I played Magic at some point but I never really got into it.[quote=“42Megabytings, post:3, topic:2933”]
I’m also one of those guys who has a Yu-Gi-Oh deck but never got to play with anybody.
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Ouch. I met a good chunk of my friends through Yugioh.
I’m always open to getting back into it, duel me sometime 
I’d love to play DnD, Secret Hitler, or anything else with Kaza. Sounds fun!
Hmm, DnD does sound interesting. I was skimming the link you gave in the first post, and is all of that required lecture or is some of that not that important in the beginning/only important for the DM? Because it was kind of a daunting wall of text. Meaning, I’d be a newbie. I was actually invited to a tabletop RPG before, but I wasn’t interested in the Shadowrun-verse, I’m not that much for futuristic dystopia. But since DnD is medieval fantasy as far as I know, I’d be interested.
Of course, time-zones and planning would then be another question, but let my interest be noted here.
That link is to the “basic rules” but it pretty much includes everything you will ever need for DnD. Over 3/4 of it is about character creation and the only mechanics players really need to be aware of, at least at the beginning, is combat and skills.
So I was searching for information about Tanto Cuore (it’s like Dominion except with cute anime maids) and I found out the same company makes a LITTLE BUSTERS DECKBUILDING GAME! I want this so bad @_@ I wish my Japanese was good enough to play it.
HOLY SHIT WHAT? A LITTLE BUSTERS TANTO CUORE GAME??
Where the FUCK do I buy
Edit: Found it!
It’s called “Little Busters! Ecstasy Slapstick Ranking Battle”
Should that be Battle Rankings? 
EDIT: After doing some investigation, yes, it looks like this is literally a Battle Rankings deck building game! Something about challenging others to battles and fighting to maintain your position as leader of the battle rankings. SIGN ME UP!
I have considered it, but unfortunately I’m too busy between classes and work to pick up another time commitment as big as DMing. I still think a Kaza DnD group would be cool even though I wouldn’t be able to participate though and wouldn’t mind helping with some semantics though.
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I see card games hmmm… welp the games that I have played are (In order of when I learned how to play them)
Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Duelmasters, Naruto, Magic the Gathering, Vanguard, Weiss Schwarz, Victory Sparks, Force of Will and Luck & Logic.
All of this definitely helps since I work at a card shop so I can talk to most of my customers and understand what they’re talking about
I’m always interested to learn more card games and I saw the Danmaku game at AX but never got a chance to really check it out at all
So I’m returning to this topic to say that I also played Yu-Gi-Oh way back in the old times, when Pot of Greed wasn’t banned yet. As in, during the time the first anime was airing. (And I might also look like a complete idiot if I got my facts wrong here)
Then I made a long pause, and then I returned to playing Yu-Gi-Oh, albeit online, because I have no money to seriously play anything collection based, and actually learned how Synchro and XYZ stuff worked. Man, the game had changed a whole lot. During that time, I even looked a bit at the competitive scene. That was probably 2 years ago. Now I have heard the term Pendulum and am kinda asking myself “Is this another new game mechanic, and if so, how does it work?” So yeah, other than that, I know enough about YGO to understand a discussion about it.
One really traditional game I like a lot is Skat. I don’t know if anyone else here knows that, but I’m basically playing the traditional card games. 32 cards in 4 suits, 3 players.
The competitive scene for Yu-Gi-Oh was really bad a couple months ago. It was you either played these 3 decks (Monarchs, Burning Abyss, Kozmo) with very little variation or else you lose.
After the banlist however a lot of decks are more viable to be played competitively
I really used to play Magic: The Gathering and I started playing the game a bit before Exodus came out, but have since quit outside of shuffling up the occasion Legacy or Vintage deck or trying something on Cockatrice. Many of the formats I used to play are long gone and Standard and Modern just don’t seem that interesting right now (plus they are expensive to stay into).
EDIT: Holy crap, Exodus was 1998. It’s been around that long…
I dabbled with Pokemon right when it started and played in a league when that happened, but haven’t touched it for a long time. I still have the cards but don’t even know how much they go for.
I used to play Yugioh (especially the video game incarnations) up until last year, and funny enough that Likeaneko mentioned Monarchs since I really like that deck style even though the version you could play before the bans was really powerful. I’m not a fan of the crazy things XYZs and (possibly) Pendulums can do and honestly I don’t think I would go back to playing the game outside of an occasional video game spin just for fun right now.
Force of Will has currently got me hooked though and I think it would take too long to describe how many decks and ideas I currently have and have yet to build. However, using Untap to play online with others has really become a pain in the butt over the last few months.
Here is a summarization of all the various card games and tabletop RPG’s I have played over the years
and some of my experiences.
Card Games
MTG (Magic The Gathering)
I started when I was still in high school with a Duel Deck of Golgari and Izzet. I just played with my best friend and I lost basically every game. Still, it was a lot of fun to play casually and as the years went on, that’s mostly how it stayed. I rekindled my love for the game when I got into a Magic club in college (I remember the first time being there, I bent the cards to shuffle them like you would playing cards in Poker, which made everyone collectively cringe). I attended some drafts when Fate Reforged and a reprint of Conspiracy was a thing (someone pulled a Ugin and Foil Brainstorm). I stopped playing after Dragons of Tarkir, which was a good set but magic groups reformed and disbanded in that time, so eventually, I stopped playing.
Once that best friend moved to where I was, I started playing again and made better decks to play casually with some friends of his. Currently, most of the decks I run have some variation of green but my best is a cheapass burn deck (both in budget and cards) and a White/Green Bolster deck. I run about 6-7 decks last time I checked, though. Not too long ago I met someone who is now a good friend of mine who wanted to get rid of some bulk, so I took a bunch of cards that weren’t worth terribly much but were still decent (for the most part). I do very much enjoy this game, though it is ridiculously expensive to keep up with standard, legacy is laughably expensive and I don’t have enough friends who still play this to justify Commander.
YuGiOh
This was the very first card game I had ever played and do, in fact, still have a binder full of YuGiOh cards from 2004-2004; Some in less than optimal condition. I started when my then best friend and neighbour played it and I enjoyed it, especially after seeing some of the 4Kids anime. Thus, I convinced my parents to shell out money to buy a youngin a bunch of flimsy but cool looking cardboard. Again, I was casual but it was the fun that really mattered in the end. Eventually, when I moved away, I stopped playing all together and really don’t have many cards of value aside from some cards I got from watching the YGO movie way back when (AKA: A cheap marketing ploy in order to convince children to buy more Card Games). My appreciation for this franchise was rekindled when I discovered LittleKuriboh’s brilliant abridged series of YGO. A little while ago, I had played YGO for the first time in over a decade (and lost, of course) with a good friend who loved YuGiOh and always wanted to play the card game. It may be a simplified version of MTG, but it is still rather fun to play, especially causally and isn’t nearly as much of a money sink as MTG is.
Pokemon
I got a bunch of the cards but never had anyone to play them with. That is really where that story ends.
Tabletop RPG
Fourth/Fifth Edition (D&D)
My very first experience in this genre was a silly, short campaign that (more than a little) disregarded the rules and just did some adventuring. I believe the game was 4th Edition (4e), though it might have been third. Anyway, it was fun for a bit and it was a while until I got into another one, though I swear there was another one between the previous one and the next one I am gonna talk about…
My first experience was a year ago, in college. I partook in a D&D adventure (I think the town was called Greenwich?) in which I played a Cleric named Dende (because as Team FourStar says in DBZA: “Nobody fucks with the White Mage”). I was a short little halfling who was fairly brainy in regards to history and religion. We did the typical kind of D&D stuff, killed some Kobolds (A LOT) and Cultists, met an asshole of a Blue Dragon and one of our party members participated in some fairly… interesting activities with a female Cult Leader (all I am gonna say about that…). Some other interesting activities included a belly dancing bard who managed to actually both entertain and send Cultists to a fiery doom via nearby book burning, a ranger who, when approaching a hill in order to scout, got urinated on by a Cultist who clearly couldn’t hold it in and a barbarian who, when attempting to intimidate his enemies with a blowhorn (don’t ask), he choked on his own spit and kinda tripped, falling down in the process (from what I remember). It kinda started dying out, as since we are all in the same Computer Science program, got really busy with stuff and slowly became unable to attend games.
The second game that was started was GM’ed by the same friend who I started playing Magic with a long time ago. We first started with 4e, since the GM had the books and PDF’s for it. Unlike the first couple games, this would be my first online game and I played a Dragonborn Paladin. In fact, it wasn’t long before we just switched to Fifth Edition. We had some cool characters in that one, like my requested NPC named “James Notfield”, which is an obvious parody of a particularly famous hard rock/metal band. I love Fifth Edition, honestly and so far it’s my favourite edition of D&D and probably my favourite Tabletop RPG I ever played. It is far better balanced than 4th and doesn’t take FOREVER when doing combat.
Shadowrun
This one was brief, but several months ago, I played in a game called Shadowrun. It is based in the future and more than a bit Pink Mohawk/Cyberpunk. The setting was quite interesting, though the most recent Corebook is incredibly poorly edited. Another downside to the game is that combat takes a lifetime, as you have to roll for each bullet and there are plenty of other actions one can do in their turn. One thing I really liked compared to other Tabletop RPG’s is the legwork you do for a mission. Because there are plenty of augmentations and things around you can use to your advantage, you often spend time planning out raids on Corporations (who rule the world in this setting) and doing various other planning/legwork (and I looove doing that). It was short but still fun.
Rogue Trader
Currently, I am playing a Warhammer 40K Tabletop game called Rogue Trader. I vaguely was aware of the universe after seeing some of the Codexes from the Warhammer 40K main game (with the incredibly expensive models). We haven’t done terribly much except get Warp Sickness, release some Pilgrims out from the Airlock, having our Navigator make a little mark on a Puppy accidentally from a misfire (Puppy wasn’t harmed, thankfully), kill a bunch of Orcs, destroy an airship or two and find some weird time travelling room to some Treasure maybe? I am playing a Techno Space Viking, hailing from Fenris (death spoopy planet) as an Explorator (main engineer/talks to machine spirits). Ridiculous setting and while the missions so far have been linear, it is generally a fun time.
Overall, I love both Trading Card Games and Tabletop RPG’s, having some experience in both of them.
As far as Magic: The Gathering goes, playing Legacy really depends on when you started playing it because outside of a few key cards like fetchlands the prices have become unreasonable since the large scale tournaments started. I do not play it competitively and haven’t for a very long time but it is still fun to play with others and we can always proxy cards with few problems.
Thankfully Sensei’s Divining Top is now banned so the format is more diverse again.
Standard is essentially a money pit and I cannot suggest that to anyone that is not very competitive or would not be able to have fun with proxies or online services like Cockatrice.
Force of Will is incredibly similar to one-on-one Commander in MtG with a few enhancements to the game (and its own drawbacks of course), and it far cheaper to build decks for at this moment unless you plan to play the mainstream decks which have become a bit expensive as well (especially Fox). It’s not for all of course, but it’s a thought.
Ah, I see. Bear in mind that I have never played Legacy and only heard it can get pretty pricey. For a casual player like me, that obviously deterred me from playing that format.
Never heard of Force of Will and in fact, when I first heard you mentioned it, I thought you were referring to the Magic card of the same name. Right now, I have very little if any friends anymore who still plays MTG, but I appreciate the suggestion. May or may not look into that in the future, thanks.
Oh man people still play Force of Will? It died in my community unfortunately. The rotations happen too fast and sudden.
Not to mention sometimes the company comes up with some weird card designs that makes the meta game really bland and unfun. Playing the game casually is amazingly fun though if people aren’t playing top tier decks.
I recently picked up WIXOSS card game and I’m still going hard in the Weiss Schwarz game with my Angel Beats and Charlotte deck
I definitely play Force of Will but don’t have anyone to play it with outside of one online friend at this moment. I do agree that the printing of some cards (such as Laevateinn and Reflect/Refrain) and the rotations (one very sudden) do not help at all for game trying to find its way. I mostly play Wanderer and play anything from very casual to somewhat competitive.
It would be nice to play Force of Will with others or to teach them how to play it, but after using Untap to teach my friend how to play it I would look for a much better way to play online first.
Is there a card game Weiss Schwarz plays like for reference? I don’t see myself learning the mechanics in the next month or so, but I may pick it up if there is interest in it or a way to just play it online or something.
Most of my experience with D&D is actually either through the Gold Box video games (which used 1st Edition D&D rules), the Eye of the Beholder games, or the dungeon crawling genre which was heavily integrated with the D&D ruleset in the past (or in the case of the somewhat newer game The Dark Spire - it was quite literally a bad D&D story). I’ve played Dragon Strike but could not find a player or group willing to try something like Heroquest over roleplaying in D&D or Pathfinder, and that’s personally not my thing. At least not anyway. 
I don’t think there is a game that plays like Weiss tbh
It’s pretty unique and it’s a fun way to play waifu wars
I finally got to play a Tabletop RPG last October after years of being curious but without a good “in” to check them out. We have been pretty good about meeting weekly and I have had a lot of fun with it. We play using the Pathfinder system. I don’t really know how it stacks up against other systems, but I have been enjoying it. Though honestly, I am kind of wishywashy on traditional fantasy settings, so I would like to check out some that have their rulebooks geared more towards other settings.
I played Pokemon TGC for a while, but a dearth of opponents made me a lot less enthusiastic about continuing to buy.
I love Tanto Cuore, and I picked up all of the expansions for it, though I have not yet tried the “Expanding The House” extension, but recently really enjoyed messing with the Vacation extension. I really want to get comfortable with the extensions and do a big game with all of them in action, but I still need to ease more of board game playing friends into that idea.
In that case you might want to look into Shadowrun, while that has fantasy elements (there be dragons, yo), it’s more of a modern day, if not futuristic, setting. To sum it up, and hopefully this is correct, ask “What if the world is no longer run by governments but by mega corporations?” and you have a pretty good idea of its setting. I admittedly never played Shadowrun, so I’m not the best guy to talk about it, but from what I’ve heard, it doesn’t strike me as traditional fantasy.
I myself started participating in an Exalted campaign two months ago, and @pictoshark is also a part of this. So far it’s been very fun, although apparently I chose one of the more complicated systems as my first TTRPG.
