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In a lot of ways, the job of a game designer works like this: Guess Get it wrong Adjust And you keep doing that until you are more...

Ah, I see

It's limited, where MR/SR was not. It's 3 times spread out over the entire party. With MR/SR, the entire party can be hit by it every...

Isn’t that exactly what Legendary Resistance does anyway though…?

Just have to echo that this is perhaps the most elegant expression of the tension this old-school DM finds himself in with new-school...

Also, I don’t know what you guys did in closed testing, but during the open playtest you got a lot of your feedback from people playing...

Wow, that is the most elegant expression I've ever seen of the core tension in 5e. Having played a lot of AD&D and B/X (via OSE) in the...

Trying to remove draw variability is a terrible decision, because uncertainty of outcome is an essential quality of what makes an...

I reckon it's like racing. There's definitely a lot of skill involved, both on the part of the drivers and the pit crews. But if you...

Alright, pal. You’re wrong, but it’s fine. I know competitive Magic is unintuitive to get one’s head around, and this is pretty wildly...

Maybe, if you’re playing a midrange deck that aims to curve out and doesn’t run draw engines. In other words, a bad deck. If you’re...

Again, “until everyone stops playing with you” is something that happens at the casual level, not in competitive tournaments. And in...

Depends which Netrunner. There was a game by that name in 1996 that’s long out of print, and there’s also Android Netrunner, a CCG (as...

Nah, dude. There is a lot of decision-making involved in high-level competitive magic play. The stochastic elements do limit the impact...

Netrunner is a great game. Personally, I think the problem is not with the fundamental design of Magic (and symmetrical competitive card...