card forums.

It's an impossibly-long-shot, but all my digging has yielded nothing.

Sigh. It's weird being internet-old. There's a forum I may never see again.
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: Shapeshifter on June 28, 2018, 12:38:13 AM
Thanks guys! I'll add the RotK articles shortly  8-)
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: FingolfinFinwe on June 28, 2018, 07:47:41 PM
Ah the decipher dream card forums.  Best one was from SW:CCG: "The Freshmaker" with a picture of Luke popping a mentos.
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: menace64 on June 28, 2018, 09:05:22 PM
I miss doing the Speculative Card Lists - I still remember when Mount Doom was nearing release and they spoiled one of the new [Raider] cards with a card number in the high 30s. Of course that didn't align with previous set averages ([Dwarven][Elven][Gandalf][Gollum] and [Gondor] in < 40 cards - no way!) so I made my little stink in Everything Else about how sure I was that I'd found a typo in the collector's info.

One of the designers (can't remember who) popped up in a reply to smack me down. As if I would know! I felt super embarrassed for a few minutes, then opened up my Speculatives folder and started adjusting my MD card list.

Man did I love the wake of a good set of new cards! Mount Doom was a cool set. Not quite what I was hoping for, but cool.

Also, it's wonderful that I can still pull a memory like that out of my #$&*@! after fifteen years. I want to bring back the good-depthful-card-game days...
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: menace64 on June 28, 2018, 09:06:46 PM
Ah the decipher dream card forums.  Best one was from SW:CCG: "The Freshmaker" with a picture of Luke popping a mentos.

I don't remember that. I'm almost terrified to consider how many memories from the BBS I've quietly forgotten.
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: Shapeshifter on June 30, 2018, 01:30:16 AM
Added the RotK articles to first post.
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: DEATHBYMONKEYS on June 30, 2018, 07:48:57 PM
I actually remember that happening Menace. I miss the decipher boards so much. :)
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: Shapeshifter on July 07, 2018, 12:10:37 PM
Added articles for Reflections.
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: Shapeshifter on June 02, 2019, 01:30:01 AM
Added a new collection of articles from the War of the Ring block (sets 11-13).
Title: Re: Old game design articles (Decipher)
Post by: Mythdracon on August 20, 2019, 06:49:31 PM
Thanks for posting these! Had fun reading the "Naming the Nazgul" article... I remember a long time ago enjoying their approach to the Nazgul name problem. The Ulaire [Fancy Number in Old Tongue] always sounds more menacing than just "Dark Nazgul" or whatever.