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Critique from my game group made me stop speed-reading rules
Last month at our weekly meetup at the Dragon's Den in Portland, one guy pointed out I kept missing key details because I skimmed rulebooks too fast. He said, 'You always blame the game when you mess up, but you never read the whole thing.' Now I force myself to go through every page slowly before we play, and I actually caught a rule about shared victory points in Scythe that saved our game. Has anyone else had to change how they prep for game night after getting called out?
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grace_knight701mo ago
Read your rulebooks first thing in the morning (when your brain's fresh) not right before game night.
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loganl221mo ago
Wait who called you out like that? That's wild. I would've been so embarrassed but honestly he's probably right. I've done the same thing with Terraforming Mars. Skimmed the rules, thought I had it down, then lost because I forgot about how the temperature track works with plant production. Made me look like an idiot in front of everyone. Now I read every rule out loud to myself before game night. It's slow but way better than getting called out.
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