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  • From Paul Weintrub on Prototyping: A low-cost DIY

    Thank you for all this great information.

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  • From Silas on Shaak-Ti

    Hello, I just found out about custom characters for epic duels and ordered some miniatures including shaak-ti. I see other pdfs available on the pbworks page, but I can never find links to your pdfs. Is there a big lists of just your pdfs somewhere, or am I just not seeing them on each character website.

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    • From roman on Shaak-Ti

      Hi Silas, sorry you’re having trouble finding the links. You have to go to the individual deck pages, there are kind of a lot of them. Go to the “Epic Duels” part of the site (hamburger menu or top right menu) and from the Epic Duels page go the Epic Duels Decks page, or use the link below.

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      • From silas on Shaak-Ti

        I see that on most charecters and have used them. I just do not see a link to download the pdf for shaak ti on her page here

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  • From Solomon Grundy – Epic Dueling: Adapting Star Wars Epic Duels for Superheroes on Darth Plagueis

    […] cool turn around. I’d also be remiss if I didn’t give a shout out to Geektopia’s Darth Plagueis deck, which did the resurrection idea […]

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  • From The Penguin – Epic Dueling: Adapting Star Wars Epic Duels for Superheroes on Grand Moff Tarkin

    […] The deck has quite a few inspirations: Mike Maloney’s Cad Bane deck and Geektopia’s Grand Moff Tarkin and Nute Gunray decks all contributed to this […]

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  • From Batgirl – Epic Dueling: Adapting Star Wars Epic Duels for Superheroes on Aayla Secura

    […] was difficult. Building her deck around different types of Batarangs was the key. Geektopia’s Aayla Secura (based on ideas by Rich Pizor) served as a loose template but ultimately I didn’t keep much […]

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  • From Supergirl – Epic Dueling: Adapting Star Wars Epic Duels for Superheroes on Ahsoka Tano

    […] incredibly powerful and fun duo. Most of Kara’s deck is based on Geektopia’s excellent Ahsoka Tano deck, which I felt suited Kara well. The rest of her cards were sort of based on Mace Windu but are […]

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  • From tmag222 on Adi Gallia

    What figure do y’all use for adi gallia? They only made one for stass allie, it looks like.

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    • From roman on Adi Gallia

      A second Stass Allie, only I gave her a blue lightsaber. Any feedback on this deck would be most welcome.

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  • From JAG18 on What's in a name?

    I’ll be honest, when I first saw you mention somewhere that Roman wasn’t your real name my mind was blown. 😛

    Anyway, your reasons for using “Roman” are basically the same as why I use “JAG”, but my attempts to make it my internet profile kind of fell apart when I kept using my real name on Youtube.

    I’ll keep calling you Roman, not because I have anything against the name “John”, which I think is a good name, after all it’s my name too! 🙂

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  • From ian on What's in a name?

    Very interesting. I knew it was related to a film but thought it was some sort of youth hostel travelogue type thing. And I thought Roman Farraday was a pun on “Roamin’ Far in a day”

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    • From roman on What's in a name?

      It could be that, that’s how Craig & Joe came up with the name. Perhaps I’ll ask them one day.

      I thought you’d be more interested in my being part Greek.

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  • From Tyler on Epic Duels

    I see under your Finn and Poe deck that you guys use a monopoly figure for Finn. Do you know of any miniatures that’d work for Finn? I usually buy figures off of ebay so I don’t know what all is out there for miniatures.

    Thanks!

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  • From James on Isildur

    For those last 2 slots, I made my own cards. I used 3 Prince of Men which allow all allies to heal 1hp, draw 1 card and be moved 1 space each. Then I gave Isildur some enchanted armor with a defense of 7 and a way to draw while avoiding every 3 damage.

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  • From Deadshot – Epic Dueling: Adapting Star Wars Epic Duels for Superheroes on Jedi Hunter Grievous

    […] my more original and fun deck designs. I did borrow the effect of TRICK SHOT from Geektopia’s General Grievous deck, and the SNIPER’S NEST name from Mike Maloney’s version of Jango Fett & Zam […]

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  • From Jimbotron on Sly Moore

    Hi! There has been discussion in my circle as to whether or not DOMINATION was intended to include non-actions as part of its play; for example, if I am Sly and I play DOMINATION on the original Darth Maul, who has a handful of non-actions in his hand, could I just play all of his non-actions and then finally play a card that counts as an action to finish off this use of DOMINATION, or would those cards be off-limits to me, as they are non-actions? To circumvent this debate, I printed out a DOMINATION card with modified text which reads “You may play 1 card…” rather than “You may take 1 action…”, as I feel it’s more fair. Nevertheless, some debate rages on, so I wanted to obtain an opinion from you guys. Thanks!

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    • From roman on Sly Moore

      Hi Jimbo, thanks for the question. I like your wording “play 1 card” better than the current wording because it gets confusing as to how many actions using DOMINATION requires, which is just one, not an additional one for the card you play. There would be no real advantage to using a non-action card except that it takes it away from that player.

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      • From Jimbotron44 on Sly Moore

        OK cool, and thank you for the reply! Appreciate all the work you guys do for the Dueling world- we love playing with so many of your decks!

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        • From roman on Sly Moore

          Thanks Jimbo. I’ve updated the deck. You can thank us by leaving us comments about those decks. Let us know what your experiences are!

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      • From JAG18 on Sly Moore

        I like Jimbo’s wording too and recommend (if changing it is being considered) something like: “Choose a player to reveal his/her hand. Choose one of the cards you see. You may play that card using that character who can attack allies this turn.”

        Also, am I seeing things or is Sly Moore now a core deck?

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        • From roman on Sly Moore

          As far as “core” goes… it’s sort of losing it’s distinction. The new visual layout (any feedback on that?) works better with 2 more decks among the “core” so I moved up Sly and Luke Rebel Commando with the idea that these both are pretty standard decks, both have gotten some use and feedback over the years, and both are fairly balanced. I’d call them “finished” but decks are never really finished.

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          • From JAG18 on Sly Moore

            Ah, I see. Concerning the layout, I don’t really have an opinion about it one way or the other; It certainly looks more impressive visually. Speaking as someone who remembers when typing in “geektopia.info” bought you to a grey page of red text links, I’ve learned to adapt.
            I will, however, say that if I need to find a deck fast I often need to go to the alphabetical or even the power level list.

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  • From Nuge on Cassian Andor

    The PDF Attachments are missing on this one and a few others. Is it possible to upload these? Thanks!

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    • From roman on Cassian Andor

      We just didn’t think anyone would actually be interested in this deck 😉

      Should be all set now.

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      • From Pehes III on Cassian Andor

        Please. Enven left unplayed, a Cassian Andor deck is always worth having, if only for Cassian’s ✨RUGGED REBEL HANDSOMENESS ✨ and that K-2SO SASSY SNIDE SNARK !

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  • From Nuge on Anakin Sith Apprentice

    Thanks! You guys are the best!

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  • From Nuge on Anakin Sith Apprentice

    Where is the PDF and vassal for this deck?

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  • From Nuge on Epic Duels

    Have you guys thought of uploading this to TableTop Simulator? It would be awesome with your collection. The base game is already on there and you could build off that.

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    • From roman on Epic Duels

      Btw I’ve checked in on TTS to see that Epic Duels is indeed set up, and they have the EU and 10YA decks included already, the latter of which includes 4 of our decks. What’s also true is that hardly anyone plays SWED on TTS, so I don’t think it’s worth the time to painstakingly add our entire collection to it.

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    • From roman on Epic Duels

      Hi Nuge, thanks for the suggestion. Epic Duels has a long history on Vassal, where our stuff has always been available, but I didn’t realize someone had set this up on TTS, which is obviously way better. I do have TTS so I’ll look into it, not sure when though.

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  • From So what if a few people get eaten? Dinosaur Island review! – Geektopia Games on Board game roundup: Games with high do-something ability

    […] bringing an actual dinosaur theme park to life. It feels pretty darn cool. You definitely do something in this game. You might even grow your very own Tyrannosaurus […]

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  • From umondy on Eomer

    Looks like a cool concept. How do you actually play RIDE OF THE ROHIRRIM? With 4 spaces movement it would be possible to move over one enemy charakter several times. I suppose the charaker moved over would only suffer damage once not several times?

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    • From roman on Eomer

      The card says “pick a direction” so that you can’t double back, nor can you make a turn.

      This is one of my favorite decks. It just sort of came together well, with some really fun combos. If you prefer Star Wars, many of these ideas are in the Enfys Nest deck.

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  • From Behrooz 'Bez' Shahriari on Is Kickstarter Over-Saturated?

    Interesting article. If either of us were less lazy, we could check the actual stats for % funded, which would lend an objective air to our discussion. 😛

    I think that KS is certainly becoming more competitive for the mid-tier projects (those needing 7k-20k).

    I don’t know if my first project would fund today. How can I?

    Most of the backers were either folk I knew or one step removed. I don’t think that would be very different today – I am lucky enough to have some people in my life that were able to spent £12-20 to support me and get a game they might really like.

    I asked for £2.7k and only just funded in the final hours. So it was close enough that I might have failed had things been slightly different.

    In the end though, does it really matter? If I was coming onto KS today and failed, I’d have tried a 2nd time I think.

    General backers are more likely to want a review but I think that’s a great thing. New creators with amazing ideas (that publishers don’t want, or that the creator wants to retain absolute control of) can still get a review from some folk for free. The games will eventually be made.

    The real problem is the amount of material waste. With so many thousands of games being created yearly, I despair at the amount of plastic being created and the amount of fuel used to transport those things, only to end up sitting on a shelf.

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  • From How Oversaturated is Kickstarter? – Geektopia Games on Yoda was the prototype: Rob Daviau interview Part 1 of 5

    […] ROB DAVIAU AND A REMAKE OF FIREBALL ISLAND!!! GOT TO GET IN ON THIS! OOH OOH OOH! THIS LOOKS AMAZING! EVERYONE […]

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  • From umondy on Sly Moore

    Ha you at the very least inspired me to play her again next time. Still think she is way better in 2v2 but it is okay that she is not super strong. That fits her character. My group definately is not as concerned about NPE cards like yours. Sure it blows to eat one of those cards sometimes but thats the name of the game. Everybody knows tha Palpi has this card f.e. and you adjust your game to it. I think we love the challange as long as the deck is not way overpowered or unfair.
    Again for DOMINATION to really cause game chanving havoc a lot of chips have to fall the right way.
    I will let you know how our next game goes with her.

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  • From umondy on Sly Moore

    Thanks for the update. Interesting you don’t like the deck just because of one card that is quite powerful but nothing too special compared to whats around in the ED universe. Especially considering how weak her own cards are. She has 3 attacks with no value and they only serve the purpose of pulling cards.
    Even domination is completely useless if you don’t play a 2v2 match or if there is only the major opponent left or if the opponent only has generic minors.
    So you can’t cause any damage with A0, DOMINATION may be completely useless, and you are left with 3xA6 and 2xA5 without any special special abilities. ASSASSINATION is quite nice but again no help against other majors and a big waste if facing somebody with generic minors.
    For me those are more the reasons the deck never gets played not because of NPE because of one card that isn’t even thatr bad.

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    • From roman on Sly Moore

      I like the deck just fine but my group doesn’t. It’s because they find DOMINATION to be a NPE, not because they necessarily find the deck to be overpowered. They just don’t like seeing Sly take over Mace and make him WHIRLWIND his friends. It’s a personal feeling sort of thing. Some players, like Mike Maloney and his group, find Palpatine’s YOU WILL DIE to be a NPE, but it has never bothered our group.

      As for power level, I think Sly looks fairly strong but I haven’t played her enough to know. As you point out, her offense is fairly weak, but if she can use ASSASSINATION to wipe out opposing minors and her A0 to draw out defense, she’s got more than enough with her strong minors contributing to her A6s and A5s.

      Despite her 14 HP, she’s also got very good staying power. I increasingly think that characters should not have both power defense and strong minors, but that’s exactly what she has, so she’s tough to bring down. Add in an ability to reshuffle her best cards back into her deck and she looks pretty strong to me.

      But don’t take my word for it, play her and let me know how she does!

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      • From JAG18 on Sly Moore

        One of my favorite theme duels to play is this deck with Darth Sidious against Mace (tweaked) and Saesee Tinn so I actually have a good amount of experience with this deck and I agree with what Roman says. Especially on Sly’s (pretty solid) staying power.

        I personally have mixed feelings about DOMINATION, mostly because it took me more reads than normal to figure out how it works and just ’cause it’s a bit outside the normal dueling experience.

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        • From roman on Sly Moore

          Thanks JAG. Do you use this Sly Moore, and our tweaks to mace?

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          • From JAG18 on Sly Moore

            Yeah, I use both. I actually used to use Sultan’s version until I found this one buried in your Vassal decks before this page existed. I (of course!) personally prefer playing with this one.

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        • From umondy on Sly Moore

          Love the Theme duel and have to try it out pretty soon ?

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  • From James M Hebert on Expanded Universe

    Can you re-upload the EU PDF? It is no longer linked (404), and the old eu site no longer maintained (even the internet archive instances do not have the pdf).

    Thank you!

    James

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  • From John on Board Game Roundup: Best Worker Placement Games

    I think the worker placement in Anachrony is very clever!
    My favourites would be Euphoria and Village. I think both of these have very interesting spins on the mechanic and actually give the workers another dimension – intelligence + morale and age.
    Have you played either?

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