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I mean, it sounds like meaningless corpo-speak. Though, knowing Paradox and Nu White Wolf, it may be how they refer to their particular LARP-driven metaplot.

Yeah, with the current state of the games industry, avoiding big-name studios and instead working with the new indie studios made up of the people who’s work earned those big-name studios their reputation and then left when corporatization ruined the culture there is absolutely the move.

That was also my thought seeing that this guy was coming from 343i. Those clowns killed what had been one of the biggest phenomena in video games at the time that they gained stewardship of it. Doesn’t exactly inspire faith in what their former head might do with stewardship of “the world’s...

Lantern on belt is a sure way to burn your legs.

I haven’t fully settled on all the details of how a spread will work yet, but I don’t think I’m going to require a specific pattern, I’m just using “spread” as a flavorful term for choosing and drawing a number of cards from the deck. Right now I’m thinking a spread should probably contain a...

Thanks! I’ve made some tweaks to the original deck so that, as per the suggestion in the book, most of the cards predict a future event rather than taking place immediately (though a few do still have immediate effects, mainly the ones that change ability scores or impose some sort of blessing...

That’s good advice, though to be fully transparent, I’m actually planning for individual Cards-of-Things from the original Deck of Many, the Deck of Many More, and the Deck of Wonder to appear at random in treasure hordes as minor magic items, and allow the players to assemble a deck from...

I’ve been revisiting the Book of Many Things lately, and one of the interesting things the book introduces is the Deck of Many More Things - 44 new cards with names and effects reminiscent of the Deck of Many Things. However, the book only introduces this deck as a complete package of 44, which...

I prefer option 2

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.