Chris 'can choke on his surname' Cocks, needs a reality check. UB is killing Magic for me.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Haha, I agree. I'm glad that some people enjoy it, but I'm not a fan personally

@nagsorinaste5658

4 ай бұрын

first part yes absolutely, second part naaaaah UB is fun ^^ maybe liitle supressive in Legacy, but other than that just a natural part of the game. I don't like the strategies R usually employs yet eh so be it, part of the game. (edit nevermind, just got that you meant universes beyond, not Blue Black xD ok that's more reasonable, personally don't have a problem with it, but can somewhat get it. although for me sets like kalrov mannor or thunder junction feel more liek an insult to magic compared to lotr or warhammer)

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@nagsorinaste5658 You know what, you're actually right there. I've been compaing Universes Beyond to older sets. But if you compare it to what's currently available then Universes Beyond is a stand out in terms of quality. I just don't want to play Fortnight the card game, you know?

@themrrental2509

4 ай бұрын

I understood this as "Dimir is killing Magic for me." the first three times I read it.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@themrrental2509 I mean... haha

They did do a similar survey for MTG, they posted it on a community post on their youtube channels. The question were mostly about Murders at Karlov Manor but it did include a question asking us about what we thought about Hasbro.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Oh god damn! I'd have loved to have taken that. If only there were some MTG KZreadr who enjoyed surveys... wait...

When you said about the vague ruling of 5e I was gonna suggest Pathfinder 2e, then you actually suggested it on the video, didn't expect that lol. Another content creator recommendation is Rebel then King and SwingRipper

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

I'll check em out, thank you

Ronald is so great, I the fact the rules are all free online helped so much with learning pf2e. The remaster are also top quality books which are worth buying as they are format very well. makes DMing so fun and easy. Also the alternate rules are great.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, I kicked myself after I uploaded this for not mentioning that the rules are all free. That's such a big selling point for 2E

I'm a massive nerd, and am/was hooked on MTG, but as you've mentioned, WotC's current direction is not only making me less inclined to purchase their products, but also to play with my existing cards. So yeah, they can choke on their surname I guess.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Ha! Yep

I recommend Seth Skorkowsky if you want more non 5e related content. He’s cool as ice let me tell ya.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

For real? I'll check it out!

@rats-of-a-feather

4 ай бұрын

@@RedBobcatGames Highly recommend the "Scott Brown Incident" gaming war story and, honestly, all of his videos.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@@rats-of-a-feather Cool, will do. Should I be embarrassed that I currently don't know who Scott Brown is?

@rats-of-a-feather

4 ай бұрын

@@RedBobcatGames nope! its actually the funniest part of the story. it was something local for his group.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@@rats-of-a-featherSick, the next video is a LONG one, but once I have some free time from editing I'll have a look

the pinkertons is the single dumbest thing they could have done in that situation. a calm call from a lawyer would have accomplished the same and not have an infamous group tied up in picking up some card board. hell it getting leaked wasnt nearly as bad as the reaction people were going to have to them using that much force to get the cards back

@RedBobcatGames

3 ай бұрын

I mean, to be fair though. If it were me I'd have told their lawyers to get stuffed. If I haven't signed a contract, and I have aquired those cards through legal means then I'd show them off 100%. Pinkertons or no

a survey about the survey would be fire. like survey inception

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

I'm honestly hoping like 3 more videos get made after this. You could watch them all back to back and slowly go mad haha

@9536franlin

4 ай бұрын

@@RedBobcatGames now im not sure if its more "groundhog day" or "inception"

A good selection of recomended channels! I struggled to get into pathfinder - it felt to me that the game rules focused more on optimal choices and less around building or fleshing out a character. undoubtibly if everyone in the same group approches with the same attitude I am sure that it would be much more balanced, and as a 5E GM I'd love for there to be more support for running games, but in my own personal experiance there was a huge disparity in characters to hit modifers of our level 1 characters from +4 all the way to +9 and given that a higher to hit is also a higher chance to critically hit it meant that the character with the most to hit not only hits more often, but also more frequently gets bigger numbers. anyway thanks once again for the video!

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

No worries. I've heard that line of thought a few times. Ronald the Rules Lawyer I think has even done some videos on it. In my experience of Pathfinder I found that it's a wider game than D&D, and that yeah there are "optimal" actions. But, situations can change so frequently that what's optimal is different turn to turn. For instance, playing a damage dealer, I honestly found that sometimes my best option was to do something completely different. The classic example is just to close a door. Close it, then ready an action to close it again if they try and open it. It means on an opponent's turn they have to waste 2 actions just to get into the room with the party. It's glorious. I think if every encounter is just a blank room with a monster in it, then yeah every fight will play out the same. But that's what I like about Pathfinder, all those extra weird inclusions give the players and world so my more flavour and fun.

Happy april fools, the real fools turns out, is hasbro😊

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

You know what, I didn't even twig what day this would come out on haha

@mountainghoti1671

4 ай бұрын

I believe those consumers of new D&D, and Magic products, are the fools.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@@mountainghoti1671 I'm hearing rumours of a backlash about Thunder Junction. May have to cover it

@sg137iu

4 ай бұрын

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool all of us over and over and still make money off us all....shame on us?

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@@sg137iu Perhaps. But ultimatley it will be wizards that pay the price, once all of their player base sort of drifts away with disinterest

I took the (fire) survey on Bob Worldbuilder's (ice) video, and I answered pretty similarly. On thing I noticed that you probably did is that there's no question "Do you play Dungeons & Dragons?" You took the survey even though you don't anymore, and I took it even though I never have (Always wanted to, but have never had the opportunity.) I'm not counting the hour and a half I spent in an LGS counting ceiling tiles while a Paladin I'd been handed took a nap and then crossed a bridge, both of which I had to roll for. The point being, the survey doesn't have a way to separate the opinions of current players from former or wannabe players, and I'm sure that's messing with the data. I'm now definitely an ex-Magic player as well, and that has as much to do with being unwelcome in the community as it does hating every set printed in the past 3 years. My opinion of WotC and their products is entirely negative now, but I'm not sure I can quantify how much of that is due to Hasbro and how much is due to the people around me.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@JervisGermane That was tough to read. I've always felt the Magic community has always been pretty accepting. There has been a shift lately in the player base though I think. It seems WotC under Hasbro are courting new audiences and letting older fans wither on the vine. It's all about profits. Sorry to hear about your experiences though. Oh, and yeah you're right. It is weird that anyone could fill in that survey whether they play or not. Probably why they took the official one down so fast

@JervisGermane

4 ай бұрын

@@RedBobcatGames You don't have to waste any sympathy on me. My own wife will tell you I'm hard to get along with. I'm opinionated and stubborn, and I come from an opinionated and stubborn family. But I had the same thought regarding the official poll. They might have taken it down because it wasn't giving them meaningful results rather than because it was giving them results they wanted to hide. Still, they might have added in a question or two like that and tried again.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

I suspect that's the case. Probably wanted to please the shareholders, but the data was doing the opposite. Oh, and I suspect we have some stuff in common. If you can't tell from my videos, stubborn and opinionated is very much my vibe

@JervisGermane

4 ай бұрын

​@@RedBobcatGames I have some videos on my own channel about that, although I'm not going to make any more. In summary, there's a lot of life where I either have no say at all or have to compromise: the economy, politics domestic and international, my job, my religious faith, my relationships with my friends and family, and even my marriage. When it comes to a hobby, which is completely voluntary, if I can't do it in a way I find fun, why do it at all? Especially in a hobby like Magic where I've already spent more than $10k over the decades. What did I spend all that money for? Nobody wants anyone to play the way I want to play. Not just *they* don't want to, they don't want *me* to be able to. I got kicked out of the only other Patreon I was a member of two weeks ago over this. People won't let me pay them money to talk about Magic how I want or play how I want. So I said, that's it, I'm done for good. I'm 39 and too old for these mind games. And I already have my own card game and TTRPG. I don't need anyone else's anymore.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@@JervisGermane Fair enough, I can respect that. It's a shame Magic is losing older players, but that doesn't sound like it's an issue that'll be your burden anymore. I wish you good luck, and more importantly I hope you find your people. You know? You won't be alone, there will be others out there that share your feelings and will want to play the way you do. I'm very lucky to have some friends that share similar thoughts to myself on the current state of magic. We have our own format I keep meaning to make a video on that basically plays the way we want the game to be played. I'll get round to it at some point I'm sure

The link is still up! N ICE!

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Sick, fill that survey in!

WotC definitely seems to be ignoring a fire in their house. Thanks for that prompt. Now my comment can be interpreted as a critique on FIRE design. Or fire sales. Or that meme with the dog.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Like, at times it seems they're actively encouraging the fire! It's madnice!

That title sure is FIRE! I liked your point about how Hasbro is making more money, but getting less popular.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Just an opinion, the general sense I get from the community. Though, looking at the Thunder Junction prejections and I might be right. It's not a nICE feeling

Bloomburrow is the first set I've been moderately hyped about for quite some time.

@RedBobcatGames

3 ай бұрын

Me too. I did a video covering it you may have seen (and I may have mentioned in this video). I have some worries, but I'm excited

Hasbro's behaviour is a sure-fire way to ice out customers, new and old

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Smooth

I tried to get people to refer to him as Chris "disregard that I suck" Cocks, but I guess that was too obscure to catch on. Also "fire" makes me think of shitty modern design and I find that triggering, I will be sending you the bill for my therapy.

@RedBobcatGames

3 ай бұрын

Ha! I do apologise

How much do you enjoy The Red Bobcat’s content? A lot A whole lot Thiiiiiiiis much *extends out arms*

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Am I allowed to vote? Seems like it should be illegal

There is really a missing question with that survey, adding a section on Hasbro would have pointed out the community's hire is not exactly toward WotC, but Hasbro. Now, i voted i hate WotC, but i really meant Hasbro.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, pretty much. Like I said in the vid, if the question was about Hasbro it would have been much easier to answer

I fucking hate what hasbro has done to WOTC, bc I love magic and all the wacky nonsense you can do in D&D (tried pathfinder, prefer D&D) such a shame those wonderfull IPs are now controlled by money hungry [insert swearword here, bc I can't think of one that properly articulates my anger]

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

The swear you are looking I believe is "Hasbro". Or at least I feel it deserves to be a dirty word

I could still do the survey.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Awesome, I'm pleased. I was worried this would have been too late. I assume you're going to fill it in?

Good video

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Thank you very much. Good comment

Fire

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

nice

Hasbro got to go down or at least Chris Cocks does

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

I'm not even sure he's fully to blame. If they fired him, they'd just replace him with another suit

@Itachi45481

4 ай бұрын

@@RedBobcatGames I think it would help a little

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@@Itachi45481 Perhaps, but also better the devil you know sometimes sadly

Fire and Ice! 🔥🧊😊

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

nIce

fire video 🔥 ima go for some ice cream, you want any?

@RedBobcatGames

Ай бұрын

Yes please. Vanilla if you don't mind. People say it doesn't taste of anything but I actually really like it. Always been weird to me that "vanilla" as a word tends to mean plain or blank

@ottertvmtg6229

Ай бұрын

@@RedBobcatGames i know right??? vanilla is my favorite flavor too! i feel like if anything, strawberry shouldve become the word for 'default'

@RedBobcatGames

Ай бұрын

My brain always goes to Unsalted as a word for blank, because (at least in England) you can get packets of crisps with no added flavouring. Instead you get a little sachet of salt inside to add at your leisure. Don't add the salt? Then they're not given any additional flavouring at all

oh, Hasbro owns WotC? no wonder there are problems. Hasbro bought Microprose however many decades ago and it was not good then either. thankfully Hasbro sold their interactive division (incl. Microprose) to Infogrames, who quickly renamed themselves to Atari since that name was included in the package. fire ice.

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

That's interesting, I didn't know that. And Hasbro do have a weird history. The Battleship movie springs to mind, pretty sure that was them haha

I'm in a weird state where I am extremely displeased with how wotc is acting and their decisions about dnd and mtg, 2 of my favorite games, but I've lost no love for the games. I'm not going to boycott dnd, I actually really love 5e, it works well for the dungeon crawl-heavy style of game I like to run, and I have a good time playing it when I'm not the dm too. I certainly won't buy magic products if I don't like the individual product, but I'm not going to stop playing a card game I enjoy when I already have multiple fun decks to play, even if wotc never again made a product for magic that I like. If wotc screwed up so bad that they had to close their doors tomorrow, I'd still be playing dnd and magic with the content that we already have, but I wouldn't feel bad for the company after how badly they've been mishandling things either

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

That is the beauty of it. I stopped played basically any official format a while ago. Power creep and cards with jank rules don't really affect us because of it. I think it's the way forward

Im still running a game in 5e but this is going to be my last one. I'm actually the opposite to you, I like flexible rules in my RPG's but after playing more systems like various Powered By The apocalypse games 5e is in a very awkward middle ground with a lot of amazing design choices and lots of awful ones. 5e remains the most popular but everyone I know who has branched out to explore more systems walks away enjoying something else over D&D

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

I got a sentence into your comment and was going to say you should try out Monster of the Week. It's AMAZING. But it's essentially a spin off from Powered By The Apocalypse, so it sounds like you're on that track anyway. Still, Monster of the Week is something I'd very much recommend. My only advice would be, let your players have just as much imput into the world building as you do, whilst still having an idea of where the campaign is actually going. The game is basically one long season of X-Files or Supernatural. You gotta have an end goal in mind

@callumbyrne4263

4 ай бұрын

@@RedBobcatGames Orrrrrr it could be Scooby-Doo! TBH even my serious horror games tend to end up as scooby anyway

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@@callumbyrne4263There's literally a... I guess "class" in the game all about beinga "meddling kid". It's basically designed for it!

@callumbyrne4263

4 ай бұрын

@@RedBobcatGames OMG yeeesssssssss. Scooby intrest intencified

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

@@callumbyrne4263 They have a mechanic where they can "unmask" the Monster of the Week and reveal it to have been like, the Lighthouse Keeper the whole time (or whatever). It's an amazing game

Pathfinder 2e is SO much better than 5e it’s not even funny

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Well I've laughed haha

My problem over all is not WOTC, per say, but hasbro and subsequently that giant roaster calling shots. All I want are cardboard rectangles, not the selling out of one of my favorite hobbies just to make some corpo jack off more money. Ultimately, at the end of the day, I don't know what it actually takes to keep a company alive and thriving. It justfeels like i'm being jipped somewhere. (Everywhere mkre like it)

@RedBobcatGames

4 ай бұрын

Agreed. It's a shame that a game we enjoy HAS to make a profit for people that really don't care

Fire

@RedBobcatGames

2 ай бұрын

Ty ty