Freaking Beeman
I’m sure you know that I’m already a big fan of Dr. McNinja. Also of Girl Genius and Gunnerkirgg Court as well. Well, lucky for me there’s a card game involving all of those comics.
Legendary Showdown, both the original Dr. McNinja’s Legendary Showdown and Legendary Showdown: Machines and Magic, is a card drafting/hand management game published by Killer Robot Games. The original artists of all three comics provided the art for the cards. Killer Robot Games kickstarted both games with the blessing of the artists. I obviously supported both campaigns as I’m a big fan of all three webcomics.
Gameplay is pretty simple and goes by quickly. You draft a hand of characters, which are shown to your opponents, and then a hand of modifiers, which are hidden, and then you go forth and do battle upon your opponents. The character with the highest points after modifiers are played and shown wins the round. You then proceed to play the next character in your hand. Modifiers played on a character follow the character through the rounds. Since gameplay and mechanics are the same for both games, you can mix the decks and have a legendary showdown in a McNinja/Girl Genius/Gunnerkrigg-verse.
The game is easy enough to teach younger kids and I think they could be entertained by some of the more ridiculous modifiers and characters, like Beeman up there. But I think the finer details and even the more ridiculous details would be lost on people who aren’t familiar with the comics. Such is the way of heavily themed games. Not sure if I’ll try and introduce this game to the kids. I think I might be the only one who would really appreciate and understand all the characters and modifiers. Sadz.
Random moosages as I see fit. 