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Post by crimhthanthegreat on Nov 22, 2007 22:18:43 GMT -6
Hey Fin or anyone else how about a summary when you have time thank you!
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Post by tgamemaster1975 on Nov 24, 2007 22:59:15 GMT -6
I found this review, it sounds like a fun game and I wouldn't mind having a copy of it. Divine RightFIN'S EDIT: Changed "mine" to "mind"
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Post by Finarvyn on Nov 24, 2007 23:06:10 GMT -6
I bought a copy off of e-bay a while back because there are so many articles in the early Dragon magazines, but honestly it has mostly sat on my shelf.
I know that a special 25th Anniversary edition of the game came out a few years back, complete with some sort of CD that was supposed to contain all of the old articles and maybe other goodies but I never acquired that one.
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Post by bert on Dec 6, 2007 4:56:12 GMT -6
Its last incarnation as as a PBEM as at www.divinerightonline.com/and it still has it's own yahoo group This was game I really enjoyed as a kid; the random personalities of the kings of each kingdom made it different each time, and the key to success was diplomacy and sensible deployment of ambassadors as well as your troops.
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Post by calithena on Dec 6, 2007 7:59:35 GMT -6
I played it just a few months ago. It's very imagination-rich, a different sort of boardgame than they like today. The mechanics are acceptable, but there are just so many wierd and wondrous special cases it brings Rahman's world to life.
Fin, Glenn Rahmanwho designed this game also wrote some of the T&T solos.
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Post by grodog on Dec 8, 2007 21:20:27 GMT -6
I just picked up cali's 25th anniversary DR, and will be digging into the CD Rom of materials later tomorrow
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Post by makofan on Dec 9, 2007 20:25:26 GMT -6
We played Divine Right a lot in my group. I found it too luck-dependent for a strategy game, but my friends really liked it. I didn't like the way your allies could be sucked away from you quite easily - but I guess that's part of the fun. I remember a unit called 'the Scum'
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Post by casey777 on Jan 19, 2008 0:19:37 GMT -6
I loved the setting articles in Dragon back in the day, though due to missing some issues I never did get what they were for. I thought there was some RPG supplement or game or it was fiction. Never did see the boardgame. Right Stuf did the now OOP reprint though I understand the map or counters don't look as good or something. I did find the setting articles online at one point but it's not quite the same as printed with illustrations in classic Dragon issues. Not sure what I'd think of the setting now, it does look a bit rigged for the purposes of a boardgame. cwhnj.com/madhat/divright/default.htmsupplements the other site esp. if you want to play the game online Good boardgamegeek entry www.boardgamegeek.com/game/23
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Post by makofan on Feb 11, 2008 21:10:49 GMT -6
My friend just outbid grodog on a copy of Divine Right. We have been trying for 3 years to get a reasonably priced copy on eBay. We used to play it a lot as teens. Sorry grodog...
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Post by makofan on Mar 13, 2008 14:47:29 GMT -6
Here is my session report from the game I played on the weekend
Long ago, in my teens, my friends and I would play interminable games of this. I remember it being luck-based and back-stabbing, which weren't to my taste, but my friends loved it. So when my friend picked it up on eBay last month and wanted me to come over and relearn the rules, I was a bit leery. Our gaming group normally plays History of the World and Railroad Tycoon, and he thought we could introduce this to the group.
We decided to play the Basic game, so Special Reinforcements, Magic, Mercenaries, Barbarians, and a few countries (The Black Hand, the White Wizards) were not used. We dealt out the cards, and Tom got Immer and I got Zorn. Since these are neighbours, we knew it would get bloody very quickly. The neutrals with their personality cards were dealt out, we plopped down are units, and just followed the sequence of play. It didn't take us long to learn - Dice for player order, then Random Events - Diplomacy - Siege - Movement - Combat.
Muetar was obviously the key ally, as it had the largest army and was directly adjacent to both our countries. Muetar's troops turned out to be elite, so they were extra important. However, neither of us could get our diplomacy to work in the first three turns. I went first, consolidated my mountaineers, and mobilized The Pits, sending them to the front. I attacked The Gap castle on the mountain pass on the border, and he retreated inside. Next turn I besieged it while he hastened to reinforce or break the siege. To make a long story short, the first 10 turns of the game were fought in and around this castle. I kept failing my siege roll, then he would break the siege, we would fight , siege, break etc. None of us had troops to spare for anything else - it was sort of like World War 1 in the trenches!
On turn 4 he managed to mobilize Muetar, and I knew that without allies I would be crushed. I decided to enlist Elfland to take him in the rear. The monarch was a loyal-to-death type, so I spent a few turns trying to mobilize him, while Tom snagged the Trolls. Finally, getting nowhere, and having Muetar in my country, I risked my one-time-only assassination and killed the King of Muetar, throwing his kingdom into disarray for 5 turns. While Tom was seething, I then enlisted Elfland and it looked like my game, but the Elvish monarch also fell to an assassin's blade. Tom was just using the few troll units as castle garrisons, and we were still locked in the border stalemate, so we went looking for fresh allies.
As an aside, I went first every game turn except two, and my Random Events were feeding reinforcements to me faster than my friend was getting his, so the dice were in my favor and making him desperate. Shucassam was our next target, as we did not have to worry about Meutar, but the king was under a curse, and we both ran out of White Magic trying to heal him. The King of Pon was a coward, who would only release half his troops, so he was unappetizing. Tom decided to now pursue the Dwarves, who's leader was a military genius, but the key came when I blackmailed the paranoid monarch of Mivior into joining me and I sacked the Trollish capital - 10 VP to me! Then I took advantage of a turn flip flop to besiege a minor castle in north Immer and plunder it before he could react - another 10 VP.
Muetar was finally reorganized, but the new king was treacherous. Desperate, Tom managed to grab him, but I waited till he was mobilized and then persuaded him to betray Tom and join my side. With three countries bearing down on him, and no real allies, Tom resigned on turn 16.
The basic game system was cleaner than I remembered, and while luck was important, in a two-player game strategy was equally so. The game took less than two hours, and we both had a lot of fun - easy rules, colorful map, quick play, lots of backstabbing, and plenty of luck.
Next time we are going to explore the advanced rules, but I think a five-player basic game of this with just the basic rules would be a hoot.
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Post by Finarvyn on Mar 13, 2008 21:19:15 GMT -6
Fin, Glenn Rahman who designed this game also wrote some of the T&T solos. I just picked up on this reference -- it slipped past my earlier read. I hadn't made the name connection. Oh, and makofan that was a neat game recap. I remember playing DR a couple times early on but the details are really fuzzy. I don't remember ever having 5 of us playing at a time, but that does sound like a lot of fun!
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Post by grodog on Mar 14, 2008 15:58:20 GMT -6
My friend just outbid grodog on a copy of Divine Right. We have been trying for 3 years to get a reasonably priced copy on eBay. We used to play it a lot as teens. Sorry grodog... That's OK makofan, happens all the time! ;D I'm glad to hear you guys enjoyed the game so much! I haven't made the time to try to relearn the rules yet, but will probably bring this up to LGGC in June per francisca's request.
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Post by driver on Mar 29, 2008 9:18:26 GMT -6
I've never played Divine Right but I loved "Minarian Legends" in The Dragon.
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Post by hackman on Apr 28, 2008 12:17:25 GMT -6
I had totally forgotten that I owned this game till I looked at the pictures via one of the links above. Boy what a bunch of memories that brought back, I don't recall playing it, probably just looked a lot at the board.
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