If you are citizen of an European Union member nation, you may not use this service unless you are at least 16 years old.
You already know Dokkio is an AI-powered assistant to organize & manage your digital files & messages. Very soon, Dokkio will support Outlook as well as One Drive. Check it out today!

FrontPage

Page history last edited by umondy 2 years, 10 months ago

Star Wars Epic Duels Wiki

Hasbro Board Game, released 2002, out of print.

This wiki was created as a reference and catalog for all things Star Wars Epic Duels and has become the primary site for Epic Duels content and discussion. Our goal is to use this site as a repository of all user-created Epic Duels content: new decks, new maps, new extensions to the online VASSAL Engine module for Epic Duels, plus alternate rules, tweaked decks and more. There are also theory-oriented sections for the hardcore Epic Duels fan that includes component design theories and strategies.

If you're brand new to the wiki, check out the Start Here page. Or, click one of the links in the SideBar to the right, or use the Search box to find specific content.

This wiki is largely an open-source project, so users can login and create pages, and add information or comments to any current pages, including uploading their own Epic Duels creations to share. The administrators reserve the right to edit or remove any content. If you'd like to contribute to the wiki, please read this first.

Epic Duels Discord

For discussions about decks, storage, new projects, miniatures or everything else Epic Duels, check out the Epic Duels Discord.

You are also welcome to join the Facebook Group.

Who's using this wiki?

You

now

1 hr ago

2 hrs ago

2 hrs ago

5 hrs ago

6 hrs ago

6 hrs ago

6 hrs ago

7 hrs ago

8 hrs ago

8 hrs ago

11 hrs ago

11 hrs ago

15 hrs ago

16 hrs ago

Site Counter (hits since March 6, 2007):

Comments (307)

I'll be the first to comment on the FrontPage. This is a LONG overdue site, and I'm glad it's finally off the ground. I hope it becomes the definitive source for all things Epic Duels!

I love Epic Duels and peanut butter - what more can a man want?

Epic duels is the best board game ever!

Hi to all!

I write from Italy and I'm a great Epic Duel's fan. My friends love the game too!
I expanded the original ED boardgame; now me and friends play ED with 53 decks, all high quality printed and laminated :)

Thanks to all the people who contribute with efforts to expand this great game.

I teach at an elementary school and I have introduced over 100 different 6th and 5th grade students to the game. My guidance counselor was thrilled at the relationships that were formed by students who never even spoke to each other prior to joining our Star Wars Epic Duels Club. A great site for a great game.

We have been playing for years. And we run an in person 2 on 2 tourney ever year. It grew to 24 players last year. This is a great game for expieranced and dabbling gamers alike.

I wasn't sure where to ask this, but is there any way to delete something that you have uploaded if you are not an admin?

Yes. Contact myself, or post a note on the forum and we'd be happy to delete any content for you.

I love epic duels and sushi, and also music.

Looking for new maps. I have maps from Dorkistan and Magnus, but many of the maps referenced here have expired links. Can anyboy tell me where to find these?

Unfortunately a lot of user content is not updated or maintained once it is uploaded to the wiki. Periodically the administrators comb through the entire wiki deleting outdated content. The Maps section is next on the list for an update!

Hi everyone. I've created some new decks and want to load them up to this site. But before I do, I want to put explanatory text on the front page of each deck. I'm using VASSAL. Once I turn it into a .pdf I can't write the text on it, so how do I do it? Thanks.

Yeh same here Tusken Raider I was wondering the same thing. If you find out let me know. You think you could give my deck a critique. I'll definitely critique your new ones when you post em if you want. Mine deck is Exar Kun Dark Lord of the Sith.

So I just created a page with two items - the information and the deck...seemed easiest. Will have to learn a little about Exar Kun before critiquing the deck methinks. I'm a big fan but seemingly pale in comparison to some! But the Tusken Raider deck is now added.

Just added Ulic Qel-Droma

Glad to finally be on. Looking forward to resurrecting some of my old stuff & adding some new. :)
---MS

I was looking for an email to the administrator or someone who to talk to about restarting epic duels. I have an idea I would like to pitch. Anyone know how? I am sure you guys would love your characters out there! If anyone knows please inform me at your earliest convenience. I'd rather not do anything to get in trouble. ha Thanks!

Has anyone read the Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn? If you have I think you will like a deck I'm creating: Noghri Squad. From the people who have plaied they say it truly feels like the super assasins!

Look up Noghri!

Hello everyone, I have just uploaded a zipped folder titled "Make Your Own Cards". It has .psd files for all types of cards. Anyone with basic knowledge of Photoshop can easily make new cards for any character. I have also made new decks for all the bounty hunters(from the 6 star wars movies) and quite a few other characters along with one map that I'll be uploading soon.

P.S. The designs for the cards were provided to me by Darth Trumpetus.

Hello SWEDs Wiki Community! I am a long time lurker here, first time poster on this site, and I am desperately trying to print out my own custom characters, (I have made 27 of them now), however, I can never get the deck backs lined up!

I use the Deck Designer found here by Corey Andola, and it is just superb. I need help from anyone of you here in getting some printing instructions. Perhaps a "How To Print Your Customs" is long-overdue in the "Component Design Articles" or reference "Section"?

Also, I would like to upload a few of my custom creations, as I think some of mine are very original, however, I don't know how to do that either. As you can tell by now, I am not a tech savy guy, but I absolutley love Star Wars and this game!

Hi Jared,

Welcome! If you are interested in uploading and sharing new content, I would recommend starting here: http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/page/9779496/How%20To%20Use%20Wiki

As for printing tips, here are a couple of old threads at the yahoo group from 2003 that address it: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/epicduels/message/3103 and http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/epicduels/message/2234

Also, the .DKD files you uploaded will be deleted shortly. If you have material to share, please upload .PDFs or Vassal extensions, both of which can be exported directly from the Deck Designer program.

Long time lurker myself. I've printed out 42 total decks, some I've created, but most have been from this workspace. I always copy and pasted it from the PDF file, put it in Word, centered it, then just took it to a place like Office Max or something similar to have them print it out on their heaviest cardstock. Works pretty well, and cost about $4 a deck. I tried messing around with a basic inkjet printer, but it didn't look nearly as nice and ended up costing more because of the price of ink cartons.

Also, I'm curious too. I uploaded a few decks (K'kruhk and Darth Stryfe) I made a month ago or so and their on the site, but I wasn't sure how to get them a link/page on the character section where they could be more easily viewed.

Welcome! It's always good to see new faces. The pages you made for K'kruhk and Darth Stryfe look great. Feel free to add their names to the character page and link to the pages you made. It should be pretty straight-forward to edit that character page: http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/page/9779390/Characters

Hey thanks for the prompt help there DT. I clicked on the links, however, and I was taken directly to the sign-in page on Yahoo. The threads aren't displayed and I do not have a Yahoo account nor wish to create one. Is there some other way I could read these printing tips? I am only having trouble at getting the backs of the cards to line up with the front of them.

Thanks again for your help DT. I will try to upload some of my works. I am not sure how to convert a file from Corey's Deck Designer program to a .pdf file either. I know I sound completley incompent with computers, which I think I am to a certain extent, however my age would not suggest that I would be!

I've had some extra free time these last few days, so I screen capped the conversation that people use for printing custom decks. You can see it at: http://imgur.com/O82ANt0

Also, in order to convert the file to a PDF, from the deck designer program... Go to file --> Export --> Deck to PDF; then choose your destination and file name. Hopefully this helps.

I'm still in the process of creating a deck for Lando from all of the amazing ideas you guys have posted here. I have a Lando/Lobot pairing, Gran Moff Tarkin/Storm Troopers pairing, Qui-gon Jinn/Gungans pairing, and Grievous/those shabby robots with the cloaks pairing to add to my game. I haven't done much customizing of this game, but recently acquired my friend's old copy (we used it play it back in the day) and wanted to add a little to it. Another reason why I joined this wiki was to let you all know I recently released the first half of my interview with Rob Daviau (co-designer of the game) and thought you might be interested to have a listen. The second half will be posted on July 26th. Here is a link to the first half (you can also find my podcast in iTunes "who, what, why? a game design podcast"): http://whowhatwhycast.tumblr.com/post/92018434809/s8-e05-thats-no-moon-its-a-minis-game . Thank you for letting me join and I look forward to making use of this excellent wiki. Nice job with this place.

This is great! Thanks for sharing, and putting together the interview. There is a a lot of great, behind the scenes info here. Can't wait for Part 2.

I just got this game and my friends and I already have questions regarding some of the rules. I was hoping to join and get some of them cleared up.

For instance and this may be obvious, can you place your attack card face down and play a special card that can be played "anytime" and resolve it before your opponent plays a defense card?

I am Tokyottalks2much and I would love some feedback on any of my decks! (I have posted links to them below) I try to think of new or out of the box decks from what came in the base game while maintaining a pleasing look and cool images. My card effect text comes from many years of playing Magic the Gathering so I hope they are easy to understand. Please help me balance the decks if you believe that they are over/under powered; they have been play tested. I am currently working on characters from Star Wars The old Republic.

General Kenobi and Commander Cody - http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/file/71388022/General%20Kenobi%20and%20Commander%20Cody.pdf

Nico Okarr and Jace Malcom - http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/file/83300479/Nico%20Okarr%20and%20Jace%20Malcom.pdf

Battlemaster Kao Cen Darach and Padawan Satele Shan - http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/file/83405698/Battlemaster%20Kao%20Cen%20Darach%20and%20Padawan%20Satele%20Shan.pdf

Darth Malgus and Eleena Daru - http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/file/83403889/Darth%20Malgus%20and%20Eleena%20Daru.pdf

Shae Vizla and Imperial Commandos - http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/file/83404498/Shae%20Vizla%20and%20Imperial%20Commando.pdf

Jace Malcom and Havoc Squad - http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/file/83422864/Jace%20Malcom%20and%20Havoc%20Squad.pdf

Just got access to this forum. Does discussion happen anywhere here? I'd like to talk to people experienced in playing/designing for ED.

There is a separate forum for Epic Duels, although discussion has been rather sparse over there lately. You can check it out here: http://epicduels.fr.yuku.com/ Unfortunately the comments section here are a little clunky to have more in-depth conversation threads. Welcome aboard!

Hey Dan, the website is definitely still active, I'm not sure if there's a forum still going strong.

I added a deck from the Star Wars rebels tv show with kanan and Ezra. Search for it in the top right.

Hey, I've been playing Epic Duels recently on Tabletop Simulator, just tried out Cfinton's Kanan/Ezra deck last night with my family (seems decent so far, gonna need a few more games to collect my thoughts on it though). Discussion seems rather inactive, but I'd be happy to help with any questions you have or decks you want to test. If any of you have Tabletop Sim, we could even play together sometime!

Hello Everyone, I have just uploaded a new Star Wars Deck. Search for CommanderCody&CaptainRex in top right search. I would love some feedback.

Oh wow...what I timing. I just created my own, several days ago. I'm curious about yours Pete322.

Ups...I just realized it IS your deck. :) Printed it out and will play test it very soon! Really looking forward to it.

Hey guys I have been in the wiki for quite awhile and I'm now excited to officially have an account. I would love to see all our your decks and for you to see mine in the near future

Are you guys solely into building star wars decks?
I have ideas for other decks, but if no one will judge them, I will not post them.
Let me know

Hardly! Batman, Avatar, you name it! I'm into LOTR myself.

http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/page/9779452/Expansion%20Downloads

ps I love LOTR and I already have seen all the decks for them.

Ok well I published an Aang deck and I didnt know if people could see it

It's all cool here,alot of people have made decks focusing on non-Star Wars characters but still using the Epic Duels formula. I myself made a deck around Ultron and his sentries from Avengers: Age Of Ultron!

I have updated the General Kenobi and Commander Cody deck, please add or replace deck as I am the original publisher of this content.

I have also created a Rick and Morty Deck

Has anyone tried printing these decks at Arts Cow or Printer Studio? If so, would you be willing to share the project?

Or, if someone has the image files the PDFs for the decks were built from, I could create a project and share the link here.

Worst case I can manually extract the images from the PDFs... But image resolution may be an issue, plus it would be very labor intensive. Of course, I could just be happy about printing the cards on 110 lb cardstock... But such an awesome game seems to deserve a glossy linen finish.

agreed

Crickets.... Okay, well I'll try working from the PDF. If it ends up working, I'll post a Printer Studio link here.

This isn't really a message board. You can try at the Forum, though I believe you have tried before. http://epicduels.fr.yuku.com/

I don't think anyone has Artscow files or at least they aren't widely available. A lot of us use Corey's Deck Designer Software so image files aren't easily available. Every deck has a .PDF is that not high enough rez for what you want to do? I print them out on 110lb cardstock and print the backs on the reverse side, and they're plenty good to play with.

I have used artsscow to print 7 decks from here. I have found them to be an excellent service, and relatively cheap. You can keep checking their sales. I got most of my decks for around $7. Quality is quite good too.

How do u print them off from there

Don't know where to post this, so I try it here:
Wouldn't it make sensce to update all the brocken "characters" links? There are many decks that link to outside pages that are unfortunately no longer exist. I think wiki is still a great resource for everybody stll or again enjoying this game and would hat to see it break down or however you want to call it.

It would be easy enough to remove all the "dead" links, but actually updating them would require each individual deck creator to stop by and update the link to his deck. In many cases, they probably no longer host whatever website they were using to store their decks back in the day. If you want to de-link characters from "dead" links, knock yourself out.

Personally, rather than deleting dead links, I'd suggest merely marking them as 'dead' on the page, perhaps separating them to a "Lost Decks" section. More for peace of mind than anything else; perhaps a deck author will drop by, see their deck(s) marked as 'lost,' think "hey, I still have that lying around," and proceed to re-upload it. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but I hate to see things disappear entirely from the internet.

Agree with FMM's proposal. I'm not about to audit the site or anything, nor create a "dead links" page, but feel free.
More likely, just anytime you come across a dead link, update the relevant link with a "dead link" note and hopefully the author will stop by at some point and see that the link needs to be updated.

Hm, why so complicated? I was more thinking about uploading the missing decks and linking to them instead of to a dead link...
Anything that speaks against that?

That would work, too; no issue with that on my end. The only problem I can see is if an author wants to remove their decks; considering a lot of authors haven't been around for awhile, I don't think there would be much trouble with it, but just be willing to comply if an author comes around and requests their content be taken down.

Of course, this is Roman's site, so ultimately it'd be his call; I don't manage anything here, I just contribute every once in awhile.

That's how I see it. But don't know any good reason for somebody to be against it now. Like you said, it's Roman's call and I bet he has most of the missing decks anyway to replace them if he chooses to.

Hey guys, thanks for the ideas. It's not my site, it's a Wiki, so it belongs to everyone. As the administrator of this facility, err, site, if you want my vote: If you have the missing decks to upload (I do not in most cases), I think it's fine to go ahead and do so. Aside from a rare case, I think you'd be doing the author a service by re-uploading. If you don't have the deck to upload, just make a "dead link" note.

Okay 👌 thanks for the response.
I have many of the decks. As soon as Ihave some free time I'll take a closer look at it.

Where can I download pdfs of the original 12 decks (unaltered)? Anywhere? Thanks guys!

You'd think that would exist somewhere, but I'm not actually sure that it does. Are there specific cards you need? If you really need a whole set, I have scans I can post at some point but not sure when I'll get around to it.

Hahahaa, like Roman said. Such an obvious thing...but I haven't found them yet either. Would love to have them but I am to lazy to create them from scratch with the deck designer. Would be a good way to fix the original decks though. Something I thought about a million times also.
So if somebody got them I also would be more than happy about it :)

Thanks guys. What about the original maps (kamino etc). I can't find those for download either.

There definately is a downlaod version of Kamino, with a fixed Slave I, as it seems to be a little to big on he original map. I BELEIVE I also have seen download versions of the other maps.

Heya team,

I have recreated the original unaltered 12 decks (albeit with with slightly different pictures and colorings, but other than that its the same) using the exact wording provided here on the corresponding ED page. Happy to upload them if it will help, but I don't really know how to do that. I'm part of this group, but do I need to be a part of the yahoo group as well to upload? And yeah, if anyone has access to quality downloadable versions of Kamino, Throne Room, Geonosis, and Carbon Freeze, pass the links my way if you don't mind.
As for those who wish to tweak the original decks, feel free to do so using the decks I'll upload (I can provide the dkd files too), but my friends and I are kind of purists and prefer the original 12 to be as they first appeared. Don't get me wrong, I'd like Vader to have more defense and for Obi-Wan to have SOME kind of weakness as much as anyone, but the mismatched, unbalanced quality of the decks is part of what makes it so fun and so challenging and so endlessly complex in team mode. And its much more satisfying to destroy a Yoda or Obi-Wan when you know how blasted hard it is to do so.

- As far as original decks, did you recreate them in Deck Designer? Regardless, you can upload here using the "Upload a File" link at the top-right of the page. Membership in the Yahoo! group is entirely separate and does not matter.
- Regarding maps, I originally had very nice scans from which the Vassal maps were originally created. I'll see if I still have those but it's not likely. More likely, I'll have to re-scan them, and it will probably be a while before I do.
- Regarding tweaks, check out the 10 Year Anniversary Tournament Set. There are tweaks which make all of the original 12 decks roughly equal. If you want something other than "roughly equal," then best to come up with your own tweaks for your own group. You can check out geektopia.info for an example of the tweaks we use, but those are to our tastes, for the version of SWED we like to play. Anyone can use them but they're not for everyone.
- If you want to expand your ED set, you're in the right place. Start with the 10 Year Anniversary and Expanded Universe sets. The 10YA set in particular will introduce you to different designers and different flavors of deck-building and you can explore from there.

Hey Ben,
that's great! I would love to have them as .dkd's. This way I could add the changes Roman is talking about and improve the overal playing experience with the original 12.
You could just upload them in the upload files section of the wiki, so I would be able to download them. :)
Thanks in advance.

Hi there, thanks for your message. Yes, my friends and I have already explored the expanded decks and 10th anniversary and chosen the ones we deemed worthy of including in our game. Most decks out there are rather poorly created, it seems.
As for the original decks, as I said I'm not interested in tweaking the original decks. I like for them to remain as they are since that is the original vision of the game. Imbalanced decks are part of what makes it exciting.
If you are able to find/make those good scans of the original boards, I'd appreciate it greatly. Thanks so much!

Hi Ben, would you consider uploading the files?

On the Ruined Jedi Temple Board, can you shoot over the possibly broken pillar space right next to the hole?

I've always used it as fully blocking, but it does appear to be broken, so it would make some sense to be able to shoot through that space. In the end, however you and your playgroup decide to rule it is, of course, fine.

Hey guys,

As requested, I have uploaded the PDFs and dkds for the 12 original unaltered decks that I made. In case anyone wants downloadable versions. These are non tweaked versions of the originals (different pics, etc. , but the card wording is the same as the published game). I also made SPACEBALLS: Epic Duels if anyone is interested in that.

Awesome Ben! Thank you so much!!! 😊

Just two questions: is there a reason you forgo any deck backs?
And did you upload the Spaceballs decks as well? Would be interested. :)

Btw I looked at my full-size scans, they're really not good enough to use for this purpose. It would be a challenge to get scans good enough to lay out into a usable deck, with text as clear as what we'd get out of Deck Designer. The downside to Deck Designer is that we'll probably never be able to recreate the backs of the originals. If anyone has a scanner and some time, he can see if he can scan really good backs. If that can be done, maybe the rest could be done at some point, but I'm not holding my breath. Probably better to go with Deck Designer versions, but we would need to come up with some usable backs.

Thanks so much for uploading all of these characters. My group really appreciates it as some of us are relatively late to the Epic Duels game. Also the Spaceballs decks do sound interesting.

Where did you upload them to? I tried searching on the site, but can't find it. Thanks!!

Oh, just to be clear.. I'm hoping to find a copy of the 12 originals you made :)

Nvm, found it under maps! Thanks again!!

Didn't make deck backs for them, no. They are only serving as a temporary printed game until I'm back home in a few months. I do have full backs and everything for the spaceballs decks, which I haven't uploaded yet.

May The Schwartz Be With You.

I love Spaceballs! It was my first Mel Brooks film

Welcome to several new deck designers that have joined the Wik!. Love seeing new designers join and new decks posted.

At the same time, gang, while I have nothing against The Old Republic or Non-SW Materials, considering a NEW STAR WARS MOVIE just came out, it would be nice to see more activity around those characters at this time. If you made a deck that you like, that gets little use and/or is for a not-well-known character, consider rolling those ideas into a deck for a Rogue One or The Force Awakens character. Just my $0.02.

Does anyone know/could guide me in how to access Mike Maloney's decks? Thank you

http://epicduels.weebly.com/

So it seems like the download issue on his site still hasn't really resolved itself since the last time this came up; like right now I click on the download link I'm supposed to, and no matter what I try on the following page I can't actually get anything to actually download.

Luckily, I already uploaded a back-up of his decks here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0lJIhPMlL-ZSHdWV0JiYUZaRU0/view

The R2-D2/C-3PO deck comes highly recommended for team games, and I rather like the designs for Quinlan Vos, Shaak Ti, and Padawan Obi-Wan.

Thanks Freaky Mutant Man. Highly appreciated.

Been checking this site out ever since my brother showed me Epic Duels. I never heard of it before and never played the original Star Wars version. My first game with it was the Smash Bros. Brawl expansion that he printed out and it's my favorite board game right now. Finally made an account here the other day and got accepted to the wiki today, thanks guys!

Welcome! Let me go ahead and recommend the Star Wars version. Also, if you haven't already, download and install Vassal onto your computer so you can play online (though hardly anyone does anymore) or even on your own. I suggest playing the original, unaltered version of Star Wars Epic Duels on Vassal at least before delving into fan-made SW content and fan-made non-SW content.

We have game nights and this is our main game now, I love it. I've been playing ED for almost a year now I think. Got Vassal awhile ago but don't really use it because it's dead on there. Wish more people would get into it. But yeah man I'll definitely check out the Star Wars decks, even though I'm not really into Star Wars. I know, it's blasphemy ahaha.

That's alright, just stay where where you are and The Inquisition-I mean Education Team will arrive shortly.

Kidding :)

Wish more people would pay more love to the non-SW decks sections on the site. Made a few myself actually and about to upload a new one.

Awesome! What are your decks based off of?

I started a deck for Ryu from Breath of Fire 3. It's so hard to condense all the ideas to just a few. I want him to shred everything because it's my favorite game but I gotta keep it balanced ahaha. I'll probably end up making 4 or 5 different decks on him with different themes just to cover his entire skill set.

Is there already a deck for, or a possibility of a deck for the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister Inquisitors from Star Wars Rebels? There are already decks for the Grand Inquisitor (season one) and Thrawn (season three), and I guess you could throw in "visits" from Vader, Maul, Asohka, and Obi Wan to make it interesting. :-) But, I would love to see the 5th bro and 7th sis to fill in the 2nd season. I would even take a stab at creating one if I knew where to start.

It's something I've contemplated, but not something I've really tried a serious stab at; after all, we don't even have a Hera deck yet, and I'd rather get some satisfactory decks for the Ghost Crew before knocking out a deck for Seventh Sister and Fifth Brother. Of course, you're always welcome to try making decks of your own!

Like FMM suggests, go ahead and give it shot! Think of how you want the deck to work and design the 12 talent cards accordingly. We're here to support you.

Just uploaded two decks featuring characters that don't have decks yet! I don't know how to get them on the characters page, so if someone could help with that, that would be cool.

Hi everyone, I was wondering, do any of you have any house rules, and if so, what are they? I already have 1 (Draw a card at start of turn for free) but I want some more. Hope to see some good ones!

There’s a lot of common house rules listed here.

http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/page/9779495/House%20Rules

We always played deathmatches in our games. And we played to the last character, not just majors. Being able to pull a razor thin victory with a half-dead Clone Trooper is amazing.

One less common house rule we had is that melee characters couldn’t attack at an angle, even when adjacent. Only ranged characters could. It gave ranged characters more of an even playing field.

We also never went by the rule of discarding dead minor cards to heal. When a minor died, we just removed all their cards from the game. Because of this, when playing as Bobs Fett (my favorite original deck), I would play Greedo’s suicide attack to dump his cards as fast as possible so I could focus on Boba.

Hi all, I've made some updates to the Wiki:

- The Front Page, Start Here page, How to Use page and Reference page have all been updated and some content was added to the Reference section.
- The Expansions Page has been updated to include Game of Thrones and Harry Potter.
- Game of Thrones has been reorganized a bit and all the decks have been unified. Hope Sophist doesn't mind.
- I've updated my profile, avatar, and username so that I'm no longer the sneaky invisible commenter (that was fine before I was admin but times have changed).
- I'm pleased to announce that long time members umondy and FreakyMutantMan have accepted roles as co-administrators of the Wiki. I'm launching an original game in 2018 and need the help, but I'll be around.

I am in the process of recreating the Card art in Vector (In Adobe Illustrator) I have also identified the Correct Fonts for all the Type styles in every spot. Additionally i created a vector Logo of the "Epic Duels Game" Logo using the correct fonts so its cleaner and more precise. I should be completed with all Different Card types (minor char attack cards, specials, etc.) within a week or two. If anyone would like the Files i can provide them and the fonts that go with them in a zip file. What i would love to do i have all of the decks look more cohesive in the end. Let me know if this is helpful, either way i'm doing it for myself.

Sounds amazing. I would love to have those files.

I'm wondering if there's a way to incorporate that art into Deck Designer. That's the way that everyone would use it. We'd either have to reach out to Corey or someone would have to crack it.

This would be the perfect solution.

I would love to have a Separate Link to a list of a Comparable Figurine for each deck, like a master sheet. I know inside of the PDF of a deck there is a Printout of the Figurine, and usually they come from Star Wars Miniatures. But it would be nice to just have a list so a person could just Look at that and see what Decks have what figures.

That's exactly what I was thinking about for quite some time now but always was wondering if anyboy else would care for something like that. Maybe I actually will create something like this. Is just the question if there isn't a way to implement something like this in the wiki.

The quick solution is to visit Aaron Shockley's bloomilk.com and use the character search function. For named characters, you'll see everything that's available. It's the characters that don't have a figure, like the newer ones, that's the challenge.

Since most figures can be easily found on bloomilk, I'm not sure we need a dedicated page on the Wiki. I think the few cases where figures aren't available can likely be discussed on a deck-by-deck bases on the individual character pages. If this doesn't work for some reason, we can explore adding a "figures' page.

I think you said it before, you see the figure but you still have no clue which one it is as they don't list the name of the miniature. It sometimes takes forever to find the exact figure at miniature market, for example. Would save SO MUCH time if you just could enter the miniature you are looking for and not just hope to come across it browsing through the list.

It's true, but only for the few characters (mostly newer ones) for whom there isn't a figure. For example, if you want a figure for Cade Skywalker, you can search for "Cade Skywalker" and find 3 figures for him, all called "Cade Skywalker." The problem only occurs when searching for, say, Rey, and you see a figure and can't identify it. Are there really so many of these cases that we need to create a "figures" page for them? If so, I'm open to it. If it's more like a dozen cases or so, I think we can handle it on the individual character pages. I'm not against creating the list that Nate and you are looking for, but how long of a list would it be?

hm really have to check to say how many there are but it definately not regards exclusively to the new characters I don't care about ;)
There are several custom decks from the EU that don't have miniatures or have miniatures that are not listed under the name of the character, like Coleman Trebors miniature. There are also some characters that have miniatures that are just not affordable like Revan, Darth Sion and several others were a list of nice alternative miniatures would be very welcome. Maybe I will start a list for my self and than we can deceide if it is of any use for other people and how to put it on the site.

I agree with Umondy, only that i think this place should be "THE" repository for information. If thats the case, i dont think it would be that hard to include a link to a page that has a list of text...

Hey I am not sure how to make the backs of my decks. I just use images I find off the computer but I don't think that will let me color the decks I want them to be

Paul, are you using Deck Designer, available under "Software"? You just need to select an image and a color.

and I do use deck designer I can add images and a color stripe at the bottom but cant change the color of the images

There is one thing I have been missing forever and I think would be a great addition to the "Component Design Articles": A how to make a new board for ED. There are some awesome boards available and I would love how the people who created it did it or better how I could design new boards that design wise fit right in. But there are always just scratches of information about that never anything specific like a step by step or so...Is here still anybody active with the necessary know-how?

of course when I say board I mean maps ;)

Would love this as well.

Just completed my live interview with Rob Daviau. Coming soon to geektopia.info!

That is awesome.

Part 1 of my live interview with Rob Daviau, creator of Epic Duels, is up on geektopia.info.

Could you post a link to it possibly?

http://www.geektopiagames.com/2018/02/23/rob-daviau-interview-part-1/

"old news"? Isn't it? Maybe place a permanent link somewhere on the wiki if you don't want to put the interview here?

For sure old news, but if you "show all comments" at the top of this page, this will make more sense. My reply to another comment used to have the old, now non-functioning link and I just wanted to update it. Because the reply is recent, it shows up at the bottom of the comments page like it's something new, as opposed to the reply that it is. I should probably include a link to the interview in the reference section.

so fellas I took my decks to staples to be printed and they printed all the cards right next to each other.It gonna be almost impoosble to cut out said then couldn't print it any other way but I think they r full of shit lol

Hmmm, I would need more info to help you. I've had more success using home printers but if that's not an option, I would go with FedEx Office over Staples. I'm not sure what "all the cards right next to each other" means. Is this your own deck, or one available here? If it's yours, did you create it in Deck Designer? Please upload, if you haven't already, so I can take a look. If you print a Deck Designer .PDF, it lays out cleanly into 6 pages, you want to print page 1, then pages 2-5 with Page 6 as the reverse side to those 4 pages. You can even go with blank card backs.

When I try and print it at my house it's apart it's fine but I already am low on ink and couldn't get the back of the cards on. I'm so aggravated with staples idk how to upload it to the pages I'm sorry but I'm really bad with computers I'm trying to say the what I got at staples the cards r printed on one sheet 5 sheets total but they r all touching no paper space in bewteen to cut them

I uploaded a New Hoth Map. Just posting it here on the Home page for people who might not go to the maps section normally

This one is fine but as far as conversations about map-making, let's keep those to the maps section of the Wiki. That's what it's there for.

Excellent map Nathan

Your Welcome... I was thinking of doing a sarlacc one... I found a really good image from Imperial assault that i might be able to use.

Uploaded Corrected Map For Hoth with three added squares cause umondy is picky, lol! j/k . Also uploaded a Rebel Outpost Map - take a look.

Yes I am :D and I am VERY happy with the result of your changes. Now it is a 10 out of 10 for me. Love it and will print & play it as soon as possible :)

Umondy i like the whole idea of having everything being able to be alternately downloaded from this website also.

Hey I have deck designer how do you make maps can you use deck designer?

Nope. Use personal ingenuity.

I agree with not relying on Yahoo for anything and I appreciate umondy's porting Yahoo's files to here and being an all around great co-administrator in a short amount of time. I'm in favor of porting all the Yahoo files here and I'm open to porting almost anything else, but I'm not going to make a project out of it. If umondy wants to, I won't stop him, but otherwise, if anyone sees a file he likes on another site, go ahead and download it, then please upload it here for everyone. Let's concentrate on Yahoo! because I think it's going the way of the dinosaur. I think almost everything else is at this site, the main exceptions I can think of are geetkopia.info, epicduels.com and Mike Maloney's weebly site, but I think we can count on those site owners to maintain those files and I recommend leaving those alone. Anything else, go ahead and port files over here, and I'll do the same.

Thanks for the kind words. Love to work on things ED.
Agree on your statement as it would take quite some time to do it wholesale at once. I will update files and links I come across and will handle it like you.
Even though I would rather have direct download links to all files than external sites like the ones you mention I understand and respect the importance and, contributions of those guys and will respect you wish to leave those links alone.

Well, I just don't think it's worth the effort. I don't know if Mike still updates his decks but it's something he used to do periodically, and I wouldn't be surprised to see him do it again. We certainly update. Sultan probably doesn't and we may port epicduels.com at some point, but let's stick with Yahoo! for now.

Hey Everyone, I wasn't sure where to post this. But I've been searching for small miniatures from some of the new content, like Star Wars Rebels, and the movies that have been coming out with popular characters like Rey, Kylo Ren, Poe Dameron, etc.

I came across Disney Collector Packs, they are miniatures and have star wars ones for a few series if you can buy them off Ebay as individuals instead of the blind bags they are normally sold in.

Series 15: https://i.imgur.com/AzHyK9l.jpg
Series 17: https://i.imgur.com/CzwaV8c.jpg

They have a few other Star Wars series as well, but these seem to be the main ones for the newer characters that Wizards of the West Coast stopped making miniatures for. They look about the right size, I might try and find some cheap ones off ebay and test them out. Oh, and sorry about the low quality image on series 15, I couldn't find anything else. Just google a bit and you'll see what I'm talking about.

This looks like gold to me :). $7.99 for 3 figures? Do you get to pick what you get? Just wish they had the figs I actually need, like Snoke and Luke.

Added a Tatooine Map - Basic map.. Using Speeders to Hide Behind.

Not put too much thought into it until now, just saw this kickstarter page https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1165033900/adventurers-atlas-map-pack-7-10th-anniversary-edit/pledge/new?clicked_reward=false&refresh=1
and was thinking if there is anything worth kickstarting for us Epic Duelers? Any ideas?

nahh ive seen his maps already and they are just to clustered to make an open space. Some of his graphics are good top down, and if i had access to high resolution art with no lines i could probably tweak some stuff.

You are right. Would beich interesting to know where he got them from but was more thinking if there would be room for a kickstar project like an expansion for ED or anything similar or would this be impossible because of the rights issue?

Have you guys seen this kickstarter project from Angry Joe? It looks pretty much like a Epic Duels clone: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1821440755/street-fighter-the-miniatures-game but cool though.

Just watched the trailer. Definitely very similar.

I have a Map i've been working on. It is normally a 7"x24" Map, However for added Fun and Graphics i've made it 13"x24" Please let me know if i should upload it as one piece or section it out. - Its under Tatooine called Desert Skiff

The desert Skiff is 7"x24" the Naboo Palace is 7"x17" and the Chanellor Office is 7"x17" so they fit on the same board. Maybe i'll work on a 7"x24" board of something else so that you can have something on the back side of the desert skiff.

Ah true. The palace is a great idea. Endor also is a big map. Another map for the back of course would be great.

I just printed out the Naboo and the Chancelllor at my job and put them on foamcore back to back...they look great and fit perfectly. i think the box it just over 15" which means these might not fit...ughh... I will have to work this through.

15 years after this quick-hitter of a game came out, and we've still got new folks discovering and joining the Wiki! Welcome all!

As there have been some questions about making decks, and I'm having trouble locating some of the old resources, I started up a blog series on Epic Decks:

http://geektopia.info/blog/2018/07/01/making-epic-decks-part-1-of-3/

That's awesome. Can't wait for the next part.

Updated link: http://www.geektopiagames.com/2018/07/01/making-epic-decks-part-1-of-3/

cool, missed out on that one. haven't had much time lately for ED, have to catch up some :)

Does anyone know what happened to the EU Expansion Decks or the ones that raistalin made?

Hmm. I can ping Sultan about the EU. I'm not sure about Raistlin's decks and can't tell where he's been storing them. I'll try him but he's hard to get a hold of.

Thanks, I really hope they're not gone, those were really good decks.

I beleive I got most of them downloaded.

Does anyone know where we could buy the game board figures for all of these expansions?

Hello and welcome! Figures are getting harder and harder to come by. For pre-Disney characters, Star Wars Miniatures by Wizards of the Coast covers pretty much every character in the SW universe, including the Expanded Universe. Thing is, SW Minis are hard to find these days, best bet is buying a lot off of eBay. If you want figs for the Disney characters, post your questions on the individual pages for those characters and we can discuss options there.

There are some facebook groups dedicated to the miniatures game where people sell whole collections all the time.

Do you know the names of any of the Facebook groups by chance?

Sure, try this one: Star Wars Miniatures - Buy, Sell, Trade, & More

Actually it is very sad that the Star Wars Epic Duels Facebook group actually exists and has 82 members but it is not an active group at all. Very seldomly somebdody posts anything.
Maybe with all the new people joining or re-joining the game we could get it running again?

The SWED FB group never really got going but it's not a bad idea. I just picked up a couple of new fans from New Zealand this past weekend.

We should make a discord channel.

Welcome Daniel! I'm open to the idea, but with only 5 total comments in the month of August, I don't know if there's enough activity to warrant it.

I made an R2-D2 and C-3PO deck. It is my first deck that I have created. It would be helpful to get some feedback. How do I upload it?

Any celebration planned for when the site hits 100k views?

We'll have balloons and cake.

Great! Can't wait.

Can anyone explain to me how to put multiple Vassal extensions into one single file? Any help would be very much appreciated.

Yeah, there are a couple of involved steps to it but it can definitely be done. First, you have to put together the build files, then you have to copy over all the images. The build file can be opened and edited as a text file. You can copy the texts from multiple build files to a single file -- work with it a bit and you'll figure it out. Then you have to save it, probably as a text file just to have it but more importantly as a build file, which is best accomplished by replacing the old one, but you need to make a backup first. So if you're creating a build file with a lot of decks, this can get pretty involved. Then just make sure you get all the images into a single file as well. This generally isn't too hard but I feel like it hasn't always been super smooth for me either. Then you need to try the file out and I often find I've run into problems, then I have to go back to the build file and figure out something and/or tweak something, then try again. But that's how you do it.

Thanks for the info! I figured it wouldn't exactly be simple; I'll try it out and see how it goes.

Some exciting news! After interviewing Rob Daviau in early 2018, I recently requested an interview of the other creator of Epic Duels, Craig Van Ness. He agreed!
After talking with Rob and thinking some more, I have a hunch that Craig is more the Epic Duels guy than Rob, in no small part because he created the Transformers version of the game. Also, I plan to do this over the phone or skype, which should grant more time for a more in-depth discussion.
We haven't set a date yet, but it will be soon. If you have any particular questions for Craig, please post them as a reply, and I'll do my best to ask him.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

But which was interviewed, the master or the apprentice?

This is awesome, kudos for doing this man. I’m sure those gentlemen are quite pleased to know their creation is still beloved to this day. Where’s the interview with Daviau?

Few questions:
1) Was this concept of a card battler with miniatures already in place before it was attached to the Star Wars brand, or was it something that was developed specifically for Star Wars Epic Duels first?

2) What happened? How come we never got an expansion or a Version 2?

3) Has he heard of the custom Epic Duels community? How does he feel about it? Would he still play it? CHALLENGE HIM!

4) What was his favorite deck to create, and if he could have included one more character for both Light and Dark side factions, who would they have been?

5) Does he enjoy the new set of Star Wars films?

6) If he could give the Epic Duels treatment to any current franchise, what would it be?

(We could even take a community poll to see if we can guess what he’d pick. I got dibs on Game of Thrones haha)

7) Would be be willing to revisit the game if he had the opportunity to, and if so, what would we need to do to get him there?

Also, please thank him from all of us for making such an outstanding game.

I don't think this is going to happen, so I'm going to delete these posts. I thank HallowJack for his thoughts, and I have recorded them in case it does end up happening.

what happened? was looking forward to it :(

Me too. He's not getting back to me. If I head to a Con that I know he'll be at, I'll try again then.

Hey just wondering for all of you who use custom or various other fan made maps and character.. do you have any kind of efficient way to deciding starting location for characters when they're not already labelled on the map?

Hi, there are 2 main ways I've seen of handling starting position:
1. Back line. This is what we use for tournament play. Your major character can start anywhere on the back line of the side you're defending. Minor characters must be placed adjacent to the major, and your major must be in a spot that allows for all minors to occupy an adjacent space. What's good about this is that it works for all custom maps, not all of which have named spaces.
2. Any starting spot. This is what our group uses. Your major character can start on any starting spot of the side you're defending. Minor characters must be placed adjacent to the major. When there are no named starting spots, we use the back line.

We always play back line like you described in point #1. But #2 sounds like it could be fun and speed up gameplay. Have to try it next time we play.

Generally my group has everyone choose their deck. Then we roll. If in a four player game, choices would have the following options: choose board, go 1st, go 2nd, go 3rd, go 4th, place 1st, place 2nd, place 3rd, place 4th. Choice follows 'snake draft format', meaning choice goes from highest to lowest roll, but then is reversed for the second round of choosing (for example: highest roll, 2nd highest, 3rd, 4th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, 1st). This system seems pretty equitable - there is debate as to what is the most advantageous strategy.

Sometimes in a larger group or on a whim, we will include the following choices as well: deck, teams/no team, 1-deck per player/2-decks per player. With more choices snake format is still followed.

Ever wonder if we could just remake Epic Duels as a new game, with new (unlicensed) characters and art? In short, the answer is no, we can't.
http://www.geektopiagames.com/2019/02/14/is-it-ok-to-re-skin-an-old-game/

just because a bunch of guys said: Don't do that?

If you cange everything and just keep the general idea and mechanic I don't see where it is "a dick move". People who say that have no clue what game you are talking about. It kinda is if you would say nobody is ever allowed to do any dungeon crawler except the one who brought it out first. Or do a Table top...or whatever genre you like to choose.

Thanks for reading. We can discuss in greater depth on the blog post, but I do think there's a way to re-do Epic Duels within the bounds of what's acceptable, just by making a few tweaks. The real issue, as I see it, is that I don't think Epic Duels would be fun with made-up characters in a made-up world.

No need to discuss. Agree with you 100%. I probably would not be interested in any generic theme. I already don't care for all the non-Star Wars expansions. Still not finished with expanding my Star Wars game and will take time until everything is the way I would like it to be. If I play another game I much rather would play something completely different because thats the reason for me to play another game.

Just wanted to say that last year i was real active making new maps, etc. My father passed away, lost my job, worked freelance for a while an now have a great better job. I am back into Epic Duels again...lol

Sorry about your losses and tough times. Glad to hear that it seems you are back on track again and great to have you back as an active member of the ED community! Looking forward to more new content from you!

Very sorry for your loss, but glad to have you back!

I checked out your website/Blog at geektopia...Definitely a good read and enjoyed your Boardgame reviews. I played a game this weekend called Wildlands. i would highly recommend checking it out.

Thanks so much Nathan! Lots more content in store. I'll keep an eye out for Wildlands.

Here is a random thought: what if every character had uniqur deck and you combined them a la Smash Up to create teams

I've experimented with this, and the TL;DR answer is "No."

For a detailed explanation:

The fun of Epic Duels is largely the idea of having fun, unique deck ideas with cards that compliment each other and create an experience that feels like you're playing the character in question. When you try to mix and match the decks, the end result is that one character ends up diluting the other. For example, if you tried to mix Yoda and Obi-Wan's decks, you would have to make sacrifices somewhere: you can't have both an effective hit-and-run deck and an effective defensive deck. If you tried to mix Darth Maul and the Emperor, you would run into the same problem: you can't have both a resource denial deck and a deck based on multiple free actions.

So, to make sure your deck works effectively no matter who's in it, you would have to make all the cards complimentary to all other cards, which is going to keep you from doing interesting effects for each character and leave you with a simple deck design that lacks real character. Not optimal, and very boring.

I originally tried this approach while trying to create X-Men decks, since I couldn't decide who I wanted to pair with anyone. The results were as I described above: disastrous.

The best way to create a viable team in Epic Duels is to do 2v2 (the best way to play Duels, in my opinion).

Since my customs come from an era with no guns, I made a little adjustment for my health cards. My characters now have a bow and arrow to express that they are ranged rather than the standard gun which doesn't exist in their universe!

https://imgur.com/EE1dcBD

Oh, I like that. Is there any way you can add it into the deck creator?

We could email Corey (who posted recently, so apparently he's around) and ask him. I'd like to update my decks from The Hobbit with this as well.

Should't it be possible to just replace the gif in the Epic Duels folder?

Makes sense to me, but idk. Try it and let us know.

Pretty cool.

i Forgot where to look for info on printing out the cards, like what kind of paper, double sided printing vs gluing together etc... where is that info?

I don't know where that info is, actually. I've had the best luck using 110lb. cardstock, though you could probably get away with 80lb. I would just print double-sided instead of gluing together.

Never heared of that info, I always use 250g double sided and put adhesive film on both sides. Protects the cards and makes them even more firm and stable.

It might have been on the Boardgamegeek website then, and it might not have been specific to Epic duels but any card game where you can expand the base game

Does anyone know the name of the fonts used for the words 'attack' and 'defense' and 'special' on the epic duels cards?

I do but i have to get to my home computer to check later tonight

anyone know a work around for chromebook users to use the card editor? this is the moment I regret my purchase lol

Does anyone have an opinion on the re-uploading of Vassal decks? For pdfs it makes senses to either re-upload if possible and mark as missing if not, on the off chance someone who has the deck will see it and re-upload it. But with Vassal decks I can't remember ever seeing someone ask for one to be restored. I have a few missing Vassal decks I could upload like the EU expansion or some Dorkistan decks, but would there be a point if no one plays them? My thinking is to leave functioning Vassal links alone and just remove any dead ones.

Just bought this game off ebay. It was listed as used, only missing 3 figures. Going through the cards and I noticed several things that make me uneasy. To start, many of the cards had messed up borders, spacing with text is off, the text are different on certain cards compared to others. There is some coloration differences between cards of the same deck. Images don't line up, and some of the text on cards are blurry.

Was the quality of this game that bad or have I been scammed with fakes/custom cards? Any information would be much appreciated.

Hm, pics would help. Maybe post some in the ED facebook group and I am sure we are able to gelp.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2170107/card-misprints-or-fakes-please-help

Here’s my post on board game geek with pics. Does that help?

As best I can tell, you got a legit game. Hasbro quality was never the highest. In hindsight, what Epic Duels did most remarkably was offer a game for $20 with 372 cards, 2 double-sided boards, and a set of painted, not-great-but-plenty-good-enough figures.

Whatever figures you're missing, you can replace with Star Wars Miniatures, if you can still find them. Or hit me up, I might have some spares I can send you.

Thanks for your help.

When through the game and it's missing the instructions, 7 wound markers, and the figures of han, padme, and clone trooper (3 markers on base). Wouldn't happen to have any of those would you?

I would really recommend getting the Star Wars Minis for those. There are several sculpts of Han and Padme, so they shouldn't cost a fortune. Clone Troopers are super cheap, as well. Here's a Han figure for $2: https://www.ebay.com/itm/WotC-Star-Wars-Miniatures-Han-Solo-Rogue-Alliance-Empire-07-60-Rebel-Rare/143019042272?hash=item214c9965e0:g:-ygAAOSw5atb8j2t

Here's a Padme for under $8: https://www.ebay.com/itm/17-Padme-Amidala-Senator-The-Clone-Wars-Star-Wars-Miniatures-NM/333088728075?hash=item4d8da2a40b:g:kF0AAOSwWtpccNqq

If you still end up short, let me know and I'll get you what you need, with the exception of Padme. I have one, plus one backup and need them both :)

OR you just go to https://www.trollandtoad.com/ and get all of them at once for a pretty decent price and maybe even more if you plan to expand your deck collection to some of the ones available here on the wiki :)

Oh wow, thanks for posting. Need some D&D minis too so this the exact resource I've been looking for!

This community's love for Epic Duels has finally, after 15-16 years of asking for it, resulted in a follow-up to it, a restoration by Rob Daviau and Restoration Games. In this post, Rob and his business partner, Justin Jacobson, talk about our community specifically. There's a page to discuss "Unmatched" in the sidebar under "projects" but please, everyone, read this post and take a bow:
http://www.geektopiagames.com/2019/03/20/unmatched-details-from-rolling-dice-and-taking-names/

If you don't mind moving closer to your screen then this guy has made some cool decks with interesting card effects. https://www.behance.net/gallery/1523073/Star-Wars-Epic-Duels-The-Expansions

Wow, they ideed look great. I wrote the creator a mail, maybe he would share them with us. Think those would be a great addition.

Yeah where has this guy been???

These look great. are they not fully available?

I just hope he writes me back and is willing to share his stuff.

By the way unfortunately never heared back from the dude.

Was wondering about how that went. Real shame.

These guys are definitely doing something interesting over here. https://12wayduels.blogspot.com/

Cool blog, even though I would find it pretty boring to wait for 11 people to make their move until my turn. This stuff drags on forever. Most we played with 6 and that is the limit for us.

I encourage all active community members to read my latest blog post:

http://www.geektopiagames.com/2019/05/02/roman-history-with-epic-duels/

Awesome post Roman! Really enjoyed reading it and looking forward to part two. I am indeed a little sad to have missed the golden age of the game. The good thing is I immediately ran into tons of available content. That is a cool luxury to have. By the way I have asked me that for quite some time now, was your epic 20v20 battle exciting or boring as hell? It probably took forever to wait for your turn?

Thanks! I am sad for all of you that missed the Golden Age of tournaments but the flip side is, the later you've arrived, the more content you've had available. The 10YA set, for example, wasn't available until well after the golden age had ended. I'm sad the 10YA never made its way into an official tournament, at least none that I've been part of, but I'm thrilled to see it available on Tabletop Simulator. It was intended for that sort of thing.

If the 20v20 battle had gone better, we'd have done it again. There were only 4 players, and I don't think we even divided the decks up as 10 per person, it was more like, our team's turn, we'd take actions for one deck, then the other team would take actions for its deck, etc. So there wasn't much down time. However, yes, it took a long time to complete, more than a single night. Even though we didn't touch it between sessions, upon returning, it was tough to keep track of everything. We definitely made a lot of mistakes, not skipping turns when we should have, etc. When it ended it was basically impossible to crown a legit winner of the contest due to all the mistakes.

Would appreciate comments on the blog itself as well as here.

Wow, no mention of Obiwanjohn in your blog? No mention about Epic Ground Battles, Epic Space Battles or Jedi Battles? No mention about Marvel vs DC ??? These are first rate, high quality expansions. Head shaking....

Hi OWJ, unlike the old history document (http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/page/122884059/Epic%20Duels%20Online%20History) which does mention you, this post is a personal story, told from my perspective. Therefore, a lot of excellent SWED content goes unmentioned. Aside from a couple of recent projects, brought up to demonstrate that the game is still going strong, I don't think I mentioned much of anything that I didn't personally work on or wasn't personally involved with. It is my blog, after all, not a community space.

Hi Rome.

This site is simply amazing. I have been able to download and professionally print various decks this site offers. Most of these decks are amazing and have influenced some of my own created decks. Between some of my friends we have been able to start a monthly Epic Duels match that ranges between 4-12 players. We play with the original 12 decks and 10 expansion decks. To all of the contributors: Keep up the good work!!! - Northern NJ Chapter of Imperial Sovereignty

Welcome Darth Miranda! Glad you're enjoying the Wiki. I'm also sorry we never connected during the 5 years I spent in Morristown NJ, but it's been a couple of years since then.

If you're creating your own decks, we'd love to see them! Please add them to the Wiki and create links on those respective character pages. I'm here to help if you need it.

Northern NJ Chapter of Imperial Sovereignty..... I love it.... This is definitely a great site.

Welcome to you as well.

Still working on format and aesthestic changes to my expansion. Having some pretty cool results.

https://imgur.com/o4ui5eW

https://imgur.com/yeQqjwM

Examples of my new types of cards.

Oh wow. Those are awesome.

Can't wait for the end result.

I did post what's probably 99% finished in terms of gameplay and deck composition a few weeks ago but it may have been buried in a fairly active period:

http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/133130550/Game%20of%20Thrones%20Complete%20Expansion.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2OVyuzl79a-Ytc-kihu5ItnwVeKZZmU__931keSjCeLat4vqFa-nRX40A

Most of the changes from here will be mostly cosmetic. Aside from changing Joffrey's Whitecloaks for a different power offense (having a Mace Windu battlemind clone, doesn't make much sense in a deck without drawing ability imo), and changing Robert's Rebellion.. maybe to just affect basic combat cards. Right now its OP combined with Its a Great Crime. That and I'll be tweaking the tribute cost of the field cards after much play testing cause they were pretty much guess work to start.

The cards I posted in the image above with an inverted black background/white text are what I'm considering 'signature cards'. These are the cards most decks have 3 of (some exceptions 2), and are the bread and butter, most powerful cards in the deck. Right now its purely cosmetic, but in my future concept of event cards a characters signature card gets altered to be more powerful when a player achieves an in game objective. Eg. an event like 'damage an opponent in combat and with a special card in one turn' would result in a card Tyrion's Lannister always pay their debts having a 3def value instead of forcing him to take full damage.

I briefly considered changing all cards to this black version, but I can't justify the extra cost of the black ink, and reprinting all 20 decks lol. That and it looks great in contrast with some deck colours and terrible with others. Right now its just a useful way of showing new players these are their core cards. I also want to put some sort of symbols on special cards to signify how many there are in a deck. Something like star = 1 per deck, diamond = 2, circle = 3, but I don't want to steal from pokemon lol.

Hey thanks for that direct link. It looks very cool and I will take a closer look when I have some time. Stuff like that always makes me feel stupid for not coming up with that on my own. I love all the ideas you included. Of course, why not use the SPECIAL text space for more and different cards?! That is a great concept. Putting cards on the board or field like you call it. Has always been around in some way but always been difficult to spell out and all that. Now it is super easy the way you do it. Also to give some infos what the go to cards are and how many of those cards are in one deck. It is SO FREAKING SIMPLE but so GREAT! When you have a set of 150+ active decks like I have in no way you always remember all of that and it makes it so much better to play a deck the right way without studying it endlessly before starting a game. This should be so obvious but took us so long until you put it on here.

I absolutely get your problem of not wanting to reprint everything. I encountered this stuff SO many times. Where I had to reprint stuff, etc. Even now after seeing all your great stuff I get the feeling I have to edit ALL my decks and reprint them :D :D :D

Can't wait to take a closer look and maybe even adopting some of your ideas into my Star Wars decks.
Cheers and big thanks again from me and the whole community!

Is it possible that the storage space of the wiki page is exhausted? Today I couldn't upload my new deck until I deleted two of my older ones....

Um, yeah, afraid so. :(

I'll look into getting more, but I'm not sure if it's possible. Might need another site for storage and we just embed links. I'll have to think it over.

Okay, let me know if I can help.

Game over man, game over!

Ahem, so yeah that sucks. I'd be more than willing to move all my stuff over to Mediafire (which I can also use for my future decks too), but that's only gonna free up so much space.

I was wondering when that was going to happen with so much trafficlately. I've got some free time to move my Marvel decks off-site today, so I'll do that.

I'd like to politely suggest that any non Star Wars material, such as the Game of Thrones content and even the Smash Bros content, be moved to seperate sites to free up space. It's simple enough to do, and I'd like to think we're all supportive enough of our work that we can take the extra clicks to get the content we want.

I think that's a good suggestion. We have space (for now) at geektopiagames.com, and it can fill some of the hosting role that epicduels.com used to fill.

I'd be happy to set up sections for GOTED and Avatar, but I'd prefer not any SW content that isn't ours, and not to host Smash Bros.

Agreed...we need to get more space for SW stiuff, but I am definately always in favour if we can keep as much stuff as possible available at one site. We just had a little broken link armageddon and that kinda sucks.

I'll have the full set GOT individual sets for the geektopia page by the end of the night. How do you want me to send them to you?

Emailing them to me at romanfarraday@yahoo.com is probably the easiest.

Hello everyone! This is Rob from http://12wayduels.blogspot.com/ - we run a league where we play with twelve people at the same time, hence our "12-Way Duels" moniker. Head over to the blog to see our recaps, stats, etc. This fall will kick-off season six in our league. We're over 70 games played at this point, have travelling trophies, custom boards, etc. It's all fairly insane but fun.

Next month we'll do our annual "Singles Tournament". We'll have 32 individual Duelers with four entries each (two light side, two dark side). That makes for 128 entries, twice the size of the NCAA tournament. We use each board for the four "regions", thus the final four are the winners for each board.

Welcome Rob! Where you been, my man? Your blog is awesome!

Thanks! Sorry for the delayed response to you reaching out. Duels is very much alive in here in Waco, TX. I held the first 12-Way Duel back in 2002 when I lived in Indiana. I had a different league going when I was in Tennessee back in 2007-09, but nothing compared to how it's taken off here in Texas. My 10 year old (she turned 11 the next day) won our May Duel and that might have been my proudest moment as her father, lol...

I've recently been able to figure out how to assemble some half decent maps. I'm not great at it or anything yet but I'm considering do a short write-up to give those interested something to work with.

Yeah not bad! Would appreciate a write up. Never been able to figure it out myself.

Can't wait to see it.

Hey all. I know this isn't Epic Duels related, but I'm the guy that created the Deck Designer and now I'd like your help with my first Kickstarter: http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/page/134609859/Capital%20Vices%20Micro-Game%20Kickstarter

Awesome Corey! Good luck with your KS! I will back it and tweet it for sure!

Thanks Roman. I really appreciate your support!

We're playing our annual singles tournament next weekend - 32 Duelers, you get four different characters/chances to play! You can check out the blog to see the preview post. I made it to the finals last year but my Yoda lost to Maul on Geonosis...

https://12wayduels.blogspot.com/

FYI - Emperor Palpatine of all people won the tournament this year! Quite unexpected...

Darth Nihl & Darth Talon by Umondy is an amazing looking deck. The art and the card descriptions look great.

Thanks for the kind words. Let me know how you like playing it.

New trailer, new movie, new TV series (The Mandalorian) and that will mean new decks!

Space: The Final Frontier. Our Wiki is running out of space. I doubt it can be increased without spending money, which I'm not about to do (when I sell through my 3rd printing of Cage Match, years from now, I'll consider it). If you have content on the Wiki, please determine if any of it is obsolete and can be moved elsewhere. Even if it is obsolete, I don't like the idea of removing content but in some cases deleting the content may make sense. Please consider it. Feel free to ask questions or make other suggestions as to how best to free up space for new decks.

Well adios to Yahoo! groups. That Epic Duels group was one of the very first online groups I was ever part of, I'm sad to see it go, even if lost most of it's value years ago. Still liked having the storage too.

Has anyone created a Discord group for this by chance? If not is there any interest in doing so? Not for anything specific, just to discuss anything about the game (balancing decks or whatever).

To my knowledge, no one ever has. I know this came up a few months ago on the front page, but the consensus back then was that there wasn't enough interest in the game to justify the creation of one (although I don't know if that's still true or not).

I feel it is at least a try, cant hurt anything. Its free to make a server and if it doesn't work out, everyone can just abandon it.

It could potentially have more members than expected. People may not have something worth posting to the page here, but that doesn't necessarily mean they don't want to be involved with the community. May allow us to grow the fan base even more and get to know the members better. Of course, it wouldn't replace the PBworks page since their completely different platforms with different functions.

P.S. Not being able to edit is rough, cant imagine why that isn't a feature yet...

Hey, man if you want to then go for it; you'll never know how far you'll get until you try.

And yes, the lack of an edit function is stupid and annoying. :/

What is a discord group?

Basically a chat room with text and/or voice chat. Its typically used for gaming communities. You can create a server for anything tho.

Well I went ahead and made a discord for this, not sure how it’ll turn out but it’s worth a shot. Any moderators here are welcome to be premiered Admin access on the server, let me know if you are interested.

https://discord.gg/3GeXBQa

Sure. Always interested in everything ED!

The discord is awesome! I think we should announce it to the Yahoo! groups, BGG and Facebook.

Anyone else watching the Clone Wars? Highly recommend Season 7 Part 2!

Its incredible! Some of my favourite SW

I've written a supplement program for Vassal that will add a Prototype trait to all cards in a deck by editing the buildFile automatically. I was just using it for myself because I was tired of manually adding prototypes to 31 cards in all of my Extension Decks. But if anyone else was interested in using it I have no problem uploading it. It's technically finished and does what I wanted it to do, but I might make make a few minor changes to it. Is something like that okay to upload?

Great! Please upload to the Deck Designer page under "Extras". There's already one addition to it, you could use bullet points for that one and for yours.

http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/page/9779428/Deck%20Designer

I actually made this program in GameMaker: Studio 1.4 (Standard Version) aka the free version, in case anyone wondered.

Very cool! Thanks!

I see my Marvel vs DC was deleted. I will restore the link.

Heads up, we are moving all non-SW content to a new Wiki because we're running out of space. It's like the old days of multiple Yahoo! groups.

Sorry, that is my fault. Should have put some notice up here that we are moving stuff and that it takes a few days at least. Nothing will be deleted wizhout being first uploaded to the new page. I will puz the link up in the sidebar as soon as most stuff is done. I beleive the new space qill be much better for all the non star wars content. Enough room to really sort it out and make it more accessible. Right now it is a little like an afterthought and there are so many great expansions including yours, I beleive the deserve a better presentation.

Byyyy the way, do you still have your Admiral Saul Karath deck? I was just lately looking for it but the link is broke. Any chance to restore that?

I've got new decks to upload, but am having trouble figuring out how to route them to the folders. Anybody care to help me?

Did you solve the problem? If not I can do it for you.

I have an original version of this game from back when we played it with friends in 2002. However, over the years I’ve lost some pieces. Is there anywhere I can get a card list to see the original cars so I can play it? I have the original board and a number of characters so it’s not just wanting to get the game for free but understand there still may be issues with that.

Hey Marc, I am not sure of the best way to do this. This page has mostly fan-made decks or tweaks to the original. Each deck has 31 cards (12 special and power combat), so maybe you could start by counting each deck and figure out how many you are missing and from what decks. I could help piece it together for you after that, feel free to shoot me an email if you want at tpinkman13@gmail.com

Thanks. I'll take inventory this weekend.

you can find all the card texts in the component design section under 'card text'.
Other than that you could join the discord, I bet there are ppl that could help you out for anything else you need.

Actually, card text is a page about how to write talent cards like the original decks. The page that has all the text from the original cards is called "Deck Descriptions": http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/page/9779427/Deck%20Descriptions

thats it!

Actually if you want to join the discord and fire me a message I've already remade a bunch of the original decks I can fire you a pdf to print!

Any particular reason my Marvel/DC decks were deleted but then reuploaded under someone else’s name? I’ve got more decks, but am hesitant to share now.

A couple of years ago all non-Star Wars decks were deleted and re-uploaded onto the Epic Duels2 wiki (link in sidebar) to save space. You can find your decks over on that site.

I can still see them on this original page. But no credit was given to me is my point. Obviously these aren’t for sale nor copyrighted by any means. Still, it’s a bit aggravating to not be credited with creating the decks in the first place. Second, I don’t see any links to this other page in my sidebar. I typed epicduels2.pbworks.com & I assume that’s the new page? However, like I said, I can still see my deck on this original wiki & the new page. Which means it was deleted here, then reuploaded under a different name for no reason. Not the worst thing to ever happen, just disappointed & irked to not have any credit as it took a lot of time to create & test our decks.

Here is a link to the non-SW wiki: http://epicduels2.pbworks.com/w/page/140429532/FrontPage There is a page for your decks in the "Comic Expansions" section.

Can you post a link to the files on this wiki that you're seeing? The only Marvel/DC related content I can find on here is this page: http://epicduels.pbworks.com/w/page/103710813/Marvel%20Comics%20Duels

If anything was done not to your liking please let me know. It is exactly like JAG18 said. It was just an acrtion to create more space for Star Wars AND all the other Epic Duels content. It was never meant to take any credit away from anybody. If that happened I am sorry as it probably was my fault. I hope this does not discourage you to share more of your ideas and would ask you instead to help me sort out what was wrong and needs to be changed. Just you know, ALL Non-Star Wars content is supposed to be put on the Non-Star Wars Wiki now. I am actually surprised you could still find that stuff on here as this should not be the case.

That’s my bad. When I was first looking at these I was on my phone and hitting a link that sent me to the new wiki without realizing it. I appreciate you clarifying or affirming what JAG18 said. It does look like the deck was untouched since my last upload. We’ve played a few more times & think they’re pretty balanced. It’s one of the Marvel/DC decks. The one with Thor/Goats & CapAmerica/Snipers. I do have some new decks we’ve been testing, from a tv show that I’ll upload as soon as we can test it again. And I do have a few of my own that I’ve been working on privately that I’ll post soon, too. Thanks for the explanation & consider the matter resolved.

You are welcome and glad to have you back as an active contibuter. There can never be too much ED :)

You don't have permission to comment on this page.

To join this workspace, request access.

Already have an account? Log in!

Loading…

Downloads

Resources

Other Games

Loading…

FrontPage

Star Wars Epic Duels Wiki

Epic Duels Discord

FrontPage

Page Tools

Insert links

Comments (307)

Anonymous said

Anonymous said

Justin said

Anonymous said

Anonymous said

Anonymous said

Vash the Stampede said

Administrator said

Darth Terminus said

Thorbardin said

Administrator said

The Tusken Raider said

priz02@yahoo.com said

The Tusken Raider said

priz02@yahoo.com said

MoonSylver said

mlhamner said

Arcsaber said

Arcsaber said

Darth Ayan said

Darth Ayan said

Jared Martin said

Darth Trumpetus said

zeruiah said

Darth Trumpetus said

Jared Martin said

zeruiah said

whowhatwhycast said

Darth Trumpetus said

Tokyotalks2much said

Tokyotalks2much said

Dan Felder said

Darth Trumpetus said

Cfinton said

Cfinton said

Freaky Mutant Man said

Pete322 said

umondy said

umondy said

Cbgssya said

Cbgssya said

Roman F said

Cbgssya said

Cbgssya said

LordStarkiller said

Tokyotalks2much said

Tokyotalks2much said

Swishtail said

Swishtail said

Swishtail said

Cbgssya said

Swishtail said

Roman F said

Pete322 said

Cbgssya said

umondy said

Roman F said

Freaky Mutant Man said

Roman F said

umondy said

Freaky Mutant Man said

umondy said

Roman F said

umondy said

Ben said

Roman F said

umondy said

Ben said

umondy said

Ben said

Roman F said

umondy said

Ben said