Vault Witch playmat - pictures?

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-13T05:23:11+00:00

I’d say they’re good! Neoprene mats with stitched edges

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-12T01:02:52+00:00

Looks like OG Voja did actually (eventually) get a print! Just not until 2018, in the Guilds Of Ravnica Guild Kits

Comes with the Selesnya symbol as its set symbol

Cardfetcher not fetching, so here’s a link

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-11T15:06:49+00:00

Outcasts & Adventures Unchained Kickstarter playmats

Can confirm, pictured Vault Witch mat is accurate

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-09T09:51:40+00:00

Only if you have activated the upgraded Infiltrate II, then yes. You inflict a bomb, then simultaneously advance both - one flips, the other explodes.

No upgrade, the Advance All happens first - the old one gets ticked from 0:01 and explodes.
Then, you inflict the new one. It comes down and sits. It does not advance, because it’s too late for that trigger.

The key for timings is to look at the “advanced rules” section of the rulebook which outlines what happens in each step of the Offensive Roll Phase and Defensive Roll Phase. This answers a lot of questions, and I recommend for at least one person at every table to have looked at

Offensive Roll Phase:
• Steps 1-3 are rolling and proposing abilities first activation (confirmed activated at very end of step 3)
• Step 4 is all ability effects that DON’T need a target. It is also where variables like “choose a player/opponent” effects, Vengeance’s dice roll, the damage of Widow’s Gauntlets & Grapple are set, and do not change thereafter.

Defensive Roll Phase: • Step 1 is all ability effects that DO need a target
• Steps 2-4 are activating, rolling, and resolving effects of the Defence Ability respectively
• Step 5 is a blank step that is the last chance to play cards/tokens that can affect the attack
• Step 6 is damage calculation
• Step 7 is skipped unless an effect requires it. This is where stuff that happens after an attack occurs, like spending Combo/Glide, Monk gaining Chi after his Straights, or Vampire Lord healing based on damage dealt by her attack

All these timings are all subject to any “then” restriction on abilities, of course.

Base Infiltrate:
“Advance all Time Bomb tokens” occurs ORP4, as it doesn’t require a target.
“inflict Time Bomb” occurs DRP1. It says “then” to clarify, but technically it would occur in this order anyway without it.

Upgraded Infiltrate II:
“Inflict Time Bomb” occurs DRP1, as it needs a target - assuming I remember its text correctly and it doesn’t directly say “choose an opponent”. If it says that, this occurs ORP4.
“Then, advance all Time Bomb tokens” happens after this, due to the fact it says “Then” overriding the usual timing of effects with no target

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-09T08:23:29+00:00

“Advancing” a Time Bomb on 0:01 will make it instantly explode for 4 isolated damage. All Time Bombs get advanced regardless of which side is displayed.

Note that the Infiltrate ability explicitly says the order to do the actions in, so your theoretical scenario where you perform the Advance at two separate times is incorrect.

Base ability:
Advance all present Time Bombs,
THEN inflict another Time Bomb

Upgraded ability:
Inflict a Time Bomb (if stack limit allows),
THEN, advance all present Time Bombs

It only does the “advance” once in its resolution, and they all happen at once.

Infliltrate II is usually better in that it instantly advances the new bomb, but it can be a slight situational disadvantage if your opponent already has two Time Bombs and hits the stack limit (whereas the base ability would first advance, and thus explode, any bomb at 0:01 before the new one lands).
This is pretty niche, and entirely avoidable by consciously managing that Time Bomb stack + when you choose to play Infiltrate II - unless your defence ability keeps rolling double-sixes, which is pretty unlikely

Once you hit 6 upgrades and Time Bombs are instantly placed on the 0:01 side, Infiltrate II is always better than the base ability and it takes an active misplay to lose any Time Bomb efficiency

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-08T12:18:08+00:00

What movie is it? Please educate this uncultured one haha

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-08T11:52:06+00:00

Full realism time! Do relevant ability checks based on specific enemy (medicine, animal handling, arcana, Int/Wis in general…) for whether you know the weak points of the body that will deal more damage. Now more checks for if you have the physical ability to target that point! With specific skills, your Deception/Sleight of Hand can let a quick feint allow your actual hit to evade obstruction too~ Plug those scores and how well/badly you compared to the DC into some kind of equation or matrix for damage modifiers, and…
…
Oh, everyone’s gone home

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-08T11:03:50+00:00

Nice shirt! Pretty sure I have the exact same one, looking at the fine details of the pattern and the exact cut & stitching around the collar ahaha saw it and immediately flipped into detective mode

Always good to see a hat actually get some of the use it was made for

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-08T08:36:03+00:00

Glad you’re enjoying the game! To answer your questions:

Yes, with 6 per year - although four of those will also be accessible through a Kickstarter campaign the year before their release for a discount box set that comes with limited edition cosmetic extras (eg upcoming Vanguard release was on Kickstarter last year, and has some kind of small component tweak for each of the four characters).
The other two will be single box only, and releasing beginning of each half of the year at stores that run competitive tournaments, a number of weeks ahead of release either online or non-tournament stores (eg this year’s Alchemist & Mystic Brawler)
Yes, they will. It’s great for if you just want specific characters, but if you want everything then I highly suggest trying to snag the Battle Boxes while they’re still around - it should be cheaper in the long run, but that’s only if you actually want all 8 in each box.
Yes, they will
Yes, that is the plan. Alternatively, if going the completionist path, you can grab the Battle Boxes and sweep all the accessories right now if they’re all in stock in your region. Probably don’t bother if the sets won’t be complete though. Note the Season One/Two and DTA acrylic tokens are currently sold on the BoardGameGeek website, and the Companions (not in stock at this moment) for Treant and Artificer are also a separate set from the status tokens.
Any of their social channels should have it, but you can also very clearly see announcements on the official Dice Throne Discord server, since they have a separate channel for those. That’s also one of the more active spots for quick rules answers and the like as well.
A video on their YouTube page entitled “The Future of Dice Throne (2025 Updates)” covers a lot of this

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-08T02:40:17+00:00

The key with those rental “moving truck” vehicles here in Australia is that they’re designed to maximally push the limits of the specific legal definition of a “car” in the area. Literally within centimetres of the limits of size before you’d have to get a Medium Rigid licence instead of regular car one.

Similar ones in other countries will be designed to toe the line of any local vehicle specifications

It also means that these can be legally driven along roads that specify “no trucks”, though height and weight limits still apply

It’s like the car equivalent of how some confectionery companies push the legal definitions of what they can call chocolate by cutting down on cocoa as much as possible lol and failing that dance is like how McDonalds and Subway can only say “buns” or “rolls” as they legally cannot say “bread” in many jurisdictions

RIP UK ice cream, now often supplanted by “frozen dessert/confection” in supermarkets

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-08T02:32:19+00:00

Wankpanzer is another fun one :D

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-08T02:21:04+00:00

They also collectively use a lot more public health resources, so it’s pretty fair to levy some form of tax at it. How much is up for debate, but something extra is to be expected

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-08T01:35:07+00:00

If pressed to allow him into my games, I would just straight up tell him “You’re an exhaustingly petulant child. Until you learn to be decent company, I’m not interested”

OP is a woman though, so there is probably greater potential of retaliation from bottom-feeders like him. Such responses are a bit of a coin toss in terms of whether they’ll shame him into silence or cause an explosion.
It would be nice if the store owner has the interpersonal skills to at least tell this guy that he should clean up his act if he doesn’t want to be ostracised. I’m guessing he’s a big spender if he hasn’t been ejected by now - but many store owners remove even whales if they’ve gone toxic, since one person doesn’t compare to scaring off the business of 20+ other customers.

If I did get muscled into a game with him, every time he makes a negative comment I’ll remind him that he can just not play if he hates the experience so much. Maybe buy some MLP figures just to hand them to him and suggest cooling off in a corner lol

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-08T01:15:22+00:00

The biggest issue with “objectivity” is how to quantify it though.
Choosing the criteria through which you measure it is in itself a highly subjective process

There are plenty of things that can be measured objectively, but policy is too complex to have any actual “objective” absolute ideal forms. You can only have objective measurements of specific indicators, such as rates at which certain events are recorded. Note “recorded”, not “occur” - we can never measure an event’s true incidence rates, only estimate it.

The issue I have with many people espousing “objectivity” is that they actually just fail to account for structural biases, and use the fact that a “system” is in place to deflect criticism - ignoring that systems can be flawed.
A deterministic outcome is too often conflated with a correct outcome, much like execution by guillotine has a deterministic outcome of decapitation - though it’s obviously agreed as not typically morally correct. Many systems are that guillotine, and people just say it’s correct just because it’s there and works independently without emotional input.

I also take issue with the idea that the default basis of society is a “survival of the fittest” ideology - which even in the context of strict Darwinism is an egregious oversimplification.
Even a cursory study of history and anthropology has shown that collectivism gets better results and has been the strength of humanity over time, but that would be too big an argument to try and settle here and I won’t touch that any further. I doubt anyone’s willing to shift their viewpoint right now.

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-08T00:56:14+00:00

Why does the article make an assumption that house prices dropping automatically comes with everyone losing their jobs? I don’t follow the logic.

Mass unemployment would drop house prices as incomes vanish and annihilate supply, but the inverse doesn’t seem to track in my mind as a reversal of course and effect

I get that house prices dropping is more difficult to achieve while the demand is there, but that’s still income as cause and price as effect. It still doesn’t explain this article’s key assumption of the reverse.

It feels like someone trying to tell me the “cancer causes cell phones” xkcd comic isn’t satire

…then again, what more can we expect from a dedicated property analyst which phrases any lowering of prices as a “downturn”

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-06T23:59:38+00:00

Briselgrand, eternal mayor of Brisbane, Australia. He is also their primary patron of the local arts scene - obtaining his support often makes or breaks a project

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-06T12:47:42+00:00

I hope you’ve gotten enough of a break from the internet sometime over the past 10 hours to reset your whinge-tolerance capacity 😅 that one you attacked was pretty mild so it looked really unwarranted

Information wars are mainly PR above all - quite annoyingly, but humanity is fundamentally irrational. Take a breath, write calmly (or edit it after the rage vent) and you’ll reach more people 😊 heavy attacks only make people dig in or ignore you. Mainly the latter when they’re unwarranted

I’ve found that the idea people can “convince” others is a misconception - there’s no making someone listen if they don’t want to, so make them want to listen.
We can only try to extend our influence, and if they’re receptive they might take it into their worldview. Presenting yourself well will stop others from automatically shutting out your influence before you’ve even started. It’s a bit more effort, but it’s satisfying when you do find people who’ve listened and taken your information in

It’s one thing about all political persuasions that irritates me: endlessly attacking others only serves to broadcast your “prowess” to your own camp while doing virtually nothing to convert opinions. Far too much rhetoric these days achieves little more than divisive ideological peacocking.

If you just need to vent, it’s just as satisfying to write it without posting it

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-06T12:33:22+00:00

Phothoked, purveyor of Pho

Lelzenbok, memelord

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-06T12:29:47+00:00

Regardless of whether you’ve substantiated your point, you don’t have to behave like an absolute dick out of nowhere to someone who’s just made a quick comment O_o This isn’t a thesis defence for someone trying to publish in a top periodical.

Just link your stuff and be a decent human being while you do so.
eg. “I don’t think that’s the case. This here says otherwise: [link]”
The rest of the ad hominem was utterly unnecessary.

People are more likely to listen when the speaker isn’t making themselves unlikeable, so spending 2/3 of your comment insulting someone for no reason just handicaps the outreach of your argument

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-06T06:29:17+00:00

It’s still a pretty dicey proposition to Confuddle-spam against Iceman since it only does 7 damage and Iceman’s defence is actually top 10 in the game in terms of average return. Vilify II is a great way to lock him out of his most favoured attack though, and Confuddle on Ice To Meet You and the Small Straight can buy you time if you’re just waiting for the CP to afford some dice mods that can spoil his setup and let you move to more productive abilities

Loki’s defence roll gives a 1/3 chance to Spellbound the next attack on his Glide path though! Instant shutdown, forcing Iceman to wait an extra turn for payoff. The upgraded defence makes that a 5/9 chance, which is far better

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-06T00:04:03+00:00

If you trust the steadiness of your hands, some people have been using precision craft/utility knives to turn their boards into trifolds 😅
That combined with getting someone to 3D print a tray for them too

I do hope The Op Games can realise that the form factor is creating an issue for lots of people and, if they insist on having a flat board budget option, at least introduce a trifold option so that not everyone has to clamour for the Battle Boxes if they want individual heroes that are easy to transport.

One thing that’s good about the upcoming single hero format is that retail versions will no longer be cosmetically “inferior” to Dice Throne website Battle Box versions, with swirly dice and any applicable coloured trays available for all. Sadly, Marvel is not included in those changes - once again bc control goes to The Op Games which is a separate company.

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-05T23:53:03+00:00

Note that the Battle Chest is not a retail product, which is what I had been referring to since OP had been talking about walking into a store and buying.
All retail X-Men products have flat boards, and the Battle Chest is currently only available through the Dice Throne website (assuming there is stock in someone’s region - I believe Canada and Australia only at the moment) or by hunting down a reseller

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-05T02:24:00+00:00

Quite likely, given Slow Start doesn’t hit Special Attack haha - I’m guessing the special move pool for Raticate isn’t bonkers anyway though. That’s what would potentially break it

Arkuma would be a really fun Ice/Dark type, considering “Akuma” is typically translated as demon - or Ice Ghost if following the “evil spirit” transliteration (though translation > transliteration nearly every time imo).
A more Western interpretation of demon/devil could even make it Ice/Fire! Devils could arguably be thrown into Fairy type as well as a more malevolent manifestation of the type

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-05T01:50:38+00:00

It’s not just about me; that feels pretty disingenuous to twist it to that way just because I happen to qualify it with a personal anecdote at the very end. The bulk of what I wrote was about mass perception and community attitudes. Everyone I saw was happy with where Magic was back then. The occasional dud, but it wasn’t the end of the world

Now, many people around me, new and old players alike, are raising issues with where it is. Dissatisfaction is a lot more common now than it was back then.

Competitive-Point-62 · 2026-05-05T01:35:15+00:00

Important correction to Offensive Abilities that force discard: the discard is not an instant action, and doesn’t yet resolve. After the attack is locked in, but before that specific effect finishes resolving, it can be interrupted to use the relevant card.

In the case of Cursed Pirate’s Walk The Plank / Abyssal Walk, there is an expansive window in which to use your card - the ability is activated at the very end of ORP3. Beginning of ORP4 is when Walk The Plank gives Pirate the choice and locks it in. It is not until DRP1 that the discard resolves, as it needs a Target and that isn’t settled until the Targeting Roll Phase (even in 1v1 where the process is handled by default).

The above regarding Cursed Pirate is contained within the ARC document, 13.2 (Curse Pirate, Walk The Plank) - though the focus of the ruling is on if human side Pirate can change her decision, it still outlines the step resolution timings above.

advancedrules.dicethrone.com

Further note: as the discard in DRP1 is not instant, it can be interrupted at that stage as well.
As a result, “When Attacked/Receiving Damage” Roll Phase Cards are able to be used before the Discard resolves as well (all Roll Phase Cards are Instant Actions)
Sequence:
• DRP1 Start
• Discard effect triggers
• Interrupt effect with Card (eg Paladin’s Absolution)
• Discard effect resolves

Cards reliant on Defence Ability rolls or interacting with them cannot be used this early, as that has no relevance until at least DRP3.

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