MTG or DnD, which kind of nerd are you?

Dnd, pathfinder specifically.

Currently playing a level 6 dwarfbarian with an obsession for clowns.

It definitely is! I tried being DM for one game, and it was ridiculously funny and hard because my friends were goofing around.

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MtG always seemed like a gambling money sink to me, so I never got into it.

I have two D&D weekly games though, one of which I DM, so the answer is clear for me.

I’ve played both, MTG more than DnD. I used to be pretty involved in the legacy scene, but I’ve not played in a while. As for DnD, I’m hoping I can join another group soon.

About the same, just a little later. I got my start with D&D back in ā€˜82. When MTG first came out I had a very brief flirtation, but haven’t touched a deck in probably 25 years.

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Both, plus dozens of other table top RPG’s and TCG’s.

Does it still count as D&D if I wrote my own rulebooks?

Never knew anyone who played dnd so never tried.

Mtg was great when i was a kid in the 90s because it was new and mysterious. Have gone back to it a few times and its nowhere near the same. I primarily draft because it brings more that kitchen table feel rather than dishing out 300 bucks for a standard deck that will last 6 months or 800 for a modern deck.

Back in the day, I think we all did at least some of that. House rules were rampant during those early days.

For about a year, maybe a year and a half, we went collectively insane and decided it would be a good idea to use the Iron Crown attack and crit tables grafted on to 1st Edition AD&D. Don’t ask me how we did it. We somehow managed to make it work, right up until 2nd Edition AD&D came out, at which point we decided it was just more trouble than it was worth.

D&D and AD&D. Everything else is a copycat.

Never played DND so I guess MTG although haven’t played it in forever.

Funnily enough, I have heard of MTG but didn’t know what the abbreviation meant and had to look it up. I would play DND with the right group of friends but dunno if MTG would be for me. Like I’m a nerd but I dunno if I’d really fit in with either crowd, at least not to start.

BOTH

actually a comp MTG player sitting at lvl 42(roughly 14k planeswalker points) on my signed WOTC ID…i play pretty much all formats as well as a heavy collector of mtg(the investment value is as high as some stocks, its crazy $) but my main competitive formats are in Modern and Standard, with occasional attendance at legacy and vintage events and play EDH very casually

also been playing D&D 1E-5E and pathfinder for about 6-7 years now

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Yeah, this is definitely true. Some of my coworkers keep telling me I should go through my old cards and sell them but I keep putting it off. Most of them probably aren’t worth much but I’m betting I’ve got a few that are worth a pretty penny.

My plan was to give my cards to my kid… that plan has pretty much fallen through when I realized I’m probably going to be alone forever :stuck_out_tongue:

D&D when it was actually a good game 3rd edition and earlier, Pathfinder in more recent years as the successor to 3.5. Fourth and Fifth editions just don’t have the character path development that came from earlier editions.

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My friends swore by third or 3.5 editions, and I think the other people I knew who played also stuck with the older editions.

DnD and Yu-Gi-Oh.

I’d say that 2nd was better than 3rd and 3.5 but it had a noticeably harsher learning curve and required you to be much more involved.

MTG interested me when it came out, but it was too cash-intensive. I think I bought a starter pack and that’s it?

DnD would’ve been fun with the right group, but alas that was not my group.