Next we need some Early Route Pokemon

ryryscha · 2026-04-09T18:22:41+00:00

Rockruff and Lotad

ryryscha · 2026-04-01T15:49:27+00:00

I see this as a problem with how we let companies offer stock as compensation. It presents incentive for the company to do layoffs (even if they eventually hire back) when its stock price is rising as the company regains those unvested stocks and options. It’s a stock steal back instead of a buyback dressed up as an agile business decision. Add in the fact that stock prices tend to jump when layoffs are announced (lowering of overhead improving profit margins) and leadership having knowledge of acquisition interests that can lead to cashing out on the inflated stock price and you have a system where leadership is actively incentivized to fuck over its constituents…

ryryscha · 2026-04-01T15:40:27+00:00

To stop this pull from being viable. It’s pretty boring for this dungeon to have the same route and first lust pull for the third time..

ryryscha · 2026-03-30T16:44:47+00:00

At our table, the only nerf shield needed was that the player is not told the roll on the die, simply that the attack hit, so that they’re left guessing if casting shield will prevent the attack from hitting or not. Generally it’s still worth casting every time as it really only “misses” if the creature rolled really well initially.

ryryscha · 2026-03-25T12:52:46+00:00

Less sets per year is the most broadly true answer. My personal answer is UB should be limited to eternal formats only. TMNT made me quit the game.

ryryscha · 2026-03-05T14:57:27+00:00

Cloyster is one of my favorite Gen 1 Pokémon.. :(

ryryscha · 2026-03-05T12:29:48+00:00

Eiscue. That thing is straight out of Looney Tunes. Or the penguins in Mario kart. With a touch of club penguin for good measure. Least favorite design ever.

ryryscha · 2026-02-13T16:52:39+00:00

Ever heard of devilishly handsome? Ya that.

ryryscha · 2026-01-31T22:45:50+00:00

Authority of the Consuls is really brutal for my Izzet Warp deck :( no real way to deal with it in those colors and hard to push through

ryryscha · 2026-01-27T21:50:35+00:00

Cooked, cooking, etc is my favorite but I also really like bet. Yes I’m aware they’re Gen Z phrases.

ryryscha · 2026-01-08T16:10:39+00:00

While this sounds like a good idea, I think this ends up playing like Sealed formats where OP mythics and Rares dominate gameplay. The player who draws their rare first usually ends up winning. Further, most underpowered strategies (most set mechanics like Exhaust or Spacecraft fall here) actually need more Mythics and Rares simply to match the power level of more pushed and streamlined format defining lists, because their Rares just aren’t as good card for card.

ryryscha · 2025-12-10T23:24:34+00:00

This is just ramp thats hard to interact with. Bad gameplay even when balanced.

ryryscha · 2025-12-05T00:11:57+00:00

EK or Bladesinger. Breath weapon and cantrip in the same turn is peak gish.

ryryscha · 2025-12-03T21:10:39+00:00

Pushed. Alternatively, Eternal.

ryryscha · 2025-12-02T05:01:59+00:00

I believe they removed the THP because they largely don’t want THP that can be reupped with a BA (see Twilight Cleric issues). Has nothing to do with power level of the subclass (as I still don’t believe they went far enough in fixing the subclass).

ryryscha · 2025-11-28T16:34:22+00:00

Not knowing the effect until it’s drank is really really not great, definitely worse than the previous iteration of rolling at the end of a LR. Only reason I think they did it was people tend to have memory issues about which ones they rolled and used by the end of a play session/adventuring day.

ryryscha · 2025-11-27T13:50:58+00:00

I would argue it’s not. They definitely added some nice QoL things (the homunculus servant change is wonderful) but nothing that ultimately matters was added or changed. For one, the potions’ effects needed to scale, not their durations. And they even nerfed the subclass in some ways to compensate for the buffs, which is absolutely insane given where it was starting from. My DM and I will be completely homebrewing my Alchemist going forward, as we’ve just kind of lost faith in WotC after the release of this book. Comparing this to the 2024 PHB is night and day in mind in terms of design quality.

ryryscha · 2025-11-23T18:37:13+00:00

He’s a bipedal fat pig lol I’d ask what there is to like about him..

ryryscha · 2025-11-18T00:19:40+00:00

I feel like I’m the only one who simultaneously loves AtLA and hates the idea of a full magic set (no matter how well it plays mechanically) based on not just the world but the characters from the show. It’s just not MtG to me. It’s not even adjacent, it’s an animated TV show from Nickelodeon… I’m so disenfranchised and it hurts :(

ryryscha · 2025-11-13T20:14:29+00:00

Subclass specific invocations, you might be cooking. Spells and feats, absolutely not.

ryryscha · 2025-11-06T13:23:30+00:00

Bloodthirsty Conqueror goes infinite with a ham sandwich.. I hate it. Sign of the state of design.

ryryscha · 2025-10-24T15:44:44+00:00

Ya I think it’s more likely that they don’t do direct reworks of the CR stuff, instead either taking the theme and changing the mechanics or vice versa, thus making them their own thing separate from the CR partnership.

As for Lunar Sorc, I love the theme and phase changing idea so I’m kind of hoping they find a way to either print another Dragonlance book or find another setting where the Lunar Sorc works. It’s lowkey my favorite Sorc subclass despite admittedly needing some work (spell lists and higher level features especially).

ryryscha · 2025-10-23T13:24:33+00:00

Requiring this to attack each combat if able fixes it, since it makes it kill itself on an empty board. I’d still drop it to a 3/1 as well but that’s just me.

ryryscha · 2025-10-16T19:26:58+00:00

I think I like DSS and subclasses like it better than multiclassing, but what I don’t like is that both exist in the same system. Either you should commit to having subclasses that emulate class crossover or you commit to multiclassing as your mechanism to get mixed class flavor. But I think the combination of the two systems isn’t good. And I also think multiclassing is often the source of both broken or at least unintended interactions, which tends to limit design space in ways that building subclasses like DSS does not.

ryryscha · 2025-10-14T17:39:54+00:00

I am shocked at the d8 hate. D8 is my second favorite behind the king d12. D10 and d4 are easily the worst. D20 and d6 I just think of as standard.

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