Waiting for the Next War

I’ve been busy with the new Microscope, which means that my revisions to This Means War have had to simmer on the backburner. Which is not all a bad thing. Letting a game simmer can make a very tasty stew indeed, and some of the subtle things that were just below my sightline have come into focus — I mean in addition to the realization that characters needed time to react, which worked great when we playtested it. All our current wars have wrapped up (Baat Kazir vs Ul-Massara after 17 sessions and Rujje vs Orestellia after 13), so it’s a perfect time for me to tinker with changes that impact the game from the very start before we launch new wars. But with all these revisions in the works, my advice is to wait for the new edition before you give This Means War a try. I am fixing many, many things. When will that be? The magic 8-ball says hazy, ask again later. First I need to finish the early access release of Microscope…

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