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Haven't gotten to play my salamander inspired "lizardfolk" rogue in a DND Game in years, but love the redesign for her I got just for the heck of it!

A fullbody piece of an humanoid lizard character. They are standing in the entry of a room, light of the night coming from the window out of view. They are wearing leather armor pieces outfit and a knife is balanced on their finger. They are smirking.

Commission done for @whammyanalysis.bsky.social ♥

I love night settings ~

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As We Cling Together's Playtest document is out for download! We're very excited to announce our lo-fi fantasy game! Kyle's been working on it for a long time.

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Commission I had done of my salamander girl OC reimagining her back to her D&D roots by @narney.bsky.social

Saw this from someone else I followed and like the artstyle so figured join in! ( original artwork by @averagetoony.bsky.social )

Terakat's celebrating his 700 watchers on FA and I'm selected as the artist!

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Additional rules and tickets on Tera's post: www.furaffinity.net/view/62672041/

Got a custom field center based on Brilliant Fusion! Gem-Knight's been another favorite deck of mine these last few months so figured get myself a little treat. Ordered from SierraPrimeProxys on Etsy.

Like sorry, perhaps not everyone wants to play 60 card piles with multiple different engines & 20 something handtraps just so they don't have to stress as much about the opponent flipping up a card that shuts off an entire game mechanic for the rest of the turn -shrug-.

& like I get it, there will always be tier lists and not every deck & strategy is competitively viable. But I'd rather viability be determined by good & interesting gameplay decisions rather than "Oh sorry, that deck doesn't have a good strategy to deal with X floodgate."

D-Barrier will always gatekeep decks that rely on a particular non-Link summoning mechanic. Protos/Eschatos does the same with mono-attribute/type decks. FTKs will always force things back towards handtrap spam decks. etc.

Just because certain floodgate or FTK strategies can be responded to with certain deck building does not mean therefore "they don't actually count" or aren't a problem. They still discourage unfun gameplay, & also narrow the range of viable decks people can play in a format!

In the abstract, "you should pick your deck and build it in a way to deal with known threats" is good advice.

In practice, why does it always seem to turn into the "you should be prepared for Mystic Mine by now?" meme?

Finally got my first first place win at my local OTS store after...god, 3 years I think of playing there (closest before was getting 2nd). Was on Gem-Knights. Was a simple 3-1 plus bye win, but I'll take it.

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Ancient Gear Advance and Ancient Gear Statue at 33 each TuT.

#Animorphs fans, I'm very happy to share that the first three books in the series are being rereleased next May with brand new covers. 🧊🦎

You can learn more here: thenerddaily.com/animorphs-by...

Cover artist: @creepcaptain.bsky.social
Book design: Cassy Price and Christopher Stengel at Scholastic

I have a similar sort of blue-green coloring to my eyes and have sometimes forgotten my own eye color cause depending on lightning and the alignment of the stars I swear they're a little more green or blue. License says blue though so guess that's that.

Genuinely great video on the forthcoming time rules using the prisoner's dilemma.

I'm more and more convinced that these rules rely too heavily on the good faith of the player base and adequately-staffed events to be truly representative of player skill and innovation.

Someone in a Discord I'm in offered this up jokingly as a Thrust target against Vanquish Soul:

Sucks when playing the best version of an archetype you like just feels like the worst version of a "better" one. Fluffals has been struggling with the same thing. You can make a perfectly functional Fluffal Fiend pile or Azamina setup, but it clearly suffers compared to other FS variants or WF.

Weakening the connection between utility & rarity by having cards in multiple versions feels like a good common ground. Encouraging casuals to occasionally splurge on product instead of it being purely whales chasing a small number of high priced would hopefully balance things out a bit more.

Point is, banking the value of sets purely on a small number of high utility/high rarity cards is always going to leave some segment of the community unhappy: collectors want high rarity pricey cards, which will have to be high utility due to the competitive nature, casuals want them cheap.

Which is where the existence of an anime or something would be useful, but that's a whole other conversation to have.

Ancient Gears is incredibly cheap, but I've loved the deck so much I've thought about rarity upgrading it. We might not have an anime around to get people excited about decks, but being able to actually play a deck can do that too! Demand doesn't just have to be purely driven by exclusiveness.

Or at least, that's the general theory. It's likely most people still ultimately just buy the cheaper singles if they're just interested in playing the game. At the same time, though, budget versions of a deck being available can generate the demand for the higher rarity.

The easy solution then seems the OCG rarity system, where high cards are available in multiple rarities, thereby meaning casual players like myself have increased chances of getting mechanically useful cards while collectors can still go after the higher rarities, alt arts, etc.

Essentially, if I'm going to go out of my way to purchase a box as a casual player, and do so knowing I'm likely not making my money back, I at least expect I'll get enough cards mechanically useful to me to be worth opening. Too many cards in high rarity means that's not the case.