widj.it
Tabletop gaming enthusiast and father of twins | He/Him/His | See me ramble at widj.it
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Easy for me to forget a lot of this stuff is opaque jargon.
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Basically just meant there’ll be maybe a dozen unique Sonic cards compared to the hundreds the others’ll get.
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AND Avatar. Sonic’s just a limited-run collection, not a Standard-legal set like the other three.
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Hoping it was “Fleshback”.
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Pulled 2nd place each night I participated and 3rd overall. Normally I don’t care about placement, but waiting for the results announcement tonight I was on tenterhooks - it’s different when you know you’re in the running! Congrats to Dan and @oneshotrpg.bsky.social for 1st and 2nd!
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I remember enjoying the Eventide book, pretty sure it’s an anthology.
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I think you could make a pretty good beer-and-pretzels game in this vein out of a trading card database, like Scryfall for MtG, or a wiki search game - using trivia-game races as a resolution mechanic maybe.
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Shock
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From experience, I stockpile something which you immediately harvest.
I had a ton of fun during our dusk games!
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Not that there weren’t pretty clear cases, mind. Plenty of folks not particularly enamored with tactical combat that 4e was absolutely not well suited for, for example. They just were frequently drowned out.
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The problem is that a lot of people complaining in those old discussions were critically bad at articulating what they didn’t like, so even if they weren’t being disingenuous I think you’d have difficulty telling those classes apart.
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Given the fact it’s built from flowcharts it’s not terribly surprising you’d be enthusiastic about this game.
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I've been considering getting a copy myself, so I have the link to hand.
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Under other circumstances I’d say throw the book at him and make reforms to show our good intentions, but we had four years for the former and I’ve more or less lost faith we can do the latter. Just love being shackled to this dimwit.
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Love Regdar bein’ there.
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Other notes:
- Conceptually not a fan of moving the Clans’ central color to match their Wedge. Seems too much like letting color-pip template rules dictate setting elements.
- I know the Efreet type isn’t being used on new cards, but I like their look from OG Tarkir and I wish some Djinn used it.
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Some of my bafflement is already settling with time and probably has more to do with not seeing the full set, but other bits (particularly the new looks for Ainok, Goblins, and Abzan armor) are sticking in my craw.
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You can get an enamel pin of this sequence of panels, and “Monkey with a Gun” is a villain model in the Hellboy Board Game. Everyone rightly loves this.
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You’re right about current stuff, but the examples I gave really were bespoke tools - this video briefly goes into what I was referring to. I think there’s also a special feature for this film on Netflix that goes into more detail? I wish there was more of this, instead of Industrial Theft Engine.
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As a layman, I suspect they’ve just chosen way too wide a scope for use-case. For example, I know AI was used for animation in both Klaus and the Spider-verse films, but I think they were only trained on in-house data and used to speed up tedious shading work (that was still human-checked after).
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Even so, you could replace the irrational disappointment with an equally irrational justification. It doesn’t actually have to have anything to do with dice if you’re just trying to find a way to not tunnel-vision on an irrelevant detail.
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On the other hand, 2d6 has 11 possible totals distributed across 36 possible rolls, so there is a relationship between the numbers. That my strategy for these hangups - find a post-hoc justification that fits.
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I think this depends on the specific version of Daffy. Original Daffy? Probably not. The Looney Tunes Show (2011)? His whole comedy deal is being a pathetic loser with delusions of grandeur.
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I hate the framing of that NBC post. The short days have nothing to do with DST, they’d be precisely as short regardless of what the clock says.
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One of these days they’ll reinvent taxes from first principles, except they’ll be okay with it because it was their idea and they call it a subscription fee.
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OR I would pair Shifter with Barbarian and make it the “state-change class”; build Rage and Shifter Aspect off the same chassis and build a whole slew of alternatives.
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I would substitute Shifter for Druid in that regime, then have Shifter be roughly midline between them (as in a Ranger that took shapeshifting options, or a druid that traded spellcasting for ranger-ish stuff).
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It’s a twofer!
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My favorite one is when Doom used D&D art of the Astral Dreadnought’s face to make the Cacodemon, their entry in the “totally not a Beholder, guys” class.
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Real big Poe’s Law energy here.
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Yeah, I can see that. I think it's best used as an excuse not to get too hung up on the original's designs and to let specifically the '93 Rex and Raptor designs get a pass in newer movies, but neither of those ought to undercut artistic critique.
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But regardless it’s textual for the first movie that the dinos are chimerical facsimiles so as far as clumsy retcons go it’s not the worst. It lets Universal acknowledge current science diegetically without dropping the “trade dress” they developed in earlier films.
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I guess they could have gone with “we didn’t realize they’d have integument nor that the specific modern genes we were using would get rid of it, *but now* our customers want naked raptors so we make those even if we know better.”
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Theros
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“Nervous smile” or maybe “grimace”.
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I’ve seen some letter-writing games that would describe very well. I’ve also seen some games that use solo tools in a GM-less group setting where I could see someone describing it as Group Solo, but I’d find that usage confusing in person.
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As someone who grew up Catholic, Tolkien’s theology was just mid-century Catholicism with a focus on pastoralism, and LotR et al is that filtered through his experience of war and love for Beowulf. Very tame, as you say. I’m way less familiar with Lewis so it sounds like I’d be in for a ride.
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I’m curious how that works. You just get all the archetype’s features on top of your character?
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Yup, it’s Innistrad block - see this article below. Innistrad switched with “Unnamed Puzzle World Block” and then Avacyn Restored replaced Puzzle World entirely.
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New Phyrexia for the first one, and I believe Innistrad for the second - IIRC there was some doubt about how well Gothic Horror would be received, so it was originally going to be a single-set Spring release.
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Lots of fodder for filling this cube out in Pathfinder-land. Promethean CNO, Kyton LER, Aeon NNM, Psychopomp NNO, Qlippoth CEO, Azata CGO.
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Modron and Rilmani are Lawful Neutral Cringe and Neutral Neutral Cringe respectively. I will not elaborate.