You meet someone new, and within a moment you have already decided how you feel about them. It happens before they finish their first sentence, often before they say anything at all, and it is almost impossible to switch off.
Gwent, Queen’s Blood, Orlog and Triple Triad began as diversions but grew strong enough to rival their main adventures. Their rules, rewards and settings explain their lasting appeal.
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Recent adaptations have become more confident about changing surface elements while preserving something deeper: the feeling that characters make choices inside systems with consequences.
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The question, then, is why watching someone else play games is now so integral to the scene, when the whole point of games themselves is to provide interactive entertainment that’s different to passive equivalents like movies and TV.
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Minecraft can play the same trick, and Mojang has already spotlighted creators who turned the game into full fantasy RPGs. So yes, stealing a few ideas from RPG level design is fair game.
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