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| bio | website | cellio.livejournal.com |
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| location | Pittsburgh PA | |
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| visits | member for | 2 years |
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May 22 |
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What is the point in disclosure of the bidding system to opponents? @PieterGeerkens, I'm not in a position to know. :-) (He hasn't been playing a lot lately, but I've heard some anecdotes.) |
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Apr 23 |
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What to do in long games with players who are way behind? @NathanKoop, Advanced Civ and 7 Ages are nice games, but plan to spend the day. :-) (For 7 Ages, I understand, plan to spend the weekend -- we've never played a full game, but there are logical places to cut it off so it still works.) |
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Apr 19 |
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What to do in long games with players who are way behind? @Pow-Ian, I never thought about teams. I second the suggestion to write that up as an answer, particularly if you can address how playing in a team differs from playing as an individual (other than having somebody to do something with when you fall behind :-) ). |
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Apr 18 |
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What to do in long games with players who are way behind? I am at a loss for how to tag this; I didn't find anything about group dynamicss, general play, etc. Help? |
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Feb 18 |
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How exactly do cures affect future infection in Pandemic? I don't have the rules handy here at work, but look up "eradicate". Cure + no cubes on board = eradicated, so (except with some variants in On the Brink) it can't come out again and those infection cards have no effect. |
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Dec 31 |
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What are the rules of the game Senet? Hello and welcome to BCG. Could you expand this answer? If that video ever gets taken down this answer won't be very helpful; we try to aim for answers that stand on their own. Links are fine, but link-only answers are kind of fragile. Thanks. |
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Dec 23 |
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What exactly was so broken about Urza's Block? Welcome to BCG! Can you add some specifics? Which cards are you talking about? |
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Dec 21 |
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What are the differences between American Megafauna and Bios: Megafauna? Suspected it might have been. :-) |
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Dec 21 |
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What are the differences between American Megafauna and Bios: Megafauna? Thank you for saving both of those tags from extinction. :-) |
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Dec 13 |
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Can you turn around in Circus Imperium? Can you point to a rule, designer comment, FAQ, or suchlike to support this? (I'm not disagreeing; I don't know the game. But if you can add a source your answer will be stronger.) |
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Nov 26 |
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In Bridge, Can I Ask About Previously Played Cards to the Current Trick? How does that question announce your void? You could just as easily have had a higher card, but you wouldn't want to take a trick your partner was already winning. |
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Oct 30 |
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How can we finish Titan in 4 hours? Thanks for the addition about offering deals! That hadn't occurred to us and I'll bet it'll make a big difference with the "slog-fest" battles. |
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Oct 29 |
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How can we play a shorter but satisfying game of Arkham Horror? @Jefromi, thanks. I assumed that since the same group of players has won games in 3 hours and bailed at 8 that it wasn't the players per se but some characteristic of the game (bad mix of characters, unfortunate early monster placements, whatever). That said, we must have had some role in the long games too -- just trying to figure out what the relevant factors are. |
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Oct 26 |
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How can we play a shorter but satisfying game of Arkham Horror? Thanks! Analyzing the card frequencies hadn't occurred to me (duh!); we've probably been wasting a lot of effort on low-probability recurrences. And it does sound like we're playing with with the wrong number of people. |
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Oct 26 |
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How can we play a shorter but satisfying game of Arkham Horror? Great advice, thanks! We do pretty well on distributed setup, but group planning of turns would make a big difference. Because the cost of injury and madness are so high we probably play too conservatively, so the Dunwich changes would make a big difference. |
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Oct 25 |
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How to minimize Puerto Rico setup time? I was just coming here to say "paint the colonists". Also, if marking victory points isn't obvious enough (or doesn't work well on the coated surface), there's no reason you can't have different types of tokens for VP -- poker chips, coins, or anything else of that sort work just as well. (To keep it secret, you can throw a napkin or inverted small bowl or something over your pile.) |
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Oct 24 |
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How can I clearly detail all possible destinations from every point of the map in my game? How many nodes are we talking about? On average, how many outbound connections from one of them? (Pandemic does this well for 48 cities and ~4 av. connections.) |
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Jul 24 |
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Something that only happens every X turns Another along these lines: if there is a scoring phase at the end of each turn, you can tie "increment the brazening counter" into that. |
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Jul 13 |
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How do you configure the people playing Werewolves to not give each other away? Drumming on the table (sound + movement) is what I'm used to too. |
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Jul 13 |
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How do you prevent deliberately losing in Republic of Rome? Punches being thrown? Wow, your group is way more hard-core than mine. :-) |
