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  • I’m a little confused about the Chapter 6 setup in LOTR Trick Taking game

    I’m a little confused about the Chapter 6 setup in LOTR Trick Taking game


    Ok, so here’s the card that’s giving me some trouble:

    Barrow-wight event card

    I’m pretty sure there’s a few typos in here, because at first glance is seemed like it wanted me to deal 5 cards per each of the 4 players into a “barrow deck”, then shuffle the Ring cards back in and deal another 8 to each player. Which is a problem, because that would require 53 cards and there’s only 37 :P.

    After much study and prayer I have determined that it’s wants me to deal 5 cards, if you are using 4 players, in to the “barrow deck” and then deal the 8 cards out. The math checks out now. But, the last line says that Tom Bombadil puts those 5 cards into his hand. So after all that I could have just dealt Tom 5 extra cards?

    Am I missing something? It just seems a little underwhelming to have this whole spooky “Fog on the Barrow-downs Event”, and all it is is that you give some extra cards to ol’ Tom.

    I might be tripping, but am I missing something?



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  • Ludology 332 The Oldest Trick in the Book

    Ludology 332 The Oldest Trick in the Book


    Welcome!

    Welcome to Ludology, an analytical discussion of the hows and whys of the world of board games. Rather than news and reviews, Ludology explores a variety of topics about games from a wider lens, as well as discuss game history, game design and game players.

    We post a new Ludology episode every other week. In these episodes, hosts Erica Bouyouris and Sen-Foong Lim deep-dive into a single topic within game design, often with a well-regarded guest from the game industry. We generally focus on tabletop game design (mainly board games and RPGs), but we often pull in experts from all forms of games, from video games to escape rooms to slot machines.

    On weeks where there is no flagship Ludology episode, we will alternate between two smaller mini-sodes. Erica and Sen are happy to announce that Sarah Shipp of Shippboard Games and Stephanie Campbell of TTRPGKids will be joining us for the next year, providing additional content between our longer episodes.

    Sarah’s segment, Thinking Beyond Mechanisms, is a monthly feature that dives deeper into the other aspects of games beyond the dice and cards we’re all familiar with.

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  • magic the gathering – Trick Bind for end game

    magic the gathering – Trick Bind for end game


    You can use Trickbind with Flubs or Song of Creation to make it very difficult for your opponent to stop you from winning with Laboratory Maniac.

    Once Laboratory Maniac resolves, any card draw instruction allows you to win the game. If you have Flubs, the Fool or Song of Creation and you cast Trickbind or another spell with Split Second, the card draw triggered ability will trigger from casting that spell, and go on top of the stack over the Trickbind. That means that it will resolve while Trickbind is still on the stack, so it will be protected from all of the types of interaction that Trickbind prevents.

    Depending on what exactly you cast the Trickbind in response to, the opponent may have the chance to cast a spell before you cast the Trickbind. But that doesn’t help your opponent, because you can just cast the Trickbind in response to their spell and win while their spell is still on the stack. If they have their own Split Second
    removal spell and a chance to cast it, you would have a problem.

    I said this makes it “difficult” for your opponent to stop you, not “impossible”, because Split Second does allow for some interaction. Split Second does not prevent players from activating mana abilities or taking special actions, and doing that can in turn trigger abilities that may be able to interfere with the combo. For example, your opponent could sacrifice Perilous Myr to activate Ashnod’s Altar‘s abiltiy, and have Perilous Myr’s triggered ability deal 2 damage to Laboratory Maniac.

    I also want to address a common misconception with using Split Second to protect combos like this: you cannot use Split Second to protect spells and abilities that are already on the stack. Spells and abilities on the stack resolve one at a time. After the top spell or ability on the stack resolves, each player has an opportunity to play spells or activate abilities before the next object on the stack resolves. This means that if you try to use Trickbind to stop an opponent from interacting with a spell or ability that would win the game that is already on the stack, the opponent can simply wait for Trickbind to resolve before using their interaction.



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