WHOPPER
gospel truth
LIE
cross my heart
SHAGGY DOG STORY
the real deal
BILL OF GOODS
on the level
FISH STORY
straight up
FIB
serious
WHOPPER
gospel truth
LIE
cross my heart
SHAGGY DOG STORY
the real deal
BILL OF GOODS
on the level
FISH STORY
straight up
FIB
serious

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WHOPPER
gospel truth
LIE
cross my heart
SHAGGY DOG STORY
the real deal
BILL OF GOODS
on the level
FISH STORY
straight up
FIB
serious
WHOPPER
gospel truth
LIE
cross my heart
SHAGGY DOG STORY
the real deal
BILL OF GOODS
on the level
FISH STORY
straight up
FIB
serious
WHOPPER
gospel truth
LIE
cross my heart
SHAGGY DOG STORY
the real deal
BILL OF GOODS
on the level
FISH STORY
straight up
FIB
serious

If there's one thing Decipher employees are good at, it's telling stories.
And our community members are good at entering contests and winning prizes.

Thanks for letting us tell our stories. There's a complete recap below of the Tall Tales or True daily entries, twelve in all.
Juz Pakes, Jedi Knight

DAY TWELVE: The Juggler, Francis K. Lalumiere
"I was still living in Montreal when the Hoth expansion set came out in November of 1996. Jean-Luc Simard (Gold 27) organized a Hoth-only constructed deck tournament in his home town of Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke had just been hit by a most generous snowstorm, which made driving down there quite a challenge. Then we discovered that the tournament was being held in a basement that was literally surrounded by ice and snow - and the heating system was defective! The result was a Hoth-themed tournament that went far beyond the cards in your decks. Players, seated on utterly frozen chairs and stools, were playing with wool hats and gloves on. "
ANSWER: Anyone who knows Francis knows he comes from one of the colder regions of North America, and indeed, his story is true. The ultimate Hoth theme tournament? Decipher's 1996 World Championships in Vail, Colorado of course!

DAY ELEVEN: Road Warrior, Sean Smallman
"In a tournament game I was playing a bounty-hunting deck against Mind What You Have Learned. I was trying to use Dark Deal, but was thwarted by my opponent's Jedi testing. His Daughter Of Skywalker was trying to go all the way to Jedi Test 5, and I only had regular starships on the table with a permanent pilot aboard and no extra capacity. I played "Come With Me" to remove the permanent pilot, deployed Boba Fett in the open slot and gave him his blaster and a thermal detonator. Landing the One Fett Wrecking Crew on Dagobah my opponent was quick to point out that I couldn't initiate battle because of Yoda's game text. However during my next control phase, I played sniper to trigger the detonator and drew a one, taking out Boba, Daughter of Skywalker, Yoda, and Jedi Tests 1,2, and 3."
ANSWER: True. Apparently the Thermal Detonator and low destiny is the natural enemy of Jedi Testing.

DAY TEN: Game Designer, Tom Lischke
"The Hidden Base enhancer, A New Secret Base was originally thought to be too weak. That's why, in development, we doubled the number of Force drains that the Light Side could cancel by controlling systems and said that they didn't have to be battlegrounds."
ANSWER: FALSE. C'mon.... would we do that for Light Side?

DAY NINE: Rules Guy, Juz
"At one stage in Jabba's Palace development, all the unique light side aliens names started with Frank, and all the unique Dark Side aliens names started with Ed. E.g. Ed The Jawa, Frank the Elom, Ed The Skrilling. etc. Indeed, Jabba's lore said "Leader of the Eds."
ANSWER: Finally, Juz tells a truth! Jabba's Palace playtest was indeed full of Eds and Franks. easier for the game designers at the start of design, somewhat tricky for the playtesters.

DAY EIGHT: Game Designer Tom Lischke
Several Game designers were killed in order to get approval for the six line effect template used on A New Secret Base. Well, almost killed. In fact, it is the first time that a basic effect was placed on a six line template, only seen in the past on sabacc cards. Sandy Wible had to work hard to create a six line effect template from the ground up!
ANSWER: TRUE. A new Secret Base does one of those subtle things that we have never done in an Effect before - 6 lines of game text. The bit about Sandy working hard though may have been false.

DAY SEVEN: Road Warrior, Sean Smallman
For those who don't know, Decipher is in an area very popular with the Military. Thus lots of jet airplane noise. At a friend's one day it seemed that every time he moved the Death Star, it coincided with a plane passing overhead. The windows would rattle and a rumbling sound would fill the house. I said to him how amazing it was that his Death Star was so life-like and he replied instantly "That's because this is a 'Special Edition' Death Star, with improved sound effects!"
Answer: Although the bit about Decipher being in a military area is true, Sean's pulling your leg. FALSE.

DAY SIX: Game Designer, Tom Lischke
Prisoner 2187 was titled Prisoner 3451 at one point in development. It was a persona of Chewie designed to replace Leia in Rescue The Princess.
Answer: Prisoner 3451? False. Come on.... that was stretch even for us!

DAY FIVE: Marketing Manager, Kendrick Summers
Editor's Note: There's a thin link to Third Anthology in here somewhere...maybe... :)
Tom and I were playing one of our weekly "who's the man!" games not long after Hoth came out. In one single control phase Tom: o Snipers my Tantive (with Luke and Wedge aboard) with his superlaser. o He then blows up the Hoth: Main Power Generators making me lose 8 force. o And the coup de grace? He CPI's to blow away Hoth altogether To make a long story short... on my next turn I have only Light side Alderaan providing me any Force, and Tom sitting across from me, looking like he just won the lottery. Tom was the man that week.
Answer: Let's face it, no one could make up a story like that! True, Tom did blow away half of Kendrick's table in one foul Control Phase. And yes, Tom did look like he had won the lottery.

DAY FOUR: Game Designer Tom Lischke
"Prisoner 2187 was originally designed as a two sided character, one side for when she was a captive and one side for when she was freed."
Answer: The double sided Leia was true. A nice idea a t the time that just couldn't be properly worked into the desired game play effect. But don't worry, we aren't finished with double-sided card ideas yet....

DAY THREE: Bravo Leader, Kevin Reitzel
"A Jabba's Palace expansion Light Side character, called Sergeant Doallyn, was originally nicknamed "The Masked Avenger". The original concept for this card was a Dark Side character card with game text "power = X and ability = Y where X + Y must equal 5. When deployed you must declare what his power and ability will be for remainder of game."
Answer: The Masked Avenger was a true story! Many faces of the mysterious Sergeant Doallyn were seen during Jabba's Palace playtest, but thankfully (for me at least) the one with X and Y on it never saw the "Light Side" of day.

DAY TWO: Game Designer Tom Lischke
"There was originally an Effect scheduled for Third Anthology that was inserted specifically as a "story-line reward" card. Basically it said that if the Light Side had Chewie, Obi-Wan, Luke with Plastoid Armor deployed on him, Prisoner 2187 and TK-422 in play on the Death Star, Dark Side must lose half their life force (rounded up)."
ANSWER: The fabled story-line Effect card? False. It may happen one day, but it was never considered for Third Anthology. Tom was fibbing. Maybe for Death Star II....?

DAY ONE: from Rules Guy Juz
"Artoo In Red 5 (go ahead, check out the card) was originally slated to be another starship - Han, Chewie, Luke, Leia, R2-D2 & C-3PO In Falcon. It was to be the strongest ship in the galaxy by far, but with a cost that would make you think twice before putting 4 copies in your deck. It never got through the first phase of development though, due to not only the outrageously long card title, but also the problem of fitting a forfeit value of 34 into that little forfeit box." Tall tale, or true as can be? VOTE BELOW.
ANSWER: False. You guys don't believe my rulings, so why believe my stories! We have yet to try a card with more than 3 unique personas in the one starship. But we ain't finished yet!