Quote from: jgants;426442I admire it for finding a good way to tie in to collectible cards, for coming up with a rules lite / indie style game without becoming really pretentious, for using a box set format and trying to reach out to a new customer base (even if it didn't necessarily work), and for having lavish production values.

All that said, the game itself kind of underwhelmed me.

Same here. I had very high hopes to see what the masterminds behind the MTG success would come up with.

But it was quite a bit pretentious. The box size alone was a statement - and not a very clever one as game stores hated that game for two reasons: that thing was so huge that it didn't fit most store fixtures, and that they had to order it to get their allocation of ... which MTG expansion was it? Fallen Empires?

Quote from: RPGPundit;426588, and the cards used in character creation... well, I don't know there.  Something a bit less new-age themed.

That was my major gripe with the system. The cards were so specific in their flowery weirdness that it was impossible to use the game in a traditional Greyhawk-Forgotten-Realms-style setting.

And they weren't that suited to bring out the imagination of the players either. Most groups I saw interpreted the iamges literally, with almost every group having one tiger-man character.

Just a note; my group never used the vision cards for character generation. I might have pulled one or two out for plot inspiration, but that was it. Those cards were mostly a miss for me.

I don't think replacing a deck of custom made cards with a Tarot deck is going to make a game less "new agey"....

Quote from: Dirk Remmecke;426628But it was quite a bit pretentious.

Well, OK, it was pretentious on the level of White Wolf.  But everyone was trying to be White Wolf-like pretentious in those days.

I was just saying it wasn't on the level of being Forge-like pretentious (Braugh, Wick, Crane, Baker, Edwards, etc).

A correction; actually it was called the fortune deck, not drama deck as I mistakenly said above.

I bought a copy but never got "into" it much so it mostly collects dust on my shelf. I had heard that it had elements similar to ADRP, and this intrigued me a lot, but it had a totally different feel.

Same with Nobilis and most other games advertised as ADRP-like.

Everway was flakier than Amber, but it was still FAR more amber-esque than Nobilis, which basically tried to use Amber's fame and success to leech off customers.

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Just bought the base set and a set of the 90 fortune cards off ebay, hopefully i'll be able to get some use out of the game as a sort of intro to roleplaying or something.

Quote from: Broken-Serenity;448860Just bought the base set and a set of the 90 fortune cards off ebay, hopefully i'll be able to get some use out of the game as a sort of intro to roleplaying or something.

Good luck with this! You could probably do far worse than Everway as an "intro to roleplaying".

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I own it but I've only read it. I doubt I'd ever play it although the basic system makes sense.

What strongly doesn't click for me is the idea that you've got a diverse set of PCs with deep backgrounds inspired by the vision cards (the example character seemed pretty emo to me)...and then the core concept of gameplay is "inderdimensional troubleshooters".

I think they'd do better if they picked several genres, tweaked the character generation system for each one, and published a custom deck for each as well.

Quote from: Elliot Wilen;449145I own it but I've only read it. I doubt I'd ever play it although the basic system makes sense.

What strongly doesn't click for me is the idea that you've got a diverse set of PCs with deep backgrounds inspired by the vision cards (the example character seemed pretty emo to me)...and then the core concept of gameplay is "inderdimensional troubleshooters".

I think they'd do better if they picked several genres, tweaked the character generation system for each one, and published a custom deck for each as well.

Yes, in retrospect that would have been better.

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