'Never Leave Me'
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ION, Magic is reducing the number of cards (but not sets) it produces a year. It's also added a new rarity level though the way they're re-engineering the card mix means it won't take much more to collect a set. It does, however, mean they need maybe 15 to 20% less card art per year so less money spent on art. Less work for artists. Bit of a mess really.
That sucks Pete. I have a complete set of revised edition cards from ages ago. Does that mean I have one of yours?
I've liked much of what I've seen but I've also seen a few things recently that really gave me pause.
Even the things that seem okay are coming across as incredibly bland to me. That having been said...
I have seen more than one review now that says that you just can't judge the snippets accurately and that when you've read the whole thing it begins to sync much more and plays really well.
I do plan on reserving final judgement until I read the PHB all the way through. Now having said that....
I already know 4e is not the game for me for one primary reason -- I wanted to see d20 revamped, and made more generic, I guess. Particularly in ways that gave me much, much different options for magic and magic items. I wanted these things to make it easier to adapt the system to my ideas for homebrew worlds. It is painfully clear from even the little snippents I've seen that they have, in fact, done the opposite. If anything, they've added even more stuff I'd have to gut, change or ignore in order to run the homebrew ideas I'd really like to run.
Near future tech is hard. I mean, hot fusion tech has seemed right around the corner for decades, and now it looks like people are having more luck with some of the bubble fusion techniques. Traditional nanotech still seems a long way off, but bio-nanotech (think cyborg cells) is starting to get close. And quantum computing could be tomorrow or never, depending if the physicists ever agree...
If anything, they've added even more stuff I'd have to gut, change or ignore in order to run the homebrew ideas I'd really like to run.
True, but as you said that's your needs. The game needed to focus, I think. Becoming broader would have made for a momentous page count and a lot of compromises that would have left no one happy.
Megan, yes, probably, though I'm going to refrain from mentioning any card titles as I try to keep my B.org presence from showing up on typical Magic card searches.
CaBil, any recommendations for where I can read up on a bunch of this stuff?
True, but as you said that's your needs.
Yeah, it's kind of tough. To really do some of my homebrew ideas justice, it would require a system more or less of my own creation, which requires work I ultimately don't want to do all that much.
Savage Worlds shows promise, but I'd still be creating a lot of my own stuff, in order to keep people from having to shell out good money for yet more gaming books.
Enhanced reality is also more commonly known as Augmented Reality (Learnt it the other way and still haven't managed to unlearn it)
I picked it up piecemeal, but I know at least one author has written about it, give me a day...
Megan, yes, probably, though I'm going to refrain from mentioning any card titles as I try to keep my B.org presence from showing up on typical Magic card searches.
Should be easy to find as, of course, they are all organized in a binder... by color... then category... then cost....
As if I couldn't love megan more. You have Magic cards!
Not just any cards, a complete revised edition set!