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Yesterday: burned out a tree stump *and* made some awesome hamburgers. (The two events being completely unrelated.)

Played #GiveMetheBrain today http://boardgame.geekdo.com/boardgame/176 #bggplay

The best part about that crazy #Twins game? Freaking Matt Capps gets to notch another Save. #OverblownSaveStat

Played #KinderBunniesTheirFirstAdventure today http://boardgame.geekdo.com/boardgame/14441 #bggplay

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S'alright. In the meantime, I had someone else who sleeves their cards say they worked just fine...

Chris may or may not have eaten too many of the chocolates at work. Leaning towards "may".

Harper Perennial Modern Classics (2006), Paperback, 538 pages

Nothing like a Thursday that feels like Friday. Sigh.

Roc (2010), Edition: Original, Paperback, 368 pages

Forge Books (2005), Edition: 1st, Mass Market Paperback, 368 pages

Orb Books (2006), Paperback, 352 pages

Roc (1991), Edition: First Edition, Paperback, 304 pages

Roc (1995), Mass Market Paperback, 296 pages

Sarah's playing Frontierville, and the kids keep calling the groundhogs "scurvy dogs". No idea why, but it is hilarious. #CrazyCrapKidsSay

Played #Sorry today http://boardgame.geekdo.com/boardgame/2407 #bggplay

Spectra (1996), Edition: First Thus, Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages

The exact wording for the rule mentioned in #1:

Bizarre, no?

I recently reintroduced myself to Express, and found it to be a surprisingly-enjoyable rummy game. The rulebook, however, is not the clearest, and as such I have a couple of rules questions.

1) The rulebook mentions that when train cards are added to a train already on the table, they're "usually added to one side". I've completely ignored this, in favor of playing cards strictly to the end of the train, since that makes the most sense given the cost/benefit design of cabooses and wilds. If one could play cars at the front of a train (after the loco, of course) that would make cabooses and wilds much more powerful, and the Express bonus for having your passenger cars in the right order much easier to attain! Maybe it's locos that they're referring to...?

2) The rules mention that if a Disaster results in a solitary loco, the loco is returned to its owner's hand. But no explanation is given for how this is handled in partnership play, where by the rules partners play all of their trains together. My solution is to have the abandoned loco go to the hand of the partner whose turn comes next. And because it seems to me that a Disaster is resolved after the turn in which it was discarded, that would mean that if I play a disaster that results in a lone loco, that loco goes to my partner's hand, because he will take his next turn before I do.

3) On the subject of playing Disasters to end a turn: The rules specifically say that when a player discards a Disaster to "go out", the Disaster does not take effect. But what if the resolution of a Disaster causes me to go out? (Example: the cards in my hand all play, and all of my trains score, except for one. I play all of my playable cards and end my turn by discarding the Wreck card, destroying my non-scoring train and meeting the "go out" requirements.) I'd argue that I do not, in fact, go out, because of the rule mentioned. But I could see this one go either way.

Still, they're all the same to a teetotaler.

I like the sound of that "diplomatic house rule".

The difference between "The Touch" and "Dare" is that the first one says "you're the hero", while the second says "you CAN BE the hero".

Can there possibly be a more inspirational song than Stan Bush's "Dare"?

@darth_awesome: I only skimmed, but looks like Torosaurus was deemed to be just a mature form of Triceratops.

@darth_awesome: I thought it was Torosaurus getting dropped in favor of Triceratops, not the other way around.

Tor Books (2010), Hardcover, 432 pages

I think we usually play 2-3 in one sitting.

RT @alyankovic: My favorite mash-up of the week: http://bit.ly/9b3YWT

DAW books (1988), Hardcover, 346 pages

DAW (2000), Paperback, 720 pages

William Morrow (2008), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 960 pages

...which would be awesome.

Reading assessment for Elizabeth with her first grade teacher tonight. Might be interesting.

Try to think of Dominion like a Eurogame with an economic engine:

Step 1: Establish a source of income
Step 2: Generate money
Step 3: Use your buying power to gain points

Simon Pulse (2010), Hardcover, 672 pages

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How much of a difference are we talking about (in cm/in)?

After Super Mario Galaxy 2, SMG1 feels almost like a rough prototype. Still a lot of fun, though. Too bad player 2 can't do a whole lot.

Finished assembling my double-sided tabs tonight, barring Prosperity. Here's the final result:



I think when Prosperity arrives, I should be able to remove one of the redundant sets of basic VPs/Treasures, and be able to squeeze all of Prosperity's cards into here, as well.

Thought I had come up with a brilliant fix for all of our problems loading UPS rates into the system. I was wrong. Two days of work wasted.

Aaaaaah... Air conditioning again!

Brand-new shirt, first time wearing it...OF COURSE I drip toothpaste on it.

You know it's hot out when... clothes in the dryer are still warm 12 hours later.

Harpercollins (Mm) (1999), Mass Market Paperback, 400 pages

Dell (2010), Edition: Reprint, Mass Market Paperback, 576 pages

Files have been approved. The "all sets" file was declined (too similar? well, duh) so links are to my own site:

INDIVIDUAL SETS:
Base game
Promo cards
Intrigue
Seaside
Alchemy
Prosperity

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Alchemy
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Promo cards
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Alchemy
Prosperity

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New File: Double-sided horizontal dividers for Dominion: Prosperity for Board Game: Dominion: Prosperity

New File: Double-sided horizontal dividers for Dominion: Alchemy for Board Game: Dominion: Alchemy

New File: Double-sided horizontal dividers for Dominion: Seaside for Board Game: Dominion: Seaside

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Whitman Comics (1984), Comic

Chris be nasty. Time for a shower.

Harvey Comics (1988), Comic

Archie Comics (2003), Comic

RT @aarongleeman: I'm gonna be honest, this isn't my favorite Twins-White Sox game of all time.

Not me. :) I'll be happy to be finished with these as it is. It should be easy enough for anyone else to do using my template: the entire tab is a text box and graphics; you should be able to select them all together and slide 'em wherever you want.

Well, I think I'm happy with what I've got. The red border for Attack cards stays; that works really well. But I think I'll ditch the extra bits notes; they're always part of the card rules anyway. (And besides, what counts as "extra bits"? I was thinking Black Market fell into that category, but then what about cards requiring Potions?)

As for Ben's suggestion of splitting the longer FAQs across front and back, I like the idea, but I won't be implementing it. Watchtower has the smallest font at 6.5pt Times New Roman, and it's readable enough as is. I will, however, be uploading or at least supplying a link to the final .doc version (the final upload being a PDF) so that people who want to tweak the layouts to their liking have that option.

I just have to do some image optimization* and then I can generate PDFs and upload. And of course take some pictures of the final product in action.

Thanks again for the suggestions and the interest!

*Obnoxiousness: the original graphics used transparent PNGs for the expansion symbols, which kept the .doc size down around 1MB...but Adobe puked 'em up when I made the first PDFs. So I had to make individual graphics for all banner/symbol combinations, which doubled the .doc size. Had I been thinking, I would have optimized the new graphics at that point, instead of leaving them at 16 million colors. But no...

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I disagree. Vineyard handles this brilliantly:

"So you want to buy some Vineyards, eh? Going cheap! Only costs a Potion! What's that? You say the game's winding down and you've got $5 and a Potion, but only 1 Buy? Well, do you want this Vineyard or not?"

I made my first three tabs today: Adventurer, Bureaucrat, Cellar. (I picked those first 3 because their layouts are pretty much set in stone; no extra component footnotes or tiny text that I still might change.)

Anyway, this was what I did:

1. Printed the page out onto one sheet of Avery Full-Sheet Label paper.
2. Carefully creased the entire sheet down the center line of the dividers. before removing the label backing.
3. Took three plain (unlined) 3x5" index cards, laid the short end of each in the crease, pressed it to one side of the label adhesive, then folded the other half of the page over and pressed it all together.
4. Took it to the paper cutter and cut out and trimmed each divider.

And I gotta say, they look fantastic.

One last chance for the air conditioner: apparently there might be a reset switch hidden on it somewhere. Gonna look tonight.

Just tried replacing the fuses for the air conditioner (presumed they blew out over the weekend.) No luck. Anyone know anything about ACs?

Yeah, Pirate Ship is the troublemaker. S'why I liked the idea of red text for the attack, and background/footnote for the extra bits.

Basically, this is what I was thinking for the extra bits:



But then I decided I didn't like the green; would it be too confusing with the Victory cards? However, I decided I really liked the red background for attacks:



Oh, and you can upload images to your personal gallery. Just go to the menus up top and do: My Geek -> Gallery. Then to post it, click the little camera icon in the post editor and enter the ID# of your image.

Thanks, guys!

I can't take credit for the FAQs, those are present on happycamper's as well. Heck, that's the main reason his dividers came to my attention in the first place (I was lamenting the fact that the rulebooks don't fit in the storage boxes.)

@Yellow:

The asterisk w/ footnotes for components was exactly what I wanted to do. But I couldn't find an asterisk placement/color that I liked, and was never happy with how the footnotes turned out.

As for the red text on the attacks, I agree that it's distracting on the page, but in practice, with only the tabs showing, it comes across much better. That said, playing with the background color is a good idea; perhaps a green background to indicate extra components, with a footnote for the specifics... I'll have to play with that idea, thanks!

Having received my new storage boxes for Dominion, I went in search of dividers. Not satisified with those available here, I designed my own. They're based on happycamper's work, but redone from scratch by myself.

Features:
- They're double-sided. Meaning you can sort your cards however you want (by type, by set, alphabetical, etc.) and still keep alternating tabs.
- The expansion set identifying symbol is prominent on each tab.
- Card types and quantities listed (just below the tab).
- Attack cards called out with red lettering.
- Improved graphics (IMHO).
- FAQ rules for each card.

Anyway, you can take a look for yourself here. It's a Word doc right now, but I'll generate PDFs when the things are completely finalized.

Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions or can spot any errors. The only thing I wanted to add was an indicator on cards that require additional components, but I couldn't come up with anything I liked.

Interesting weather this morning: drove through some packing peanut flurries on northbound 169.

RT @aarongleeman: Twins start tonight's game with slight Win Probability advantage, since you know Delmon is getting on base at least on ...

Marvel Comics (1989), Comic

Marvel Comics (1987), Comic

Marvel Comics (1987), Comic

Marvel Comics (1987), Comic

JIM THOME says "Screw this" and YEAAHHH! #ThomeIsMyHomie

...aaaand, Matt Capps blows another save. Fantastic!

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