Episode 719 - Status Effects in Games

03/17/25 • 115 min

If you've ever been slept, poisoned, charmed, stunned, slowed, or...made an atheist (?) then this episode is for you! The dorks are talking about (as the title says) status effects in games. Of course we spend a lot of time on RPGs, but status effects are common in all kinds of games. We brought up several different action games and card games just to hammer this point home. Let us know what you think!

Corrupted Blood Incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident Design Doc - What's the Point of Status Effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThDVGP4UB30 Design Doc - Weird Status Effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEPeGx6IVUQ

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Building Toys & Old Cartoons - Dorks Just Chatting

The dorks couldn't come up with something to talk about this episode, so we asked the Pooligans in our Discord community for some ideas! Mycroft wanted to know if we had anything to say about building toys, from Lego to Gunpla, so we talked about that for a while. Then Pana was curious which cartoons we thought might be good to bring back for another run, sort of like DuckTales or She-Ra or any number of other excellent examples. And we spent WAY too long just talking about old cartoons.

Don't blame us when you have to go look up old cartoon theme songs. Even though it's totally our fault.

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Tarkir Dragonstorm Mechanics - https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/tarkir-dragonstorm-mechanics Card Image Gallery - https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/tarkir-dragonstorm/card-image-gallery

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