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Sorry the dollop
I'm actually surprised how little the Waypoint people are in them, Austin or Danielle introduce and close the episode and that's it
and that Magic the Gathering episode has me thinking about...some stuff...about this game I've never played but I've recently learned to like card games...
I endured Austin's cringe-y rustic accent thing to get through the overview episodes so I could understand the story of Hieron
I just started the first episode of Winter in Hieron, after those episodes
Spoilers, I guess, for the first thirty minutes
They spend the next 30 minutes discussing printing presses, canning, fishing, the exact location of the nearby river, cartography, the benefits of cartography and how the industry of cartography is doing in this world, the frequency of travel between where they're from and where they're going and how often this one character has been to the town and how they feel about it
And then, 30 minutes after the arrow was shot, someone takes cover
CUT TO ANOTHER CHARACTER IN AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT REGION OF THE WORLD
Let's talk about the library in this city and the general geopolitical situation there
Like. What. Is. Friends. At. The. Table. Doing.
I am really trying here guys
Dan's auctioneer voice while he narrates absolutely everything he has to do is destroying me
Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends
My Steam
If you're not into it you aren't likely to change your mind which hey, that's fine, it's not for everybody
That was some of that critical worldbuilding there.
There's critical worldbuilding and then there's actively destructive narrative interruption.
Idk, I just really want to like this series since everyone talks it up so much and it's made by good people but it feels like an episode of Sleep With Me with how much it meanders and talks about minutiae.
Edit: To be clear, I'm not trying to be overly critical. I'm just looking for an explanation of what makes this podcast good and listenable that doesn't just come back with the response that I "just don't get it"
Don't they talk about characters and what they're doing and why they're doing it each time someone new comes up in that first combat?
Otherwise people like that show because it offers some really great narratives and character work and makes a very cool world
I don't know what you're looking for from us? If you don't like it or don't 'get it' that's totally fine.
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For what it's worth I found the fantasy stuff a lot harder to get into and fell off Winter in Hieron after about 10 episodes or so (around the xmas ones I think?) I can't quite put my finger on why, but it felt like the episodes were a lot longer and harder to pay attention to than the prior stuff (I've not even approached season 1)
However Twilight Mirage is excellent thusfar
Mr. G
I could tell you about some Magic the Gathering
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I like the worldbuilding enough that just stopping everything to explain random stuff is a plus for me.
why do we try even if we know we're going to fail
Except Sige, he was good at beating stuff up and he fucking did that.
Some of the MtG community is bad, but the game is pretty dang fun, actually. And the fact that they've managed to put out new content for nearly 25 years without insane power creep or completely throwing out/overhauling things is incredibly impressive.
Oh, so this is just the intro-episode stuff? They don't interrupt scenes with flashbacks all the time later? I guess it's an interesting asynchronous storytelling trick if that's what they're doing right now.
That's what really got me, there was a living example of hey maybe do this? right there.
yeah i dunno if you've ever seen a coen brothers movie but austin underscore walker loves to do some of them tricks
I got called back for the lead!
I am waiting now!
I also listen to many podcasts
Podcasts are good
Oh man that's super cool!
Maintaining a deck and dealing with the MTG secondary market and the way that wizards sells cards is shitty enough that I'd probably never try to convince anyone to get into the hobby
I basically play limited events only and thats a pretty good time
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Also vampires and mermaids!
I am very excited molly
I literally don't even know how you start with it
like, does it have a core set like Netrunner?
No but you can buy starter decks that are about on par power wise with what you could make from the netrunner core set
Best suggestion on how to get into magic
Buy two starter decks
Play with a friend
I learned how to play via the Duels of the Planeswalkers games on steam, and I still think they're very good at teaching the basics
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I don't know if it was a special promotion or if it's a regular thing, but at some point a game store I was at was giving away free starter decks. They were fewer cards than a standard Magic deck, but that's not a problem if both players are using them.
Also the first episode of Winter In Hieron is about taking time every time someone does an action to do a love letter. It's like, The Point. They don't do that for every action ever.
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as an adult I have enjoyed Netrunner
as a kid I played the Pokemon game and Yu-Gi-Oh and gun to my head I could not tell you how to play those games now
Magic has a lot less at the like, core gameplay loop to learn than netrunner, so you can hit the ground running fast
The hard stuff is the minutae of how some of the rules work, but you dont have to worry about that for a while