Recent content by Staffan

The one thing about the Magic format panels though is that they are primarily metagame-oriented. They deal with things like card bans and deck construction rules/parameters. AFAIK, they have little to no influence on the actual releases – they might be consulted on certain things within their...

Wizards have had the Pauper format panel since early 2022. According to the announcement, they were formed because the format was fairly popular, but not popular enough for Wizards to dedicate enough internal resources to it so they figured it was better to have prominent community folks provide...

I think you're focusing too much on the creator spotlight part. The interesting part is the advisory group. It sounds a lot like the Commander Format Panel, which Wizards formed from the old Commander Rules Council and Commander Advisory Group when they took over managing the format. It's a way...

I don't think they have one for "Magic" as such. They do have groups for various Magic formats – Commander and, I believe, Pauper.

I disagree that you need to start adventuring, or at least start an RPG campaign, as a novice. You can, but you definitely don't have to. The hobbits in Lord of the Rings might be novices, but Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, and Gandalf certainly aren't. Amos Burton, Naomi Nagata, James...

I like it for games that are... I guess you could call it "fundamentally human-sized", and which use opposed rolls a lot. For example, the Troubleshooters is a game where you play competent-but-normal people (like Tintin or Spirou), and uses the mechanic (with a d100 base), and additionally...

I definitely wouldn't classify Granny as Lawful. I see her as either Chaotic or Neutral Good. Do the right thing, in this moment, law, tradition, and authority be damned. "You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just...

I don't see this all that often. What I do see is people sitting in the 1974 pizza shop and either complaining about the food, or bringing a bunch of their own toppings. and then someone asks why they're still in this pizza shop that clearly doesn't meet their needs, when there's another one...

Have you considered having people wrestle in them?

That is encouraging. I think the Malice storyline was a bit meh, personally, but it's encouraging that she's been reading up on the comics to the point where she knows random 80s plotlines.

In the thread about Visa/MC vs itch.io, one poster tried linking to this post on Bluesky. However, when he pasted the URL it turned some of the slashes into %2F, which makes the URL not work. It seems to work when I include it as a link like above, but not when putting the actual URL in the post...

Bad URL, try this instead.

It's also hitting mainstream media now: Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io

But in this case it's not really the stores determining what they sell. It's an external force, in the form of Visa, Mastercard, and other PPCs, who are telling them "stop selling X or we'll cut you off." I don't have a problem with e.g. DTRPG refusing to carry RAHOWA. I would have an issue...

I don't know if she'll be around. They mentioned that one of the villains they had previously dealt with was Puppet Master, and Alicia is supposed to be his daughter. So unless they have analogues on Earth-199999* or are being brought along, we probably won't get Ben's and Alicia's relationship...