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| bio | website | boardgamegeek.com/user/… |
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| location | Cleveland | |
| age | 32 | |
| visits | member for | 8 months |
| seen | May 14 at 23:27 | |
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I'm a board game player and designer in the Cleveland area. My BGG designer page is here: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamedesigner/13025/rob-herman
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Jan 13 |
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Poker texas holdem combinations: tie or not tie? The hand with cards of a same suit is called a flush. The original questions referred to matching colors; this is misleading because matching only colors (as opposed to suits) is not a valid hand in any standard poker game. |
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Jan 13 |
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Poker texas holdem combinations: tie or not tie? deleted 22 characters in body |
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Jan 13 |
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Poker texas holdem combinations: tie or not tie? 1. You forgot flushes! 2. It's possible for multiple players to share the same 4-of-a-kind or 3-of-a-kind in single-deck games with shared cards, like Texas Hold'em. |
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Jan 12 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Jan 12 |
answered | Adding money to a game of Risk |
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Jan 11 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Spawning Zombies inside buildings |
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Jan 11 |
reviewed | Close What impact will Kickstarter have on how Designer Board Games are released? |
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Jan 10 |
reviewed | Reviewed When you King's Court a King's Court, when must you pick the three target cards? |
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Jan 10 |
reviewed | Reviewed Why do cards have different rarity levels in Magic: The Gathering? |
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Jan 10 |
answered | How to use Chapel card to its fullest potential? |
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Jan 8 |
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Will a developer fix a (small) broken mechanic, or should I fix it before the submission process begins? Here's an example, based on my own published game ( boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/107834/montana ). As sent to the publisher, the game included Straights and Flushes of length 3 and 4, but no short Straight Flushes. The game was balanced fine, since those hands are rare, but in playtesting, the players kept asking "where are the short straight flushes?" So the developer added them and that seems to satisfy people's sense of symmetry. |
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Jan 8 |
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Will a developer fix a (small) broken mechanic, or should I fix it before the submission process begins? I would say it's the point at which you are no longer convinced that the proposed change is an improvement at all. To use your Catan example in the OP: The game would be incomplete and need improvement without the devo cards. But perhaps a developer tweaked the distribution. Maybe there were originally fewer Soldier cards, but the developers felt that the power cards drew too much of the game's focus, so more were added to water down the big specials and VPs. Maybe some playtesters liked the powerful devo cards, but the developers felt the game would appeal to more players without them. |
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Jan 6 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Jan 6 |
reviewed | Reopen What type of game is Village idiot? |
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Jan 6 |
reviewed | Reviewed Sea of Blood seems broken, what did we miss? |
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Jan 6 |
answered | Will a developer fix a (small) broken mechanic, or should I fix it before the submission process begins? |
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Jan 4 |
reviewed | Close Are copied Flashback cards cast from the graveyard? |
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Jan 4 |
revised |
Are copied spells cast from the graveyard? edited title |
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Jan 2 |
reviewed | Approve suggested edit on Where can I find good tile layouts for Settlers of Catan? |
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Jan 1 |
answered | Where can I find good tile layouts for Settlers of Catan? |
