My son and I took a trip to our local games store last night and the owner of said establishment was nice enough to have picked up a copy of 2nd Edition while he was at Gencon and he has it for preview at the store to test play. So, while we were there, we decided to look through the core set and see what was what within it.

I found it all well written, beautifully designed and the two manuals (starter and deep rules) were quite straight forward. Now I haven't played the 1st Edition mind you, and my only real experience with LCGs is Android: Netrunner (a very different game), so to be able to read through it all, and definitely get the basic gist of things immediately was quite surprisingly pleasant.

Need less to say, with my son (age 17) being a strong fan of the Game of Thrones series of novels and the show, and me...having a basic understanding having only watched a few seasons of the series (behind by 2), we were both more than happy to place down a pre-order for two copies of the core system to share between the two of us. If things really work out well, we'll likely continue with the game into the expansions as well.

Looking forward to seeing and experiencing a strong future of this game.

Cheers!