Pherrret

Game Designer & MtG Player 19

[pherrret]

me when I get the urge

[kennymcbigmac]

not my art but fucking love these little dudes..they make me feel brain dead :D

just felt the need to share this

[maximumzombiecreator]

I think that dungeon crawling is to TTRPGs what shooters are to video games. It's a structure that has been around since almost the beginning of the medium, that persists because it fundamentally works, and it fits well with the affordances and limitations of the medium. And like shooters, its ubiquity leads to a certain amount of backlash, some of it warranted, and a lot of it less so.

Looking at it from that perspective, people who denigrate dungeons as not being real roleplaying or storytelling feel a lot like the gaming nerds of the mid 2000s, sneering at bros who play Gears of War and Halo, and insisting that they play real games.

Except that those nerds were, at least somewhat, responding to the state of the video games industry as it actually existed. And, notably, they were actually playing the non-shooter games that existed.

By contrast, the dungeons-aren't-roleplay 5e players feel like if those gamer nerds were on their "all shooters are brainless pablum" bullshit now, in a world where some of the most praised narrative games of all time are shooters, and where shooter mechanics have been used to make wildly inventive puzzle games, horror games, speedrunning games, roleplaying games, etc.

And instead of playing any of those amazing shooter games, or even any of the fantastic non-shooter games, they were insisting that real gamers who care about narrative make Halo machinima.

[utaesthetics]

DM-JB-Industries

[i-am-bic]

"There's no platonic explanation for this" <-you need to be nicer to your friends. Right now

[esmeralda-anistasia]

#STOP SAYING 'PLATONIC' WHEN YOU MEAN 'CASUAL'#RELATIONSHIPS CAN BE PLATONIC AND ABSOLUTELY DERANGED

[snapdragon-rawrz]

so this is basically hwo it is

[pissvortex]

[loveridden1999]

[hotvampireadjacent]

[pyrobchilling]

Oh shit I just realized I can post the "Gaussian Blur Wizard That Gaussian Blurs You" here

[transgendercyborg-deactivated20]

[zzoupz]

his friend "Motion Blur Mage That Motion Blurs You"

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

Their long suffering associate, the "Sharpen Cleric that Sharpens you (badly)"

[artastic-foe]

Nooo!!! What have you all unleashed upon us!?!

[l4byr1nthz1]

dont forget the chromatic abberation warlock that chromatically abberates you

[vinnybox]

may I add Mystic Mosiac who turns your quality waaaaaaay down

[theo-window]

What did he do to deserve this

[rain-droplet]

punished by the council

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

FOOLS!!!! YOU ARE ALL NOTHING BENEATH THE MIGHTY POWER OF MY JPEG ARTIFACT

[markrosewater]

Maro’s The Hobbit Teaser

Before previews for The Hobbit officially begin, I thought it would be fun to do another of my Duelist-style teasers where I give tiny hints of things to come. Note that I’m only giving you partial information.

First up, here are some things you can expect:

• a bunch of Dwarf typal cards

• a mechanic from The Lord of the Rings returns with one small change

• some of the creature tokens: 1/1 Human Soldier, 4/4 white Bird Soldier, 6/6 red Dragon, 2/2 green Wolf, and 3/1 colorless Wall

• a card with affinity for Elves

• the biggest Bear we’ve ever printed

• a mechanic that’s a tweak of a faction mechanic that has been brought back in another premier set

• more Sagas that are songs

• a new type of counter created by a hackathon group looking to expand red’s slice of the color pie

• some cards will be able to have “an endearing story”

• a mechanic that’s the cross of two different mechanics that both premiered in a return set

Next, here are some rules text that will be showing up on cards:

• “{T}, Add {C} for each Halfling you control.”

• “you may pay {0} rather than pay the equip cost of the first equip ability you activate each turn.”

• “Whenever another legendary Elf you control enters,”

• “That player may search their library for that many basic land cards,”

• “reveal the top thirteen cards of your library.”

• “Whenever you sacrifice a token, target opponent loses 1 life.”

• “Other Bears you control get +2/+2.”

• “[CARDNAME] has all activated abilities of all [CARDNAME’S CREATURE TYPE] cards in your graveyard.”

• “Whenever a player loses life, that player mills that many cards,”

• “Whenever you attack with creatures with total power 12 or greater”

Here are some creature type lines from the set:

• Creature – Dog

• Creature – Rabbit

• Creature – Goblin Ranger

• Creature – Dragon Wurm

• Creature – Elf Bard

• Creature – Goblin Bard

• Legendary Creature – Dwarf Bard

• Legendary Creature – Elf Advisor

• Legendary Creature – Human Noble Archer

• Legendary Creature – Bear Shapeshifter Warrior

Finally, here are some names in the set:

• Confusticate and Bebother

• Dancing from Dark to Dawn

• Down, Down to Goblin-town

• Getaway Barrel

• Great Ugly-Looking Goblin

• Hobbit Hole

• Old Fat Spider

• Stone by Sunlight

• Troop of Ponies

• Well-Worn Spatula

Tune in to The Hobbit's Debut stream on Twitch (https://www.youtube.com/@mtg)and YouTube ( https://www.twitch.tv/magic) July 18th from MagicCon Amsterdam at 8:30am PT!

[soupdwelling]

guy with the coolest cane in the galaxy

[galacticsabc]

Go! Rocky, Go!

[ofchaosgoddess]

help I’m having ideas beyond my available free time

[nothereforthedrama]

help I'm having ideas beyond my available energy levels

[jellyfishforest135]

Typical science teacher behavior

[syn4k]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

[joyflameball]

[headspace-hotel]

ideas I wrote down

creature that kills you by looking at you (lioness/deer hybrid, with mechanical traits- neck moves/rotates in a mechanical way) [kills you by making eye contact with you?/ MUTUAL seeing, both seeing/understanding what you are looking at is the part thats fatal]

a story that CAN'T be fully read/explored, or at least is prohibitively difficult.

library of babel like thing where there is vast oceans of nonsense with occasional flickers of meaning. Except not like that at all actually because it's just like an ocean of STUFF/DATA that has clues to the story IN it somewhere

too much footage/Stuff to view it all? or viewers would get bored with it and either skip through it or engage with it while distracted, resulting in different interpretations of the story because they saw different stuff

infectious/self perpetuating building

censorship ???

destroyed paintings/ destroying an artwork in real life by means like burning and documenting that process

archival materials ??????????

Horror is not about bad things happening, horror is about fear.