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My own "ideas" on how to "mix up" a clearly M:tG inspired card game would be to take the weirdest things that existed within MtG, and make them the norms. Then mix in ideas from sources that are good, with ideas that are able to modify things. In no particular order, nor in any s...

There's the [Tome] D&D content that's been made here on TGD. Basically rewrites to 3.Xe to try and make the game playable past level the early/mid levels. There should be a few PDFs floating around on the forums. If you can find the one Lokathor made, it's layout hearkens back to 2e D&D spla...

Wouldn't the more "reasonable" and "universal" way to approach "resources" be to examine existing MtG colours, and base the resource cards off of the colours defining traits (going to use the A/B/U "-Lace" cards, b/c they have more clear terms) Chaos (Red) Pur...

I'm sorry for your bad Game Master and all the time you lost. FWIW, when designers say balance just gets in the way and are dismissive of poor performing GMs that really kinda makes me wonder what exactly it is they think they are offering with their products. I say this because I would think that ...

I could honestly see Feats being a per session resource; that players spend on different Feats they wish to accomplish in a session. However, that's not really going to solve the notion that the word "Feat" is wholly inaccurate of a term for how they function. A better system would have ev...

The question isn't so much "fiction versus non-fiction" or whatever, because a role playing game will always be fiction. The issue is one of storytelling technique. Characters like Conan, Robin Hood, and Beowulf spend a lot of time switching between a lot of different weapons and armor, b...

And, again, bayonets have been round for centuries. The bayonet will only go out of fashion when sharpened minerals are not a viable way to kill an opposing creature; and soldiers no longer have use for a knife as a wilderness survival tool. I think that the "problem" with backups isn't t...

I just like to use Frank as a filter on threads (seriously, it's often more efficient to go through a thread for Frank's posts, and only then read posts he's responded to). Also, it's a bit repetitive and boring to see Yet-An-Other-Shitty-Game-Writer spectacularly fail in their attempts to denigrate...

Coming in as someone who: -First played 1980's AD&D as a freeform (no dice, no char sheets, not even rulebooks ; available during game) experience when in grade 4 (~7 y.o.) I can say that "pure roleplay" experiences are... actually fucking limited as hell. Without the rules to know wha...

One alternative to having strict black/white "colours"; is that they're not "strict". Rather, they are recognized for what they are: extremes of their actual value (value, not colour) of grey . Likewise, brown is a yellow-mixed violet. However, I think that the original ideas for...

I thought that the "werewolves are crazy genocidal maniacs; even against other people on their own damned side" was added into the non-wolf species book as a retcon to explain why they hadn't shown up in the original WtA books. It's been over a decade since I've held the books in my hands,...

I guess everyone thinks that the post was a reiteration of the fact everything Frank said about 5e was true.

I didn't realize it was a condemnation of Frank being correct (yet again) about how game mechanics being a key part to why game systems succeed or fail.

So, you're saying Frank, that I should get: "Stitcher Supplier, Diregraf Ghoul, Graveyard Marshal, Death Baron, and Liliana Untouched." From my local gaming stores, if I want to get a standard deck ready for the tournament on Saturday? [Edit: decided to go through the cards I've currently ...

Any advice on building anything out of green/black for Standard format? There's a tournament going on Saturday; and I want to see what one of those is like for the first time. I've currently got a smattering of Dominaria, Kaladesh, Amokhet, Magic 2019, Battlebond, cards. As well as enough Ixalan to ...

However, character creation in Numenera isn't as rigid as one might expect and a Tough Nano Who Wields Two Weapons At Once could be just the fighter character a player is looking for. Hybrid character concepts are one of the (few) things Numenera is really good at. I feel like I'm being unfairly fa...

I'm still able to use the spells "as written"; at least? I believe the Nano specilalization that I'm going to aim for is... "Wields Power With Precision." I haven't really looked at the rulebook in any time recently, so I'll have to see my options myself. I'm glad to hear that it...

[Ancient Necromancy is preferable to Uselessly making new threads; Also, I'm surprised there's no dedicated Numenera PC thread yet, but w/e] I'm going to be joining an existing game of Numenera (currently.... 2 Nanos, 1 Jack; going to be a Nano as well). Any advice on where to spend ~11 XP? Right no...

When playing Draft, you could be evil like some Kamigawa players I once saw grab all the good cards regardless of color, lose the tourney, and walk out with choice sales. In that draft I saw three Sensei's Divining Tops come my way, an uncommon, and I grabbed all three. They jacked up to $15 apiece...

It's more about the social interaction than the gameplay itself.

I was introduced to M:tG by a friend around 1993-1993; and the first cards were a starter box & some boosters that I & my brother shuffled into a oversized deck and proceeded to misplay the game for months, before we started going over the rulebook to figure out how to really play the game. ...

One thing that comes to mind in distinguishing melee weapons, is that there aren't the sorts of differences people often assume. Power vs Agility - a hammer, an axe, or two-handed non-staff weapon are harder to attack with, but always hit very hard; a sword, dagger, rapier, staff or pole weapons hav...

I think that would hit most of the high notes. Players would notice and care about the biggest piece of treasure in every treasure pile, but they wouldn't be forced to use every random magic cloak or hat they found and could make some reasonable stylistic choices. -Username17 I found this to be tru...

For making attribute nomeclature more universal in clarity: -Strength... is largely meaningless b/c while everyone can agree that "lifting capacity" is a measure of strength, they also seem to believe that " long distance running " is a measure of "Stamina" not "Sl...

I must say It's a great relief to hear that since once I've had to endure a couple years of some local Exalted fanboys barking about how awesome their system was and I trying to pick up the books and failing to understand how the fuck you were you supposed to run a campaign with that. Railroaded pl...

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