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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2014 12:43:02 GMT -5
Anyone play?
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Post by SoonDragon67 on Jan 25, 2014 12:49:45 GMT -5
Nope.
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Post by wildknight on Jan 25, 2014 12:52:35 GMT -5
No, stop it!
(I have a personal vendetta against M:tG. I acknowledge here and now that I have no objectivity when it comes to that $#@!ing pile of $#@! card game)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2014 12:53:29 GMT -5
No, stop it! (I have a personal vendetta against M:tG. I acknowledge here and now that I have no objectivity when it comes to that $#@!ing pile of $#@! card game) I see I've touched a nerve |
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Post by WSS? on Jan 25, 2014 12:54:05 GMT -5
I was going to post "Nope," but then I realized that I'd be contributing absolutely nothing to the thread. Guess I should've posted it.
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Post by SoonDragon67 on Jan 25, 2014 12:54:18 GMT -5
No, stop it! (I have a personal vendetta against M:tG. I acknowledge here and now that I have no objectivity when it comes to that $#@!ing pile of $#@! card game) Agreed. |
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Post by wildknight on Jan 25, 2014 13:06:15 GMT -5
No, stop it! (I have a personal vendetta against M:tG. I acknowledge here and now that I have no objectivity when it comes to that $#@!ing pile of $#@! card game) I see I've touched a nerve No not really LOL I am not a fan, that's true, but I don't have a strong personal feeling about it anymore. It's just not my thing. In high school, I passionately hated M:tG (to the point that some friends and I once stole an entire case of Magic cards from a new set that was being released and burned them to amuse ourselves) due to the fact that I had been playing D&D for years, and many of the same people that insisted that D&D was "satanic" were now playing M:tG every single day at lunch. It was eyeroll inducing to hear people who insisted that somehow I was in the clutches of Lucifer every time I rolled a d20 to see if I could hit an orc, saying things like "I sacrifice my whatever to summon a whatever." Grand total of times I've "sacrificed" anything in D&D? Zero. But you grow up and you re-think your positions and get less bitter about the stupidity others have inflicted on you. In my case, I simply came to look on it as a hobby that I simply don't share. I moved my irrational hatred to MMOs years ago 8) |
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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Jan 25, 2014 13:07:23 GMT -5
No, nor do I like it. There was a game on Xbox (original) of it though that i liked.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2014 13:18:36 GMT -5
I see I've touched a nerve No not really LOL I am not a fan, that's true, but I don't have a strong personal feeling about it anymore. It's just not my thing. In high school, I passionately hated M:tG (to the point that some friends and I once stole an entire case of Magic cards from a new set that was being released and burned them to amuse ourselves) due to the fact that I had been playing D&D for years, and many of the same people that insisted that D&D was "satanic" were now playing M:tG every single day at lunch. It was eyeroll inducing to hear people who insisted that somehow I was in the clutches of Lucifer every time I rolled a d20 to see if I could hit an orc, saying things like "I sacrifice my whatever to summon a whatever." Grand total of times I've "sacrificed" anything in D&D? Zero. But you grow up and you re-think your positions and get less bitter about the stupidity others have inflicted on you. In my case, I simply came to look on it as a hobby that I simply don't share. I moved my irrational hatred to MMOs years ago 8) Lol. Yeah it seems weird t at people into mtg would judge you for playing d&d. I used to play d&d when I was much younger. I'd play again if I could find the right group of people. The right group of people for d&d is next to impossible to find though. |
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Post by miketheratguy on Jan 25, 2014 16:01:30 GMT -5
It's actually always looked interesting to me but I've never played. I don't have the patience to learn Poker let alone the patience (and money) to get good at Magic. My buddy back in Wisconsin is always telling me how fun the game is and I believe him, it's just one of those things where it seems a bit overwhelming at ground level.
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Post by wildknight on Jan 25, 2014 16:06:25 GMT -5
It's actually always looked interesting to me but I've never played. I don't have the patience to learn Poker let alone the patience (and money) to get good at Magic. My buddy back in Wisconsin is always telling me how fun the game is and I believe him, it's just one of those things where it seems a bit overwhelming at ground level. They have "basic" sets that don't cost much and are pretty easy to understand rules-wise, but they exist pretty much exclusively to get people to buy into the larger (and much more expensive) game. I've never been a fan of the CCG genre, but I have played "starter deck tournaments" where you get a sealed starter deck that you play, as does everyone else in the tourney. Not M:tG, but other games (Legend of the Five Rings, primarily). |
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Post by miketheratguy on Jan 25, 2014 16:24:13 GMT -5
It's actually always looked interesting to me but I've never played. I don't have the patience to learn Poker let alone the patience (and money) to get good at Magic. My buddy back in Wisconsin is always telling me how fun the game is and I believe him, it's just one of those things where it seems a bit overwhelming at ground level. They have "basic" sets that don't cost much and are pretty easy to understand rules-wise, but they exist pretty much exclusively to get people to buy into the larger (and much more expensive) game. Yeah he basically told me this as well (he's even got a "Rat deck" that he's offered me), it's just the kind of thing where I know I need to sit down and devote a lot of time to understanding all the various the intricacies of the game, something I'm very bad at making myself do. |
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Post by wildknight on Jan 25, 2014 16:26:15 GMT -5
They have "basic" sets that don't cost much and are pretty easy to understand rules-wise, but they exist pretty much exclusively to get people to buy into the larger (and much more expensive) game. Yeah he basically told me this as well (he's even got a "Rat deck" that he's offered me), it's just the kind of thing where I know I need to sit down and devote a lot of time to understanding all the various the intricacies of the game, something I'm very bad at making myself do. Fine. But I'm still going to bait you into RPGs somehow (which are equally, if not more so, intricate and time-consuming). Vastly more fun though 8) |
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Post by miketheratguy on Jan 25, 2014 17:51:02 GMT -5
Same story. I need someone with a lot of time and patience to sit down with me for a while and help me to understand the various parameters of the game. If that ever happened though, I have little doubt that I'd love it. Not just D&D, ever since the (rather good) SNES game I've always wanted to try Shadowrun.
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Post by wildknight on Jan 25, 2014 18:57:48 GMT -5
Same story. I need someone with a lot of time and patience to sit down with me for a while and help me to understand the various parameters of the game. If that ever happened though, I have little doubt that I'd love it. Not just D&D, ever since the (rather good) SNES game I've always wanted to try Shadowrun. Shadowrun would be a fantastic setting if not for the utterly unusable dice system that it's attached to. ... well, that, and the way most table top players tend to actually play the game. Shadowrun is the only RPG with which I am familiar where every single story of playing the game should begin with "it seemed like a good idea at the time." |
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Post by miketheratguy on Jan 26, 2014 1:51:14 GMT -5
Like blowing yourself up with a soda machine (or something to that effect), right?  |
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Post by wildknight on Jan 26, 2014 7:49:51 GMT -5
Like blowing yourself up with a soda machine (or something to that effect), right? The slightly longer version of that story is this; you can use energy drinks to recover health, and the guy wanted one from the vending machine but didn't want to pay (not that he didn't have enough money, he simply didn't want to pay). Looking at his available assets, he selected a rocket launcher as the best method of opening a vending machine*, and fired it from about 10 feet away. Still didn't die though, because "tank" characters in Shadowrun are ridiculously difficult to kill. * - in fairness, the guy DID first attempt to shoot the vending machine with a smaller weapon, but was informed that it was bulletproof. I have a MUCH longer and, IMO, funnier Shadowrun story that I personally experienced, but I won't bore everyone. |
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Jan 26, 2014 7:58:58 GMT -5
I always thought Magic: The Gathering looked cool but I never got around to getting into it.
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Post by wildknight on Jan 26, 2014 8:00:04 GMT -5
I always thought Magic: The Gathering looked cool but I never got around to getting into it. Skip the cards, buy dice. RPGs are where it's at man! (I'm going to recruit enough people to run a game on Roll20 or something) |
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Jan 26, 2014 8:03:11 GMT -5
lol
I'm the same with D&D, always seemed like my sort of thing but never got around to it. I like CCG's and RPG's both. Though I've only ever played a few online CCG's and/or apps. Never played an RPG that wasn't a video game.
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