Updated Floor Rules

As we’ve done in past years, we have updated the floor rules for the competitive season. There aren’t any changes to the rules for tournaments, in fact, all changes are confined to page 9…

Oh Athame, we hardly knew ye…

We aren’t sure how many of you will get that reference, but to explain further, if you check the updated list of banned D&D Miniatures in Standard tournaments, you will find three humanoid races represented; Human, Elf and Athame.

The banned list has been expanded for good reason. The Guild vision of DDM is a back and forth duel in which both players act. We take care to regulate which figures are fun as controllers, and monitor which might go too far. On the one hand, we don’t necessarily think the Witchknife goes too far. On the other (more thematic) hand, we like the idea of carrying some common keywords within warbands, and perhaps even seeing swarm warbands again. In addition, as befits the athames history, it’s pretty well univerally hated by the player base. However, perhaps more important than these considerations, we’d really like to foster a wide-open metagame with lots of warband building choices for the upcoming season, filled with the promise of engaging games that don’t end after one turn. For this reason, we need also to say goodbye to the Delver Sergeant, at least temporarily.

Hopefully, they can all come back soon. I’d be lying if I didn’t say that there have been communications back and forth on how to bring back the Eternal Blade, but for now she needs to stay on the banned list, too.

Good luck in the qualifiers leading up to the big event at GenCon 2010!