What a legend. I'm getting back into Overpower with the kickstart and it's so cool to hear the history.

The Hammer is just Bandit Keith from YuGiOh in material reality

When will there be more? This has become my favorite 'NPR style' podcast about TCG design.

Any man who dyes their hair in abnormal colors is a nonce. This pattern has never failed so far.

This episode was awful because unlike in the previous ones where you talked about the topic in relation to all card games in general, this entire video is just talk about your guests specific card games resource system.

07:50 how did he cast frantic search there? Shouldn't be the mana be alreaddy gone after the upkeep step?

I came here because I just watched Curious Archive's video about the history of goblins in folklore, and this clip was included.

You all done or not?

Why is this so blurry?

Great vid. The topic is interesting. A sharpie and some imagination are an to bulk. MTG players recently started doing this within a new format.

I got 3 minutes in, and had to stop watching, because they were flicking their cards.😢 Such an annoying sound.

Hammer tried to punk me back in the day at a bar in Manchester NH. I called his bluff. He’s for sure bigger than me but he bitched out. He’s a big pussy

Would love to know the deck lists to those crisis decks he has! Great interview!

This was one of the coolest ways to win a game of Magic with a spider

Another great interview. Not sure how I missed watching this one until now. His feelings about madden bridging a gap is how I feel about the Harry Potter books and movies.

Is there anyone in Dallas texas looking for original AEG legends cards? I have clan boxes, training grounds 1 & 2 boxes, and many loose cards. Most are in very good shape

Part 3?

You still owe me $2200 for winning PAX West

10 min in and already a great episode.

where i can find this

Why do these Kickstarter games exist? They are lesser ripoffs of MTG. Go for some originality instead of just being an MTG patch

Knock-off Beck, haha.

MAJOR cringe everyone know magic players are basically swimming in good pu**y <3

it's nice when the guest has a decent camera, good camera angle, and good mic. It makes watching so much better. I'm seeing in a lot of other videos the camera will be below the guest speaker, they wont have a very good background, it will be a very low quality camera, and/or the mic will be low quality. But this one is done a lot better

Would love to do Tik Tok but I can never think of interesting content. I doubt people want to see my face just talking about a game that doesn't exist yet.

Great interview! Haven’t blood wars but the art is amazing and the game seems pretty fun. Love those old ccg manuals!

I'm 15 minutes into this video and the guest has stated, and I'm not kidding, 3 different Duel Masters mechanics are mechanics that "Nobody likes" You're allowed to punch up, but be accurate about it. (The three mechanics he has referred to specifically are: having dedicated blocker cards, the inability to act on the opponent's turn, and cards having a singular power stat.) I would be surprised if he's aware that Duel Masters is still going in Japan. Duel Masters is constantly fighting for being the most popular card game in Japan to this day (along with Pokemon, and Yugioh). It is above MtG in Japan, and, yes, even Kryptic. I'm not going to say popularity does a good game make, but clearly people do like these systems. So far all the guest has done has discredit himself as a result. Clearly there is something about the simplicity in Duel Masters that makes it elegant and have long-lasting appeal. Additionally he's thrown out the idea of 'interaction' like 20 times and just parroted the concept that interaction on your opponent's turn is the only meaningful form of it (here I'm extrapolating slightly because it's the only thing he's talked about aside from Kryptic's lore). A game like Duel Masters has interaction, just not during your opponent's turn quite as frequently. Instead of passing priority, you're passing turns and letting the opponent act on their turn, which may as well be just as interactive as passing priority in a lot of cases, but has less awkward staring at your opponent waiting for them to move every time you take any action. Games that don't have stacks can be more interactive in a lot of cases. I would argue the Transformers TCG is designed around this concept, and does it quite well, and, at a base level, I think is more interactive than a game like MtG. That all being said, I like the quality of this podcast. I'm gonna check out your other stuff, but I can't watch this one anymore... This guest is mispresenting basic concepts and returning conversation circularly away from the directed podcast topic toward Kryptic (a game I, the listener, have no reference for, nor care much to look into after listening).

So interesting to watch this interview 2 years after it's release. What has now happened is just what was being described as a vague possibility by the creators- some younger guys who love the game and the comics have created a company to buy OverPower. They've released an initial run of new cards featuring public domain characters, and have now obtained a few licenses for major intellectual properties. Those properties are undisclosed to the public, including the OP community at the moment, but Marvel, DC, and Image are their priorities and we strongly suspect they've got Marvel on board. Also funny to hear Theo say, as an example of game design and balance, that you can't just release a Galactus card called "Eat Worlds, Game Over," when unknown to him that's spot-on with what happened in the final OverPower expansion in the '90s. The infamous card "Devourer of Worlds" featuring an image of Galactus pretty much broke a major aspect of the game until it become banned from tournaments. Anyways, a little insight from mid-2024 for anyone who stumbles upon this video later on, very likely after the new OverPower releases hit it big (hopefully)!

Something tells me jason is only playing creatures

Great episode, enjoyed this a lot. One small piece of feedback tho - I think the title is a bit misleading. This is more of an interview about Kryptic than a theory discussion about combat mechanics. I still would have listened to an interview about Kryptic, to be clear. And I think the episode was great. But definitely not what I was expecting from the title. I was expecting more of an overview of the existing landscape of combat mechanics and how they influence the design, what their pros and cons are, etc.

For someone that made a game that is heavily, heavily inspired by DM (shield and mana mechanics being almost identical) this guy seems to have a lot of unnecessary hate for that game. Also I’m not sure he understands what qualifies as interactions during the enemie’s turn, because there’s plenty in Duel Masters…

😂 Goblin Hero, what a card!

Justin is the SOLE reason why I might keep an eye on the Altered TCG EDIT: I wonder if he ever played Decipher's Lord of the Ring, or even FPG's Dark Ages

Talking about Yu-Gi-Oh, there is an archetype called Mekk-Knight that all can special summon themselves to a field if two or more cards are in the same column. They also have spells and traps that negate card effects that are activated in the same column as a mekk knight. One of their monster's only effect (besides the special summon condition) is that he can move a mekk knight once per turn to a different column during either players turn. He's nicknamed move man

I guess one of the reasons TCGs is so often focused around combat is because it gives good justification for your character focused cards leaving the field at some point. Combat also makes a variable number of participants and interaction with the opponent necessary. For Non combat focused competition you're either completely focused on your own performance or the number of participants is highly regulated, so the framework just doesn't fit that nicely on a game that's about interaction and playing a variety of cards. It's of course not impossible, but it either requires a higher amount of abstraction (a character entering the field doesn't mean they are just now joining the game, but taking an active role, whereas them getting removed from the field is them getting in a bad position and not being able to act until they get played again) or creating a new framework or maybe non at all

The pros of resource cards: -It feels good to have that tactile response when you slap down / discard a physical card representing your resource -A stack of resource cards you accumulated feels like a bigger accomplishment than a number on a dial -The resource cards can have their own flavour to them (fire, water, etc.) so your battlers can have more diverse costs to their attacks The cons of resource cards: -The game inevitably slows down a bit. Drawing a resource card and then attaching it costs the players a turn. -It makes your deck fatter. With no resource cards, your deck is going to be a sleek 40 cards or so. With resource cards it'll balloon to about 60. -Since resources are more scarce, players have less options turn by turn. They have to "build up" for much longer to get their options to open up. -If your game doesn't have strong "draw power," you run the risk of "drowning in" or being "been starved of" your resource cards Can be a pro or a con, depending on your opinion: -If your resource cards have "colours," Decks will inevitably fall into using one or two colours. This can be a con because it makes your deck less diverse but it can also be a pro because it gives your deck a theme, meaning players can latch on to a sort of "identity" based on their play style (I like harassing other players and denying their gameplay options so I'll use a "Dark" deck, I like rapid aggression and overbearing pressure so I'll use a "Fire" deck, etc.). I guess the absolute worst of both worlds would be a game that was colorless AND ALSO used resource cards. *shudder* I experimented with both systems in designing my own TCG and for me personally, I have a slight preference for the Pokemon/MTG route where resources are physical cards mixed into your deck. But it's a *very* close contest and I think both options are totally viable.

whats up with the duel masters hate ? duel masters is the best designed tcg

if they dont win they dont eat is crazy

I'm currently making my own TCG. It's currently in Alpha State Playtesting among my friends. I'm excited to see it finished.

Lil tough to hear this guy 😅 still, a pretty good episode. Always interesting to hear from the Altered folks

So glad to hear all this from Paragon, Been following for a while now, looking forward to the KS for sure. Can't wait to play

At 37:00 I'm not sure if he's saying that like it's a good thing for digital, to me it does, but those numbers sound like Hell for the consumer.

I remember seeing this advert I felt sorry for Goblin Hero because they sent the poor little(although not so little now) guy back just because he was small didn't mean he was weak

Great minds... We are doing similar just not in TCG form. Nice to see others who know Triple Triad, especially from FFVIII.

Kinda expected someone adding to the discussion on how to make more varied combats... all he had to add is how awesome his game is and that MTG is the only fun combat system. You should have named it "Why you should play Kryptic" ☹️

I think if you're making a digital card game, it's worth addressing why your game benefits from the artifice of 'cards' as the game pieces instead of tactical RPG units. To put it another way - why have a card of a sword instead of a sword? Not to imply that there's no good reason to make a digital card game, just food for thought.

This is great! Thank you guys for looking out for the little guys.

Fantastic episode!

It's wild how common it was for us kids to not know how to play the pokemon tcg back then.

Zillions of enemy X has been doing grid base And so has moncolle tcg it isn't new