Recent content by Morphic Tide

The griping over Intelligence as an individually variable statistic smacks of "equality" cultism, to me. The idea of treating everyone equally isn't grounded in any "tabula rasa" notion that all people are equal in essential potential, it's grounded in the idea of universal human rights, as...

Super applicable "condition", and the alternate use is specifically about screwing over what it can't outright kill. Can also purge the -1/-1 counters from your own creatures, making it occasionally helpful against Infect and such.

But that's the Monk's entire shtick :V

I would have far more respect for the devs if they'd gone with having Companion pull the card out of the deck at the game's start, thereby bypassing all these issues by turning it into the same situation as Partners, and having them not be yet another sideboard clogger. It's a bigger...

The bigger issue on Oddesy for the general public than the problematic nature of swinging into forced heterosexuality (most people don't engage on that sort of identity politics level, the bitching is liable to be over the forced romance as a general phenomenon abruptly removing...

Shrek does not quote the memes, Shrek creates the memes. Or uses generic low-brow humor.

It works best when you have a decently grounded scale of what the statistics mean, as well as relatively hard bounds of power. Exalted 2e has some of this, with regards to the "soft" Essence 5 ceiling and the similar not-technically-hard cap of 5 on many of the basic stats, and D&D for 4e and 5e...

The thing with such a direction of extreme vulnerability is to give the tools to make it not matter unless the enemies specifically work around those tools. Something like 40 ft. Fly, and/or trivializing Disengage. Also, I'd go with Delacate Body being -2 HP/HD, rather than a vulnerability to a...

Bullet geometry in the sense of the profile leaving the barrel. A smoothbore will fire balls and bullets just the same and the latter will still be more accurate than the former, and blunderbusses are entirely about tossing random shit in to be launched at great speed, which shotguns shift to...

The point of having them function separately is that the verisimilitude of firearms being a Real Thing can be held if desired. What you just mentioned is precisely why I mention having locks be separate. Rather than firearms-as-weapons, where you have a "flintlock pistol" or an "arquebus", it'd...

The 2-3 turn reloading could be a thing for greater siege-based crossbows, whether ballistae, the anti-defender types simply called "siege crossbows" or various other spectacularly huge ones. They could have a very large but fixed Strength modifier (in the siege weapon case, +20) and have the...

With bulletproof creatures, it can be a matter of having sheer thickening and thixotrophy in their biochemestry, where sharp pressure results in their anatomy behaving as a nigh-invulnerable solid, while prolonged pressure gradually has more "give" until things start buckling. It also doubles as...

It actually is, usually called General American, and its "pure" form is found mostly in political speeches.

Actually, the post was edited to mention it's 13 if counting Loyalty counters, which slipped MaRo's mind at first because no card mentions them in text.

So at least +11/+11 owing to Eldrazi Conscription, Mutate is something that can occur more than once and as such may be creature-external, there's ten as-yet unannounced counter types (will certainly have +1/+1 as a Big Creature set and Foreshadow is called out, Charge Counters and -1/-1...