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The heroine of Danzy Senna’s new book is a novelist envious of the material pleasures all around her in Hollywood.
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The folk singer and author tells NME why he was allowed to “run wild” in creating a Secret Lair set for the hugely popular card game 16th August 2023 John Darnielle, with artwork from Magic: The Gathering’s ‘Featuring: The Mountain Goats’ set. Credit: David A. Smith / Getty Images, Wizards Of The Coast. 4 0 years ago, John Darnielle was killed by a ghost. Before finding fame with folk band The Mountain Goats , the singer-songwriter was battling the supernatural in fantasy tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons ( D&D ), despite being explicitly told not to. Speaking to NME over Zoom, Darnielle recalls getting several warnings that the ghost in question would kill him, but insisted that the group would “see what happens, right?” Read More: The 8 best PC games you need to play in 2023 They did. “I died, and I said ‘to hell with this game,’” Darnielle admits, with a hint of bitterness. However, he proved unable to stay away from tabletop gaming, falling in love with the genre’s potential for storytelling while looking past the dice-based formula that gets optimistic folk singers murdered by spirits. The Mountain Goats’ 17th studio album, ‘ In League With Dragons ’, was partly inspired by D&D , and in 2019 Darnielle worked with the game’s creator, Wizards Of The Coast , to premiere it. Now, he’s working with the company again: this time, to create a unique set of cards for its collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering ( M:TG ). Darnielle’s relationship with M:TG started with a trip to the company’s Seattle headquarters, where he played a live set for ‘In League With Dragons’. On the way out, Darnielle was “loaded up” with M:TG cards, sealing his fate – in no time at all he was attending a midnight pre-release for its 2019 expansion, Ravnica Allegiance , and spending lunch breaks crafting decks with a friend. A tweet stating “I want to play Magic: The Gathering ,” posted in 2020, remains pinned to the top of his Twitter account today. Noticing the singer had fallen hard for […]
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The heroine of Danzy Senna’s new book is a novelist envious of the material pleasures all around her in Hollywood.
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