D&D General The Venn Diagram of D&D and Magic: the Gathering Players
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Parmandur
Book-Friend
That's gair: I honestly wouldn't have guessed that a pandemic that shut down tournaments and in-store play would boost Magic, but the world is funny.
Art Waring
halozix.com
Yup, same here.
Blue Orange
Gone to Texas
Exactly. This is a textbook example of what the statisticians call 'selection bias'.
As a fun topic of discussion rather than a scientific paper, though, nothing wrong with it.
For my part, I never played Magic. I figured I could plan ahead for each D&D book purchase (and God did I love reading them), but Magic was a potentially neverending drain of financial resources. So I steered clear. (Yeah, that's how I thought at the age of 14. I wound up driving the same car for 20 years.)
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing
If anyone knows of a M:tG equivalent of ENWorld, please point me to a link. I'd love to see what this survey looks like from the perspective of a mostly Magic-playing audience.Exactly. This is a textbook example of what the statisticians call 'selection bias'.
As a fun topic of discussion rather than a scientific paper, though, nothing wrong with it.
For my part, I never played Magic. I figured I could plan ahead for each D&D book purchase (and God did I love reading them), but Magic was a potentially neverending drain of financial resources. So I steered clear. (Yeah, that's how I thought at the age of 14. I wound up driving the same car for 20 years.)
10 minutes seems like a really long time for Modern, and a half hour seems like a really short time for EDH over some beers...
Parmandur
Book-Friend
Never tried Commander, but yes, 10 minutes would be a long hand.
FitzTheRuke
Legend
I put...
But it's not even CLOSE. I play D&D a couple of times a week IRL and a couple of times a day (if you count my PBP games here on ENWorld.)
... and I play Magic a couple of times a year.
I play D&D mostly, but I play a bit of M:tG also.
But it's not even CLOSE. I play D&D a couple of times a week IRL and a couple of times a day (if you count my PBP games here on ENWorld.)
... and I play Magic a couple of times a year.
Bupp
Adventurer
Spelltable made it possible to play paper Magic online, with the app and a phone mount.
Spelltable was a bit slow for us for some things, so we just used zoom or google meet and our webcams.
Larnievc
Adventurer
I've never played Magic.
MNblockhead
A Title Much Cooler Than Anything on the Old Site
MtG came out just as I was starting college. I remember really disliking the whole idea of it. I saw it as reducing D&D to a card game. I never played it, so was not an informed opinion, but it just didn't interest me at all. Around the same time I stopped gaming as life took me in other directions. Fast forward to 2010s. My sons got into Pokemon. Seemed like kids in grade school were mostly trading the cards rather than playing the game, but I learned the game and enjoyed playing with my kids. But the whole collectible card game and random blister packs just rub me the wrong way. I was glad when my kids grew out of it. I much prefer card games like smash up where you can buy different packs, know exactly what you are getting, and whatever two decks you smash up are pretty fairly balanced against whatever two decks the other players combine.
My younger son and his friends are now getting into Magic the Gathering. Sigh. But I support it. Brings more money to the company making the game I DO like..
I quite liked Ravnica and would be happy to see more MtG settings come to D&D. I don't know anything about its other settings, but Ravnica was a fun read and it was nice to have a new setting that wasn't just rehashing classic D&D settings.
My younger son and his friends are now getting into Magic the Gathering. Sigh. But I support it. Brings more money to the company making the game I DO like.
. I quite liked Ravnica and would be happy to see more MtG settings come to D&D. I don't know anything about its other settings, but Ravnica was a fun read and it was nice to have a new setting that wasn't just rehashing classic D&D settings.
Parmandur
Book-Friend
I come bearing good news for you as a parent, WotC ripped off Smash Up:MtG came out just as I was starting college. I remember really disliking the whole idea of it. I saw it as reducing D&D to a card game. I never played it, so was not an informed opinion, but it just didn't interest me at all. Around the same time I stopped gaming as life took me in other directions. Fast forward to 2010s. My sons got into Pokemon. Seemed like kids in grade school were mostly trading the cards rather than playing the game, but I learned the game and enjoyed playing with my kids. But the whole collectible card game and random blister packs just rub me the wrong way. I was glad when my kids grew out of it. I much prefer card games like smash up where you can buy different packs, know exactly what you are getting, and whatever two decks you smash up are pretty fairly balanced against whatever two decks the other players combine.
My younger son and his friends are now getting into Magic the Gathering. Sigh. But I support it. Brings more money to the company making the game I DO like.
I quite liked Ravnica and would be happy to see more MtG settings come to D&D. I don't know anything about its other settings, but Ravnica was a fun read and it was nice to have a new setting that wasn't just rehashing classic D&D settings.
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Voadam
Legend
Similar.
I enjoy Magic and the Magic lore and art a lot.
My friends got into Magic for a while so I played plenty of games early on through the 90s and then I was around different people who did not play so that was that. I never bought a card myself until I got some decks for my son to try it out maybe a decade ago. We played a few games but he never got into it. I might have read one of the early novels or short story anthologies.
I have all the 5e Planeshift PDFs and I got Strixhaven as a gift. I would love a Dominara 5e lorebook or Phyrexia stuff. I liked the early Urza storyline, the five colors with their themes, and elements like Serra Angels and such.
I have played a lot of D&D. Before, during, and after the period I was playing Magic.
