Joseph Cochran
United States
Costa Mesa
California
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basm22 wrote:
Has anyone played both and can share?
Mechanically they're completely different games. Pillars is all about the worker placement: with the Master Builders you're gaining resources that you use to create your VP engine. WWE has no worker placement element at all. Its driving mechanism is the placement of a card every turn that gives resources to each player, after which it's about managing resources and meeting demands; there's a tax every so often that you have to pay to avoid penalties.
The only similarities are the artwork, the setting (characters from each appear in the books and the town is the same place), and the fact that there are wood and stone cubes, as well as metal (which only seems to be in WWE for theme).
Personally, as a fan of the books I enjoy both games though they are mechanically different, and as a gamer I enjoy the mechanisms of each game: Pillars is a great game for "gateway plus" players and WWE is like no other game I own as far as flow and play.
