Recent content by The Real Pixie

jUsT bUiLd YoUr OwN hOuSe I do play them, Obviously. I don't wish deckbuilders would cease to exist, I wish games that didn't need to be deckbuilders weren't deckbuilders. It's no different to wishing every restaurant didn't serve Eggplant Foam just because it's trendy, or every pop song...

Sounds lame, I've been playing D&D for years without cards. We start from level 1 every once in a while. But to stop being facetious, as a bona fide hater of deckbuilders it frustrates me that this is such a common format. Yes the randomness of card draws offset against the 'RNG Control' of...

Why every game gotta have cards in it now?

Another thing to consider is celebrations weren't just tied to 'festival days'. In a small town it wouldn't be unusual for everyone (or at least a large number of people) to be part of a wedding. You can have the party roll in and find the village green abuzz with preparations for the ceremony...

I'm about to rock your world son, I'm in New Zealand

Yeah see when I come across some newfangled naughty word in the English language I assume the Aussies did it

The reason you end up with 'arrive to' in that sentence though isn't because you're using it instead of 'arrive at'. There's 3 parts to that sentence that you can put in any order potentially. There's 'I arrived', there's 'At the soup kitchen', and there's 'To serve hot meals'. In your second...

Honestly it's probably easiest for them to learn by playing and seeing other GMs do it, then getting some direct advice from them to start. I think it's hard to learn totally from scratch via online resources.

It sorta depends on the thing right? Not all rules are made equal. Something like a character ability I probably won't touch for a while until it becomes very obvious it just doesn't work right, and I'll start by going online to see what other people have done about the issue. Something like...