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I just slapped together a colorless deck with shitloads of colorless Eldrazi and Ulamog. My mana base? Urzatron (complete set) Cloudpost x4 Glimmerpost x4 Eldrazi Temple x2 Eye of Ugin I have 4 Ivory Towers, 4 Venser's Journals, 2 Shield of the Ages, 4 Urza's Armors, and similar life gain/defense a...

Now I know some knucklehead in R&D decided that putting tribal tags on non-creature cards would make things more complicated. I know that had to be it, because tribal tags on sorceries has been a thing in the past. It's even been a thing in Zendikar . I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it is. ...

I have no idea what anyone else here thinks of it, but I've been playing and enjoying X-Wing for a while now. The scale isn't as large as a lot of other games, but the ruleset is very straightforward. Most ships in the game are at least playable, and the ones that aren't are fixable in future expans...

It's also vaguely useful in Dredge and Reanimator, where you want to dump your hand anyway. But Lion's-Eye Diamond is the same effect but with upside.

No. The whole point is that nonbasic lands are complicated BECAUSE the basic lands have no design space left in them. A Forest is a Forest that taps for G. That's it. You can't make anything better than that, because it would automatically invalidate the Forest. You can't make anything worse than t...

The biggest problem that you run into with lands that have basic minor effects is board complexity. In small enough numbers, it's much easier to keep track of, like the manlands from the various Zendikar sets, since they belong in generally different decks. But when every single land in your deck do...

Time Spiral poorly executed? The Planar Chaos color-shifts and that one joke rare in Future Sight maybe, but overall that was a great block! Probably my favorite over the entire time I played Magic, although I will admit a lot of that is down to appreciating the historical in-jokes. The dichotomy i...

Let's go back to the Mirrodin block - the original Mirrodin block. Where we have these guys: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=46064&type=card There were 5, one for each color. And you'll note that they were pretty much islands, et al except that you had to follow the...

But as far as I know: Monopoly is still at the top of those charts. Hasbro can't even decide which version of challenge is the actual one in Scrabble. You only get to see discards instantaneously in Dominion. And you still have to make strategic decisions without knowing anybody's score in Ticket t...

How much of TTRPG decline can be attributed to the "golden age" for board games? From a casual player standpoint, something like Descent has a lot of pluses going on for it: single-session commitment (but still able to span multiple sessions), lower total play-time per session, rules expla...

There was a minor hubbub about that card back when it came out. Apparently the artist changed it at the last second so that she'd have her leg raised and the knee bent, and then just forgot to delete the leg from the bottom of her dress.

New survey to fill on player satisfaction http://sgiz.mobi/s3/D-D-5e-Elements-Survey-2 - Notes on previous survey such as how they will address concerns over rangers being unsatisfactory by releasing new 'optional' features for them. http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/fifth-edition-feedback-s...

"Playing The Order of the Link changed my whole perspective of role playing games. I started as a Middle Earth game player on an adventure fighting Orcs and dragons. Becoming a Link player allowed me to transcend role-playing and really become the character, because the character was me."...

So while I have put some work into optimizing Barbarians it just doesn't matter because this is the most hardcore caster edition that's ever been written and there's nothing you can do with any build that will move them beyond that^ chart above. If I post the best Barbarian I could build and someon...

Tranny of Dragons is a relentlessly bland slogfest against random encounters of bullywogs, kobolds and lizardfolk. It certainly is nowhere near the Pathfinder-style adventure path thing they were going for. It is mediocre bordering on being a real stinker. The CRs are just random as hell, everythin...

Right after 4E, you'd figure they'd have learned their lesson that monsters with a crapton of HP are no fun because it takes too long to burn through hundreds of HP for non-optimized groups. The game seems like a real slogfest. After Mearls went out of his way to say that the problem of long fights...

So uh. Previews for the DMG.

http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/news/extra-life

Is it just be, or is there no price listed for any magic items? That seems like a terrible decision, even if it's just in a table at the beginning of the chapter or something.

Given the similarity of the terms, it seems like "Monstrosity" was the wrong word to use. A cursory thesaurus romp doesn't find me anything particularly better, though.

Depending on the setting you're talking about, a heat-based restriction could work. If you use the firearm too much in a short amount of time, it overheats and you have to wait a long time for it to be usable again.

If it's supposed to be a godzilla, then why doesn't the tarrasque have anything like atomic breath? Because it wasn't like that in previous editions, duh! :kindacool: But seriously, "tradition" has driven the specifics and naming conventions of D&D for the duration of its lifespan. It...

I went through back to about 3 years ago looking at topics you started in "It's My Own Invention...". Parabellum was the big one with the most conversation, but it was also the only really complete system. The other posts I found were a couple short single-idea posts (which had a bit of di...

Do you honestly think the Tarrasque cannot pick up a horse, cart, building, etc and fling it at the flying cowardly wizard because he doesn't have a power that says he can? Can your rogue never pick up a handful of rocks and throw them in the face of the big orc because he doesnt have a feat that a...

Not sure if it came up here already, but I just stumbled over an amusing multiclassing omission. Got a player who wants to multiclass fighter with... fighter. So his character will be fighter 2/fighter 2 to get both champion and weaponmaster (or whatever the fuck it's called). I am like "wait....

@Ravengm: Here's what I know about M:tG - when I was first introduced to the game back in '95 (via the "older cousin model"), it took me all of 2 minutes to get started with my first game. That's it - 2 minutes. There's obviously a learning curve, but it's very natural and doesn't provide...