Thanks!

I'm only throwing other people under the bus when I am already under the bus.

Thanks!

+Vandal Savage You're welcome!

Mmm-hmm.

I heard it, and went down to the comments to see if anyone caught that too lol

ive re-listened 10 times and still didnt get your joke... Explanation, pls

You're welcome!

I'm afraid you are exactly "that guy."

Arguably you have to be 'that guy' to write games where probabilities are important :)

At the risk of being "that guy" -- rolls will tie 1% of the time, not .5%, so your chance of success is 51%. It's kinda because a tie succeeds, but another way to look at it is that a second roll of 01 is always successful no matter what the first roll was, whereas there is no second roll that is guaranteed to fail.

Glad to hear it!

Thanks!

You're welcome!

Thanks!

We almost didn't get to the others.

I did not know that! I just ran the test on the Advanced Squad Leader paragraph (14.8 = sophomore in college) and on the Axis & Allies paragraph (18 = what, second year master's degree? first year Ph.D.? I can't even).

Or just call them hexes lmao. It would've taken zero work.

I do not think everyone should have a copy of Synnibarr.

Yup. Everybody comes to PAX Dev.

Don't be Dawizard.

That's a better name for a game. Though, you should have called that slide "Don't dawizard your game/career" ;)

Not always. Depends on the situation. But that also falls under "go easy on the eyes."

You do. So maybe you want to call it a "hand."

"Hand" is a consistent term across games, so I don't see any reason to change the name unless your game somehow has multiple hands for each player. Naming the deck is a different story because many games have multiple decks or stacks of cards (Graveyard, Library, Life Deck, Draw Pile, etc). and they tend to have different purposes (Draw Pile vs Discard Pile). The purpose of the Hand generally stays consistent across games.

That is a good point. I was specifically thinking of Android Netrunner where they have different names for each players hand. However it's an asymmetric game so each hand functions a little differently, hence justification for a different name. The bad way to do it is have card game that plays like a normal card game that calls it a stash for "flavor."

One great reason to have different names for "hand" in the same game is to be able to target them differently. In Netrunner (which is my favorite TCG I ever worked on), you could write "Trash 1 card from the headquarters" and know you wouldn't hit the runner's grip. So, different strokes for different games.

The rule is actually saying that if a defender declares that it's going to fire at a moving vehicle during its moving phase, the player moving that vehicle can also declare fire back, and if its total dice roll modifier is lower than the defending vehicle's it actually gets to shoot first, even though the player declared fire second. Note that it also clarifies that if the defender had to change its covered arc (by turning its turret, for example), this will happen before either of the shots are resolved. This could be important, because if the moving vehicle fires first and hits the defending vehicle in the turret, we know which face of the turret is hit, and the various faces of the turret almost always have different armor values. The timing is important because of the obvious -- if one of the vehicles hits and disables or destroys the other vehicle first, the damaged vehicle will not actually get to fire. Yes, I know that no one is ever going to read this. This rule is just one rule in the many dozens of pages of similarly dense rules. I am almost certain that you must hold a larger volume of rules in your head to properly play Advanced Squad Leader than any other game of any kind ever devised by humans. ...and I totally don't care that Mike repurposed my post.