Recent content by Paul Farquhar

So, what you are saying about the market research, is a wizard did it. I think one of the challenges WotC face with MtG isn’t it isn’t very casual friendly. It’s not like Cluedo or Monopoly, something you can pull out and play with the family at Christmas. When players stop keeping up they tend...

I easy pleased, so long as there is plenty of gratuitous nudity I’ll be happy enough.

This sounds like fun. Not sure why the Dalelands label, that’s like Generic fantasy with a capital G. Ed and co can’t do high level adventures either.

Well, I’m not American, but, whilst I know how to tap land for mana, I’m not up with the different forms. I can say much the same about poker.

It draws heavily on Korean mythology, so if they want to expand on it they can just go to the source. I think it could make a good set. Of course it also needs to have good mechanics.

What’s the title and author?

I set an adventure there. The sources I used included The Mabinogion, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, W. B. Yeats’ Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, Doug Nile’s’ Darkwalker on Moonshae (he did create the setting) and Baldur’s Gate 1.

All the armed mercenaries the extremely rich person will send after the party when he realises he has been duped I expect. The potential problem is the mass production and sale of real magic items, not making high value short duration fake ones (which you can also do with certain spells).

How can I tell that it's not Lewis Carrol's raven?

Can’t be certain, I didn’t get opportunity to study it for long, but it was certainly a box labelled D&D not MtG. Of course, if it was it would have been a mock up not a finished product

Yeah, alchemist was still woefully underpowered, and armorer was completely borked.

They didn’t say anything officially, someone who was on staff at the time jumped the gun, including images of a boxed set and a date. Then there was a frantic effort from WotC to delete all mentions and images. It’s just occurred to me that it’s possible I got more time to see the stuff before...

One of my D&D players is quite well connected in MtG circles, they are my main source of gos. Yeah, MtG is flagging, and WotC are thrashing about trying to figure out how to reinvigorate it. Like D&D, their print costs are rising rapidly, but they don’t have enough popularity to significantly...

Same reason you have classes: to provide a range of mechanical options. Yep, mechanics has no effect on how you role play your character, how you role play has no effect on mechanics.

Yeah, very delayed. The original plan was to bring the D&D set out at the same time (there were leaks). My sense is that WotC have rather lost confidence in the ability of the MtG multiverse and Planeswalker metaplot to sell cards, and are casting around for other options.