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Been a while since I poked my head in here. Haven't been up to much to be honest, but I did recently get my hands on Churn Stroke Burn...

Been a while since I poked my head in here. Haven't been up to much to be honest, but I did recently get my hands on Churn Stroke Burn by Orbital Intelligence LLC so here's an impressions post I wrote:
https://coloursofpentagrams.blogspot.com/2023/11/churn-stroke-burn-impressions-this-town.html

Question to all the artists out there (and anyone else who might have suggestions), what is your recommendations for an online portfolio?How...

Question to all the artists out there (and anyone else who might have suggestions), what is your recommendations for an online portfolio?
How to set one up and any wisdoms you might have about maintaining one?

A weird red flag that I've noticed in players is people who are overtly hyped specifically for playing the system you are putting...

A weird red flag that I've noticed in players is people who are overtly hyped specifically for playing the system you are putting forwards as the base of the game, rather than anything about the scenario or the world that is being presented to them.

It's not often that it's come up, but so far those players have either ended up not showing for the games, being huge sticlers for the rules, or constantly telling me about how they'll be able to exploit this or that wording in the system.

My baby will probably never get around to being properly cEDH viable even as a fringe deck, but as long as our local gaming group is willing...

My baby will probably never get around to being properly cEDH viable even as a fringe deck, but as long as our local gaming group is willing to put up with this hopefully I can encourage them to try build or upgrade couple of decks more in that direction of play.

Have had to wrestle a couple of wins through interaction with the deck already and those games have been a blast compared to "build big board and swing for lethal" gameplay.

Couple more upgrades arrived for my Zirilan pile arrived so I'm very excited for the next time I get to play him.This is the one deck...

Couple more upgrades arrived for my Zirilan pile arrived so I'm very excited for the next time I get to play him.
This is the one deck that I'm wanting to push as far as I can get with incremental upgrades, I think next up is finding an Ancient Copper Dragon for a reasonable price from somewhere.

#edh #mtg

Like, my guys all you need is to note down couple of high points to try to reach during next session and then keep track of roughly what is...

Like, my guys all you need is to note down couple of high points to try to reach during next session and then keep track of roughly what is around the PCs in your world.

You don't need to name every person that lives in the little town they might or might not visit next session, nor do you need to know their family lines or everybody's grandma's maiden name.
Just jot down a name for the tavern, some sort of personality trait for the shopkeep in town and if the town has a quest hook.

Every time I see GMs complaining that prepping for games takes such godless amount of time I can't help but wonder what the heck these...

Every time I see GMs complaining that prepping for games takes such godless amount of time I can't help but wonder what the heck these guys are prepping for it to take that long.

For several years now I've ran games where apart from coming up with the initial setup and framework of "This is where you are, this is what is around", I don't think I've honestly spent more than an hour on a session's prep and more often than not half of that hour is spent looking for fitting background music.

Today I found out that the silly pile of cheap cards I slapped together for sole purpose of having some silly casual deck was actually...

Today I found out that the silly pile of cheap cards I slapped together for sole purpose of having some silly casual deck was actually really domineering and opressive.

Turns out a ~20€ pile of almost all the printed threaten effects paired with Gut as commander is both very aggro and very good at controlling tempo of other players.

Ended up shoving in Tymaret as slighly more casual alternative commander for the pile.

List here if you want to take a look:
https://www.archidekt.com/decks/5201826/threatendek

#edh #mtg

And best of all, as the game runs longer and longer it'll end up generating it's own playlist for us to look back on which I think...

And best of all, as the game runs longer and longer it'll end up generating it's own playlist for us to look back on which I think is pretty neat.

Last night I received the highest praise up to date for the games I run when one of my players told me that "Honestly this is the best...

Last night I received the highest praise up to date for the games I run when one of my players told me that "Honestly this is the best server for music".

I really enjoy taking a bit of time to choose a single track to play on loop for the entire session, something that fits the general mood instead of having ones for specific scenes and combats etc.

Lately I've been also sharing "outros" for the games I run, sharing some piece with the players that roughly fits with the events of the session.

Hopefully the image is still "readable", I feel like it borders on too stylistic since I tried to loan from the pixely and vague...

Hopefully the image is still "readable", I feel like it borders on too stylistic since I tried to loan from the pixely and vague style from the book.

Vermis still on the brain, I made another one of them composite images I keep making since I can't draw to save my life.Made entirely of...

Vermis still on the brain, I made another one of them composite images I keep making since I can't draw to save my life.

Made entirely of public domain assets cut and assembled together.

Currently reading: Vermis by PlastibooCurrently listening: A Looming Resonance by Wolves In The Throne Room

Currently reading: Vermis by Plastiboo

Currently listening: A Looming Resonance by Wolves In The Throne Room

On one hand, I hate giving any money to WotC.On other hand, one of the new secret lair drops has both The First Sliver and Food Chain.I...

On one hand, I hate giving any money to WotC.

On other hand, one of the new secret lair drops has both The First Sliver and Food Chain.

I might have to build the budget first sliver foodchain combo bs deck.
Even got Squee and Eternal Scourge already, with an extra Kiki-Jiki arriving in the mail soon.

Decision decisions.
#mtg #edh

Decided to finally attempt to move over my notes from a collection of random text files and notebooks to Obsidian.Still trying to figure out...

Decided to finally attempt to move over my notes from a collection of random text files and notebooks to Obsidian.

Still trying to figure out how to get the maximum use out of this things but I gotta say that there is something really satisfying about fiddling with folder structures and setting up links between files.

We'd end up getting a good number of not-quite-geomorphs to mix and match when building dungeons on the fly, and don't need to think...

We'd end up getting a good number of not-quite-geomorphs to mix and match when building dungeons on the fly, and don't need to think about how to logically connect the encounter or puzzle with rest of a dungeon while designing it so there's more room to focus on making the scene interesting and engaging.

Example:A long and narrow corridor with an alcove to the side of it, a couple of goblins waiting there in ambush.The three goblins are armed...

Example:
A long and narrow corridor with an alcove to the side of it, a couple of goblins waiting there in ambush.
The three goblins are armed one with large shield and two with spears. Because of the alcove there's enough room for two goblins to stand behind the one bearing the shield and attack the PCs advancing in single file, making the situation a 2v1 where the shieldbearer has to be slain first before the actual combatants can even be reached.

A passing idea, or maybe fuel for a blogpost bandwagon:What if instead of writing full dungeons, we'd share small pieces of a dungeon...

A passing idea, or maybe fuel for a blogpost bandwagon:
What if instead of writing full dungeons, we'd share small pieces of a dungeon specifically designed to challenge the players in some way.

How it started vs. How it's looking right now.The first map is a zoomed in version of what's around the place marked as Fjord...

How it started vs. How it's looking right now.

The first map is a zoomed in version of what's around the place marked as Fjord Basperry on the latter map, and it's where our stooges initially fled from into that larger map in the first place.

Related blogpost, re-telling the rough beats the party has gone through and how it feels they very much would like to have no adventure, no...

Related blogpost, re-telling the rough beats the party has gone through and how it feels they very much would like to have no adventure, no thank you.

https://coloursofpentagrams.blogspot.com/2023/08/sometimes-you-just-cant-get-pcs-to-take.html