Recent content by Charlaquin

Of course it’s designable. They already designed it. You may not like the design because of the table management issues it can cause and evidently did cause in your game. But that’s a very different claim to make than that it can’t be designed. Again, it has been designed, so calling its design...

I dunno. I love Lorwyn and I love this video, but Spice’s best is a very high bar. I’d rank “Madness, Memory, Mill, and Discard” as better for sure. “Anarchism and Police Abolition” is another top contender. “Magic: the Gathering and the Death of the Future” is the best take on the Universes...

Right, so like I said, each type had its own mechanical themes, they were just very broad and simple themes, in keeping with NWO. That was, again, part of NWO because they were limited in the number of keyword mechanics they were able to introduce per set, and to preserve interoperability...

Each type absolutely had specific mechanics, they were just kept simple because of NWO. Kithkin buffed other Kithkin. Giants… also buffed Kithkin, and sometimes Boggarts. Merfolk had islanswalk and turned lands to islands. Faeries had flash and a lot of enters the battlefield triggers. Boggarts...

I am guessing they won’t bring back Daybound and Nightbound from Innistrad Midnight Hunt because of how unpopular they were (not to mention the number of spells cast in a turn being the trigger for day and night being pretty specifically tied to Innistrad’s werewolves), but I am low-key hoping...

I’m guessing you didn’t read the novel (can’t say I blame you, the writing quality of magic novels was inconsistent at best.) The plot ended with Lorwywn-Shadowmoor’s day/night cycle returning to its natural cadence. Rather than mirror planes that transform every 1,000 years or whatever it was...

I disagree that Lorwyn/Shadowmoor didn’t have strong mechanical identities. However, what you’re probably picking up on is that they released around the time that the “New World Order” design paradigm was starting to be put into practice. NWO was essentially the polar opposite of the current...

This thread hasn’t been posted in for 11 years until now.

Pretty disappointed this is Ancient sized instead of Adult. I was looking forward to building a full set of the new designs as they released, but I don’t want the set to be in mismatched size categories. And Adult is a more versatile size, you can fudge it down to Young or up to Ancient and more...

It seems that way in the abstract, but it’s mostly not that great compared to other options. Smaller damage dice, very limited selection of mastery options, and with how easy it is to get advantage in 5e24, not even much more accurate. It’s not bad, but it’s not as impressive as “4 attacks per...

This is accurate, but @DarkCrisis did say they invited these people to play at their FLGS, so probably not a factor here.

“Folks in their early to mid 40s” are older millennials. The youngest of gen X are in their late 40s now, and “people in their 20s” are mostly Gen Z. The youngest millennials are still clinging to their late 20s, but that’s not going to hold true for much longer. Anyway, I do think there’s a...

Or use the horde rules, but yeah, something to abstract a large number of minions into a more manageable set of stats makes sense.

I think the trouble with Conjurer, and this is shared by the Necromancer, is that conceptually they want to be summoning/animating large numbers of minions, but 2024 D&D wants to move away from having a single player control several creatures at once. With the conjure X spells being redesigned...

Does it need to be?