The card spellcasting seems like a lot of fun! I like how it makes MUs more powerful as they burn through more spells throughout the day since the player would have a higher chance of correctly guessing the value/suit.

Imagine what a DCO rewrite in the OSE house style would look like

This is great. "Winter's Daughter runs itself, with you as a middleman between the book and the table" hits the nail on the head wrt what is simultaneously the greatest advantage and greatest drawback of OSE/"usability"-focused design.

I also got to show my players the best monster art from 5e:

Forgot who said this but there's a blog post somewhere about how the golden rule for running a sandbox game is just asking your players what they want to do next session and then prepping that. Always loved that idea

...Although now every now and then when we're getting beers or something someone'll be like "So should we take on the Spectral Tower this Thursday or see what's in that bearded wyvern's lair?" and then I just get to sit there while everyone else debates what to do.

Appreciate the warm welcome my man