Warriors Online v0.90 is on the home page for download. This version adds all the rare cards, so the entire cardset is now incorporated. Version 0.9 also adds pack definitions, so you can play in draft format, too. I recommend five boosters or more, and I've noticed that it doesn't give out enough weapons. As usual, all feedback is welcome. I'm counting on feedback as the best way to improve the game and the plugin. Happy gaming!
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This is the first update since 2004, and it might be the next to last this site sees, ever. But I'll get to that in a minute. I wasn't planning on updating at all right now, but seeing the hit stats for this site lit a fire under me. Over 4000 hits since Saturday! I had no idea!

In the last two years, I've created a non-collectible card game, which I consider a far superior game than Warriors. It's called Ferrball's Mansion, the game of cartoon mayhem! Two to six players struggle to be the first to escape impending doom, all while fending off the competition and avoiding traps. I have PDFs of the cardsheets and rules available. Just ask! I've also discovered the wonderful world of Icehouse games, a game system published by Looney Labs. Like others before me, I've tinkered with Icehousee game designs, and currently have four concepts under development at Icehousegames.org.

The biggest Warriors news is that I've overhauled the rules page. Give it a visit if you haven't already. I've restructured the prize awarding method after a battle, changed the way keywords work, and made some other clarifications to existing rules, but overall the rules are much easier to learn from and much more consistant now. The reason the rules have been updated is that it is a small step in a bigger project... Warriors Online! Yes, you will be able to play Warriors over the internet using the LackeyCCG software (www.lackeyccg.com). This has necessitated the creation of PDF cardsheets, the new rules document, and many reworkings of individual cards. About 30% of the game has changed, and it's all for the better. Warriors Online v0.30 is ready, so contact me for the plugin directory that you can add to LackeyCCG and start playing. v0.60 is in the works, and I hope to have it out by this summer.

However, these two developments (Warriors overhaul and other game design projects) have led me to decide that this website, draconiaprime0.tripod.com, will be phased out. I want a new site, one that showcases all my various design efforts over the years, game essays I've written, and gives all my game-related stuff a common home. This URL just won't do that for me, and so I've decided that this has to go. In its wake I will launch a new site, hopefully by the end of the year. My experience as a gamer is growing, and so too must my online home for game design. My house just isn't big enough anymore, so I'll move into a bigger one. (As I write this, my wife and I are planning to actually move by year's end.)

Not much new in the way of game development. Neil Hackel's been running several games of Starships at NHS, and I've also emailed several copies of the new sourcebooks to other NHS students. Apparantly Starships left a bigger legacy than I expected, though I am pleasantly surprised!

In other news, returning visitors to DraconiaPrime will notice the major facelift this site has been given. Credit goes to my girl Evelyn for revitalizing my fervor in web design, and instilled me to dust off my HTML codeslinging skills. I've smoothed out the site formatting, and added some spiffy fonts.

Also, I'd like to thank the folks at The Citadel in Groton, CT, for introducing me to Netrunner. Based on cyperpunk lore, this CCG was designed by Richard Garfield way back in '96, and was out of print before the year was over. However, it won many game design awards during it's brief tenure, and has gone down in gaming history as one of the best designed CCGs of all time. I can see why! It's very well balanced, and the game has a psychological play aspect second only to poker.

Thanks also to Kurt and Chris at The Compleat Strategist in Falls Church, VA. I had countless hours of fun there on Wednesday nights, throwing down games of Fluxx, Give Me the Brain, Grave Robbers from Outer Space, Chez Grunt, and many others! wOOt!