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Sentinels of the Multiverse: Heroes Save the Mars Base!
« on: May 08, 2014, 10:18:32 pm »

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Game 1
Rules

Player Order:
1. ADK (Argent Adept)
2. theorel (Tempest)
3. XP (Fanatic)
4. DSell (Mister Fixer)

Heroes Sheet
Villain Spreadsheet
Environment Spreadsheet

Sentinels of the Multiverse
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A mad scientist holds the world hostage with his terrifying inventions. An alien warlord from a far away galaxy brings his limitless army of bizarre minions to conquer the planet. A giant rampaging robot cuts a swath of destruction across the coast, destroying major population centers. And who will stand in their way? A team of heroes, all with impressive powers and abilities stand between the world and the forces of evil. Will you help them? Answer the call to protect the multiverse!

Sentinels of the Multiverse is a cooperative, fixed-deck card game with a comic book flavor. Each player plays as one of ten heroes, against one of four villains, and the battle takes place in one of four different dynamic environments.

Each player, after selecting one of the heroes, plays a deck of 40 cards against the villain and environment decks, which "play themselves", requiring the players to put the top card of the appropriate deck into play on the villain and environment turns. On each player's turn, they may play a card from their hand, use a power printed on one of their cards in play, and draw a card from their deck. Each round starts with the villain turn, continues clockwise around the table, then concludes with the environment turn. Each villain has various advantages, such as starting with certain cards in play, as specified by the villain character card. Play continues until the heroes reduce the villain to 0 or fewer HP, or until the villain defeats the heroes, either via a win condition or by reducing all the heroes to 0 or fewer HP.


So, this game has been mentioned a couple times around here...some suggestions of having a PbF of the game have come up, and no one else has run it, so here it is.

Rules

So, as a card-based game where each player has their own deck/hand...things can get moderator-heavy.  In particular, the trickiest item is always drawing cards on your turn.  Well, I've made some spreadsheets for each hero from the base game.  (also 2 villains and 1 environment so far, but I can get the rest done fairly quickly)  On that spreadsheet is a list of the cards in your deck, numbered with a die roll at the top.  When you need to draw a card, you roll a die here and draw the indicated card.  You'll have to reroll duplicates.  But then when I update your hand/discard/play area, the deck will automatically recompute the die to roll and adjust the cards accordingly.  So, hopefully it will be simple and quick to roll for your cards.

Heroes Sheet

I'll use the same randomization process for the villain/environment.
Villain Spreadsheet
Environment Spreadsheet

Because of that, it would be possible for me to play, if we need players to pad it out.  But I'm guessing it won't actually be an issue.

Note: I only have the data for the base game.  If anyone wants to play with expansions, and can find the data somewhere (spreadsheet or otherwise), I'll be happy to make sheets for it.
Second Note: the data I had was pre-errata...I've tried to incorporate all the "enhanced edition" errata, let me know if you notice anything I missed.
Final Note: I don't actually own the game and have never played it before.  But I've been very interested in seeing how it plays, so I'm moderating towards that purpose.  Nonetheless there will probably be some minor rules hiccups, as there always is when I run something I've not played before.

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1. XP (Fanatic)
2. ADK (Argent Adept)
3.DSell (Mister Fixer)
4. theorel (Tempest)

Let me know if you want to randomize heroes/villain/environment or choose your own.  Also what level you want to play at. (i.e. Advanced or not?  Do you want to randomize but exclude certain options? etc)
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2014, 12:55:20 pm »

I'll play if you need me. I haven't played before, but it looks pretty fun.
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2014, 01:03:09 pm »

This game is really cool.  I'm in too many games to join right now, though :(

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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2014, 09:12:27 pm »

/in

I'm fine with a random hero. I've only ever played this game with the super-hard villains from the expansion, so I'm cool with whatever you pick for the villain too.

EDIT: On second maybe I'd prefer a more difficult villain over an easier one. Like maybe if you pick a level 1 villain then we play on advanced or something.
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« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2014, 09:23:32 pm »

imho the worst villain is the secretary.

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« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2014, 09:26:27 pm »

worst as in hardest or easiest?
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2014, 10:02:09 pm »

@ADK: sounds reasonable.  Probably given the inherent deck-tracking bonuses we get through PbF we'll want to do something with at least some moderate difficulty.  If we end up with a bunch of seasoned players wanting to try it PbF, then we'd probably want something more difficult even.

My thought is to make a list of options for Villain/environment and randomize among them.

For heroes, if someone has a hero they want to play, or a set of heroes they want to play, they can pick one themselves (including randomly).  If they have no preference, I'm just going to randomly assign heroes.  Probably avoiding level 3+ heroes for anyone new to the game?
Does this sound reasonable to the experienced players?


As an additional note: I've got all base game info entered now.  I've found some expansion info and will be getting it in there too, including:
Heroes: Mr. Fixer, Expatriette, Nightmist, and Argent Adept.
Villains: Plague Rats, Chairman, and Matriarch.
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« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2014, 10:11:37 pm »

Oh if Argent Adept is available I want to be him.

Also from my experience: the Chairman and the Matriarch are both listed as level 4 but the Matriarch is much, much harder. Not saying that we shouldn't potentially fight her but she's seriously an evil bitch.
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« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2014, 08:27:21 am »

worst as in hardest or easiest?

Hardest.

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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #9 on: May 12, 2014, 03:19:52 pm »

Okay, all hero and villain and environment info I have is in place.

If there's no more interest here, we could do ADK, XP, and me.  XP has said he's never played before.  So, that would be 2 newbs and ADK, so we should probably take on something relatively easy?  Maybe one of the level 1 villains on advanced mode would be good?  I'm open to suggestions.
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« Reply #10 on: May 12, 2014, 03:23:20 pm »

I should point out that I have only played this game twice so I'm not exactly an expert or anything. But yeah, either Level 1 on advanced or Level 2 sounds good to me.
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #11 on: May 12, 2014, 03:36:08 pm »

Okay, if I hear nothing before tomorrow, I'll randomize a villain from among: Plague Rats (Normal), Baron Blade (Advanced), and Omnitron (Advanced).

I'm thinking I'll randomize my hero selection from among the complexity 1 and 2 heroes.
@XP: do you have a preference for hero, or for complexity?
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2014, 04:20:11 pm »

How hard is this game to learn? I've been wanting to learn it for a while but if it's something that's better to learn in person, I won't play since it's cooperative.

For reference, my first games of forum terra mystica and Agricola were (are) kind of a mess in terms of strategy, but I'm also used to reading and teaching the rules for games in person all the time.
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2014, 04:37:21 pm »

How hard is this game to learn? I've been wanting to learn it for a while but if it's something that's better to learn in person, I won't play since it's cooperative.

For reference, my first games of forum terra mystica and Agricola were (are) kind of a mess in terms of strategy, but I'm also used to reading and teaching the rules for games in person all the time.
Speaking as someone who hasn't played.  The rules are pretty simple...the complexity comes up in card interaction.

I would think that it will be easier to play this way than in person, because you have full information of the cards in your deck/discard at all times.  This does seem like it might be a good time to try to learn it though, given that you'll be playing with other new players.
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« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2014, 05:19:38 pm »

Ok, then I'll go ahead and sign up. Did you have a time in mind that you wanted to start?
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2014, 09:58:31 pm »

As soon as everyone's ready/available.  I don't have anything particular that I'm delaying for at this point.  We could take 1-2 more players, but we don't particularly need more players.  My understanding is that 4 players is considered "best".

Do you have any hero preferences?
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« Reply #16 on: May 13, 2014, 01:04:57 am »

I can just be someone random.
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #17 on: May 13, 2014, 01:37:44 am »

Do you have any hero preferences?

I read the rules and it's not bad at all. Love rules-on-cards games.

I'm good with random, although I think I'll be secretly rooting for getting Ra based on the ones I've read so far.
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #18 on: May 13, 2014, 07:59:41 am »

Alright, all sounds good...I'll randomize things and get us started sometime today.  Starting with: Villain/Environment
Villain:
1=Baron Blade (Advanced), 2=Omnitron(Advanced), 3=Plague Rat
Rolled 1d3 : 3, total 3


Environment:
1=Insula Primalis, 2=Megalopolis, 3=Ruins of Atlantis, 4=Wagner Mars Base
Rolled 1d4 : 4, total 4
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Sign-ups
« Reply #19 on: May 13, 2014, 08:02:57 am »

And heroes:
1. Bunker
2. Fanatic
3. Haka
4. Legacy
5. Ra
6. Tachyon
7. Tempest
8. Visionary
9. Wraith
10. Expatriette
11. Mister Fixer

XP:
Rolled 1d11 : 2, total 2

DSell:
Rolled 1d11 : 11, total 11

theorel:
Rolled 1d11 : 7, total 7
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Starting...
« Reply #20 on: May 13, 2014, 08:21:35 am »

Okay, so the set-up is:
Argent Adept, Fanatic, Mister Fixer, and Tempest versus the Plague Rat at Wagner Mars Base.

I consolidated all relevant information into a single spreadsheet.
Game 1 Spreadsheet

Anybody have an idea for player order?
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Starting...
« Reply #21 on: May 13, 2014, 08:33:53 am »

I'll go ahead and do Starting Hands for everyone:
Adept:
Rolled 1d40 : 22, total 22
Rolled 1d40 : 24, total 24
Rolled 1d40 : 14, total 14
Rolled 1d40 : 37, total 37

Fanatic:
Rolled 1d40 : 24, total 24
Rolled 1d40 : 38, total 38
Rolled 1d40 : 10, total 10
Rolled 1d40 : 32, total 32

Fixer:
Rolled 1d40 : 27, total 27
Rolled 1d40 : 10, total 10
Rolled 1d40 : 36, total 36
Rolled 1d40 : 8, total 8

Tempest:
Rolled 1d40 : 2, total 2
Rolled 1d40 : 6, total 6
Rolled 1d40 : 22, total 22
Rolled 1d40 : 16, total 16
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« Reply #22 on: May 13, 2014, 08:39:11 am »

Random player order?
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« Reply #23 on: May 13, 2014, 08:45:25 am »

Works for me...
Rolled 1d4 : 2, total 2

Rolled 1d3 : 3, total 3

Rolled 1d2 : 1, total 1
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Re: Sentinels of the Multiverse: Starting...
« Reply #24 on: May 13, 2014, 08:46:07 am »

Player order is:
1. ADK
2. theorel
3. XP
4. DSell
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