The Gaming Den

If you haven't invested time into the game yet, look up rerolling on an android phone or android emulator - basically, you start the game and do the bare minimum of tutorial skipping and then open all your free packs, and then if you have a few legendaries you like you keep it and if you don't you r...

Actually, there are only two cards that are explicitly Paladins - Amelia, Silver Paladin, and White Paladin, and both of them are in Swordcraft. Havencraft does have quite a lot of Clerics and holy warriors, but they are *mostly* explicitly priests/priestesses, nuns, clerics, etc. The nearest thing ...

^Actually, in that case I fucked up in the text rather than the card art. It's now fixed - thanks for pointing it out. I have been putting together these overviews' text basically from memory and then going back to insert card art in between later on; in this case I messed up the card name (conflati...

Here we go with Shadowcraft and Bloodcraft, two achetypes heavily drawing upon MTG's "Black" both in aesthetics and mechanics. Shadowcraft http://imgur.com/PASD2t1.jpg Leader: Luna, child necromancer. Shadowcraft is aesthetically similar to the undead parts of MTG's Black, being all about ...

One question, are the rupies for anything except buying packs? Rupies can be used for cosmetics like replacement leaders, or for buying card packs, or for playing Take 2. Take 2 costs 150 and always gives at least a standard card pack and some gold back; if you win a lot of the matches you get more...

Dragoncraft http://imgur.com/kRdidxd.jpg Leader: Rowen, a weredragon. Aesthetically, this craft has the fewest waifus per card, by a really quite marked amount. Mostly because there are so many cards which are basically 'A dragon'. They still manage to fit a few waifus in as dragon riders and drago...

So, on to Runecraft and Dragoncraft! Runecraft http://imgur.com/Awsfows.jpg Leader: Isabelle, a somewhat more mature magical researcher. Runecraft is aesthetically all about wizards and witches and explicitly 'magical' stuff (golems, fireballs - a few random magical creatures like Beholder expies). ...

Forestcraft http://imgur.com/zmKnAqL.jpg Leader: Arisa, a young Elf girl. In terms of aesthetics and appearance, Forestcraft is pretty much solid Green from MTG. It's all about Faeries, Elves, Forest Beasts, and the occasional Treefolk. In terms of gameplay and style, Forestcraft is closer to Blue ...

On a tangent, I would like to submit a request for some folks to do some in-depth reviews of some of the other not-MtGs out there. Well, it's not on the list you had made but it's basically a Japanese Hearthstone, so I figure it's relevant. Shadowverse is the Japanese equivalent of Hearthstone, put...

The website advertising Cape Breton if Trump wins is amusing, but there's a reason that population in CB has been in sharp decline - mostly people move away to find work. Canada is still a nice country though.

I would not expect a big bounce from the second debate. There's probably not a lot of room left to grow; part of her post-convention lead was Donald Trump failing to rally his party, but that ultimately happened anyway. She's still underperforming with young voters relative to Obama, but she's also...

I remember reading the licensed Spelljammer fiction as a kid, and it was sort of fascinatingly bad. There were 6 books of it, by 5 different authors, and it was bad even by the standards of D&D tie-in fiction. Like, really, really bad. Nigel Findley wrote two entire books of it, and in spite of ...

The really scary bit is that the Trump is still the less bad candidate the republicans managed to dig out to be their champion. The Trump is but the tip of the iceberg that we can see. ... I feel like my view of what happened in the Republican primary is totally different than yours was. In my view...

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is good, but the amount of words Abbott used to describe his fictious flatland is several orders of magnitude more than I would want to have to read and understand in order to know the basics about a plane that I may or may not ever visit or meaningfully inter...

Ancient History wrote:there are historical examples of items that were loosely akin to things like the mercurial longsword

Wow, that's actually really surprising. I just figured that Gene Wolfe made this idea up entirely ex nihilo for Terminus Est in the Book of the New Sun.

I am not a biologist or medical professional. My understanding as a layman is that as cancer grows, it needs to devote an increasing amount of it's growth to structural concerns like developing blood vessels and other organized behaviour of benefit to the tumor as a whole but not necessarily to each...

Stahlseele wrote:i feel like i should be able to name that anime, but i can't somehow . .

Legend of the Galactic Heroes

One paper a while back by Nagy, Victor, and Cropper suggested that cancers getting cancer and dying is why large organisms like whales don't all get cancer and die much more frequently than humans do - because it takes a much larger cancer to affect a larger animal, so there is more opportunity for ...

CapnTthePirateG wrote:ARGH!
The setting and magic is ripped off from D&D with no attempt to file off the serial numbers.

It really takes this to unprecedented heights. That one village in Paksenarrion that's a direct rip from Temple of Elemental Evil's Hommlet is sort of hilarious.

^ Correction to your review: The flavour of Future is not "vaguely UFO-ish Mecha", it is "Let's steal the most iconic Protoss robots stuff from Starcraft I/II to make half the units and then add some generic and extremely boring humanoids to fill out the other half" See: Reaver (...

The best part of Chuck Tingle's response to the Space Raptors Butt Invasion nomination, is that because he is unable to attend the ceremony he's asked Zoe Quinn to accept the award in his place if he wins.

Remember when people in this thread were talking about how Trump was an obvious scam that would make a lot of money/fame and drop out of the race? Those were much happier, more innocent times... The fact that Trump actually won the Republican primary is just super depressing.

First off, the game Factorio is basically a logistics game that is nothing BUT a crafting system, and it's amazing. You mine ore to make plate to make components and drill oil that you then refine and do all sorts of shit and eventually make robots and trains and guns and everything, in a giant mess...

^Covent: Frank previously wrote the following, about his position on people voting for Bernie right now: I'm totally a shill for Hillary, but I don't actually want people to stop voting for Sanders . The Democratic Party benefits as a whole from this primary going on in a way that the Republican Par...

Shadowrun 4e is generally pretty playable. The biggest problem of the rule system is the Matrix (computers and hacking) rules. Your choices in houseruling are to: a) pray nothing breaks by accident and that no-one tries to explore edge cases, exploit anything, or otherwise try to 'win' the system b)...