Card Games… Magic Monday: In Defence of Sol Ring (Guest Post) 8 Jun 202629 May 2026 Today, we have a guest post from Rysaer of Rysaer Inc. This is in response to a previous post in which I consider the possiblity of banning Sol Ring... We’ve…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: The Puzzle That Breaks the Party 3 Jun 2026 Do some DMs just wake up and wonder how best to inflict their unique brand of suffering upon their players? There are plenty of options, but what might be the…
Card Games… Magic Monday: Our Club’s 2026 Typal Challenge Results 1 Jun 202630 May 2026 Our club's Commander typal challenge is finished! We extended the finish date by a month as people were struggling to get their last few games in. That extension is now…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: The Player Who Brings Real‑Life Beef to the Table 27 May 202617 May 2026 One common problem with tabletop RPGs really gets to me, and it’s not the rules arguments, or the scheduling nightmares, or even the fact that someone always insists on playing…
Card Games… Magic Monday: Seeing Double 25 May 20269 May 2026 Jace Beleren has a habit of "fixing" things until they break, and his latest project, the Echoverse, is no exception. While the lore for the October 2026 set, Reality Fracture,…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: The Session Zero That Never Ends 20 May 202617 May 2026 There’s a special kind of suffering unique to tabletop RPGs, and it’s not the rules bloat, or the scheduling nightmares, or even the fact that every DM secretly wants to…
Card Games… Magic Monday: Mood Swings 18 May 20269 May 2026 For nearly three decades, Magic: The Gathering head designer Mark Rosewater has been carrying a secret in his pocket: a passion project that began in 1998. During MagicCon: Las Vegas…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: Martial Classes Are the Hobby’s Last Acceptable Target of Bullying 13 May 20264 Apr 2026 There’s a quiet cruelty at the heart of Dungeons & Dragons, and it’s not the murderhoboing, or the goblin‑genocide, or even the fact that every published adventure path is basically…
Card Games… Magic Monday: The “Strictly Better” Rule is Dead 11 May 20269 May 2026 For decades, one of the golden rules of Magic: The Gathering design was a philosophy established by Richard Garfield himself: don't print cards that are "strictly better" than existing ones.…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: ChatGPT is Obsessed With Goblins, Just Like Your Stupid Party 6 May 20264 May 2026 If you’ve been using ChatGPT to help flesh out your homebrew campaign lately, you might have noticed something... green. And pointy-eared. And suspiciously obsessed with shiny trinkets. It’s not just…
Card Games… Magic Monday: Why Magic’s Latest Art Scandal Feels Different 4 May 20264 May 2026 Magic: The Gathering is no stranger to art controversy, but the recent firestorm surrounding the new version of The One Ring for The Hobbit expansion has left a particularly sour…
RPGs D&D Sucks and So Do You: The Rules Lawyer’s Eulogy 29 Apr 202620 Feb 2026 They arrived at the table with a 200-page appendix, a pocket rulebook, and a face like a lawyer who’d just found a comma in your soul. The Rules Lawyer wasn’t…
