Well....there's that I guess Adamb0nd

And the plot thickens... A designer admiting behind closed doors it's not thematic... Someone spoke up about it during design and were ignored, because.... A designer wanted to make a piece the way they want? And by the way, please, tell anyone who is not familiar with the game, but is familiar with Star Wars, they can play a resistance squad with Kylo. Or a first order squad with Rey. See how they feel about it.

Why wouldn't you want to represent the most epic scene from TLJ?!
Yeah, it's going to get weird . . . some people might not like it.
This design team voted it worth doing.

This is absolutely true. ReyLo is a cool idea that flirted with a line designers may want to avoid in the future.

Yes, we invited Jen’ari into our private design forum to help us with suggestions and playtesting.
He made complaints about ReyLo during the design process and our design team discussed them.
Yes, we were fully aware that ReyLo would not be well received by everyone.
I agreed to take on the task of sharing designer’s thought process with the community.
It’s also true that I put enjoyable gameplay over pretty looking cards.

Jen’ari taking my comments from our private forum and posting them publicly here was a shallow move.
We've tried to work with him but he’s too immature to behave like a decent human being.
I have zero respect for him or the venom he spews. He’s singlehandedly more damaging to this game than anything the v-set designers could ever do.


Therein lies the rub, theme manifests through various aspects of the game. It could be having the objectively literal Crowd Fighting on the card. It could be having the subjectively abstracted concept that a character is difficult to pin down in gameplay.

What happens when the objectively literal Crowd Fighting does not match our subjective expectations for a difficult to pin down character in gameplay? The essence of that character is lost and no longer feels thematic when played; despite having “appropriately” labeled abilities.

A card that looks thematically correct but doesn’t feel like the character when you play it is fine if you just want a pretty card to look at. A card that looks inaccurate but feels like the character thematically when you play it is a small price for enjoyable gameplay. IMHO

ReyLo was constantly getting pinned down and easily killed in playtesting.
It sucked big time so we went with Acrobatic instead.
I thought players would want enjoyable gameplay over a pretty looking card.

Also, Acrobatics doesn’t need to be limited to high jumps and gymnastic flips.
I mean, for some people tying their shoes is an acrobatic feat.
Acrobatics from the original Greek term means, “walk on tiptoe, strut.”
In game terms, Acrobatics just means you can avoid enemies while moving.
This ReyLo is just dancing and pivioting around the enemy.


Awesome dude! We’ll be doing 3 more spoilers (first thing) tonight on SHNN podcast @10pmEST.
One looks very strong competitively, could it be Balance Commitee material?. . . let’s find out!
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No DarkDracul, lying to the public while saying other things in private is shallow. Mocking those that enjoy the game for a particular reason different from yours is shallow

"With great power comes great responsibility"

The child is not the one "raging out" it is the one putting up a front to the community knowing that they will support you no matter what.
No matter if you are a liar or two-faced.

Am I sorry I took your private conversation public? Why the heck would i be? They are your words. You have been embarassed in front of everybody again, but everyone will just turn a shoulder and say "meh, it is jen'ari".

You would think that after all the conspiracies I have uncovered, all the pressure I have applied for good designing, all the secret combinations I have brought to light that I would, at the very least, be thought of as an anti-hero by some.

So I take the Snowden comment as a compliment.

What is this "tried to work with him" stuff?

I worked on set 15 with ZERO problems at all. ZERO, did a great job too, I was proud of that work. I love those pieces a lot. I love the pieces on 16 that I worked with as well I am glad that some of them look very similar to what they were.

The person in charge of Set 15 is someone who conducts himself with respect so he was given respect. Set 16 we had a designer post a stat block that was so crazy I thought surely the other designers would shoot it down..... it got passed for Play testing.... I fought and fought for people to reconsider. No one even thought to reconsider. HAHA! than I find out that I was 100% RIGHT the whole time! (like usual).

So ya, in the words of Natsu I got "fired up" and tried to get it changed, but no one cared they saw "venom" where there was actually reason and everyone protects everyone so why would I want to stay?
I was right too, there is not a single person that was there that can say that what I said was wrong. not a single person can look back at that first stat block and say that it should have been passed for Play-testing because if they did they would be silly and absurd after everything that was taken off of it in the last hour. hahaha
"We tried to work with him" no you didn't FlyingArrow did and I am sure he has sworn me off by now, but we worked flawlessly because he had ears to hear and when I said something he acknowledged it in some way or other and he didnt allow crazy things to come out and he did so in a respectful manner to the other designers. You never heard him "put his foot down, he didn't have to, he was a leader and people followed". You know, he was being a human being.

So don't sit here and try to paint me as this bad guy. You are the one saying one thing to the public while privately mocking them in your elitist estate on the "v-set team".
Go soak your head in someone's lap so you can feel better.
I hope you found a person to take that designer spot no one wants. I also hope that you respect Spryguy enough to let him join you on "Mt. Olympus" and design or are you going to keep stringing him along like a pet?
Quite frankly some of the things you (and v-set team) do are just horrifying. and it is horrifying that others support you in it or protect you when you are "caught"

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/023/107/droid.jpg

interesting new pieces will have to look at squad building option for them right now...

Quick question---- does battering charge work with strafe?

Admiral Raddus 16/30
Rebel - RM: Admiral Ackbar, UH43
Cost 11
HP 50
Def 15
Atk +5
Dam 10
Special Abilities
Unique. Pilot
Tactician +4 [Add +4 to the initiative roll except on a roll of 1]
Commander Effect
Droids are subject to this effect:
At the end of this character's turn choose 1 Rebel pilot follower within 6 squares. Until the end of this character's next turn, that follower gains Battering Assault +10 [Replaces turn: This character can move up to double speed, then attack each adjacent target once at +10 Damage. Determine legal targets before making the first attack roll. Huge or smaller characters hit by this attack are pushed back 2 squares from this character. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity.].
"Call up a Hammerhead Corvette, I have an idea."


Very interesting character.... Seems pretty aggressively costed in a faction thats full of aggressively costed Commanders.

Does the bolded phrase prevent a "lawnmower effect", to where you can only BC people you end your movement to?

DroidAdmiral does bring up a good point about Strafe tho... I would assume this does work with strafe, and I think you can give Leia/Luke Pilot someway correct? I know you can give most Luke's Pilot, just curious.

I dunno how I feel about something like this. I feel like this is a remake of the Imp's Non unique swarm without the Prideful... And we all know how that went, lol.

I don't think this is as powerful, because no prideful. How swarmy were playtests with this piece? I would assume you either Beef up a Luke, or to just swarm an opponent using Dodonna to set it all up.

I can see it now tho... A 6 point Rebel Pilot pushing a 50 point Jedi into a pit, thus ending their life.

I don't hate it. I don't like it. Were any playtests ran with the 29 point piece who makes all charactes count as rebel? to see what kind of Fringe Pilots benefit from all this?

Very very curious to see what playtests were ran, and what they were played against.

I believe jaina was jagged fel correct?

Can I say it warms a special place of my heart to see the legends characters come out alongside the new ones like Raddus. That will always be the Star Wars I grew up with and knew and while I find things to enjoy about the new movies/Rebels. The classic stories I'll always remember and it's awesome that SWM is probably one of the only if not the only place these characters will exist in gaming. Long live the old EU and thank you designers!

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Raddus