Battle Rocks

Sadly, I couldn't get past my initial disappointment that this was not a game about battling rocks. I was psyched about the Sedimentary versus the Igneous, wondering what the stats would be for limestone or granite. Instead, yet another druid game. I hate druids like Indy hates snakes.

Here's the game I want: http://i.imgur.com/jTabfzt.jpg

Any thoughts on any aspect of our current rulebook would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance to anyone who chooses to give such input.

Your turn,
Rob.

I will have to agree... It would have been cool to have rocks battle it out hahahaha.

Does everyone have there own set up in front of them? Ex. Druid and the eighth stones.

Thanks Chris!

Hi,

I went ahead and looked over the rule book and tried to digest it as much as possible.

Here is some feedback:

- In general, I felt there was mixing up of higher level concepts with too much detail at some points when it wasn't strictly needed. As an example, while the "Understanding Elements" part was useful the entire section, "Alignment affects gameplay as follows," could have been postponed to later in the rulebook where it then makes more sense.
- In the "Year one stone placement cycle" diagram you show a face up druid in the center. I was overall confused as to when the druid entered play. It seems the druid appears in Step 3, but the diagram indicates otherwise. It is also not clear to me where the druid goes. In year one, the rules mention everyone simultaneously revealing their druid. Ok, but where does the druid go? In the center of the stones?
- You have each druid's major power is indicated by a yellow highlight. In the diagrams I had a hard time seeing this highlight. Instead of a highlight I think it would be a good idea to have some sort of symbol of line accentuation or something besides relying on a color. Same thing with the eyes by relying on a color. A significant part of the population has forms of color blindness.
- I did not like the cards in the fact if I had to understand whether it was fire or air I had to either turn my head or guess what fire looked like backwards depending how the card was placed. Why not write the word, "Fire," "Air" and so on in all directions on the card, so regardless of what direction the card is facing, I will be able to read at a glance what it it?
- Same thing with the lintels. I will have to turn my head or read upside down. See if it is possible to have the text rotated in all directions or something.
- In the glossary, the key words you are trying to explain should be in bold so as to stand out (makes it easier to read).

Look like an interesting game. But I would obviously, have to play it to give any feedback on that.

--DarkDream