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I just realized how many cards Michael Kaluta illustrated for L5R. I'm shocked he worked for AEG for so long.
I was thinking about building an "All Kaluta" personalities and fate deck. Events and holdings would be used to make the deck actually function since he never produced art for any holding apart from Anvil of Despair (exp).
Has anyone else dabbled in building an "all one artist" deck?
Not since playing an Artwalk deck in MtG. :)
People used to do it the other way, where they'd pick a card to use as sleeve backers with transparent card sleeves.
I won't lie. I definitely got the idea from my "Very Guay" Commander deck where every card is illustrated by Rebecca Guay.
Anyone have a recommendation as to which Starter Display box from the final sets was the best? Emperor, Gempukku or Twenty Festivals?
I liked 20F the most, personally.
Emperor Gempukku would be the most useful, I would argue.
Huge cardset, and good rules.
I got the 20f set and it's been awesome!
Are the people running the story tournament at GenCon in this discord?
I'm working with a small team to try and create a new set extending the story of Onyx Edition. I'm concerned that the outcome of the story tournament may influence the story of the game to the point where what we've come up with so far may no longer be relevant. I'm hoping to be able to talk to someone about those concerns at some point.
is this story tournament published somewhere?
I heard about it from facebook.
I believe it was being hosted by PlayCCG. (A good move on their part, as it allows them to sell a bunch of cards to people who would need to build new decks, like me)
So it's like a fan tournament by a store that sells cards? There's no official story any more anyway, so it has no impact.
Looks like they are going to get Shawn and Fred to write some story based on the results.
Hunh. That's kinda impressive, actually.
which is... as close to official as such a thing is going to get...
Yeah, that's pretty neat, actually.
I thought that all the writers and such had stepped away permanently.
They have.. .but permantly usually only means until someone waves money at them.
🧐
How... much? 'Cause I've got ideas, and possibly a little money to burn.
message fred and shawn on facebook, lol.
I can't be sure, but I'm not aware of Fred, Shawn being on here.. .and I know Jeremy sold playccg to someone, but don't know that person.
I would pay money for some Official Fiction® about Toturi coming back to the realm of the living, and wearing socks with his sandals. And eating oatmeal during every scene.
Holy crap I didn't know about this
Mike Petke now owns and runs playccg. He lives in Portland.
Mike bought it? Nice!
Yep. I play games with him on Sun and Moon when he has time
He has been treating me right when I order.
well that's important. Say Benten, do you know of any Entwives? 😛
Weren't they all killed in the War of the Last Alliance?
oh probably. I remembered you said you are a lot like Greybeard so I thought I'd ask
Oh! It's a gaming... classification, I guess? Which is also an old word. For 'that wizened old guy with the grey beard in the corner, who's been around for too long'. I think it's a British military thing, most gaming things seem to be.
Oh i see.
Also, were you confusing that with the Ent Treebeard? 😛
Well, I wasn't going to say something. <.<;;
Oh am i getting names mixed up? It was Treebeard, not Greybeard?
Gandalf the Greybeard
Gandalf the grey
Yeah but he probably had a grey beard also. Maybe I was thinking Treebeard had grey bark
Yes, he had a beard. I don't think that moniker was ever applied though
I think Greymane
And then became Gandalf the White.
That's kind of a beard...
So I wonder if he started out as Gandalf the Black. A goth phase, if you will.
Greyhame, not greymane
The Rohan called him that
Unless you're thinking of greymane from WoW
And greybeard could be pulled from Skyrim
I played WoW for exactly one month and never left pandaland.
Skyrim maybe.
I always imagined Radagast the Brown with brown hair and beard, Saruman the White with white hair. I would imagine the two Blues with nice blue robes but white or black beards.
Wait, I think I have something for this...
I really despise what they did with Radagast in the movies. Saruman thought Radagast was rather stupid for being deceived by him, but Gandalf pointed out he wasn't and he was too honest to think Saruman would be lying. He wasn't a near-insane filthy little weirdo.
You are correct, Radagast was never an insane, filthy weirdo. They took a lot of artistic license in the Hobbit movies. They also put in a romantic love interest between an Elf and a Dwarf that was never in the book. Those cards look interesting. I wonder if they would ever come up with a story about what happened with the two Blue wizards? Not much information about them.
I think MERP (some of whose lore was used in ME The Wizards) made up a story for the blue wizards but it wasn't canon
There was some weirdness about it, I think. Like, it wasn't in the writings, but both the Tolkein Estate and MERP talked a lot about how they worked together, so was it canon or was it not. Like, Valve didn't make Hunt Down The Freeman, but they let it be sold on their own site, so is it tacitly approved by them.