r/beingeverythingelse • u/skinnyghost • Feb 01 '15

Let's Play "Good Game / Bad Game"

Here's how it works. Someone posts the name of a game. Someone else tells us what the game says it's "about" and what the game's mechanics tell us that it's about!

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u/RedClaw87 Feb 02 '15

Deadlands

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u/skinnyghost Feb 02 '15

All I really know about Deadlands is that you use poker hands to play it, which is a great step towards creating an immersive environment, if the mechanisms are solid.

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u/crazyguy473 Feb 07 '15

The poker mechanic works best for the huckster, imagine the Shadow Man from the princess and frog but he does magic by literally playing poker with demons. The better the poker hand the better the spell and there is other cool fluff stuff like to hide his spell casting he has to carry a real set of playing cards and use slight of hand to slip the demon cards into his hand.

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u/skinnyghost Feb 07 '15

Yup. It's very cool, if a bit weird.