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this is genuinely incredible

(also the fights are really good if you stop win rating and actually read / strategize)

The new limbus canto was so good. I need to stop crying and sleep.

How this was made is its own interesting story. But the way we can return is by lowering consumer expectations of what a game looks like so they're budgets and team numbers and expected sales nunbers can be small enough to make this viable.

But its also what the game lost for me.

If that's not something important (or as important) for you, then that's great!

To be clear I wasn't talking about what is "good". From a gameplay perspective I genuinely think magic has been doing some of its best design work lately - and that things are as good as they are despite the circumstances is a demonstration of the skill of its team.

Thats not quite what I meant.

Those new locations and mechanics and themes where new yes but ultimately still safe. They where market tested at wide scale to prove their viability in a way that mtg didn't have the budget or importance to do in the past.

To me that's the core difference.

My taxonomy is that a game system becomes retro when technology gets to the point where an average pc can emulate it.

OG lorwyn was doing new and interesting things with a new and original world inspired by European mythologies. It expanded mtg into something it wasn't before.

And now we've gone back with nothing new to show for it. It's the same lorwyn with a few more modernised mechanics.

It feels like another reproduction. Just a reproduction of lorwyn rather then of some genre like other recent sets.

Its the difference between a new and original bur messy AA game and the kind of polished but we'll tred designed by committee things you get from a AAA experience.

If the time frame for Australia was reasonable I suspect me and my partner would be happy too.

Im so bad at reading books when their fiction. I can't keep characters in my head right.

But atleast it's let me read a lot more non fiction.

I think the significance system we used in Perfect Draw solves a lot of problems with narrative battle styles, but I'm not sure if I'm just taking the easy route by using it again.

For now it's just a starting point to test from so its probably fine. I'll find out if i need something new.

It makes me sad that my pitch for "Touhou inspired TTRPG where you control a faction and swap who's the problem maker" keeps getting shot down cause I think it'd be a fun time.

Might end up working on a beta at some point in the background anyway despite what people say. Just gotta keep scope down.

It was just me and my partner! We keep things very tight generally. If you'd like to talk more im happy for you to DM me either here or in discord.

Trump is such a profoundly pathetic man.
Dude is reliving the Epic of Gilgamesh every fucking month.

Bit of a messy GIF but anyhoo, been a minute! I'm gonna be part of a Perfect Draw campaign, a Yu Gi Hoh-inspired TTRPG, and this is my character's duel disk. It's cheap, old, and probably whirrs like an old CRT screen!

#lowpoly #retro #ygo

That women are experiencing equal or higher rates of loneliness and yet all we talk about is the "Male Loneliness Epidemic" should be a radicalizing realization.

I'm drawing again! Perfect Draw NPCs! yay yippie yay yay!!! (if you are my players: idgaf lmao)

The game awards is everything general audiences wish the emmys where and it sucks so bad.

The editor.

Writing rules text is all well and good. But it's pointless if people can't understand it

Historically I think the "fantasy" of fantasy has always been "what if we made a world where things where simple and stereotypes where true"

And I don't think people are ready to examine that