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I personally wouldn't ban islands, because I like the hardest competition possible when I am playing competitively. I do however have years and years of unpleasant memories playing against mono blue control decks in standard and legacy. The "mother may I" comes from the fact that I got so used...

Yeah this one is pretty common in my experience. Some players prefer to skate by on minimal effort, and its hard to address, because you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. Strangely I had the opposite experience, but I ran games for two years over skype during C-19...

Indeed, but then you would have the "mother may I" players screaming bloody murder and tearing their hair out.

Yeah I really like the morphling, but at first I was a heavy user of masticore builds, until you realize that masticore can't touch the morphling except at specific times. It was tricky, you would have to sit there and do nothing, let them have their turn, hope they overextend on spending mana...

Haha I wish I had a copy, he recorded the audio on his phone, and never got permission to record us, and never shared the recordings after. The audio log would have gone as follows: Today Hellboy and friends meet a random disney character, not long after, Hellboy and friends kill said disney...

The floor never changed up to FE, but after came sets like Alliances, the ceiling was raised with Force of Will, which changed the counterspell game. It used to be you would see one or two counters in a game, now you were stacking counterspells over counterspells, and DCI had to make new...

I wish this was more prevalent, say apprenticeships for GMing. I tried to show a new GM the ropes but it didn't go too well. I had an awkward experience a while back related to a new GM who was a good friend of mine. It was my own fault for introducing them to critical role, but before that...

Its a good question. 5e is much easier to play in as a player, where my previous experience back in the day with 2e was pretty bad to be honest, and GMing for me would have been a nightmare, as we didn't have access to the red box or beginners kits and the internet wasnt't yet a thing. Not to...

Agreed, that would have been the right move. m30 could have been a success too, pricing it at say $60-100 for a draft box, that way it actually could have been used in draft play in LGS', and everyone could experience opening beta cards and get to play with them too. Win-win for everyone...

Its not just the 15mil though, its the perception that the cards had or have value on the secondary market, or no value at all (proxies, not allowed in tournaments). And they can print power 9 proxies now whenever they want, and if they want they can pile them up and burn it all on a pyre as you...

Not at all trying to be argumentative, because I respect your opinion, but this statement doesn't seem to do wotc any favors at all. By your logic, they consider m30 to be worthless if they are willing to cancel the set and set it on fire, as you say. Except, the whole m30 release is based on...

Like I said, we will probably have to wait and see.

Well time will tell either way. The shift happened, affecting the game, the company, the players, and the collectors, we will have to wait and see at least a year from now to see the long term effects of m30.

Yeah I did cover several of these topics over on the other thread, but I do think that in this thread, that their fireside chat might be a result coming directly from the m30 release, which as i stated in my previous post, was projected to make at least 15 million (and possibly much more) and...

This has nothing to do with dnd, dnd is doing just fine. The recent mtg m30 disaster is the most likely reason for their recent attempts to appease shareholders and investors, largely because they expected m30 to sell out (at $1000 for 60 random proxies), hoping to make the biggest windfall...

I am glad Lodoss is getting more attention lately in rpg circles. Not all anime is DBZ or wuxia nonsense, but it can be grounded in the fantasy genre as well. Furthermore, I always liked the non-western perspectives that are prevalent within the series: The two warring deities are of order and...

I think I have mentioned this in other threads a little, but d&d, and ttrpg's as a whole have evolved far beyond their wargaming roots to become something more than just the brand or the "lifestyle" trend going on. ttrpg's are played in prison, where dice aren't allowed, but they still make...

In commemoration of the last week of events...

In the future,... laid at the feet of St. Bigby's shrine, encrusted with the gemmed resin-coated d20's of those who cast their dice into the wishing well hoping for D&D to come back in the year 2050... after D&D died from the unforseen paper shortage of 2030...

Though I have been talking bout the mtg stuff a bit, mtg & d&d are separate divisions of wotc, and the d&d side of things has been managed well for the interim, at least from a general perspective (no oversaturation of product, and generally good standing with most of the community as well as...