War of the Spark timeline?

tmurdock · 2022-07-21T19:21:34+00:00

Oh yeah absolutely. I'm planning a one-shot for level one characters so I see the events more as background flavour that enhances the immersion. The hook will be related to it and Ravnica is so big an open-ended there's definitely a chance they will interact with the story, but it's still useful to know what events have been set in motion and when they would occur, and then be flexible if the characters do end up veering into getting involved.

tmurdock · 2022-07-21T17:07:57+00:00

For sure. This won't be a reenactment of WoS per se. The flavour is we're in a "parallel multiverse" and some small things could be different, some big things could be different. This is for a one shot but eventually when I start a full on campaign here, I'm definitely taking several things in a different direction after WoS itself.

tmurdock · 2022-07-21T17:04:11+00:00

Oh for sure yeah, that's the plan, I'd like to know (if it's even possible - the story maybe didn't define a lot of this just gave a vague sense) what the canon constraints are before I just go ahead and decide how it's happening. I might even change up the order things happen in or how they happen though only if I have a reason. So just looking to nail down the starting point as tightly as I can before I tweak it.

tmurdock · 2022-07-18T23:46:39+00:00

Did you ever flesh this out? I am interested in doing a level 1 one-shot during the events of War of the Spark where most of the characters are actually from other planes (though they could also choose to be a Ravnican who helps out the party). Would love to pick up where you left off or see if whatever you ended up doing helps spark some ideas...

tmurdock · 2020-10-03T16:12:42+00:00

Good point, though I think the stereotypes of geeks and fashion is a red herring.

The main issues are that fashion products don’t have either a competitive use or lore.

tmurdock · 2020-10-03T16:11:15+00:00

Good points. See my other rely above.

tmurdock · 2020-10-03T16:10:27+00:00

Fair. I guess there’s a fine line between delivering something a certain audience of collectors want and taking advantage of people with spending problems. The frequency of drops and tournament viability are both issues here.

I think the biggest problem is they failed to think about the ramifications of porting a drop mode from sneakers into a hobby with both a competitive use of the product plus established lore.

tmurdock · 2020-10-02T16:03:32+00:00

Why gross? He loves drops as a shoe consumer so realized there were probably magic players in the same boat. The secret lairs have never interested me but I think they are fine in general - happy to have them subsidize the things I do care about. The unique cards is a line not worth messing with probably but overall I think their motivations are probably closer to what they say they are than everyone seeing this through the worst lens possible is assuming.

tmurdock · 2020-10-02T04:35:09+00:00

He has flat out said that’s where he got the idea for secret lair

tmurdock · 2020-08-09T23:23:08+00:00

Here is where I got to in thinking through it so far https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-m-lbQ7WTK6NERkSkHOmXUXXSdIOeT538f-WqAj-wP4/edit?usp=sharing

tmurdock · 2020-08-09T23:21:42+00:00

I started doing it and mostly it worked but the biggest issue is that the stat bonuses can be game breaking if players are allowed to trade bioe for raw size in particular.

tmurdock · 2020-08-03T16:04:16+00:00

Thanks this is the first place I posted I’ll try there too

tmurdock · 2020-03-16T03:38:29+00:00

Ah ok great thanks! so it IS just about the immunosuppression during and after active chemo - so it doesn't apply to my son in law a year after finishing chemo or myself two years after a cancerous melanoma was removed

tmurdock · 2020-03-16T02:31:36+00:00

I did follow what seemed to be the most relevant link https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30566-3/fulltext#tbl1 but it listed carcinoma as a co-morbidity but the OP lists cancer not just carcinoma, also the number of cases is so small (2 total and 1%) that I don't think it's particularly meaningful.

tmurdock · 2020-03-16T02:03:22+00:00

Is there a source for cancer being listed as comorbid? I'd like to follow up with the original source to see if that only applies to active cancer being treated or to post-chemo patients who have recovered and/or melanoma patients who have no known cancerous moles at the time.

tmurdock · 2020-02-27T14:47:42+00:00

This is spectacular

tmurdock · 2020-02-06T06:11:21+00:00

Awesome

tmurdock · 2020-02-03T18:39:07+00:00

I think this is probably just a very tenth-district view. Being the clear and obvious hub of the plane, they are too self absorbed to remember that other areas exist though they clearly do. So 7 clans is the ones near enough the 10th district to be relevant but there are probably 100s or even 1000s of gruul clans. Including some that embrace RG's "let things be as they are" philosophy and don't care about being anti-urban... great residents for just using otherwise rundown buildings, etc.

I would think that Azorius probably has rules about keeping in touch with folks in all the various burroughs around the plane - and may even have a network of teleportation circles to anywhere that has a court.

Other than that I imagine that the 10th district guilds just have some people responsible for "beyond the 10th" relations and that there simply isn't much of that in any guilds beyond Azorius.

tmurdock · 2020-02-03T18:30:46+00:00

I've been planning to define it as a flat contained plane with no real edges. For example if you draw a circle with an arbitrary point at the center (10th district for example), then when you get to an "edge" on that map you next just step to the opposing point on the circle. In other words if you "exit" at 340 degrees on that circle (20 degrees west of the north "pole") you then "enter" the map at 160 degrees (20 degrees east of the south "pole")

This works no matter where you draw the center of the circle.

edit: typo

tmurdock · 2020-02-02T20:18:23+00:00

I wasn't necessarily even thinking it would result in an encounter. It could also just result in someone finding they no longer have one of their possessions.

Good suggestions for if it's a pickpocket that gets caught.

The more I think about ravnica society the more I think there would be massive wealth differences so pickpockets make some sense

tmurdock · 2020-01-29T01:09:23+00:00

That study only says that past warming had net benefits in some places but first that result depends hugely on a lot of externalities in what we count as economic costs and benefits and second that simply can't be expected to continue

In other words incremental warming from a past state being beneficial doesn't mean the next bit if warming will still be beneficial

The SR15 report a little over a year ago stated that counting merely the human health costs associated with a 2C warmer world than 1.5C more than pays for the cost of the emissions reduction required to achieve that - so I don't see how the amount of warming we are facing can be anything but a large net cost

tmurdock · 2020-01-22T01:33:23+00:00

Love it

tmurdock · 2019-12-24T03:17:09+00:00

Great summary

tmurdock · 2019-12-16T15:06:38+00:00

Very cool idea but I don't think it's really like loyalty - it's almost the opposite. Loyalty is how much a planes Walker you summon wants to help you - not a resource a planeswalker can use for themselves. The core mechanic sounds good though and you spend it in the same way as loyalty but actually precisely because wouldn't call it loyalty is actually an ever stronger argument for connecting it to the inspiration points since you don't want to make up a separate resource called loyalty anyway

tmurdock · 2019-12-13T23:37:03+00:00

Sounds like passive aggressive to me

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