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Digital Dice and Electronic Magic
Tue Jul 18, 2006 - 7:36 PM EDT - By Xious Sonenberg
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Digital Dice > Electronic Magic
Electronic Magic While dice based RPGs have always been the staple commodity of most comic book stores, Collectible Card Games, or CCGs have moved up to the top slot in gaming preference by many, and are by far the most popular form of Role Playing today.
Pokémon , teenagers rolling out Marvel Super Heroes , and folks of all ages dueling over the venerable classic: Magic: The Gathering , which has its own annual tournaments with enough cash prizes to make some professional poker players jealous.
Magic is the game that started them all, back in 1994 with their original Alpha and Beta releases and now has well over two-dozen different additions and sub-series from which to choose. All of this requires a pretty hefty investment in cards, many of which are so rare that they sell for hundreds, sometimes even thousands of dollars each.
Black Lotus are so rare that many players have never even seen one, and getting your mitts on one to use in your own deck is about as easy as building a time machine in your basement.
Planeswalker , this app is freeware, and though still in Beta, (the current release as of this writing is v0.8) it's crammed with goodies and comes with a database of well over 500 cards. You can even create your own cards or add existing card details into the database in less time that it takes to get a meatball sandwich at Subway. Download it here .
