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Android Netrunner Living Card Game $42.11 @BookDepository

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Android: Netrunner is an asymmetrical Living Card Game for two players. Set in the cyberpunk future of Android and Infiltration, the game pits a megacorporation and its massive resources against the subversive talents of lone runners.

Corporations seek to score agendas by advancing them. Doing so takes time and credits. To buy the time and earn the credits they need, they must secure their servers and data forts with "ice". These security programs come in different varieties, from simple barriers, to code gates and aggressive sentries. They serve as the corporation's virtual eyes, ears, and machine guns on the sprawling information superhighways of the network.

In turn, runners need to spend their time and credits acquiring a sufficient wealth of resources, purchasing the necessary hardware, and developing suitably powerful ice-breaker programs to hack past corporate security measures. Their jobs are always a little desperate, driven by tight timelines, and shrouded in mystery. When a runner jacks-in and starts a run at a corporate server, he risks having his best programs trashed or being caught by a trace program and left vulnerable to corporate countermeasures. It's not uncommon for an unprepared runner to fail to bypass a nasty sentry and suffer massive brain damage as a result. Even if a runner gets through a data fort's defenses, there's no telling what it holds. Sometimes, the runner finds something of value. Sometimes, the best he can do is work to trash whatever the corporation was developing.

The first player to seven points wins the game, but not likely before he suffers some brain damage or bad publicity.

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  • That isn't even the cheapest it's been this month according to booko, I guess the variation is due to currency conversion.

  • Looks like a great price for what I'm told is an amazing card game.

    • I've only played it a handful of times, but it has been amazing fun!

  • +1

    Easily the best deck building game I've ever played. Doesn't have the $$$ of MTG (good and bad thing), but, in my view, superior game and gameplay mechanics.

  • Just be careful purchasing through bookdepository, I made a purchase with them at the start of February and I'm still waiting. I followed up with them and they don't have mail tracking so no way of seeing if it was actually sent.

    Looking at productreview.com.au many other people have had a similar experience.

    • Interesting. I've always had a good experience with them.

  • Pretty good price OP.
    Lords of Waterdeep is also a great deal at ~$39
    https://www.bookdepository.com/Lords-of-Waterdeep-Wizards-RP…

    • Wow, scratch that, now over $55. Sure wish i bought it this morning.

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