Pyramid Pick: Diskwars: Dragonkin Army Set and Farrenghast's Undead Revised Editions

Pyramid Pick

Diskwars: Dragonkin Army Set and Farrenghast's Undead Revised Editions

Published by Fantasy Flight Publishing Inc.

Designed by Tom Jolly & Christian T Petersen

Boxed set with 7 sheets of disks, 1 sheet of components, and 1 rules sheet; $9.95

I was intrigued by Diskwars when I first I heard of the game. Was it Pogs, a wargame, a CCG or an RPG? Now that I actually have two of the eight army sets I accurately say that it is a combination of all four, yet different enough from them to be unique. The army set boxes each contain 8 perforated sheets of glossy full color cardboard which you punch your disks out of, and a huge double-sided sheet of rules. Each set is complete and ready to play as is, and takes only moments to punch the disks out of the perforated card holding them.

The disks are sturdy, difficult to bend and survive a level two allergy test (meaning it is difficult to sneeze your playing area clean of pieces). The pieces are full color with a semi-gloss finish that doesn't interfere with players reading the disk. The art is very good -- sort of a cross between Silver Age comics and Phil Folio's style -- and of consistently high quality. I was surprised that six or seven different artists drew the two sets of disks I have, as the styles are remarkably similar. For the most part the size of the art is about half the surface area of a Magic: the Gathering card, but there are the occasional oversized disk such as Marizyak The Hydra, . . .

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Article publication date: June 23, 2000

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