SotM Event #12: GtG's Global Friend Network

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I'm cool with that.

Anyone with more knowledge of georaphy than me want to start putting the people in order? We can decide on the direction later.

If there is a location with two people, I guess let them decide the order. I don't think we need to go down to the street level for this.

Everyone agree with Ronway's suggestions for the villain?

Any chance GtG made SotM stamps without telling us?

 

Anything else we need to consider? Right now we have 20 people. We can leave it open until we start, but let's see if we can get this going.

Given that it's mail, is there any requirement that two people in the same city have to be in sequential order?  Unless they want to make some agreement to meet somewhere and sign the card at the same time I guess.

Could also try to put the cities in some order that potentially gets the letter to do more laps around the globe.

I was actually thinking about that. If people want to do it that way, we can. I was thinking that we might have a villain sloly moving around the world, trying to take things out. Woohoo! Something to consider!

Not sure if this is worth looking into, but the US post office has some way to create personalized stamps. We could try to order some and put them in the inital envelope for everyone. I haven't looked at them in detail yet, but it might be worth considering.

Villain stamps with cancellation marks on them would be sort of amusing.  :stuck_out_tongue:

I suggest the following - obviously it can be reversed, but I've basically started at >G HQ and moved east, grouping people who live in the same city.

  • >G HQ
  • LuckyNumberHat
  • jffdougan
  • grysqgl and pydro
  • imprimis5 and arenson9
  • phantaskippy
  • Foote*
  • Silverleaf
  • BlueHairedMeerkat
  • under3*
  • Julia*
  • Bas*
  • Nielzabub*
  • Theta_Sigma*
  • Donner
  • broccoli
  • Ronway
Starred people get stuck with non-domestic shipping (of course that'd change if we reversed the order). Some people won't have any choice about international shipping anyway, being the only person in their country... ;)

I think Fright train or La Capitan would be great.

Give it a theme.  Also pictures would be cool to post in a thread and have tracking for the journey.

Also I'm good for international shipping if Foote would want to trade places there.

Domestically Philly and Pittsburgh don't make much difference.

My biggest problems with Fright Train is he is part of the Vengeance Five. I would have to play a V5 game solo to play against him. Which I don't really want to do.

While the problem with La Capitan is she's an expansion villain, meaning only those of use with Shattered Timelines will be able to partake, outing any other players that would like to join, but cannot because of the lack of own a La Capitan deck.

Same for me.  Paying an international mail charge won't hurt my wallet that much.

Agreed. Maybe >G can supply whatever version of Baron Blade comes after Vengeance (I assume there will be at least 3-4 more).

I'm a little late to the party here, but why not Baron Blade? He's definitely the "flagship" villain in Sentinel Comics, he's the most accessible for all players (Regular, Advanced, or V5, to taste), and he's megolomaniacal enough to travel the world in conquest.

I think we are all missing something rather important, how do we decide which city is which environment? Or should each person just pick whatever?

 

Won't they just be sending the copy they receive to the next person, why would they need their own?

 

Side Note:  We need some fan made solo conversions of the V5 villains, there are some on BGG, but they involve new cards added or changed current cards, with individual cards for sale it should be possible to convert them by adding 5 additional cards already in the deck.  Maybe I need to work on this.

If they haven't bought ST, they won't have the deck to play with the villain. We are only sending the villain card, not the entire deck.

Oh, I missed the part where we are playing a game with the villain.

 

Maybe we could get Christopher to come up with a special variant of a villain just for this event.

I'm sure he has something lying around, even if it isn't official, it would be super cool.

 

I mean it isn't like he has anything else going on.  Right?

 

Do we know what decks would be available to everyone on the list?

I think core game is safe. Other than that, I don’t know.

Of course we could add a table into the spreadsheet, where the partakers can indicate which of the expansions they have available, and leave it to >G to select the villain based on that.

Furthermore, since the villain will be travelling the world, he/she will be passing through different environments anyway, so thematically it would fit if the players select the environment.

I thinks it is time to start moving this forward.