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#tabletopgaming

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For Easter, my MIL got us #MyShelfie The Dice Game. Three of us played it for the first time tonight and both times, we almost all scored identical scores. It doesnt seem like there are enough unique combos you can make with the dice so everyone ends up marking the same shelves.

It also seems like the rule stating you can only use one wild per combination really forces people into the same choices.

Are we just missing something?

Prompts/questions are one of my favorite parts of ttrpgs. I got asked about how I use them, so I thought I'd share a little bit I wrote

So much credit to Alex Roberts' excellent For the Queen, a huge influence on how I use questions in games today

To my mind, the most fruitful prompts:
a) assert a truth
b) never ask a yes/no/one-word-answer question
c) rarely ask the obvious