by CamelCity
Ordered yesterday for < $50, will be here Wednesday.↧
Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Price of game
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Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Price of game
by Sonny Blount
I just ordered it for $49 from CoolStuffInc.The price really wasn't a factor in the purchase decision. I wanted the game more than the other cheaper options available to me.
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Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Price of game
by Impy
Got it in Germany for ~64€ and i don't regret a Cent of it! Simply an awesome game worth it's money...↧
Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Price of game
My friend paid 75$ retail Sat night— now I really wish my friend had waited
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Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Price of game
by Jan Tuijp
I paid 75€ and thats way too much in terms of bits and pieces. Then again, how much fun will it provide for me and my daughter...? After I translated the flavor text, that is. :blush:Living a boardgamer's life ain't easy.
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Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Mice and Heroscape
by garygnu
As for homebrew...Venoc, Arnoc, and Elite Onyx Vipers- They could be rationalized with Vanestra's evil magic as Black Guards turned into snakemen.
Venoc Warlord- Makes a villian.
Marro Hive- It could be used as an underground spider's nest.
Feral Troll and Ice Troll Beserker- might work if you don't mind upping the fantasy, as a troll's size is variable in folklore.
Ogre Warhulk- Another kind of Troll.
Ogre Pulverizer- Ditto.
Anubian Wolves- I see them as possible feral rats.
Krug- Could work for the same reasons as the Feral Troll.
Marrden Hounds- Kinda look like rat skeletons.
Various Kyrie warriors- A bit of a stretch but they could be explained as a martial sect of pixies.
Minions of Utgar- Could then be used as an evil version.
Tealord and Runa- Villians to lead the evil minions.
The Einar Imperium and Empress Kiova- Could also work, maybe as nature spirits.
Ki-Mo-Shi- Arachnid looks are appropriate for a monstrosity of Venesta.
Rechets of Bogdan- They are plain scary, useful for a darker story.
Marcu Esenwein- Even scarier. Perhaps they both could be fluffed as imps or fiends.
The Dumutef Guard- Works great as a rat abberation born of foul magic.
Braxas- I like her as a dragon because of serpentine body and butterfly-like wings. Both qualities work on a small scale, IMO.
Gurei-Oni- Weird enough to work as a tiny demon of sorts.
Torin- Same goes for this one-eye.
Wo-Sa-Ga- A shoe-in for a snake monster.
Sujoah- fits well with the spider/roach/centipede-vermin theme.
Obsidian Guards- Hot Lava Fun! comes in many sizes. Elites.
Granite Guardians- Same idea, but cooled down.
Shurrak- Obsidian/Granite villian.
Fyorlag Spiders- Change the special rule for variety.
Fen Hydra- More snakey fun brought to you by Vanestra.
Sahuagin Raider- Nice lizard man brought to you by the dark arts.
Greenscale Warriors- More lizardmen to be led by the elite Sahuagin.
Rogar Dragonspine- He could be a lizardman villian.
Air, Earth, Fire, Water and Greater Ice Elementals- Magic comes in all shapes and sizes.
Wyvern- Kinda looks like an evil bat monster.
Iron Golem- A villian in miniature, perhaps a toy gone bad.
Heirloom, Siege, and Warforged Soldiers- Mechanical toys given magical life.
Werewolf Lord- Possible rat monster.
Mezzodemon Warmongers- Insect theme and demons make these usable.
Yep--a few.
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Thread: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Stumbled upon a game flaw yesterday...
by Titeman
My 5 year old doesn't want to use his character's abilities as it disrupts the building of his "cheese cake."Why oh why do the cheese wedges have to make a circle!...
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Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Stumbled upon a game flaw yesterday...
by biglar155
Titeman wrote:
My 5 year old doesn't want to use his character's abilities as it disrupts the building of his "cheese cake."
Why oh why do the cheese wedges have to make a circle!...
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Why oh why do the cheese wedges have to make a circle!...
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That's funny. We played our first game as a family yesterday and my 5 year old said exactly the same thing!
His 12-year-old sister wound up giving him cheese to activate Collin's "Give Order." Now THAT is a good Big Sister!
The 12-year old's big issue was the fact that she couldn't play Lilly right out the gate. It's a "bow" thing. Think Hunger Games...
Sigh. The troubles a gaming Dad must face...
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Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Stumbled upon a game flaw yesterday...
by Eyefink
I haven't gotten a game in quite yet, but six y/o son thinks it's a pizza game...↧
Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Mice and Heroscape
by nobeerblues
I think the deathreavers would make excellent mechanical rat adversaries for the mice to battle.↧
Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Mice and Mystics listed on Yahoo's Holiday Gaming 2012: 12 Hot Toys
by Montag451
I think PHG may have just sold a few more copies of Mice and Mystics :thumbsup:↧
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Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Stumbled upon a game flaw yesterday...
by Mishenka
My 4.5 year old was also building pizzas out of the cheese. She also really wanted her mouse to get poisoned and was therefore really excited when the spider appeared.↧
Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Stumbled upon a game flaw yesterday...
by kinorob
I think 5-year-olds across the world must do this same thing. Just last night, my five year old son informed me that he was building a "cheese pie" and we had to wait until he made the full circle. Then, he would give us all a slice of pie.↧
Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Best and Worst search cards
by Marimbist11
I really like the Hammer of Nandon on Tilda. It made her quite the offensive threat in my games. And since she was rolling so many dice, she always had plenty of cheese to heal her allies.↧
Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Best and Worst search cards
by mfaulk80
Marimbist11 wrote:
I really like the Hammer of Nandon on Tilda. It made her quite the offensive threat in my games. And since she was rolling so many dice, she always had plenty of cheese to heal her allies.
And she isn't as slow as Nez, but with the hammer her offense is more or less the same.
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Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Price of game
by Jonathan68
I've been thinking about the question of value a lot lately.On one hand I can lay out all of the bits and components, evaluate the quality, and then compare Mice and Mystics to other games on the same terms. In doing so you can draw several conclusions: Mice and Mystics offers less minis, less game boards, and a fair amount of cards but you can still find other games that give more.
However, I think laying all this out on a component by component basis is unfair because there is one standard that I value above all others: how much do I enjoy playing this game. There are a lot of games that cost lots of money that I would like well enough but they would become just another box on my shelf. I'm not sure how to explain it, but some games just have this x factor where they rise to become greater than the sum of their parts. This game is awesome! Whatever complaints I had about the compenents of this game instantly evaporated when I started playing. The art, the mechanics, the story, it all transcends into an experience that I want repeat over and over. Of all the games that fit into a similar genre this game stands on a mountain of its own for me and for that I find the price to be fair.
don't tell anyone I paid the preorder price and probably would have waited for a while to get it. Worth it or not, $75 is more than I have :p
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Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Stumbled upon a game flaw yesterday...
My nearly 5 year old wasn't bothered about spending his cheese (he likes rolling 5 dice), but he did manage to organise the cheese on all of the character cards into circles (rather than the pile I had left them in)
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Reply: Mice and Mystics:: General:: Re: Homemade German translation / Selbstübersetzte deutsche Version
by Impy
AngryDwarf wrote:
Well, I just sat down for an in depth look at the prologue and tried to give it a little more of a polish where I felt that to be neccessary. There were only a few petty errors in the translation. All in all it's an amazing job already! Still I changed some words and formulations. I took the liberty to translate Nexton as Nebenien and Darkhlend as Dunckelandt since these wordplay would be lost in translation otherwise. And I felt I had to swap "eiergesichtig" with "mit spitzem Gesicht". "Eiergesichtig" somehow lacks that evil feel, I guess, and "pointy" is more acurately translated as "spitz" anyway.
Thanks for your feedback and corrections! I just copied your version into my first post and I hope you don't mind :meeple:
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