The best authors of any medium have a distinct style. One of the pleasures of being a more veteran player of tabletop games is appreciating the styles of my favorite designers. One of my favorites is Uwe Rosenberg.

This is the third part of a designer diary series on Five Ravens. You can read the rules here. You can download the Print and Play here. The design of the cards, and by design I mean the visual layout and design, was very important to me from the very start of Five Ravens.

This is the first part of a designer diary series on Five Ravens. You can read the rules here. You can download the Print and Play here. At the conclusion of Solstice I knew I wanted to create a new card game that sidestepped some of the issues that made Solstice such a difficult game to design.

The current me has had a good run.For about seven years I've been exploring card games inspired by Magic: The Gathering and experimenting with many flavors of multi-use cards. Sometimes more overtly (Five Ravens, where cards have two explicit functions), and others more subtlely (Solstice, where you can draft cards to help you or hinder an opponent with blocking plays).