I've played Magic a few times when it was first popular and several of my friends were VERY into it. None of them play it much now.

I know an artist (in our local SCA group) who's done illustrations for a number of Magic cards, among other things. His webpage has the cards he's done, as well as a few spoofs done for Inquest magazine.
[www.randyasplund.com]

I've played Magic and we have a few decks, but I never really got too into it because the people we played with were rather fanatical and were nasty about playing.

Magda - that art is great! I only recognise one of the cards, but like I say, haven't played for a while...

AAC, I know the type of people you mean. I prefer to play for fun, myself!



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Do something pretty while you can...

One of the people in my ex-University roleplaying group started bringing a selection of Magic decks to our annual reunions, as something for use to do in between the roleplaying sessions. I subsequently bought some cards and built a few decks of my own, but the annual reunions are the only occasions on which I ever use them.

The collectable card game that I used to be into was 'Legend of the Five Rings', which is a fantasy wargame set in a culture that was quite heavily based on our world's pre-"modern" Japan. Haven't played that for about a couple of years, though, as both of the groups in which I'd been doing so broke up...

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"This was willed where what is willed... can get rather silly."

I've played Magic a couple of times, though I wasn't particularly good at it. Lots of people who've played Escape From Atlantis! I've never heard of anyone else who'd even heard of it before :D
We've got a board game based on the Hobbit which is pretty silly - you go around collecting jewels, swopping them for weapons, and answering riddles. Great fun, but takes forever, particularly if you don't read the instructions before starting!



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