"Anyone can bid in an auction, including the one who declined the option to buy it at the printed price." Also, more official rules PDF. From other forums I have visited, it seems as though most ...
Send the rules. Fear of having your idea copied/stolen is a uniquely amateur mentality. Daniel Solis (designer) and Gil Hova (publisher who references other publishers) cover the topic well in their ...
This is Go Long, a game about (American) football. The black die is for yards gained, if I remember correctly. Here's an image of the dice from Go Long (from BoardGameGeek):
Yes, that is legal. You may play the knight at any time during your turn, including before rolling.
I can't figure out if you are asking one overly broad question, or many smaller-scoped questions... in any case: The "player to the right" strategy ignores a few possibilities, including: - one or ...
If you scroll down to "Pegging Maximal Score", they outline how the dealer can peg 30 points. I found that page from an answer to the question that you linked above... not sure how you ...
According to the official rules, property owners must ask for the rent before the player after the next player rolls the dice or they forfeit the rent. The owner may not collect the rent if they ...
Yes. But if you have enough cubes to complete that many missions, you'll probably find the spaces at Waterdeep Harbor filled with enemies playing mandatory quests on you... From the FAQ: Q: When ...
It is to promote communication between players. If you and I (try to) use the same lift/elevator in the same turn, one of us will be delayed - and this send all of that player's subsequent plans ...
Technology has helped me convert/graduate more players than any other tool that I have used. Consider Dominion: this game is very easy to play online. You click on cards that are in bold and then you ...
You lose tension without this rule, since players can effectively just "burn" undesirable beans - both those in hand and those that are flipped in the second phase of each turn. My suspicion is that ...
For starters, you cannot objectively have the scoring based on precision, cleanliness, etc. Players will vote however they want, which - depending on the system you use to collect votes - can allow ...
Key assumption: Every player places both of their initial settlements according to what will get them the most resources (so we don't have people going for port combos, weird 12/2 superstitions, etc.) ...
The English text on Colonizer Training Camp is (Oxygen must be 5% or less.) This goes with the "max 5%" icon, as you suspected. edit: Link to an image on BGG, where the English card can be ...
Before you [as the sheriff] inspect a bag, you may choose to threaten the bag's owner. That player may offer you a bribe to avoid the inspection. A deal is considered complete when an offer is ...
My first published game has a map of seven hexagonal tiles, so I have some experience with this. If you must have hex tiles (e.g. a case where the board layout is user-generated as in the 4x game E C ...
One way to speed up the game is to increase resource production. There are two common approaches to this: During setup, each player's second placement is a city. This gives a boost to everyone's ...
Whenever anyone takes the "Take 1 Grain" action space, they must first pay the Sycophant 1 food. After receiving this payment, the Sycophant then (also) receives 1 food from the supply. When the ...
I just did an advanced search for party games + science fiction (weight < 2) and Cosmocracy was 10th on the list.
The game is Nyctophobia. I spoke with the designer last weekend, and she said it's scheduled for a Gencon 2018 release.
The rules explicitly state that Discard cards are immediately used and discarded. It's in a text box right above "3. Buying cards".
Notice that the text of the Parasite say that "...you may use this power to ally..." (emphasis mine). It does not say "... you may use this power by allying...". The point is that the use of the ...
Remember - act out the card in order that it is written: +1 Card, then +1 Action, then "Name a card...". So any card that has you put (just) one card back on your deck (e.g. Spy, Bureaucrat, Lookout,...
It's hard to say what would have happened in your game had more 4-of-a-kind tiles been claimed, but it only takes 3 (8, 7, 7, if I remember correctly) in a 4p game for the points per card to be more ...
You score points for EVERY route you claim, based on its length (length 1 is 1 point; length 2 is 2, 3 is 4, 4 is 7, etc), at the time that you claim it. Destination cards are awarded (or penalized) ...
Frankly, I don't see how you could entertain the second interpretation at all! From this picture: https://boardgamegeek.com/article/20687079#20687079 ADVANCE 3 SPACES IF YOU DISCARD THE CARD ...
Not to be trite, but the score is the score! Announcing point contributions from the various categories (runs, pairs, same suit, correct Jack, etc.) should suffice. Note: this is what you have ...
Since this is too long for a comment, here's the way that I have played... You can promise almost anything in a trade: future cards (not necessarily meeting a minimum one card per transaction rule......
Added: A fundamental property of Dominion is card interaction, so to claim (not that anyone has) that a certain expansion doesn't increase the amount of positive interaction between cards/sets would ...
"If players cannot agree, then the first player chooses" ... (It reads something to that effect, though I could only locate it in the Headless Hollow version of the rules on short notice)