Apprentice

By chaos28, in 1. AGoT General Discussion

Years ago when I used to play AGOT (in it's CCG form), there was a program called Apprentice that people could use to build and test decks, and play games online. The program was initially intended for use with Magic: The Gathering and heavily supported with Pokemon, but a group of fans of the AGOT CCG, including myself, were fast to load the cards into the Apprentice database. The program wasn't very visually appealing, but allowed an environment with cards placed on a board, easily accessible descriptions, power counters, dead and discard, piles, and even had a method of applying the Plot Decks (though I don't remember what it is right now; could have been 7 cards in hand, or a side deck). Heck, the playtesters even used Apprentice to test new sets online, to get more balanced gameplay before release.

So I guess my question is, does anyone still use Apprentice? And if not, if some of us were to get the program running and compatible with A Game of Thrones again, would anyone be interested?

Actually, gimme a sec and I'll link you to what we use these days. It's called OCTGN.

OCTGN is better in every single way. I used to use Apprentice for MTG and it wasn't good.

Check out the OCTGN thread in the general forums started by Gualdo.

Thanks a lot guys! Gonna get working on getting this installed ASAP! :D

Seeing you post is really a blast from the past Chaos. You were one of the most prolific and informative posters in the first couple of years of the game I think you'll love OCTGN - i hear nothing but good stuff about it.

Welcome back!!!

Stag Lord said:

Seeing you post is really a blast from the past Chaos. You were one of the most prolific and informative posters in the first couple of years of the game I think you'll love OCTGN - i hear nothing but good stuff about it.

They are all Masks. happy.gif

This one is the Black Pharoah - it fits my mood these days.

Hey, thanks for the welcome back and the shout out. Glad to see some old faces around still.

As much as I love having OCTGN, it also has consistent issues for us. We may be alone in that regard (5 of us). The majority of the games we play require doing a screen capture of where we were in a game (or writing it down) and then restarting the game after a crash. When working though it's great. I have posted bugs, error reports, etc. and the developer has some ideas, but has yet to come up with a solution. We can recreate the issue too (plot deck). I am sure the devs have a lot going on but getting a response isn't quick either.

octgn.16bugs.com/projects/3602/bugs/175958#comment-244089