Hail and Greetings!
This is mostly a quick post to prove I'm not dead. One of the side effects of my job is that I have a schedule that leaves me with both unusual days off and very unusual times off compared to normal jobs. This means I wind up cramming in nerdy time in lolrandom intervals, and Mage Knight isn't an exception.
I can say that I've nabbed a few more boosters while the nabbing's good, but I'm starting to have questions about some of the 2.0 stuff's background 'fluff.'' What the heck is a Quavaran Warrior and why are they part of the Shyft faction. Why are Shyft multi-torso chiseled Smurfs instead of dreadlock lizardmen?
Who are all these unique characters from Sorcery forward, and why is it next to impossible to find fluff for them? WHO ARE THESE LE GUYS IN 2.0 AND WHY IS IT IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ANY FLUFF FOR THEM GRARGLEBARGLEHARUMPH!
Sorry about the capslock yelling, that last bit is actually bothering me a fair bit.
On the other hand, it is good to find character continuity going on, with lots of 1.0 LE's becoming kickass regular uniques of one stripe or another, unseen background characters getting figures, and lots Heroes getting a new version thanks to Nexus (say what you will, but that was a wonderful finale set).
Hope to be a bit more substantive and coherent soon.
Who will go to the Shelf of Glory? Who will be cast to the Microwave of Shame? This is Mage Knight, and it is time to take the Warlord's path. Gather your minions and conquer some tables. All Your Clicky Base Are Belong To Us!
From Sorcery forward, there were two Mage Knight video games published, and it seems like we were to absorb all the tie-in lore and character info from those. Unfortunately, they weren't great games, few people played them, and almost nobody talks about them, and so there is next to zero canonical news from the Land outside of some Scrying Chamber entries from that period.
ReplyDeleteThat would explain a few things. Wasn't there also a pen-and-paper RPG? I vaguely remember hearing about that a good while back.
DeleteI recall that being announced even before 2.0. And, I think that's all it was was an announcement. There was a news item about a partnership that was going to make an RPG set in the MK world, but nothing was ever produced. Ironically, I'm almost positive that that company outlived WK (prior to NECA's acquisition). The board game was the closest thing we ever got on that front.
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