What's this? A snappy alliterative title - that must mean this is a new series! Yes, you fine members of the community are quite active on the forums, and sometimes we see something that we'd love to share on the front page.
In this inaugural article, we're directing you to look at griffior's "Tables, A Way To Play Hearthstone With Your Own Rules." which very helpfully is exactly what it says on the tin - one fan's take on an expansive new addition to the game, bringing a bunch of new modes to one location.
A Brief Teaser
We don't want to give everything away - that's what the forum thread is for! - but here's a small overview of what griffior is bringing to the table (pun fully intended).
- The concept of this new mode is inspired by the fantasy that we players inhabit a wonderful Tavern manned by Harth Stonebrew - each game is played at a Table around the Tavern, and of course, some Tables are set aside for various different variations of the game; Standard, Wild, Arena, Battlegrounds. But what if you wanted something a little different? Well, you'd have to set up your own Table for that!
- Not only would this new mode allow you to create your own custom rulesets, griffior also envisions some long-awaited other additions being added to this mode - take a look at their fantastic mock-up below!
- With some of these new modes come new reward ideas - Pack Tokens and Pack Sleeves. Check the thread for full details on what these entail, but you can see some nice mock-ups using known in-game assets right here.
Make sure you check out the full thread on the forums.
Have an idea for something you'd like to see on the front page? Send me a message here on the site! We'd love to make this a regular thing, and I'm sure there's plenty of great discussions to be had.
Comments
Every upvote and spread the word of this so someone at blizzard sees it, because this REALLY needs to happen
The only way Blizzard, Team 5, sees this is if people get behind it and spread it EVERYWHERE. Tweet it to them, post it in forums, you name it.
If anything I'd like to have a conversation with them about any of my concepts, because Hearthstone is in a good place currently, but it still has SO much potential.
This is some seriously good content. I'm really glad this article went up, because I SAW the post a week ago and thought, dang I need to read that when I have time, then I forgot. So, thanks to Shadows for highlighting this.
Now, Griff, you are a Hearthstone player after my own heart(h). Way back in the early days, my IRL friends and I used to do this sort of thing. We'd play suicide Hearthstone and make decks designed to kill your own hero before your opponent can kill theirs. We'd make stupid handicaps like you always have to play the card on the left, or you can't play anything until turn 5. We'd choose a word (like "taunt" or "random") and make a deck using only cards from that search term. The possibilities are endless! But game mechanics made it impossible to adjust things like health total, card count, etc. If Tables were implemented, I'd pretty much just play that. You'd find me there every day, hosting a custom table with some janky-ass rules for other psychos like me. Only weapons can go face! No spells allowed! Orcs vs. Humans!
Please, Team 5, READ THIS!!!
My wife introduced me to MTG when we first started dating. Because of the fact that we didn't have money we'd share our Magic collections and play with our own rules. This is one of the MAIN reasons why I want this mode to be implemented. A mode like this can keep people playing FOREVER, and more importantly, they don't have to pay nearly as much if they don't want to and just use cards they get from their free packs.
The fun thing is with the rules you could totally do: Fatigue = Kill enemy hero, or ban all keywords except "Random" and "Taunt". There's no way there are any technical limitations that stop this mode from being a real thing.
In all reality, just keep putting the word out there and get Team 5's attention.
Oh. My. God.
Thank you for featuring my concept!
I sincerely hope this inspires others to come up with cool ways to expand Hearthstone!
Great job on the article, Griffior!
Thank you! :)