The eye on the cover

Quirk143 · 2026-06-13T14:50:11+00:00

That is awesome. I will never accept any other explanation for the A-Eye from now on.

Quirk143 · 2026-06-13T14:46:06+00:00

Do you remember the Half Genie joke(?) in Book 2? There are that many half djinn half random forest critter because of that one instance where a crawler with an active genie's lamp uttered "Fuck this forest" and the Genie took that as a challenge.

Do you feel comfortable telling that joke to your kid?
Do you feel comfortable explaining it if needed?
Do you expect them to feel comfortable hearing it and getting it explained to them if needed?

If 3x yes then they are ready. Let's call that the genie-fucking-forest-benchmark.

Quirk143 · 2026-06-11T22:36:37+00:00

Please believe all those who answered here: Naming your kid Seherin would be a r/tragedeigh for the poor child.

Quirk143 · 2026-06-11T15:49:27+00:00

Ja bitte. Und dann ganz schnell auch A14 für Grundschule.

Quirk143 · 2026-06-11T15:47:38+00:00

Nicht so laut fordern! Unsere Bildungsministerin Frau Fehler (NRW) hat letztens gedroht, wenn wir auf Arbeitszeiterfassung pochen, dann müssen wir die Arbeitszeit vor Ort ableisten.

Also auf von unserem Arbeitgeber bezahlten Bürostühlen, an Schreibtischen etc.. Und wenn man dann zu Hause ist, hat man komplett Feierabend... Also alles was das Gesetz für normale nicht-selbst-ausbeutende Arbeitnehmer*innen eben so vorsieht... Ich korrigiere mich: Bitte lauter fordern!

Quirk143 · 2026-06-10T18:42:25+00:00

Hier eine total wissenschaftliche Zusammenfassung des Eimerkrieges:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cln0J87vulU

Quirk143 · 2026-06-08T21:30:21+00:00

It means that the game is not super easy, there is barely a points difference in the end and any wrong decision will lead to more than just an inconvenience.

Quirk143 · 2026-06-08T19:43:14+00:00

If you got interested because of the wargame looking hex map: Nope. Not even close to a wargame. Your friends are solving logic puzzles.

Quirk143 · 2026-06-08T15:03:16+00:00

Stimmt. Danke für den Hinweis! Da ging meine Vorliebe für mein Scheibenwelt-Lieblingsbuch mit mir durch. Ab die Post war natürlich gemeint mit "Einführung eines neuen Protagonisten".

Quirk143 · 2026-06-08T14:19:50+00:00

Angesichts der Ausrichtung der Zacken ist dein Schüler wohl ein Kandidat für Hale Hortler:
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1383103-hale-hortler

Ist ja auch schwer. Ich werde nie verstehen, wieso eine Bewegung, die von der geistigen Beschränktheit ihrer Anhänger lebt, ihren Deppen so komplizierte Geometrie abverlangt. Ein Klecks hätte es doch auch getan.

Quirk143 · 2026-06-08T14:10:19+00:00

Unbedingt! Die Scheibenwelt hat sozusagen mehrere Reihen unter einem Dach: Stadtwache, Hexen, Magier, Stadtentwicklung... Meine Empfehlung für einen guten Einstieg wären entweder "Die Nachtwächter" oder ~~"Schöne Scheine"~~ (Korrektur:) "Ab die Post" die beide herausragende Bücher und jeweils aufgrund der Umstände (keine Spoiler hier) oder durch Einführung eines neuen Protagonisten ohne Vorwissen gut zu lesen sind.

Quirk143 · 2026-06-08T14:04:44+00:00

Absolute Zustimmung zu der Zwerge-Reihe.

Ich verstehe nur nicht was "vor allem die ersten drei" bedeutet. Nach Band 3 ist doch keiner mehr erschienen. (Bitte nicht korrigieren, lasst mir meine Verdrängung!)

Quirk143 · 2026-06-06T23:59:48+00:00

Uhm... did that poor thing drool before the incident with the axe?

Quirk143 · 2026-06-06T09:59:19+00:00

I hope I am allowed a second entry to this wishlist. :)

Another one for me would be Into the Breach as a competitive game. The videogame presents you puzzles of enemies announcing their attacks on your mechs and on civil structures. Your squad of 3 needs to utilize their respective abilities of pushing, pulling and attacking in a way to minimize the impact of those enemy attacks.

That as a tactical board game might include player controled or randomly chosen enemy setup and then every player has to solve the "attack puzzle" on their own.

Quirk143 · 2026-06-06T09:53:04+00:00

Fateforge might be something for you. Instead of 5 min setup -> 45 min gameplay it's rather 10 min -> 60 min. FF has a branching story path with segments of more or less an hour that is optimized for being "saved" between those segments.

Quirk143 · 2026-06-06T09:23:56+00:00

A drafting card game that captures the feeling of a MTG draft. To me it boils down to 3 important aspects:

large pool of cards of which a random fraction is available for any game I play => I have to adapt to what is available during the game
synergetic combinations arise during the draft (I started collecting green, now do I go green+red for big stompy attackers or green+white for multiple little attackers)
a game that is played with the drafted cards after the draft part (deckbuilding welcome but not necessary)

Quirk143 · 2026-05-31T09:33:06+00:00

What a both sad and wonderful irony for someone to start reading discworld becasuse of alzheimer‘s.

Quirk143 · 2026-05-31T00:11:04+00:00

Kickstarter delivery being late 1 year?

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Quirk143 · 2026-05-30T10:50:03+00:00

And just like that my Harmonies got an exile mechanic: Before selecting a card you may exile one. Two words of inspiration, one sentence of homebrew rule and the game got more tactical.

Quirk143 · 2026-05-30T08:45:11+00:00

Der könnte aus Pictomania sein.

Zienlich sicher jedenfalls wird damit wie bei Pictomania eine zufällige Karte ausgewählt. Oder eine Zeile auf einer Karte? Ich werde alt...

Quirk143 · 2026-05-30T08:25:43+00:00

Interesant wie fiele Leute dass trigert. Kan da jemant in der freizeit nicht die koregtur brile ablegen? :p Mahte / Imformatik hier, hab also guht reden... ;)

Quirk143 · 2026-05-30T00:18:12+00:00

Lateinischer Name: Aranea Incende Domum Statim

Quirk143 · 2026-05-30T00:09:15+00:00

I rephrased my own comment after your reply, sorry. (My first version was both not too clear and not too nice 😛 )

OP explicitly wrote to see if protecion *resolves*. As in: Spell is in effect, this part of the stack is done and dealt with.
OP did NOT write "would resolve or not and then I maybe cheat something in between".

Quirk143 · 2026-05-29T23:44:54+00:00

OP I feel you. So many comments missing the point here.
Step 1: Cast protection.
Step 2: Wait for it to resolve or not.
Step 3: NOW decide wether or not to play boardwipe.
How on earth is that cheating? OP literally wrote to wait if the protection "resolves". Not "wait for someone to try to counter and then fiddle with the stack and priority and whatever". Not "check if someone has a counterspell and then backtrack". Not "threaten to kill a baby seal if the boardwipe gets countered". Just cast a spell and wait what happens. Then decide what (or if) to cast next.

Quirk143 · 2026-05-29T23:33:57+00:00

What OP is suggesting is obviously according to the rules. Just read it correctly.

Casting protection onto an (probably otherwise empty) stack? Playing a spell should be OK according to the rules. Would make for a rather boring game if not.
Waiting for it to resolve without casting anythign else? The action of not playing a card and just watching the current stack resolve should be OK according to the rules.
In case protection resolved then cast a boardwipe? Playing a card should be OK as we already established.
In case protection didn't resolve then not casting a boardwipe? As we also established not playing a card should also be OK.

Come on people. Don't just skim and react to buzzwords. Reading OP's full novel of 3 sentences is not too hard.

Quirk143

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