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[cheeseconsumer]

Mark,

Its my birthday and I would like to invoke the rite of birthday trivia! Could I have some trivia on the Weatherlight?

The Weatherlight was one of the few aspects of the Weatherlight Saga not created by Michael and myself. It and Sisay were a small part of the Mirage story. We wanted a device that our characters could travel between worlds on and a flying ship sounded cool, so we adapted our story around it.

Happy Birthday!

[cheeseconsumer]

when she says she doesn’t send nudes

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The B.O.L.O.G: A Big Ol’ List Of D&D Generators...

Ladies, Gentlemen and Everyone and Everything in-between, I present to you: The B.O.L.O.G, or the“Big Ol’ List of Generators”, something I’ve been working on for a long time.

The “Big Ol’ List Of Generators” (or B.O.L.O.G for short!) has pretty much everything, with over 100+ DM and Player Tools, Random Generators, Cheat Sheets and Reference Sheets to help take your DnD Games to the next level!

Eigengrau’s Generator

Procgen Mansion Generator (with 3D Visuals & Floorplans!)

Chaotic Shiny 

rollforfantasy.com

D&D DM Tip Generator (Sly Flourish)

D&D 5e Mob Damage Calculator (Sly Flourish)

DND Speak

Random Potion Generator for D&D (GeekNative.com)

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Azgaar’s Fantasy Map Generator

Watabou Medieval Fantasy City Generator

5eTools

5eMagic.Shop (Magic Shop Generator w/ Items and Prices)

D&D 5e Tools by Leugren

JenniferBrussow.com (D&D Library Generator)

dnd5espells.rpglist.net (D&D Spell Scroll Generator)

RPG Tinker (NPC Generator)

Mithral and Mages (5e Treasure Generator)

Site of Many Things (Random Magic Item Generator)

Kobold Fight Club (Encounter Builder and XP Calculator)

DM Heroes (NPC Generator)

Here Be Taverns (Tavern & Menu Generator)

Instant Tavern Generator (WoTC)

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Myth Weavers Dungeon Generator

Not Another Tavern Generator

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FantasyNameGenerator.com

FastCharacter.com (Character Creator)

Tetra-Cube.com (Random Character Generator)

ChaosGen.com RPG Tools

AutoRoll Tables - Github 

Indie Loot Generator for D&D 5e

Kassoon D&D Tools and Generators

Sane Magic Item Prices

Weak Magic Item generator

Watabou’s One Page Dungeon Generator

D12dev

Fantasy Calendar Generator

Drugs for D&D

Poison Generator

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springhole.net

roll1d12.blogspot.com

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npcgenerator.com

dungeonmastersvault.com

Random Spell Scroll Generator by u/Zwets

What Do You Want? (a Character Motivation Generator) by FencedForest

Maze Generator

NPC Generator by theunburnedwitch

Cafe Arcane (D&D Tools)

Worldbuilding: Clothing and Fashion (HumanVariant)

Slyscript’s Glossary of Archaic Words

Vulgar: A Fantasy Language Generator

Megacosm Generator

The 100 Most Important Things To Know About Your Character

Nonsense Generator

Tree Description Generator (by ModernBarbarian)

Overflower (A Flower Generator by Bleeptrack)

Tiny Quests for Tiny Goons

Magic Carpet Generator (by Zoyander Street)

Potion Description Generator (by Piecewise)

The Monsters Know What They’re Doing

D&D Swarm Damage Calculator

Monster Manual Encounters (Reddit)

MapGen4 (from Red Blob Games)

Random Inn Floorplan Generator (by Inkwell Ideas)

Instant Dragon Generator (by WOTC)

TabletopAudio (Custom Soundboards and Presets)

Phanary.com (Soundboards and Presets)

Iron Arachne Culture Generator

Merchant Wagon Generator (GeekNative.com)

RPG Market Generator

Random Prophecy Generator (GeekNative.com)

TrollMystic Random Generators

RanGen Random Generators

Improved Initiative Tracker

Chicken Dinner’s Point Buy Calculator

Adventurer’s Codex

Hit Effect Description Generator

Maker’s Forge Games

1 Dot Villain Generator

MiniWorld’s NPC Generator (by Profession)

The Thieves Guild

D100 Tricks, Puzzles and Riddles

GiffyGlyph.com

Orteil’s Dungeon Generator

Character Goal Generator

Tavern Description Generator

Shipwreck Description Generator

Realm Description Generator

Quest Generator

Character Personality Generator

Forest Description Generator

Character Appearance Generator

Dragon Description Generator

Farmland Generator

House Description Generator

Fantasy Swear Word Generator

“A Wise Man Once Said…” (A Fantasy Quote Generator)

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Always a pleasure, sir, keep the Internet entertaining

Oh!

Today, I learned what ‘mendacity’ means. Thanks, cheeseconsumer!

[cheeseconsumer]

I see well those are some very strong examples.

Thanks so much for replying! I’m going to work through those if you’ll bear with me.

So I would argue most of those aren’t really “lies” but either misdirections or things that he has to say because of the company. He’s always said he can misdirect folks. But let’s get to it, let’s investigate!

The book thing I did find hilarious. I mean it’s not as if he can’t turn round and say “it’s shit” but in all likelihood he probably was very familiar with the story even though he hadn’t read the actual book. So he probably likes the story but hasn’t got time (or would rather have his balls placed in a ghostly prison) to read it. And he likes things like the MCU, and thought Avengers Endgame was a brilliant movie so in all fairness he probably does think the WAR story is great.

The pridemate thing. It may be because he couldn’t spoil the fact the card was coming back to Standard, plus people may have been able to work out the theme of WAR. Same goes for the planeswalker rarity thing. For me this worked as the fact I assumed uncommon PWs would never happen kept me guessing as to what WAR would entail. So for that one I’m glad he did it although it’s probably his biggest most direct lie! Also, although this is clearly controversial, he has said they’d rather not do functional errata as opposed to that they absolutely won’t do it. And when he said it wouldn’t change paper magic (although I am highly dubious of this) I’d argue it hasn’t really so far as the pridemate change is so, so minor. But on this one it’s a little cheeky.

The Kaya thing. This made me laugh out loud (as did your response) as it is clearly utter nonsense. But give credit where it’s due: he said “What if I told you...”

So he was not directly stating a fact but more kind of playing around. Almost a joke but also I felt he was imagining a world where Kaya was in fact a very popular character, a world full of diversity, equality and magical frogs with funny hats. Kind of like he was saying where they’d like to get to.

On a small note given how impossible the task of diversification in the game/world really is, maybe it might be ok to lie a bit in order to achieve this goal. I can’t imagine that would be a popular opinion but if someone said to me, is it ok to make up a few facts if we achieve world peace at the end of it, I would probably say yes. If only so we could stop going on about it and get on with playing Magic.

So I think I agree with what he said here, although it was ridiculous.

Now, the Storm card, Thousand Year Storm I believe it’s called, well this comes down to interpretation. When he’s saying Storm will never return I feel it’s clear he’s saying “it won’t return as a main mechanic of a set” rather than “we will never print a card with storm.” By putting that card at 6 mana mythic rare it ensures there won’t be any truly degenerate bullshit and that the storm player will have to actually play magic to survive long enough to get stormy. I thought it was a really good way to keep the fans of storm happy while not ruining real magic for the rest of us. So I definitely didn’t feel this was a lie.

Ultimately it would come down to the intent of a lie. I would argue a lie is only a lie, or at least a bad thing, if it has malicious intent aimed to hurt or deceive someone to the point of doing them harm in some way. I would argue that not saying exactly what you mean to the absolute letter is acceptable in most casual walks of life. So it’s with this proviso I can’t really call Mark a “liar”.

However I would definitely understand that some of those things could be very frustrating for some people. I always remind myself, he is in the end always selling you something. He’s like the man in the record store or the indie game shop. He seems fun, but ultimately he wants your money. And he doesn’t owe anyone jack shit because ultimately, that’s something he’s always been clear on.

As for the artifact set it seems that artifact sets are something the company has been told to do as they are financially viable. I was more under the impression Mark was very down on Kaladesh and was essentially saying that artifact sets are popular but a fucking nightmare (and shouldn’t exist of course) although it sounds like energy and the Felidar Guardian were more responsible for the fuckups rather than the artifacts. But anyway he keeps banging on about coloured artifacts, so it seems he’s trying to solve a problem (being told he has to make an artifact set) rather than tell us how great they are.

I may not have this one quite right but that’s my understanding.

Now as to what constitutes a mythic these days, well now that’s a pile of hippo shit.

But anyway I hope you enjoyed these alternative points of view. Thank you very much for sharing yours. They were really interesting and will be extremely helpful in going forward as I continue to enjoy my favourite game. Which to me is all it’s ever been since 1994.

Do you ever try to predict what things in a new set enfranchised players on your social media will get inexplicably up in arms about?

It’s my job to try and predict what your responses will be.

I get some of it right. : )

[cheeseconsumer]

I’m not having a go or anything but where did you get the whole “Mark is a liar” thing from? You seem to feel very strongly about it. I understand that some things he’s said, like about mythic rares, have changed over time but I believe he is answering questions to the best of his knowledge. Can you give other examples if possible? What lie in particular has enraged you so? I’m generally a Rosewater fan but interested in controversy

Do you ever try to predict what things in a new set enfranchised players on your social media will get inexplicably up in arms about?

It’s my job to try and predict what your responses will be.

I get some of it right. : )

[cheeseconsumer]

Demon, I’m a keen follower of yours and I wholeheartedly agree with most of your views on Magic. But I have to ask you to reconsider your opinion re: damage on the stack. It really made the game much worse. I know you don’t like to dumb the game down but that rule ensured many cards couldn’t be printed with it in mind like we have today. Just remember how weak kamigawa was as a result. It was counterintuitive and annoying. I guess there’s no way I can change your mind but as a firm believer in the topic I’d ask you to try a few games at home with the rule back on and see what you think. I tried it and I was shocked by how much worse the game was when the stack played such a large role.So I’m asking you just to think this one through a little.

In your opinion, what thing (besides ante) that's no longer part of Magic most improved the game by its removal?

I think removing damage on the stack did good things.

[cheeseconsumer]

Yes, but I started following you because of your bizarrely extreme and offensive right wing views, which I find hilarious. (Excuse me - I’m not a hater or troll. I don’t agree or disagree with you.) But when I see you post, a storm seems to occur. So I followed you precisely because I thought you were a troll and was surprised to find out you are actually looking forward to Dominaria! Maybe tone the language down if you want to be taken seriously? Anyway I don’t mind I find your posts hilarious. I agree with most of your points about Magic though. Although by the sounds of it I wouldn’t enjoy playing against you with the level of grief you like to inflict on your opponent! Would I like to WATCH you grief someone? Hell yeah.

A misconception some have

This account isn’t simply to troll Mark Rosewater. I will call him out on things that I don’t like. However, I will also promote things that I think are good for the game and its storyline. Any idiot can troll. I want to see Magic get back to the glory days. 

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Need help

Can anybody lend me a pound? I'm in the Kingfisher and I want to play Simpsons.

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My favourite pizza from Sainsbury's is the mushroom, ham and man sauce

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Dessert

You ever wonder if blancmange is a kind of disease?

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Chiefery

So this is chiefery

[cheeseconsumer]

Absolutely rinsed it mate

Happy Monday, everyone! How did you do at Prerelease this weekend?

[cheeseconsumer]

So let me get this straight - Odric, Thalia and Grete are attacked by eight 1/1 soldiers. As Thalia has first strike, Odric grants it to the entire team, and they deal exactly eight damage (Grete is shown to be a crusader of Odric, meaning she is a 3/3) and none of them are wounded as a result? That is the best magic story I have read yet.

What did you think of today’s Magic Story, The Lunarch Inquisition?

[cheeseconsumer]

Wizards makes games other than magic. Have you ever worked on any of these?

I have. A few of the bigger games I’ve worked on:

Duelmasters TCG (I was part of the team that created the game and lead the design for two expansions)

Star Wars TCG (I was on the design team with Richard Garfield leading it and lead the design of the initial core set)

G.I. Joe TCG (I was on the design team for the game)

[cheeseconsumer]

You did Maro. You were so close. This is why we want Un3- we know you can nail it this time.

Are there any mechanics you wish you had designed just a little bit differently? If so, can you give an example?

I wish I had designed gotcha from Unhinged to be different. I believe it made the set less fun for a lot of players which is a horrible crime for an Un-mechanic.

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Magic Set Editor?

I hope this isn't classified information but is there anywhere to find the template you guys use for playtest cards? My custom set is in need of testing. Thanks

Yes, we put the templates on every Magic card we print. : )