It's interesting to see how diverse characters in Magic: the Gathering have become recently ( Read more... )

It's been a little while since I've posted here. What have I been up to?

The answer, most emphatically, is Multiverse.

What is Multiverse? It's an online database for home-made Magic: the Gathering cards, that I wrote in September or so and have been adding features to since then.

Does anyone bother using such a site? Somewhat to my surprise, ( Read more... )

Hmm, it's a long time since I've posted on here ( Read more... )

I've finished the first draft of the Magic: the Gathering set that I've been making. Two hundred and forty-six cards, with an immense amount of structure: balanced across colours, rarities, card types, converted mana cost and power level. The theme is card types - artifacts, enchantments, land, instants and sorceries.

You can see the full first- ( Read more... )

I appear to be designing a Magic: the Gathering cardset.

It wasn't entirely deliberate. I want to be writing Mermaid Liaisons. But for the past couple of weeks a large amount of my creative energies have been going into designing my own amateur set of 250 Magic cards. It's just kind of frenetically taken over ( Read more... )

I drove down to London today, to play in The Games Club's prerelease tournament for the new Magic: the Gathering set, ShadowmoorI had a remarkably good time. Particularly given the somewhat disappointing fact that although I'd been looking forward to meeting my brother Ant, Chris Howlett, and Alan Lawrence there, actually none of the three of them ( Read more... )

As some of you may know, I've been off work for a few days with the norovirus. (Medical TMI BBC link) In fact, I've had it twice, once 2 or 3 weeks ago, and once this week. One of the interesting things about this is that you're meant to avoid people for 48 hours after symptoms end, to avoid infecting them. So this has resulted in me having some ( Read more... )