Kuunari

Over at Wizards, you can get in on the D&D New Skirmish Game Playtest.  You have to agree to some lawyer terms, but it looks like a very solid game. Having played a bunch of Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures, I’m excited about the new game.

Some initial thoughts:

• Bands are themed, which I think improves the game over DDM.
• At the start, you create a band out of your creatures and the rest are put in reserve, where they can be purchased with gold.  I think that’s an interesting approach, which seems inspired from Dreamblade.
• You build the map from tiles.  The tiles themselves look pretty interesting.  They got rid of this in a revision of DDM, but I always liked this approach, it just took too long.  I’d like to see if it’s gotten quicker with the new tiles.
• All the creatures can do melee attacks, but special attacks require cards that you play from your hand.