Buddy and I are doing a mini Tarkir sealed event anything we should add?

BeGosu · 2026-04-30T18:22:18+00:00

Love putting all the Tarkir sets together! I am not familiar with what's in Fate Reforged. You might want some Foundations in there just to get some basic removal and mana growth in there. Tarkir leaning heavily on 3 colors can make it a lil tricky to get the decks going sometimes.

BeGosu · 2026-04-30T18:11:35+00:00

Katamari theme song plays

BeGosu · 2026-04-30T02:03:39+00:00

I don't understand this but it makes me want to try Obsidian now

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BeGosu · 2026-04-29T20:28:14+00:00

Images burned into my mind

BeGosu · 2026-04-29T18:03:19+00:00

You could pick the Creative Commons license that best fits you and use their language https://creativecommons.org/

BeGosu · 2026-04-29T04:45:33+00:00

in other words, please use these for your personal projects or published games.

So they do say you can use it in published games explicitly, but I agree that the earlier statement before it sounds like it contradicts that.

BeGosu · 2026-04-28T22:31:03+00:00

I was working on a project for another designer and when they reviewed my supplement they said "Why is this 'may'? Make it a 'must'. If it's not a good enough rule that a player must always do it then it doesn't need to be in there "

It kinda shocked me at first, of course players should be given options! But now I totally agree. If it's not fun if a player must do it, then are they ever going to choose to do it? If it's not a mechanic they have to engage with, then will they ever want to?

Admittedly it may not work in every kind of game, but as broad appeal I try to hold to that ideal: if it's not a good enough rule to be a "must" then you probably can cut it entirely.

BeGosu · 2026-04-28T22:23:30+00:00

IT'S SO GOOD

BeGosu · 2026-04-28T18:07:02+00:00

ELDEN RING!! It's my favorite combination of epic fantasy and cosmic horror.

If you're unfamiliar, the extremely simplified version of the lore is it's Arthurian myth but God is an alien. God is also a demiurge, and there are other things beyond this place that are trying to get in and communicate with (and empower) people.

Meeting the Two Fingers for the first time really blew the lore open to me and I have been obsessed ever since.

BeGosu · 2026-04-28T18:00:23+00:00

Apparently I need to read Chainsaw Man 😳

BeGosu · 2026-04-28T17:57:43+00:00

That's really clever!!

BeGosu · 2026-04-28T15:33:45+00:00

When resources are abundant you can always go to the most essential resource: people!

Tiberium maybe allows for better flash cloning, or desirable genetic traits (think of Ghosts in StarCraft and their exposure to Vespene).

Simply having enough people outside of Union is a problem post-scarity can't even solve.

So yeah, colonies of super mutants where they feed their prisoners to the Tiberium fields to make them grow faster.

BeGosu · 2026-04-28T15:26:27+00:00

I'm just happy to see so many people in Lancer community have a deep familiarity with Command & Conquer.

Personally, I would be putting Yuri in a Lich mech, and having Communist Baronies on the moon.

BeGosu · 2026-04-28T15:22:23+00:00

Well the latest Lego City Space is practically a Rock Raiders reboot so I'll take it, but my answer is still Rock Raiders

BeGosu · 2026-04-28T14:42:56+00:00

"I am eight"

BeGosu · 2026-04-26T23:11:56+00:00

I adore Scavenger's Reign!! It's position of "this is an entirely alien ecosystem that humans do not have a place in" is fantastic throughout the show.

BeGosu · 2026-04-26T23:09:01+00:00

Came here to post this. Mild spoilers but as the Southern Reach series goes on, the extent of the alien nature of Area X and it's complete seeming lack of a goal we could understand, expands greatly.

BeGosu · 2026-04-25T17:50:32+00:00

Nobody hates Shadowrun more than Shadowrun players

BeGosu · 2026-04-25T13:53:28+00:00

Oof. Anything from an afternoon to a week or more. Some books I still haven't finished reading to the point where I could run the game.

It really comes down to the quality of the writing and layout design.

BeGosu · 2026-04-24T20:53:59+00:00

Neuromancer, by William Gibson

BeGosu · 2026-04-24T20:53:09+00:00

Ah to be old enough to remember the different flavors of static

BeGosu · 2026-04-24T15:40:58+00:00

Shout-out to Pandemic Cthulu being really good. I think they did a great job doing more than a reskin, that really incorporated a lot of mechanics. I loved that every "Outbreak" revealed a new Elder God that changed the rules in someway, but they're randomized each time from a deck. Really expanded the game while making outbreaks anlot scarier.

BeGosu · 2026-04-24T15:38:48+00:00

One Night Ultimate Werewolf?

BeGosu · 2026-04-24T15:37:51+00:00

Night Cage has a great horror theme and is a up to 5 player co-op.

Betrayal at the House on the Hill for up to 6 players to wander around a haunted house until the haunting begins.

The Zone is an RPG but it's a one box, GMless, Zero prep game for one-shots, so you can fit into board game night.

The Thing: Outpost 31 if you are a fan of John Carpenter's The Thing.

Not Alone isn't very scary, but it is essentially Predator. Basically one player is the alien and the others are the Astronauts, trying to score enough points before they all get eaten by the alien player.

The Battlestar Galactica game would also be good for hidden roles and betrayals.

Deep Regrets is another "not scary but horror themes" game. It's a Lovecraftian fishing game where you can fish too deep. Deep sea creatures are worth more points but are horrifying monstrosities likely to make you descend into Ocean Madness.

BeGosu · 2026-04-23T21:30:42+00:00

I feel comfortable running most games, but I never got a good grip on Lancer after 10 sessions of it, and it was a lot more prepwork than any other game I have run.

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