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Over half done with the Location cards now! Things are
really starting to fill out.
For Carnival, I went with this piece because of the color
and the foreboding look. It's not just
an everyday earth-based carnival, but rather the kind of grimdark feel I
intended. The 'carnival' becomes half-metaphor
with this art, or stretches what a carnival can be. The building here looks like a tower, but
could pass for a ride.
War Machines is meant to be Green's copy of Fortress of
Noise, done in their own style. Fortress
of Noise will be something like a Death Star, so War Machines should give off
the vibe of a Red card, but with a sleeker, shinier look.
Denial finally matches with the flavor text I used. Since Denial has always been a pain to fully
match with (considering it is a strange word for a location), it took quite a
while to find the art that evokes the feel I'm going for. To me, the art and the flavor text tell a
story now, and Solidity is really coming in to their own as a particularly
devious villain.
Interesting that I always find so many cards for Blue so
fast. Emptiness is the good guys, if any
of the four factions can be considered good at all, so I guess artists like
drawing heroes more than villains...
Respectators has been this concept for a while now: a group
of people watching a battle from afar. I
found similar artwork by another artist but could not get permission to use
it. This art works just as well (in
fact, it might even work better because you can see the battlefield below). I considered some flavor text, since spectators usually make lots of noise,
but these people are more likely to watch in respectful silence.
The golem art reminds me a bit of those rock creatures from
Tera, which is certainly not a bad game to evoke. I knew I needed something one would consider
slow, and using plant life would probably have been a little too close to
Ents. A big heavy rock creature works
well. I also changed the special rules
to add that you cannot Reinforce with Slowpokes when first in Turn Order. I'm thinking Slowpokes will be difficult to
balance because the number of players really dictates how likely the special
rules will come into play. In a two
player game, you can't use Slowpokes half the time; in a four player game, only
one quarter.
Nomads may be too powerful; I may need to drop that violent
5 down a bit, seeing as the special rules text probably isn't the end of the
world for Red, should they lose the card.
But in any case, the idea behind Nomads is of a race that wanders
between planes of existence--here and the afterlife, for instance. So killing them doesn't really kill, since
they can come back, and instead they just discover what the afterlife plane is
like, which makes True Converts of them.
For the art, I always wanted a creepy vibe, and this fits perfectly.
I consider quite a few Emptiness cards to be somewhat
'generic defenders', like Steadfast Clan or Walkers, and Tearmen is along those
same lines. They are one tribe among
many that are being slaughtered by Solidity, and they've risen to defend
themselves. But while I want most of
those tribes to be human-like for the purposes of relate-ability, I'm looking
for some twists on the form. This art
works well because of the almost demonic horns and face markings, but she still
looks both forlorn and stoic, which is just the expression I'm going for with
these kinds of Emptiness cards.
