🥾📟🪫 Unreview: Magic d8
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solo_knightUnreview: Magic d8
What is it?
This is a way of looking at your life with the help of dice, assigning positive or negative traits to people or items.
The idea is that eventually you’ll look past the bad (‘this person is a jerk’) and think about why they were a jerk (‘maybe they have problems’).
Is it playable out of the box?
It’s gamified but not a game. And I find it icky.
It’s also ridiculously complex for something that’s supposed to be simple, so complex that I cannot hold it in my head, because you cross off some numbers on a track but others are protected, and you move up or down and… I have to admit I made no effort to truly grok this because I am applying a Booooot.
Amendments:
n/a
Tools
2-3 d8; you can just use one.
Price:
$3
Verdict
🥾 I don’t gamify my life.
📟 Not a game
🪫 Very draining
So the first strike against this is that it made me feel like an antisocial hermit who hates the world. How many people did I interact with today? 1, and I’m not rolling dice to see how I feel about him. Readers, I *married* him. How many things did I interact with? Computer, dice, DIY tools… I probably can list a few more, but none of them are cursed, thank you very much.
This is a thing that wants you to reflect on your day, which is fine, and despite my snark, the overall tone seems fairly positive and encouraging, but I pull tarot cards for this sort of shit, and I have a long-standing policy to not involve people in my life in my reflections and to not assign traits, archetypes, or any other characteristics to them in a random/gamified manner. (There’s some really toxic shit that people do with tarot court cards).
I’m not sure I would play this is if the objects to interact with were random and from an imagined setting. There may be a game in there somewhere, but I’m not motivated enough to look for it.
What is it?
This is a way of looking at your life with the help of dice, assigning positive or negative traits to people or items.
The idea is that eventually you’ll look past the bad (‘this person is a jerk’) and think about why they were a jerk (‘maybe they have problems’).
Is it playable out of the box?
It’s gamified but not a game. And I find it icky.
It’s also ridiculously complex for something that’s supposed to be simple, so complex that I cannot hold it in my head, because you cross off some numbers on a track but others are protected, and you move up or down and… I have to admit I made no effort to truly grok this because I am applying a Booooot.
Amendments:
n/a
Tools
2-3 d8; you can just use one.
Price:
$3
Verdict
🥾 I don’t gamify my life.
📟 Not a game
🪫 Very draining
So the first strike against this is that it made me feel like an antisocial hermit who hates the world. How many people did I interact with today? 1, and I’m not rolling dice to see how I feel about him. Readers, I *married* him. How many things did I interact with? Computer, dice, DIY tools… I probably can list a few more, but none of them are cursed, thank you very much.
This is a thing that wants you to reflect on your day, which is fine, and despite my snark, the overall tone seems fairly positive and encouraging, but I pull tarot cards for this sort of shit, and I have a long-standing policy to not involve people in my life in my reflections and to not assign traits, archetypes, or any other characteristics to them in a random/gamified manner. (There’s some really toxic shit that people do with tarot court cards).
I’m not sure I would play this is if the objects to interact with were random and from an imagined setting. There may be a game in there somewhere, but I’m not motivated enough to look for it.
