Dear FFG don't sleep on Shadowfist

By vegasmentat, in Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game

The Shadowfist CCG is the best multi-player CCG of all time.

Acquire it as well and you will have one consumer on the brink of pure bliss.

Pretty sure I just saw it on Kickstarter, IndieGoGo or something...

I'm pretty sure I saw something like this around about 2 years ago, but of course its not called a LCG.

It's been on kickstarter life support for a while.

Shadowfist.

I haven't heard that name in a long while...

They rebooted Shadowfist as (nominally) an LCG type system, except they did everything wrong - their true focus was basically to use Kickstarter funding to bring out a few more sets of cards for the old loyal CCG players rather than to actually reboot the game. It's practically a case study in how to make as many bad decisions as possible in mimicking the LCG format.

Which is a shame, because it actually *IS* a pretty good game.

They fund each set with Kickstarter and have been successful with each one. They've delivered on each successful campaign thus far, too. It's only 2 guys doing the whole thing - for what they are working with resource-wise I think they are doing a pretty good job managing all the art, printing, card design, playtest, etc...

I don't play it, but would like to learn to at some point. I just know a bit about their process from doing some art for them.