Jonathan Franklin

Or, in legislation, the only way for it to pass is to add vagueness so all sides can live with the same language.

Weight has been more of a problem for me than space. I wish this tip made the games lighter. :) Tip: put all your game boards and flattened boxes in your carryon.

600!

Sooo excited.

Ed, Is the play re AI that it can replace human labor and that they are just offering inexpensive entry-level fees to get people hooked and then will raise them once AI is seen as indispensable for saving labor costs, sort of a Jevons Paradox?

Be sure to try Endeavor: Deep Sea. Was a winner for us as PoM was last year

Playing cards that have important info in only a few corners - quad-indexed, please.

What a nice warehouse you have there!

How about Stranger Forgeries? Does it feel like Zendo or other induction games or is it more a wacky party experience like Belratti? Or both or neither?

You misunderstood. The distribution is the distribution. I meant that the musicians you are picking from are all superstars in their own right, so ‘discarding’ Keith Jarrett and Herbie Hancock to keep Chick Corea is a ridiculous bounty of keyboardists and same for the other categories

Canceled our sub within the hour. So sad.

Is this true with booktok and things like that? Repetition seems key to recognition and a video or two a week is a ton more exposure than 10 interviews per game/book/album released.

Sid & Nancy was not a great pick on my part.

Luxardo cherry in a Manhattan, yes.

Imagine the calories in that pellet. Way over your daily recommended intake!

Circus Flohcati, Corsari, and Matryoshka all have 10 suits.

Any thoughts on those you have played so far?

Probably time for a list of games that sound like trick-takers, but are not. Trickdraw comes to mind. Nice to see 15 copies of your prize table pick.

Fractured Sky, Fluch Der Mumie

Don’t you figure Dune Imperium: Messiah is coming with the third movie? I’m sitting tight with the base and Ix until then.

Yes!

Not sure I buy this. War games were mean. El Grande was meaner than most games in the alea line. Lowenherz/Domaine were considered mean. More generally, area control/majority were meanish even then. It is harder to think of a 2p TtR game as mean as opposed to a 3p+ game where kingmaking is core.

Good luck getting home. Great to see you.

And The Lathe of Heaven

W. Eric Martin of BGG News

WEM’s rule - ‘New games are for new gamers.’ These ‘fine’ games are not meant for us.

A new mini expansion for UC was just released at Spiel

Love the fire station - have been fortunate to go a few times.

Come on up to Seattle to get your fix - tabletop.events/conv...

Happy to be here, even if I mostly lurk. Anyone excited for anything from Spiel? Spiral potatoes?