A Study in Emerald
This was my favorite board game last year, of a field comprised of lots of really good boardgames. Wallace is working on a new edition and wow does it look different. Different enough that it almost seems like a different game.
I wonder if it will still have the loved/hated “lowest-scoring agent dqs her whole team” rule?
Nope, the lowest scoring player now only incurs their team a five point penalty per player.
Laaaaaame.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. I don’t want a new edition
Let the edition wars begin
I’m aiming to try it at SPIEL, in order to compare it to the original.
Traitor
I will say that my faith in Wallace was extremely diminished after Mythotopia. Probably not picking anything else up by him.
It feels like he’s releasing not-entirely-cooked games and using the audience to finish testing them. I loved ASIE! But obviously he’s taking the new edition in a radically different direction, and that tells me he wasn’t especially solid on the first edition.
I love A Study in Emerald, and as such the new edition is clearly not designed for me. However, I will still check it out. I love how Treefrog has such a good presence at SPIEL, as I can always test Wallace’s new designs there.
Joachim Erdtman, you’re still a traitor. This is how edition wars work: I must be unreasonably angry at you for playing/trying/liking something I have never played/tried myself and I get to feel justified by doing so.