alexgndl

First thing-screw you Rammite, Scout rush is totally a strategy. It's not viable, but it's a strategy nonetheless. Also, seeing as I'm going to be away without my laptop for the next 8 days (bringing just my tablet with me) you guys can just start without me, if it gets that far. I'll be able to play starting next Saturday evening though.

Before I came to England and had to leave my controller behind, I was doing a stealthy knives-only runthrough. Haven't touched the main quest yet, but I've already done the Dark Brotherhood ones, I'm about 3/4 of the way through the Thieves Guild one, and I just started Dragonborn. It's crazy fun, actually. You have to be REALLY careful, because if you fuck up your stealth...you ded.

While I do enjoy the diplomacy and moments of "WHAT THE FUCK WHY'D YOU DECLARE WAR ON ME OH MY GOD MY ARMY'S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MAP MY CAPITAL NOOOOOO" that realtime games offer, I gotta say that Pitboss would probably work much better.

Buy a used Xbox 360 wired controller. It'll cost 25, 30 bucks max. Trust me, it's worth it. I use it for all of my RPGs, actually.

Actually, I was just talking to Commander and I realized that there should be a multiplayer mode called "Pitboss". It essentially works like a play-by-post thing-someone hosts the server, and people can drop in and out. Not sure if it's for everyone or if it's a BNW-only feature, but it's worth taking a look at. EDIT: I should also mention though that the host will need to stay on the game while it's running, it looks like. What we could do is grab a free copy from that promo thing, use it on a dummy account and then have someone run it on a spare computer? Or we could always just do the normal 12-hour sessions if everyone's cool with that.

I'd be willing to just go vanilla. It's been over a year and a half since I've played Vanilla, so it should be quite interesting. Let's see if I remember how to play without trading/religion.

Hiawatha (if Vanilla/G&K) or Shoshone (BNW), please!

Would you guys want to do teams, or would it be every man/woman/cube for themselves?

I'm in. I have all the expansion packs/DLC civs, too. Just a few things though-multiplayer Civ is VERY hard to pull off. My friends at school and I play often, and we've found that you need to all have the same OS for it to work-Macs are slightly behind update-wise, which makes cross-system multiplayer incredibly laggy at best, but more often it crashes the game after about 10 turns. So everyone would need to be on a PC, probably. Also, I propose that we ban Egypt. Because trust me-he WILL get all of the wonders. I'm not even kidding. We did a 6-player (3 teams of 2) match once. I was the Aztecs, my partner was Egypt. Since you share science (oh yeah, in multiplayer Civ your partners and you share science. Plan accordingly.) he rushed all the good wonders, while I boosted our culture massively. It was a fucking brutal game, for the other players. They didn't stand a chance. I'm pretty sure between us, me and him got all but one of the Ancient/Classical era wonders. Egypt is SO OP in multiplayer. Also also, what timezones is everyone in? Because I'm in England right now, which is 5 hours more than EST. And I'm going to be in continental Europe all next week, so I won't be able to play at all then. Sorry for the wall of text, I've just played a LOT of multiplayer Civ and I feel like I know a fair bit about it.

So um...that Pro Tour seemed interesting. The final 4 had 3 mono-blue decks. And a mono-black deck made it to the final 8. Wat.

Who needs honor when you have l33t hax?

If I had my old hacked client, I could probably do it within 15 minutes. Sadly, they stopped updating Nodus...

What the shit, Desecration Demon's going for over $8 apiece now. Goddamn, am I happy I picked up a few copies when they were dollar rares. Hands down one of my favorite cards ever, so glad it's getting recognition now.

Oh my god, the Timmy inside me just jizzed himself hearing about that deck. Just stuff your favorite fatties in there, grab an enchantment that gives them all haste, and go to town. Or you know-just pack the deck with like 15 direct damage spells.

I've shot a 12 gauge shotgun, a .22 rifle, and a bow before. I love archery, but I'm most accurate with the .22...can't hit shit with a shotgun. Which is really kind of funny, if you think about it.

Not complaining at all about Thoughtseize going down, means I'll be able to actually afford a playset in a few months. What's baffling to me is the scrylands-they're actually starting to slowly rise in price. Not by too much, but Temple of Triumph's gone up about 50 cents since I pulled mine on Friday. Like...what the actual fuck?

I find it extremely humorous that everyone in the States is freaking out about this, and meanwhile everyone in Europe is looking at the US and is just like "the fuck are they doing? This shit again?" Like...this isn't even considered news over here.

Guys. I think I just outdid myself with my pull luck. I met this guy at a sci-fi convention in town today, he was selling Theros packs for £2.50. I bought 4, and he threw in another one for free. I pulled a Nythkos, Shrine to Nyx, a Bow of Nylea, Elspeth, Sun's Champion, and Purphoros, God of the Forge. I'm fucking ecstatic right now, this means I have 3 of the gods and 4 of their weapons. It's awesome.

Ok, what do you guys think are the most asshole-ish Enter/Leave the Battlefield effect cards? Preferably blue/white. Doing a bit of homebrewing on a casual deck based around Venser, the Sojourner and his +2 ability. So far I've got Reality Acid...and possibly Reality Strobe. Anything else you guys can think of?

Yeah, it's looking like Boros has some really nice toys here...so does Golgari, honestly. Grey Merchant of Asphodel seems amazing. So on a whim, I went out and purchased 3 more packs. I know, I kinda have a problem, but in my defense I'm most likely not buying any more for quite a while, need to start saving for fall break. But anyways, I pulled a Hundred-Handed One, another Anger of the Gods (I got one at prerelease as well) and a freaking Erebos. Ees gud day.