Risk: Legacy

[Tegyrius]

Has anyone else looked at Risk: Legacy and wanted to play through it to establish a Spycraft campaign setting?

(For those who haven't haven't heard of the latest iteration of Risk, it's customizable as a result of events during play. As in, the game comes with sealed envelopes marked "do not open until [X in-game event] occurs."  And bring your Sharpie - you'll be permanently altering the board as a result of some of those events.)

- C.

[Desertpuma]

I have not only looked at the game but read some stuff on it. It is best played with a consistent group of players because of the altering board.

As for using it to establish a Spycraft campaign setting, I can certainly see that and can even see having it used as an ongoing timeline with each game played at the end of a "season" to provide impetus and cliffhanger potential for the next season of missions.

[Sletchman]

Wow, just due to my anal retentive nature I'd find it impossible to play that game at all.  Unless it comes laminated (with dry-erase markers) or something?  And those sealed envelopes don't need to be cut open?  Plus one review mentions tearing up a card and throwing it in the bin...

For those who don't have a mental problem, I think it'd be a cool idea.  I've done similar stuff with other campaigns (including a Warhammer campaign with sub-missions that were run using D&D) that were a total blast.

[MilitiaJim]

It seems like a neat way to combine Spycraft and FantasyCraft, while showing the PCs how the world is evolving around them...

[Gentry]

That actually looks like a blast. It's "Birthright" without a DM. And 15-20 hours of gaming for 60 bucks? That ain't bad. Especially if you and the four buddies who'll be playing each kick in 15 bucks. That's a movie ticket nowadays.

And when you're done, frame the board and hang it in a place of honor in your game den.

Yeah, I can dig this idea. 

[Desertpuma]

Not only that Gentry ... if you need to, you can always do it again for a new campaign down the road...

[Gentry]

Well, you'd have to buy a new set, since you'd have thrown away pieces of the old one and stickered up the map. More than that, though, you'd know what the big reveals were, so you could run afoul of people jockeying for position against the special events.

However, the Risk people could totally release new gameboards and reveal-cards, and sell them as "campaign packs" for much less than the base 60 bucks. Or even produce a free downloadable base game map so you could print your own, and just produce new reveal-cards for 10 bucks a pop. Of course, that'll never happen. But a guy can dream.