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Anyone else going to PAXU? I'm going to be having a very board game focused weekend, I'm largely going so I can do playtesting and...

Mostly it’s just a weird quirk of how the Dash action is written - doubling your movement instead of allowing you to move up to your...

People wouldnt accept a 6R yet. 5.5 is a cheeseburger with extra onions. I'm expecting them to sell less. Could be wrong. Eventually...

Probably the easiest option is the Fell Flight warlock invocation.

That's exactly the abdication of design I was talking about though! "Fun" is complicated and subjective of course, but ultimately it's...

No, that's exactly the transference that's being pointed out. You gave the player a problem to solve and tools to solve it, if the...

Earliest attribution (in the usual slightly different form) seems to be Soren Johnson, a different designer working on Civilization. Sid...

So this is sort of true, but the phrasing puts the blame on the players whereas I don't think it is their fault. What is going on is...

Also, I don’t know what you guys did in closed testing, but during the open playtest you got a lot of your feedback from people playing...

Trying to remove draw variability is a terrible decision, because uncertainty of outcome is an essential quality of what makes an...

I think that's a little rose tinted. That, and it's only a problem that gets worse with time.

It's a pipe dream. The razors edge you need to tread with each new release gets tighter and tighter, until something has to give. You...

Oh I think it's both. Nothing that's been said about loot boxes is not at least as true about booster packs, and the secondary "market"...

I don't think we can meaningfully proceed without a clearer shared definition of "role-playing."

I realize this is heresy, but maybe that's less a modern design decision and more an inevitable implication of the whole structure of...