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>>55156189
Radial symmetry

Make them all woodly and stuff.

Does anyone have a copy of the eye of night or hand of darkness audio dramas?

>>55155737
>blacklibrary.com

>>55155724
>Konor campaign ends on 9/11
>Morty is trying to crash a death planet into Konor
holy fuck GW chill out

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This is your fault
You know who you are

>>55155583
WHOAAAA, LOOKING COOL, JOKER

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>>55155559
>It Cannot Be
He is the Kwisatz Haderach!

Jumpers! Have you ever been the supreme being? How'd that work out for you?

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>>55155484
>On Vraska
BR: Oh, okay. So we do know however that he’s not the only Planeswalker there. We’ve already seen from art and whatnot that Vraska, Jace’s old nemesis from Ravnica, is also on Ixalan. And I’m sure that we’re going to find out more about that, I’m not asking you to give away what Vraska’s doing there or anything like that. Were there any hints that we might have known Vraska was getting involved in Ixalan?

AL: Yes! So back on Ravnica, Ral Zarek developed a neat device to track Planeswalkers entering and leaving the plane. He recorded the assassin Vraska leaving Ravnica, but was unable to tell where she ended up, and I swear there’s a good reason for that.

The other clue came from Vraska’s dear bug friend, Mazirek. He’s Kraul and leader of a very marginalized group among the Golgari. Vraska cares about people like her, disenfranchised and downtrodden, and she and Mazirek became close friends. She didn’t tell him her plans, but he knows that she’s gone and has big plans for whenever she returns.

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>>55155499
>On The Setting
AL: Ixalan is one continent on a larger world. This story focuses on the actual continent itself of Ixalan. It is lush jungles surrounded by rich azure seas, massive dinosaurs, and it’s home to empires all its own. It’s home to two major people: the dinosaur-riding Sun Empire and the merfolk River Heralds. And, to complicate all of this, these two groups are encountering two additional forces: the pirates of the Brazen Coalition and the vampire conquistadors of the Legion of Dusk.

BR: When you were writing this series of stories, where did you draw your inspiration?

AL: A lot of what inspires both the Sun Empire and the River Heralds comes directly from the Aztec and Maya and the succession of control from one to the other. One group having been there for much longer, the River Heralds in our case, now on the tail end of control over the continent of Ixalan, and another, the Sun Empire, directly confronting the other on their borders. Influence from the Incans can also be seen in the terraced farms near the Sun Empire cities of the mountains. So there’s a lot of real-world inspiration that went into all of this.

>>55155549
>On the Historical roots
Choosing the setting also meant actively deciding to tackle the imperialist baggage that comes along with it. The nice thing about fantasy is that we get to look at the real world and decide what stays and what goes. Those choices, in the creative for our set, were made thoughtfully with help from our Latin American office. We looked to them and asked them for help in making this not just a story that has a little bit of a foot in reality, but also recognizes that these places our real, these people are real. And we want to be able to make this about fun, not necessarily about drudging through the really heavy awful stuff that we don’t think belongs in our game.

The residents of Ixalan, to kind of go along with this, are technologically advanced. They make steel, they build immense cities, already have empires of their own. Their stories do not involve sacrifice, getting duped by invaders, or any other tired trope like that. Instead, we wanted to give them a quest of their own. The invaders are a delightfully thin metaphor here in the form of vampire conquistadors, and those that invade here lack the weapons and diseases that our true history had. Instead, the vampires, the Legion of Dusk, sail on cathedral-like ships from the east and arrive to a hot, humid jungle, in very clammy armor, driven by religious fervor to reclaim a relic stolen from them centuries before.

I can’t emphasize enough how much the vampires stick out here. It’s really funny to look at some of these pictures. But I really want to emphasize that this is not a story of invasion. This is not a “let’s make a cool place just to blow it up in the next set” set. It is not about one group dominating another and wiping it out, but a race to a single goal by all parties. It’s a race.

>>55155397
Most officials insist the thieves guild doesn't even exist.

Many investigators have attempted solve the riddle of the Thieves Guild. Despite repeated proofs that no viable Thieves Guild exists, the rumors persist. Whenever historians search for evidence of this shadowy organization, nothing is found. Witnesses know nothing. Safe houses are empty. Fences turn out to be simple businessmen.

Let me clarify by stating that thieves most certainly do exist. They rot in dungeons all across the world. Certainly bands of thieves work together to commit crimes. On rare occasions there has even been documented cases were persistent bands of thieves have worked together for years at a time committing thefts and other crimes.

However, a guild is different than a band. A guild implies an organization with membership rolls. It would have a financial structure, which would include member dues or some other means of securing funds. It would have rules of conduct or behavior. It would have a hierarchical leadership structure. Within this structure there would be methods of advancement and succession.

The problem with determining the non-existence of the Thieves Guild is quite logical. It is not possible to prove a negative. I cannot prove definitively that the Thieves Guild does not exist, only that historians have been unable to document one.

If a Thieves Guild were to be operational, one would think that crime would be rampant, which it is not. The very nature of thieves makes it impossible for them to trust one another sufficiently to work together for very long. By nature a thief is a rule breaker. Therefore an organization that has rules would fail if all it's members were thieves. For these reasons, I dispute the existence of a modern day Thieves Guild.

>>55155397
>Why hasn't your game ended the thieves guild yet?
can you really end the mafia or any other big crime ring?
even developed countries like the US and the constituents of the EU still have problems with them, and this would go double in a highly decentralized, pre-internet society

>>55155296
>Shitty frame
>Unreadable font
At least two of those are wrong but it doesn't matter since it's all subjective

>>55155455
Hello wotc, you can't fool anyone.

>>55155296
No one gives a shit

Easy, just cast Detect Evil

>>55155280
(you)

>How the fuck does morality work anyway?
There's an entire field of philosophy tying to sort that shit out.

> How can you say that a character is definitely good or definitely evil?
By taking realism back behind the shed and giving it both barrels.

>aren't you most probably just a completely insane asshole?
"Definitely good" and "asshole" seem mutually exclusive to me, but yeah, books can be written on the subject without exhausting it.

If you have already politely asked them to stop misgendering your deck, the problem isn't that they don't know better, but rather that they are willfully ignorant. The Magic community is progressing a lot and you will not have to worry about players like those soon.

lmao underrated thread

>>55155115
>People still misgendering in 2017

Ugh, I am literally shaking.

>>55155113
They're usually convinced that what they're doing is necessary or at least practical, regardless of whether it's "evil" or not.

>>55155113
"Evil" is just a pejorative propagated by the so-called "Good", to elevate them and their gods above the "Evil" and show themselves to be better.

Or, basically, while "evil" may be a cosmological thing in D&D it's not necessarily like everyone will agree that Good is, well, good.

Or that they'll agree that it's actually a cosmological thing in the first place. Most characters probably aren't too well-versed in religion and whatnot, or at least not in the ones that might be relevant.

Some of them are right bastard who know that they're evil fuckers, because this is D&D we're talking about and there's some downright cartoonish caricatures going on there, but I reckon that most probably consider themselves to be correct.

And that's the big thing, isn't it? It's not just "I am Good", or "I am Evil", it's "I am Correct, and [insert opposing alignment here] is Wrong".

Especially given that D&D's Evil vs. Good has over the years had an undertone of Altruistic vs. Selfish. Would you necessarily see yourself as Evil for harming others for your own gain, or would you just see that as the law of the jungle? (Or law of the capitalist market, I guess?)

>>55155355
And even if evil is a cosmological thing, the most evil characters don't necessarily have to face eternal torment. Instead they might easily rise up the ranks in Devilry/Demonhood after moving on to their final destination. So to them there's no downside except those pesky adventurers who keep disrupting their operations

>>55154899
Some of the Gor books are actually a decent summer read, as long you don't expect high literature but can enjoy more lighthearted, light fantasy erotica.

>>55154899
>Cringeworthy experience for you all?
Yeah, reading all that dribble you wrote was in fact pretty cringeworthy. I can't believe we have to suffer people like you on this board.

>>55154899
40 shades of K

>>55154685
You're not going to get a consistent answer to what is "grimbright", just like nobody on the board can agree what "high fantasy" is. Some people even think that high fantasy is when wizards are all-powerful and rule the world.

>>55154718
I thought it was pretty accepted that high fantasy just refers to a world that is vastly different from our own, typically being another planet entirely, while low fantasy referred to the real world with fantastical elements.

>>55154718

>when wizards are all-powerful and rule the world

So a realistic setting where magic is treated correctly

I'm like 90% it's actually the hobby in animu form, not a parody.

In the actual setting? Not really. Getting the magic right would require using some stupid shit and the setting doesn't have that much to offer. To steal some general premises? That isn't a bad idea. I already ripped off the help a necromancer get over their phobia of dead bodies bit in one of my games.

>>55154683
D&D4e with sparse encounters, more roleplaying, and "Bullshit something effective and funny" as an encounter power.

Zero, unless you are optimizing for the most arguments or periods of soul crushing tedium per hour.

>>55154611
>zero

This. Unironically.

>>55154611
>mfw i still have flashbacks

Dont have a story but feels bad man.

There was a pretty chill comic book store close to where I was living and someday a guy with a fedora asked the owner if he planned to sell MTG cards. He said why not and soon after his shop was overrun with man child and he made a lot more with MTG than with comic.

So now he threw out every comic stuff for more tables and I need to go fucking far for my comics.

>>55154521
how about you get a life and leave people having good clean and honest fun alone

>>55154479
Sheev's entire character is a guy of average intelligence in a galaxy populated solely by morons. Which is why he'll do great in a galaxy of even denser people.

>>55154772
That's not fair, 40k and Star Wars are equally stupid.

>I AM the Senate!
>Yeah dad, we know.