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Hey guys, been thinking about making custom poker chips to replace cardboard tokens. Anyone know the cheapest route to do this? Are there any websites where I could upload an image and get a decent product? Thanks for your advice.
I’ve recently been thinking of getting some poker chips to use in my games and was curious if people had good recommendations? I’m not looking to spend more than $50 and don’t think I would need a large set. I was currently looking at these which seem decent but noticed that these appear to be the very popular ones on Amazon in that similar price range. Anyone else have good recommendations? I was hoping for chips with a nice feel to them as I recently played with someone who had nice chips and I really enjoyed using them. I was looking to do this from Amazon as I think I'm getting a big cart sorted there. Thanks!
Does anyone regularly play games with poker chips or metal coins instead of the cardboard money that came with the game? I was thinking about getting a set of chips for games like For Sale.
Update Omg, this sucks! I got really sick overnight so I went to the clinic after taking the kids to school. They think I have covid and have administered the test. So now I have to stay home Aarrgh! Some of you may remember a couple months ago when I found out my husband was gambling large amounts of money. I was waiting for after the holidays to go to a divorce lawyer. I was lined up to go when the kids headed to school after break, but in a rush to get the kids out the door, I ended up slipping and falling down the stairs. I sprained my ankle and possibly got a mild concussion. I was so pissed! I couldn't walk to the bathroom, let alone drive, so I had to put it off again... I have an appointment tomorrow morning. I'm nervous but it's general "new situation" nervousness. He hasn't taken any of his psychiatric meds in two months at least (he has bipolar type 1), he sleeps more than I ever thought possible for an adult human to sleep, like 16-18 hours. He hasn't worked a single day since my last post, has not seen any mental health people, showers maybe every ten days. He has not been involved with the kids beyond playing a couple of board games in the last month. Does not cook, or clean, or do laundry, or pick up his own trash and dishes. The only thing he does is take the trash down to the curb every week. I managed to get him to half ass clean one of the bathrooms one time. Oh so helpful! But this isn't a drastic change from what he was like before. He was like a teenage son before, now he's like an old couch. I've been spending the last couple of months trying to gather information and documents, though my husband has really been reluctant to let me see anything. He clearly forgot that he's given me the passcode to his phone and told me how he comes up with his passwords. He leaves his laptop in the living room permanently and sometimes forgets to take his phone with him to bed (we sleep separately). I have gotten everything I can get ahold of electronically. There's some things he has different passwords on but ladies, what I have seen only firms my resolve. From what I can tell, he spent thousands gambling since my last post. Where the money comes from, I don't know. It's not really coming from any of his accounts that I could get into. I just see the emails confirming his purchases of poker chips. I've noticed him watching the crypto markets so that might explain some. After checking his texts, I know he's at least tried arranging to buy drugs on two occasions. He leaves the house late at night sometimes when he's sure I'm asleep, for late night fast food at the very least, because God forbid the man makes so much as a sandwich. He was also chatting with an ex gf, complaining about how stale our marriage is. She tried to get him to wake up and not be a shitty husband and he became so verbally abusive towards her she blocked him. That's not where I thought him talking to an ex would go, lol. He knows I'm fucking pissed about the money he's lost. Other than that, when he's awake, I'm civil, even friendly when it comes to chatting about TV shows or politics. I don't want angry manic dude on top of total useless slob. The kids are very cold and rude to him and constantly complain about him not doing anything but snap at them when they try to get him off the couch. I try to temper it down but I won't gaslight them either. I've told him many times the kids are disappointed with and angry at him and he basically acts as if I'm talking about some stranger's kids, like it has nothing to do with him. I'm just so fucking over it. When I met and dated him, he seemed like a unicorn. Hard working, handsome, generous, sweet, kept a clean place, cleaned and shopped for his disabled grandma, adored his niblings, had interesting hobbies, etc. Then we married and that guy went away almost immediately. At first I thought it was everything we had going on, working on a house, job changes, kids, just adjusting to being married. He's several years younger than me so I thought maybe a maturity thing. Then it was maybe his bipolar was the problem, but I don't care anymore. I don't care what happened to the man I fell in love with, it's obvious he's gone and never coming back. He only exists in memories and photos now, the same as the last man I loved, who died years before I met my husband. Anyway, I'll be very happy to get out from under him.
I was asked to make a post about some stories within the Casino grounds so I thought I'd share. I have many so I'll do my best to pick the better ones. Some back information: I've been a Casino Dealer for 11 years, I've been a supervisor for five years, and I've been a Surveillance Operator for one year. I've worked at three properties, none of which are connected or owned by the same company. I've worked on : Government/Private/Native American owned casinos.
From Hero to Zero.
At my first Casino, I was one of the first group of people who were trained to deal Roulette . After 4 weeks of working 6PM-3AM then doing roulette training from 3AM-8AM (Not paid) , I actually really enjoyed the game and after about six months I became extremely quick at the number game and the pace of the action was steady with very low margin of errors. Young man walks in, cashes in for $500. He buys in for $2 chips and just loads the board. After a few spins and pretty decent hits, he then changes his chips from $2 to 5$ then to $10 and racks his winnings up to $10,000. It was then, five spins in a row, he loaded the board with some pretty gross bets, and every spin I would hit the ONE number with either NO CHIPS on it, or maybe 1 chip , He lost all $10,000 in a matter of minutes. He leaves , and I go on break. After my break I was going back to the same table and wouldn't you know it, the same young man walks in and cashes in another $500. He tells me he just sold his car outside and this is all that he had left. So we do the same deal, buys in for $2 chips, then slowly starts betting $5 chips, $10, $25...and he makes $10,000 AGAIN. Within the next 25 minutes it was straight agony. Every spin, same thing, he would bet $2500 in chips, and win only $250, $400, and after about a half hour he lost it all . Never saw the guy again. 2) Man down At this property, we are 24 hours for table games. It's currently 5AM , and I'm dealing some $25 Blackjack to this guy. He's probably early thirties , heavy guy. He's sober as can be, but right away I can tell he's been losing. We know how much you've bought in for, how much your down, or up, and I could see he was down $2000+. After about twenty minutes of pure losing, his temper starts to flare.At this point I now have two other guests at my table. Drinking coffee, not saying a word, just losing their money. After losing hand, after hand, this guy looks me straight in the eye, seized up, starts shaking, he can't move. He tries to punch towards me and smashes his stack of chips all over the place and falls backwards to the floor. I call for security, we cannot touch him due to liability . I can't move from my table because, well, liability / casino cash property, all I can do is try to talk to him. As I'm doing so, these other two woman who are sitting at my table just look at me and one says "OK, dealer, cmon lets go " as she taps the table telling me to start dealing and forget about the guy having a stroke on the floor. As security takes him to the ambulance out front, I had to stay behind for a couple minutes and give a statement. I go on break. I come back, and 45 minutes later, he comes right back in with a oxygen tank and keeps gambling for the remainder of the morning. 3) You get a dildo, and YOU get a dildo! On a late summer Saturday night, we had a large event for these massive muscle guys/strongman competition type thing. After their show, I'm at the roulette table , and five of these boys come over to play. They were absolutely hilarious. They were feeling pretty good, cashed in somewhat large amounts and I could tell this was going to be a fun time. After about a hour of dealing to these guys, it's almost midnight, everybody is pretty hammered , I spin the ball, and all five of these guys take out these god damn (what I can only tell was) two feet purple dildos from inside their pants, and wiping them around in the air. The ladies were just loving it, one of the dildos landed in the roulette wheel and we had to shut the table down to re-calibrate the wheel to make sure nothing had been changed. I just remember that night was so much damn fun, I couldn't believe what I was seeing and I would never forget it. 4) Full Moon On this day, I was actually training dealers / supervising them on small games like Three Card poker. We opened the table at 10AM, and this older man came and sat down . He played all day. The jackpot was $21,000 and that was pretty high for this table. He played, and played and played. He's one of the players where you know he's wearing a diaper because he's been drinking coffee/pop all day and hasn't moved in eight hours. As the day went on, this man never moved from his chair. Getting closer to midnight, he was aggravated and said "I need to go have a smoke, I'm getting killed in here". He left, and the very next hand, the lady beside him was dealt the jackpot . He didn't say much, but you could just tell he just hated life at that very moment because had he not gotten up, it would of been his hand. The man calmly took his cane , his hat, jacket, coffee, and left. The next morning I found out when he did leave he drove his car straight through his bank and was arrested. 5) Slick Robber I actually give props to people who can actually pull this off. This story may confuse you so I'll try and explain things as best as possible. A lot of casinos have machines as soon as you walk through the front doors. A man walks up to one of these machines and sticks in HIS $100 bill. He doesn't gamble it, instead he hits the cash out button and gets a $100 TITO ticket where he then takes the ticket to the ATM machine to get his $100. Now remember, his Original $100 is in the slot machine. He then takes the $100 from the ATM and goes back to the same machine, and repeats this process over a hundred times. Essentially he's taking money from the ATM, and loading up the Slot Machine . Now he knows he can't do it too much because if the slot machine gets full of money, the machine will shut down and the slow attendant will have to take all the cash out. So he deposits over $10,000 , then has a small crowbar, he cracks the machine open and makes a run out the front door. To my knowledge he was never caught . But damn, that was pretty smart . EDIT: 6) Mental Health is a thing. 10PM man walks in to play some high limit BlackJack. This guy knows the game and played well. Dressed nice, drank juice/tea , a little bit of a attitude, cashed in over $10,000. When this man was half way down his buy in, he said something a long the lines of "If I don't win here tonight, I'm going to go set myself on fire." I wasn't sure if he was serious because when people are down, they tend to say a lot of nonsense. I actually left early that night, and from a third party was told he did exactly that in the parking lot. The next day it was clear something terrible had gone wrong in the parking lot . EDIT: 7) Nothing good happens after midnight After a busy Saturday night, I was dealing a mix of games, and during this story I was in the middle of Blackjack. I had one young kid (probably 19) sitting in the middle, one older male probably in his later 40's sitting beside him on his right, and I had a really nice couple in their 20's sitting together at the other side. This young kid wasn't playing just sort of watching, and ever time the old man won he would give this young guy some of his winnings. The older man, was a wine drinker, and he had black between all of his teeth, I'll never forget. He's a little drunk but nothing terrible. As the night goes on, the older man goes and uses the washroom, at which point the couple asked the young guy "Oh was that your dad?" and the young guy says "Hah, no I wish!". The couple and I just looked at each other. This old guy, was in complete control over this kid. Absolutely disgusting. The night ends, and I find out the couple called a few of their friends, and they all waited outside by this old mans truck and beat the living hell out of him. 40 years old, sleeping with a 19 year old, completely brain washed . Very weird. 8) That one co-worker where you just wish they would quit. One of our co-workers, nice guy but had a very big ego and we as employees just sorta left him alone. One day he had enough of the atmosphere and quit. Now usually when you quit, you cannot come back until you paperwork is finalized. How ever, HR was in that day, and he was given the paperwork the very next day. He came in, cashed in $1000, and made $50,000 in about a hour at the Baccarat table. My manager, was extremely annoyed, because now this guy is just mocking the casino and having the time of his life (Thanks for the big tip by the way :) ) and so he decides to call it quits. He wants to ban himself and he wants $50,000 in cash. The casino says Nope, we are going to give you a cheque. Now here's the thing, most business people will take the cheque, how ever you CANT CASH the cheque until the following monday because it's on that day where the funds are available. The casino on the other hand will cash their own check in anytime , because they want you to play. So this guy pretty much said go to hell I want my cash, and he called the police. Police show up, and management promptly gave him the cash.I though it was absolutely hilarious . 9) No good deed goes un punished I was dealing Three Card Poker, and the jackpot was around $17,000. This old man (a regular) was sitting there all day grinding it out. Super nice guy, always a pleasure to deal to. Well, after hours of playing, he stands up and says "Hey john!, can you come here for a minute?" so his buddy John comes over. He says to John "I need to go take a piss real quick, can you play my card until I get back?" John agrees . John takes the chips and I stop him and explain he can't play his friends chips, he needs to cash in and play his own. And he does. Welp, second hand out and bam, doesn't he win it. The old man comes back and is so happy, he can't believe it. John, took his $17,000, didn't say a word to his "buddy" and walked away. I never felt so much hatred in all my life. Didn't give him a dollar, not a thank you, nothing. The old man sits back down again, the progressive resets to $2500, and he sat there grinding away again. 10) The Top Knot I had this player , young guy, who was born into a fortune. One of his relatives passed away and left him a pretty big sizable amount of money, so he played poker every single day for the rest of his days. I will add, he IS a good player. I did not enjoy his company just because of the "Know-it-All" attitude, but he was good. We'll call him John. John is 5'10, and well build, with muscle. John also decided today was the day to show off his Top Knot. (google top knot if you're not sure what I mean) So he sits down, and he's absolutely KILLING the table. Every hand, after hand, after hand. And because he's in such a good mood, he's playing any two cards, calling any $500 bet, and he's just dominating. This one guy at the table decided he had enough. He got up, without saying a word and left. A moment later, he comes back in, walks behind John, and takes a pair of scissors , and cuts off his Top Knot. I for one couldn't believe it, dying laughing inside, and it just turned into one big brawl. That was a good day. 11) That one bad seed One of my best friends who I haven't seen in YEARS ended up being part of the crew. Was kind of nice to catch up. We never really got along as we grew up because he has a very high picture of himself . He wanted that 10/10 woman. A mansion, and a new Corvette. So every month or so we would all go up to the other casino to play. I myself would bring no more than $500, but I couldn't understand how this guy (we'll call him Kyle) was spending THOUSANDS of dollars at the tables. So this wen on for a few months. Well, one day, as we're closing the casino, he and I are in the High Limit room and we're getting ready to close the tables. We are told to take the chips out, count them, put them back, sign this piece of paper and that's it. Well as the supervisor was locking the tray, the piece of paper fell to the floor, so she asked Kyle to grab the piece of paper. As he bends over, a great big $500 chip falls right out of his sock. Kyle was fired immediately , but it all made sense. They offered Kyle a deal where if he replaced all the stolen chips they would not make it public. Not sure how that turned out. 12) If I ever decide to write a book, this will be the last chapter: <3 After working at my first Casino for five years, I met a Indian woman who was visiting from another part of the country. During this time I was explaining a game to her, which honestly I don't think she even cared. She explained she was visiting and sight seeing , and that was that.Well, two years later I ended up moving to the other side of the country and transferred casinos, and low and behold she worked there as a Dealer. We got married , and it's been 5 years. 13) The Tip One of our tables that we've had for a couple years had a progressive jackpot that had reached $100,000. The dealer at the table was sitting pretty lonely. Nobody really played the game because people knew it was extremely difficult to win the jackpot. My memory is a tad foggy, but you somehow needed to flop the royal flush. This young guy sits down and says to the dealer, we'll call him John. "John, if you pay me that jackpot, I will tip you $10,000" Well John started dealing, and about a half hour into his shift, he F*cking did it. He dealt him the royal. And you know something?This young lad, kept his word, and he made sure there was a audience, and he tipped exactly $10,000. That was a moment right there. That pay cheque was real nice. I think we all got about $500 more than usual. The moment that jackpot was awarded they got rid of the table because the money it was making was not near what the casino wanted. I'm sure there have been bigger tips at other casinos, but that was something special . 14) The Lawsuit Now this story I'm going to have to beat around the bush a bit due to the nature of what happened. I can't won't answer any questions that you may have on this topic other than what I have to say because it had a lot of publicity . The waitresses at this casino had to wear very thin sexy clothes. Not borderline legal, but it was noticed. One day they called all the waitresses to come in and explained they were changing their outfit to something even more sexier. Now these new dresses were very very borderline legal . The staff said No way. We're not wearing that.So , friday night comes, and the staff work their whole shift, then at the end of their shift were called into a meeting and were all fired. Welp, one of those ladies father was a pretty big time lawyer. Brough the casino to court and won. They won big. Good for them. We had no waitresses for a couple days haha. Thanks for reading along, I have many more I can add as the day goes on, those were just some off the top of my head. Feel free to ask any questions of the Casino industry. I don't really have many stories about the surveillance department because that's the one area where I can't really say a whole lot due to its privacy and contracts I was and still am under.
I want to preface this post by saying I’m a complete noob at league. I’m 25 and just started playing in the past few months and am currently bronze. However, I’ve been playing poker for years and know a thing or 2 about losing ‘winnable’ situations. I saw a post earlier today asking how to improve when being up 5+ kills, 50cs, first tower, etc. etc. If you’re that far ahead, you’re going to win more often then not. To quantify, probably 70,80%+ of the time. But 100% of the time? Never. Nothing you do in league will guarantee a win until a team surrenders or the nexus is destroyed. So how does this correlate to poker? In poker you’re constantly looking to get your money in ahead/ as a favorite. A dream situation for poker players is getting pocket aces- and piling in money as quickly as possible. Worst case scenario you’re a 78% favorite to win before the flop. Other situations you’re an even bigger favorite- sometimes 85/90/98% favorite before the river (the last card that runs out on the board). However, any good player knows that nothing is guaranteed. You can play a hand perfect- get your stack of chips in as a massive favorite- and still lose. Combining these 2 thoughts we see what pro players in both games do; and that’s put themselves in the best possible situations and accept the results. Recognizing high points in losses and low points in wins. Taking solace knowing you played a situation near perfectly and got unlucky or being able to self- critique are valuable tools in constantly improving. Remember that for every game you’re an 80% favorite to win and lose, there will probably be an identical situation where you’re getting smacked with a 80% chance to lose- yet somehow clutch it out or get carried to win. All we can do when playing is our best- and if you play better then your opponent you’ll win more often then not.
My Nerf Game Plan (looking for suggestions/opinions)
Hey all, My fiance and I recent got *really* into Nerf (and off-brand "Nerf"). Around a year ago, we were playing with our nephews (4 and 5 y.o.) who have a bunch of blasters, and when my brother-in-law told me that they have basically standardized the dart size for most blasters, it piqued my interest. Also, I thought the bolt action on the Adventure Force Alpha Rogue was really cool, and given that they were super cheap, I went out and bought two of them for my fiance and I to play with. Fast-forward to this Christmas when my fiance got us the Disruptor twin pack. I was so impressed with them that I decided to see what Nerf reviewers on YouTube would think. That very quickly exposed me to a variety of blasters that I was interested in. Now, through a combination of driving (sometimes up to an hour away) around to stores and sellers found on craigslist/Facebook Marketplace, we have amassed over 50 blasters that shoot darts, mega darts, discs, and rounds. I love them all. The only thing I've been avoiding is battery-operated blasters (I'll explain if anyone cares to know why). We reached a point fairly early on where I decided I had to *do* something with these things aside from buying them exclusively to play in our relatively small living space. So, I came up with a some rules (many, I'm sure, are widely used already) and plans to host Nerf games once this whole pandemic thing is well-enough under control that it would be safe to do so. Who Will Be Playing I created a private FB group and invited our personal friends and family, and I'll encourage them to invite people provided we don't exceed our capacity (TBD, but I have a rough idea). Where We Will Play This is probably the trickiest part. The two local rec centres will not be available; one does not do private rentals, and the other requires cost-prohibitive insurance coverage. However, there are a number of "halls" that are possibilities. I spoke to the person who does booking for one of these places, and she thought it sounded like a great idea, and probably workable at her location. I also just learned that schools will rent out their gymnasiums, but I'm not sure what limitations or requirements there might be. I happen to work at an elementary school, so I might be able to work something out if I talk to to principal. This thing won't be happening for a while, so I'm not too concerned about nailing this down now. I'm just happy to know that there are local options. I do not want to play outdoors, mostly because I'd like to be able to collect as much ammo as possible, and also not have to worry about weather. What Rules We Will Play With This is where it gets a little weird. I have a few different ideas, but I'm most interested in one: Pooled Health games. I've been fortunate enough to run a few games like this with the kids at the after-school daycare program I work at, and it's been a blast, even though we're limited to using the small gym. It works like this: Each team must stay on their side of the gym (like dodgeball, but I split the gym longways due to the blasters being relatively weak (the one's I bring to daycare). At the back wall of each side is a pile of poker chips (red team and blue team). When you get tagged, you put a hand up (so nobody shoots you), get a poker chip, bring it to the designated "out" area, then tap on your back wall to re-enter the game. This prevents players from ever having to sit out, which is great for kids because they can be impatient. I'll probably also do "elimination" games where each player keeps a number of poker chips in their pocket, and is "out" when they loose their last one. When I'm able to have my bigger games, I'd like to have either mats or even large cardboard sheets (folded) for cover. Which Blasters We Will Use I admit that I'm almost definitely setting my expectations too high for the level of complexity people will tolerate when it comes to game prep, and I'll come up with some simpler rule set at least for the first few times that we play. Still, I can't help but to over-think this and try to find a way to make almost every kind of blaster fit in somehow. Basically, I'd like to use a "shop" system where I'll decide upon a limit for how many "points" can be spent on blasters and ammo. My system is far from perfect, but I want it to be something that can be applied with relative ease to any blaster. A blaster's "cost" is determined by its ammo type, it's "ready to fire" capacity, and its storage capacity. A basic Elite-sized dart is worth one point, mega darts are worth two (getting hit with one counts as two points of damage), discs count as half a point (because they are slow... but I love them), and rounds count as 1.5 (because of their speed), and missiles are five (five points of damage, plus I have a rule with them regarding taking down cover). Any "storage" ammo is calculated by dividing the total point value in half-- a recent modification that I was avoiding, but felt compelled to deal with once we got the Heracles (5 ready, 10 storage) as it would have had the same value as the Roundhouse (15 ready) which doesn't make any sense. Additional ammo can be "purchased" for the storage value. I need to consider that it's unlikely that most other players will be as reckless in their spending on a vast Nerf arsenal as I have been, so they may need to make up points by having an excess of ammo. Also, I'd like to use a variety of blasters, so I don't want to make games strictly "dart", "rival", or "disc", although I do have enough blasters to share with quite a few people. Side note: All of these considerations have been for springers only. I want to allow players to use flywheelers if they want, but I'll need to come up with a way to balance them so that they aren't the only viable blasters. When I first came up with this system and started using it with my fiance at home, our highest capacity blaster was the X-Shot Crusher (maybe my favourite blaster) which has a 35 dart chain. So, I was setting our max point limit at 40, allowing Crusher users to have a side-arm as the chain is a little cumbersome to reload. Then, about a week ago, we scored a fully-loaded Rival Hades for $50 (CAD), which, according to my system, has a point value of 90-- way above any maximum we've been using. Rather than increasing the maximum, I decided that you can go over the max under two conditions: 1) You only use one blaster, and 2) You take a 1HP penalty for going over, then an addition 1HP penalty for every 10 points that you go over. We've done a few of our living room games like this, and it has felt reasonably fair. To mirror our living room games, I'm envisioning that each team will have a boxed off (with cardboard walls or mats) corner where spare blasters will be kept. These will be blasters that are part of each player's current "loadout", so players can go back there to swap out as they want or to take ammo from their stockpile. The only limitation is that only one player can go back there at once. If all of this sounds ridiculous, that's fine. For what it's worth though, I've been slowly patching together an app that will streamline the "shopping" process. My fiance and I have just been using a white board to do the math by hand, referring to a spreadsheet I made on my phone, and it doesn't take too long. Realistically, I'll probably end up telling players to bring whatever they want (stock only), and then I'll divide the teams to make things a fair as possible. It's just fun to come up with this stuff. What do you think? Totally nuts? Any suggestions for tweaking my system? I feel like I'm going a little nuts with this Nerf craze while having very few outlets to get that energy out-- daycare with the kids and 1-on-1 living room games with the fiance is pretty much it. I'm interested to hear the thoughts of anyone who bothered to read through any of this wall of a post. Thanks for your time, folks!
I made a list of every Unus Annus video name. Posting this here because someone wanted to see it and a comment doesn't allow more than 1000 characters. November 15th - Unus Annus (note- The Very Start.) November 15th - Cooking with Sex Toys (note- 365 Days Left) November 16th - Purging Our Sins with a Net Pot November 17th - Hot Dog'd to Death November 18th - Making Our Own Sensory Deprivation Tank November 19th - The Good Kind of Cupping November 20th - The Bad Kind of Cupping November 21st - The Worst Kind of Cupping November 22nd - Ethan Will Be Kicked in the Balls November 23rd - Doing Each Other's Makeup in the Dark November 24th - Baby Hands Operation November 25th - Mark and Ethan Summon a Ghost November 26th - 2 Truths and 1 Lie -- Waxing Edition November 27th - Poopsie Sparkly Critters (a slime surpise...) November 28th - Play-Doh Thanksgiving November 29th - Helium Therapy November 30th - Drawing Memes From Memory December 1st - 1 Man 100 Accents December 2nd - An A.I. Predicts How We're Going to Die December 3rd - Mark Turns Ethan into a Mummy to Prepare Him for the Great Beyond December 4th - The Cubby Gummy Challenge December 5th - We Buy a Professional Hypnosis Video and React To It December 6th - Mark and Ethan Attempt and Escape Room December 7th - Ethan Destroys Mark's Van with a Bat December 8th - There's Still Hope... December 9th - Ethan Gives Mark a Viking Funeral December 10th - The Great Meat Mistake December 11th - Acupuncture Is NOT Painful December 12th - Floating in a Real Sensory Deprivation Tank December 13th - Mark Reviews The Impossible Burger But There's a Looming Sense of Impending Doom (note- Paintball gun) December 14th - We Made Nude Pictures of Eachother December 15th - You made Beautiful Music for The Barrel... But Only One Could Win December 16th - We Had To Drink Each Other's Pee (note- The first of the Pee Trilogy) December 17th - Ethan Explores Mark's Haunted Basement December 18th - Giving Away Our 1,000,000 Subscriber Gold Play Button December 19th - Ethan's Relaxing and Totally Normal Naul Salon December 20th - Taped and Afraid December 21st - What Was The Most Painful Thing We've Ever Endured? December 22nd - Donating Toys to charity w/ JackSepticEye December 23rd - Harnessing Our Dogs' Unlimited Energy December 24th - Santa's Mukbang (Drinking 1 Gallon of Eggnog) December 25th - Forcibly Turning Mark Into Santa Claus Against His Will December 26th - Preserving Ourselves In Wax (note- JackSepticEye was also here!) December 27th - Beating Inanimate Objects to Death December 28th - Emotional Pain vs Physical Pain... Which is worse? December 29th - Duct Tape Crusifixion (Amy, Please Don't Watch This Video) December 30th - You Blink You Lose December 31th - 2 Grown Men Attempt the Presidential Fitness Test January 1st - We Took The Polar Plunge Janurary 2nd - Hiding Out Sins from Amy's Holy Peepers January 3rd - We Eat Bugs January 4th - DIY Bungee Jump (Please don't try this) (note- Disclamer Song Origin) January 5th - We Have The BEST Thumbnails on Youtube and No One Can Tell Us Otherwise January 6th - Who Can Make Themselves Taller? January 7th - The Sensory Overload Tank January 8th - Recreating Ourselves as a Cursed Mannequin January 9th - We Took an IQ Test January 10th - Ethan Fianlly Becomes a MAN January 11th - Mark and Ethan Go Casket Shopping January 12th - We Take a Lie Detector Test to Uncover Our Darkest Sins January 13th - Learning to Breathe Underwater January 14th - Fixing Mark's Hole with Ramen but Every Time We Add Glue We Get 5% Closer to God (note- The hole made in the video where Mark punched a hole in the wall) January 15th - Mark Steals Ethan's Face January 16th - You Breathe You Die January 17th - 2 Absolute Beginners Experience the Dancing Glory that is Salsa January 18th - DIY Geriatric Simulator January 19th - This Is How We'll Die... January 20th - We Cryogenically Freeze Ourselves January 21st - This is What Being Tased Feels Like January 22nd - What Happens When A Youtube Channel Dies? January 23rd - Bad Bad Beans January 24th - We hired a Real Hypnotherapist to Analyze Our Darkest Dreams January 25th - We Turned Our Bodies Into Art (note- painting each other naked) January 26th - Mark and Ethan Lean About The Human Body January 27th - Mark Punishes Ethan January 28th - Strange (and legal) Things You Can Do With Your Body After Death January 29th - DIY Cheese January 30th - Hacking The Very Fabric of the Universe January 31st - Looking at Long Lost Memes February 1st - Discovering the Secret to Eternal Life February 2nd - Turning Mark Into an E-Boy February 3rd - Ethan Redefines Male Beauty February 4th - Professional Fire Cupping (Going Even Further Beyond) February 5th - An Extremely Sour, Not-at-all Sour Meal February 6th - Literally Eating Fire February 7th - Unregulated Axe Throwing February 8th - Literally Laying On Broken Glass February 9th - Making an Indoor Tornado to Flex on Mother Nature February 10th - Nutball: The Most Dangerous Game (note- First of the Nutball Trilogy) February 11th - Becoming a Master of Mime February 12th - Discussing the Idea of Murdering Each Other bit It's Just a Joke and Definitely Not Serious Haha February 13th - Are We Already Dead? February 14th - Our Perfect (and last) Valentine's Day February 15th - Drunk College Party Simulator February 16th - 10 Strange Amazon Paroducts Ethan Bought Mark Because He Doesn't Know How To Spend Money Responsibly February 17th - Chickens Teach Us About Life and Death February 18th - 3 Big Boys Attempt the Kings Royal Fitness Test February 19th - Being Attacked by a Fully Trained Bodyguard Dog February 20th - Learning the Ancient Art of Chinese Archery February 21st - The Ultimate Trolley Problem February 22nd - Goat Yoga February 23rd - Edible Slime was a Mistake February 24th - Granting Acces Into Heaven's Sweet Gates February 25th - Long Hair, Do We Dare? (note- With Marks Quarintine Hair, yes, he did dare) February 26th - We Wrote a Hit Pop Song in 30 Minutes February 27th - Mark and Ethan go on a "Drum Date" February 28th - Blowing Our Souls Into Some Hot Glass February 29th - Top 10 Worst Things Your Friend Could Possibly Spend Their Money On March 1st - Nutball Extreme: Taser Edition (note- Second of the Nutball Trilogy) March 2nd - REAL Ghost Hunting at an Abandoned Zoo March 3rd - We Bought a Camera That Can Look Inside Us March 4th - Becoming the World's Greatest DJs March 5th - Who Can Teach Their Dog a Trick the Fastest? March 6th - Middle School Science Experiment Teaches Us About Life and Death (note- Owl pellets) March 7th - DIY Chiropractor March 8th - Mark and Ethan Get Into a Fight March 9th - The Barrel - Offical Music Video March 10th - We Got Pepper Sprayed March 11th - We Give Each Other Tattoos Blindfolded March 12th - What Does Astrology Say About Our Friendship? March 13th - Mark and Ethan Get a Full Body Scan to See What Secrets Lay Hidden Within (and learn their body fat) March 14th - Mark Needs To Rub Ethan and Only His Mom Can Help Him March 15th - 2 Idiots Get Crushed by 18-Foot Giant Snakes March 16th - Beer Sauna: Turning a Portable Sauna into a Portable Hell (note- The video where Pee Sauna was first mentioned) March 17th - Mark and Ethan Hunt The World's Most Wanted Criminals March 18th - Unus Annus Carves the Roast Beast March 19th - 5 Weird Apps That Predicted Our Death March 20th - We Tried a Labor Pain Simulator March 21st - Recreating the Miracle of Childbirth March 22nd - Mark and Ethan Are Now Fathers March 23rd - We Force James Charles to Run a Military Obstacle Course March 24th - Desperately Trying To Not Touch Our Faces (note- Start of Quarintine videos) March 25th - Reddit 50/50: Two Player Edition March 26th - Going on an Internet Scavenger Hunt March 27th - Having an Adventure In VR Chat Becuase We Can't Go Outside March 28th - Amazon Shopping for the Apocalypse March 29th - Whom Would Eat Whomst First in a Zombie Apocalypse? March 30th - Ultimate Youtuber Boxing Showdown March 31st - The Deep End of Omegle: Risky Boogalo (note- This video was deleted for an unknown reason) April 1st - Where in the World is Unus Annus? (note- Timer was at 401 days) April 2nd - Mark Builds a Pillow Fort for the Very First Time April 3rd - Mark's 1 Weird Talent Leaves Ethan Absolutely Speechless April 4th - Wikifeet: A Tale of 2 Tootsies April 5th - We Made Every YouTuber Battle in the Hunger Games April 6th - We Google Each Other to Find Our Darkest Forgotten Sins April 7th - We Played Mad Libs and Ran It Through Google Translate April 8th - Mark and Ethan Desperately Try and Nae a Single State in the USA April 9th - Speed Reading 1000+ WPM To Gain a Complete Understanding of All Human Knowledge April 10th - What is the Least Viewed Video on YouTube April 11th - We Found Websites That The World Forgot About April 12th - The Scariest True Stories on the Internet April 13th - How to NOT be the Perfect Boyfriend April 14th - Mark and Ethan Find The Lost City of EL Dorado April 15th - Mark and Ethan Bet Everything on a Wikipedia Race April 16th - The Creepiest Videos on Youtube April 17th - Help Us Break a YouTube World Record (note- The birth of Norbert Moses. The video was called "Subscribe to Norbert Moses") April 18th - 2 Men 200 Accents April 19th - The Illuminati... Do They Really Exist? April 20th - Using Google Maps to Find the Lost City of Atlantis April 21st - Reading YOUR Scariest True Stories April 22nd - Mark and Ethan Take a Personality Test April 23rd - Will AI Soon Take Over Humanity As We Know It? April 24th - Running Internet Drama through Google Translate April 25th - The Secret Unus Annus NO-Touchy-Touchy Hand Shake April 26th - Two Male Men Judge Female Women on Their Beauty April 27th - Bored? Press This Button. April 28th - Don't Go in the Ocean... Ever. April 29th - We Explore the Most MYSTERIOUS Mysteries of our Wildy Mysterious Mystery Moon of Mysteries April 30th - We Looked at Unus Annus Memes May 1st - Is Mark a Masochist? (note- yes.) May 2nd - What the Hell is a Pink Trombone? May 3rd - Professional Fetish Scientists Rank the Best/Worst Fetishes of 2020 May 4th - Mark and Ethan Desperately Attempt to Feel Something May 5th - An A.I. Generates Out Worst Nightmare May 6th - Are Reptilian Humanoids Living Among us? May 7th - Like It or Not... This is What The New Human Looks Like May 8th - Eating Only Onions for 24 Hours: How Many Onions Does it Take to Kill a Man? May 9th - Unus Annus ASMR May 10th - We Attempted to Create THICC Water May 11th - Making Our Own Gravestones to Prepare For Our Inevitable Demise May 12th - How Tall Can A Human Get?: An Impartial Review by 2 Average Height Men May 13th - Mark Teaches Ethan Korean May 14th - Bigfoot is Real and It Ate My Friend May 15th - The End of Unus Annus is Almost Here... (note- The Halfway point) May 16th - We Explore the Unus Annus Subreddit for Your Delicious Memes May 17th - How Big Can a Nuke Get? May 18th - How Much Caffeine Does It Take to Kill a Man? May 19th - Drinking Real THICC Water... How Bad Does It Taste? May 20th - We Played Strip Poker (note- Mark lost so badly. Ethan also cheated on the first game) May 21st - Harnessing Our Yodeling Power to End the World aAs We Know It May 22nd - Mark Cooks Blindfolded While Ethan Guides Him Through FaceTime May 23rd - We Played the Newlywed Game While Consuimg That Which Will Kill the Other May 24th - DIY Boob May 25th - We Have the Best Bellies on Youtube May 26th - The Unus Annus Confessional Booth May 27th - DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 2080 (note- Mark will be 90 and Ethan will be 83) May 28th - Only UNUS-es May Watch This Video (note- Unus vs Annus. Most Likes to Win.) May 28th - Only ANNUS-es May Watch This Video (note- Annus vs Unus. Most Likes to Win.) May 29th - Only Watch from 2:15 to 6:11 --- DO NOT WATCH ANY OTHER PART OF THE VIDEO (note- Annus Won) May 30th - DIY Wine May 31st - Tearing a Phone Book in Half with Our Huge Manly Muscles June 1st - 2 Complete Amateurs Enter a Body Building Competition June 2nd - BLACK LIVES MATTER. Resources and How You Can Help in the Description. (note- This video was 8 Minutes and 47 seconds of silence) June 3rd - Crushing Watermelons Betwixt Our Mighty Thighs June 4th - Morphing Our Bodies Into Superhero Poses June 5th - Reacting to Your Hilarious Green Screen Memes June 6th - Mark Teaches Ethan to Read with Hooked on Phonics June 7th - Ethan Roasts Mark of 15 Minutes Straight June 8th - There's Something Horribly Wrong with This Picture... (note- When they made their own creepy photos) June 9th - Attempting to Build IKEA Furniture Without Instructions June 10th - Mark and Ethan Become United State Citizens June 11th - We Made Fanart for Each Other June 12th - Our Fans Try and Scare Us with Their Homemade Creepypasta June 13th - Recreating Childhood Photos June 14th - Will We Break the Boards... Or Will They Break Us? June 15th - Finding the Most Cursed Image on the Internet June 16th - Learning to Cry on Command to Increase Our YouTube Views June 17th - Pee Sauna (note- The end of quarintine videos. Second of the Pee Trilogy) June 18th - Building IKEA's Hardest Piece of Furniture Without Instruction is Impossible June 19th - Becoming One With the Horse June 20th - The Ultimate Paper Airplane Showdown June 21st - Creating Mark FISHbach (note- Origin of Mermer June 22nd - Leaning How to Lock Pick (FBI Please Don't Watch) June 23rd - The Most Dangerous Shave June 24th - Ethan Traps Mark's Soul in the Palm of his Hand June 25th - Bear Trapping 101: An Elegant Knot For An Elegant Beast June 26th - 2 Men In a Trench Coat Teach You How to Save Money at the Movies June 27th - Building the World's First IKEA Boat June 28th - Ethan Teaches Mark How to Swim June 29th - 10 Miracle Products to Give YOU the Thiccest Jaw on Planet Earth June 30th - 2 Dirty Boys Wash Their Filthy Mouths Out with Soap July 1st - Mark is Guilty. Ethan Has the Proof. July 2nd - Recreating Mark's Childhood July 3rd - We Put an Apple Watch in a Rock Tumbler July 4th - Dummy Thicc for Dummies | A Tale of 2 Butts | Pushing Our Butts Even Further Beyond July 5th - Reverse Engineering a Kite to Steal the Idea of Electricity From Benjamin Franklin July 6th - The Candy Bra Challenge July 7th - Mark and Ethan Look at a Puppy for 10 Minutes July 8th - Unus Annus Try Pole Dancing July 9th - This Is Hiding On Your Body RIGHT NOW. July 10th - Tasting Weird Food Combos: Pickles and Chocolate? Ice Cream and Soy Sauce? July 11th - The Unus Annus Space Program July 12th - The Egg Smashing Game July 13th - Can You Bake a Cookie from Cookie Dough Ice Cream? July 14th - Bleachus Annus July 15th - Dunking Oreos In Literally Anything But Milk July 16th - Preparing a 5-Star Meal for Our Youtube Famous Dogs July 17th - DIY Teeth July 18th - How to Escape from a Hostage Situation July 19th - Does This Magnetic Skincare Routine Really Work? July 20th - DIY Bed of Nails : OH GOD, PLEASE DON'T EVER TRY THIS July 21st - The Human Mop July 22nd - Can Sound Therapy Heal All Wounds? July 23rd - This Is The Most Dangerous Children's Toy Ever Made July 24th - Would Chica Save Us From Drowning? July 25th - We Do It Better Than Icarus Ever Could July 26th - The Beginning of The End (note- 110 days left. Start of the Desert videos) July 27th - The Annual Unus Annus Dunk Contest July 28th - Ultimate Horseshoes July 29th - A Serious Conversation Under the Stars (note- Last of the Desert videos) July 30th - Recharging Our Phones Using Only Brute Strength July 31st - 5 Products to Grow Your Patchy Beard August 1st - Mark Teaches Ethan How to Play the Trumpet August 2nd - Playing Cards: The World's Deadliest Weapon August 3rd - We Lubed Our Floor For a Sliding Competition August 4th - Breaking Glass With Our Screams August 5th - This is Goodbye (note- 100 Days Left) August 6th - Mark and Ethan Share a Drink August 7th - The Wubble August 8th - Mark and Ethan Shave Chica August 9th - DO NOT TRY THIS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES August 10th - Judging Your Terrible Unus Annus Ideas August 11th - Hydro Dipping a Baby August 12th - Popping Popcorn with a High-Powered Laser August 13th - Puberty Simulator August 14th - Grip Strength Test: Loser Becomes the Winner's Butler for a Day (note- Ethan "won" but Mark never became his Butler) August 15th - Transforming Mark into the 8th Wonder of the World August 16th - Momiplier Teaches Self-Defense August 17th - Playing Children's Games in Total Darkness August 18th - We're Better Than Dogs August 19th - The Koala Challenge: TikTok's Intimate Couple's Trend August 20th - 1 Gallon of Jello Nearly Broke Us August 21st - Too Many Pickles (note- The Video before the start of Camp Unus Annus) August 22nd - Pitching a Tent in the Woods But There's a Bear 15 Feet Away (note- Start of Camp Unus Annus. Mark was Blind while Ethan was Deaf) August 23rd - How to Rescue a Cat from a Tree August 24th - A Bear Attacked Us in the Middle of the Night August 25th - How to Safely Bury Your Friend August 26th - Team Building for 2: Trust Fall, Tug-of-War, and More! August 27th - How to Start a Fire (except don't...) (note- The infamous video where Unus appears at the window before Mark kills Ethan) August 28th - Mark's Outdoor Escape Room August 29th - Hunting HeeHoo August 30th - Was 2020 a Bad Year for Unus Annus? (note- End of Camp Unus Annus) August 31st - Mark Gives Ethan a HOT (stone) Massage September 1st - We Smell Every Smell September 2nd - How Many Slaps Does It Take to Cook a Chicken? September 3rd - 2 Boys 2 Poops September 4th - Mark Teaches Ethan How to March in a Marching Band September 5th - We Finally Drank Our DIY Wine September 6th - 2 Adults Take a 4th Grade Math Test September 7th - Making Snow Cones With Literally Anything but Normal Flavors September 8th - We Attempts Pottery Without Amy's Help September 9th - Can Plants Feel Pain? September 10th - How Far Can We Chuck a 16lbs Rock? September 11th - We Pierced Each Other's Ears September 12th - We Ate Dog Treats So You Don't Have To September 13th - We Accidentally Made an SCP While Amy Was Away September 14th - BEYBLADE NUTBALL (note- The Finale of the Nutball Trilogy) September 15th - Making the Ultimate Unus Annus Burger September 16th - Making Soda With Literally Anything But Soda September 17th - Pee Soda (note- The Finale of the Pee Trilogy) September 18th - Learning to Use The Force September 19th - Brick Soccer September 20th - We Attempt to Make Holy Water September 21st - Amy Sent Us a Mystery Box September 22nd - Mark Knows What Ethan Did... (note- Ethan cheated on the Grip Test Video) September 23rd - This Video Will Never Make Sense September 24th - We Attempt to Make UNHOLY Water September 25h - We Will Churn Thy Butter September 26th - Ethan Teaches Mark Gymnastics September 27th - The Great Ice Cream Cake Race September 28th - Mark Teaches Ethan to Wrestle September 29th - Ethan Watches as Mark Achieves the Impossible September 30th - Consuming the World's Hottest Chip October 1st - This Video Went Completely Out of Control October 2nd - The 1000 High Five Challenge October 3rd - Bobbing For Apples But the Water Keeps Getting Thiccer October 4th - Mark Breaks His Nose On An Aerial Hoop (note- Was the second time in one week) October 5th - Mark and Ethan Milk a Goat October 6th - Shooting Archery ON A HORSE October 7th - DIY Minesweeper October 8th - Literally Finding a needle in a Haystack October 9th - Drawing on Each Other's Backs in Total Darkness October 10th - This is For FUN and NOT a Fetish (note- They were in black bags with a vacuum to such out the air) October 11th - Mark Conquers His Fear of Night Swimming (note- Birth of the Gongoozler) October 12th - The Painful Wolrd of Aerial Silks October 13th - We Bought Every Grinch Costume on Ebay October 14th - Pumpkin Taste Tier List October 15th - Learn to Jump Higher in 16 Minutes and 16 Seconds October 16th - Bobbing for Literally Anything but Apples October 17th - This Video is Completely Unedited (note- This is the video where they shoved Wax up their nose and Marks got stuck) October 18th - Momiplier Tells Us True Scary Stories from Korea October 19th - Pumpkin Spice "Challenge" (note- Similar to the Cinnamon Challenge excpet with Pumpkin Spice and don't do this please) October 20th - Mark and Ethan Build a Scarecrow October 21st - Preassure Waching Our Sins Away October 22nd - We Force Mark to Swin in the Ocean (HIS GREATEST FEAR) (note- First of the Two Boat videos) October 23rd - Fighting Fish to the Deathin in the Deep Blue Sea (note- Second of the Two Boat Videos October 24th - Cryptid Olympics October 25th - Phasmophobia in Real Life (note- Ghost hunt time) October 26th - Edward Pumpkin Hands (note- First Video in big spooky house) October 27th - Blood Bath October 28th - The Unus Annus Annual Costume Contest (note- Second Video in big spooky house) October 29th - Ethan Turns Mark into a Werewolf October 30th - Ethan Kidnapped Mark (note- Third Video in big spooky house. Ethan made Mark an escape room) October 31st - The Truth of Unus Annus (note- Final Video in the big house. They open the Custom Coffin and change from their clothes into their suits. 13 Days Left) November 1st - Accepting the Truth (note- They Accept they are going to die. They remain in their suits from this point onward) November 2nd - The Unus Annus Last Supper November 3rd - Being Brutally Honest with Each Other (note- Mark cries) November 4th - Recreating Every Single Unus Annus Video (note- 45 minutes and 11 seconds. Longest video) November 5th - All Our Video Ideas That Never Happened November 6th - Who's Cutting Onions In Here??? November 7th - The 1st Annual Unus Annus Roast November 8th - God's Fitness Test November 9th - Saying Goodbye to All Our Guests November 10th - Everything's Legal If You're Dead (note- Cooking with Sex Toys 2) November 11th - 7 Minutes in Heaven | 7 Minutes in Hell (note- Ethan got heaven, Mark got hell) November 12th - The Unus Annus Annual Sleepover (note- The final video.) November 13th - Goodbye. (note- The final livestream.)
After 2 years, I've finally launched Deadly Desserts! You guys have been an awesome help and I'd love to give back to this community. I tested with over 150 people before launching. Here is a post detailing my process prototyping, testing, and iterating the game.
Deadly Desserts game Hey everyone, several days ago I posted asking whether people would find value in my detailed process developing and testing Deadly Desserts and it seems like there’s some appetite. I’ve found this community incredibly valuable and would like to give back by hopefully helping some of you. I’ll be focusing on game design as that’s this subreddit’s focus. Just one point on publishing as it relates to design: if you plan on launching on the website that rhymes with TrickFarter (trying to get past auto-mod), your game design should ideally be expandable so that you can offer meaningful campaign exclusives. Background Around 2 years ago, some friends introduced me to Hearts, a classic card game. It seemed pretty basic during my first playthroughs. After playing more and adding my own rules, I loved how strategic this simple game was. Surprisingly, Hearts had been around 100+ years, yet very few people I knew had played it. I wanted to play Hearts with more people, but they kept losing interest. The problems I ran into were people being turned off by playing cards and the new player experience being unwelcoming. I wanted to fix these problems so that I could play this game more. Here are some of the biggest problems and how I solved them:
Turned off by playing cards - solved with food-themed cards and game
Adding points on paper and not knowing how many someone else has - solved with food-themed health tokens
Limited to 3-4 players - solved:
2 players - created new mechanic of playing 2 cards each, 1 at a time
5 players - used 60-card decks to normalize hand size and game pacing
6-10 players - added a 2nd deck and cancellation rules
Additional cards to double effects, scoring changes, and other changes related more to strategy and game pacing
Feedback loop When I first started, I approached game development as a linear process. I realize now that it’s a continuous loop. The three steps I continuously cycled through are:
Testing - playing with people and measuring success of changes
Synthesizing - analyzing testing feedback and deciding changes for next iteration
Iterating - implementing changes based on feedback
Testing I tested with 150+ people before launching Deadly Desserts. Although the entire game development process is a continuous loop, I took a fairly linear approach as to who I tested with. I’d loosely recommend you use the following playtester order. I didn’t strictly follow this recipe because sometimes the opportunity presented itself to test with certain people. Myself I’d say 50% of implemented feedback came from self-testing. I genuinely had a blast with it, too. Here are the main reasons I recommend starting with self-testing:
Fastest feedback cycle and iterations
Catch low-hanging fruit changes before using valuable testing time
The game needs to be fun for me before it’s fun for anyone else
As an example, I tested a 5-player game myself. I used a typical 52-card deck, removed 2 cards, and dealt 10 cards to each player. I felt annoyed when a player started with no cards of a certain suit (e.g. no hearts in starting hand). I also didn’t like the pacing, as I was used to 13-card hands. I did math and found that 12 card hands (60-card deck) decreased the probability of no cards of a certain suit from 16% to 8%. This was a problem I didn’t have to spend valuable playtests to figure it out. Another example, I wanted to figure out how to play with 6+ people and found this bgg thread. It adds a 2nd deck and a new rule in which copies cancel one another out. I tested it and was simmering with how fun the cancellation mechanic was. It created a new strategy where I could lead a hand with an undesirable card, hoping the other person with said card would play theirs and cancel both of ours out. I tested out different hand sizes myself, so I could focus playtests on more impactful gameplay attributes. The best part of self-testing is you’ll always be available during a pandemic! Board game developers I started testing at board game dev meetups after fixing what I could through self-testing. I recommend testing with board game devs 2nd because:
Board game devs exposed to many mechanics and will have great feedback
Useful and fun learning opportunity from people who have launched board games
Learn how to give and receive valuable feedback before testing with others
My first tests didn’t yield much feedback and I couldn’t figure out why. When testing another dev’s game, I noticed he received much more feedback than I do. Whenever I or the testers (other game devs) gave feedback, the game dev simply wrote it down. I wondered why he didn’t respond to any of our comments and finally realized that feedback isn’t meant to yield rebuttals. During my own playtests, I kept on responding to feedback, trying to explain things. Other people saw this and likely were dissuaded from contributing. I learned that feedback is feedback - don’t refute or comment on it, just write it down and ask for clarification if necessary. I remember during a particular playtest, me and other testers glazed a game dev with a wide variety of feedback. He felt overwhelmed and wasn’t sure how to proceed. A tester asked what he changed from the previous iteration. The game dev said that in his previous iteration, all players met their win conditions at similar time-frames, despite all of the decisions made to get there. Essentially, he didn’t want the game to be as luck-based. Providing valuable feedback was much easier when focusing on a particular goal. Here’s what I learned:
The best way to learn how to receive valuable feedback is to learn how to give valuable feedback
Define goals for playtests, primarily how well the new iteration’s changes produce the intended outcome
Testers won’t know what I’m testing for unless I tell them
I tried to test others’ games before asking them to test mine. I also noticed that people tried much harder to provide valuable feedback to me after I had to them. It’s in your best interest, and is more life-fulfilling, to help others before asking for help. The meetup I used to go to is currently frozen, but hopefully there are virtual meetups out there. You can also try a gaming simulator. This subreddit is also a great place to find other board game devs! Friends and family Here’s why I recommend testing with friends and family 3rd:
Start testing game’s entertainment value with a broader audience (game devs are more hardcore)
Loved ones are much more collaborative than strangers
Fine tune game before testing with strangers
I conducted my first blind test with family, where I asked them to read the instructions themselves and play while I quietly observed. I noticed their feedback was more focused on making the game fun, whereas game devs' focused on competitiveness. Once when visiting my parents, my mom wanted to play Deadly Desserts and I told her that I hadn’t figured out 2-player rules. Since she’s the best mom ever, she spent several hours with me experimenting with different ideas, until we came up with the 2-player variant that’s in the current game. Thanks mom! Strangers This was the most important test group because these are the people I would eventually want to buy my game. They didn’t know me and didn’t have sympathy from being a fellow game dev. They had no reason to care about my feelings and consequently gave critically honest feedback. One of my biggest challenges throughout this project was finding playtesters. I didn’t want to pay and didn’t have a big following. Here were my main sources for testing with strangers:
Sat outside high-traffic areas (e.g. Peet’s Coffee) and offered free cupcakes or cookies to playtest
Board game cafes
Other board game devs’ game nights
Other game devs said they tested with dozens a day at board game conventions. I didn’t try it because I thought Deadly Desserts would be too light for a convention, but in hindsight it’s worth a try before writing off. Either way, your game is hopefully light enough to do what I did outside of coffee shops, or heavy enough to test at board game conventions. Both of which are sadly not too feasible during a pandemic. Synthesizing My general approach to synthesizing feedback was:
Filter feedback for which problems need to be solved
Solve problems
Self-test before iterating game
I found it imperative define my game’s value proposition. One of my biggest challenges was figuring out how to sift through feedback. I pushed the game in many different directions by addressing every comment. Without a value proposition, I had no structure to decide which changes to implement and how to measure success of said changes. Board games differ from other businesses in that they provide entertainment, rather than solve problems. Consequently, it’s not as obvious as to how to measure progress for a board game.
Let’s say we’re trying to solve the problem of water bottles not keeping water cold
Our value proposition, the reason why people would buy our bottle, is fluid staying cold
This can easily be measured by comparing water temperature in our bottle vs Bottle X after a certain time period
Let’s say a customer thinks the bottle isn’t stylish and we find a stylish material that reduces insulation by 25%
Since we have a clearly defined value proposition, it’s obvious that this feedback would diminish it’s intended value
One of the most common pieces of feedback I received was people wanting more complexity. I spent a lot of time going back and forth between complicating and simplifying the game. After enough noodling around, I remembered that I originally sought out to be able to play my version of Hearts with more people. After defining my value proposition, I stopped bouncing around and was able to push the game in a certain direction. Iterating Team In the past, I had launched a product that I had paid a contractor to develop. I had many issues with deadlines and quality because the contractor wasn’t tied to the product how I was. It also wasn’t as fun because the relationship felt too professional. For Deadly Desserts, I wanted teammates instead of contractors. I recruited a designer and animator as equity partners. Working with teammates is boat loads more fun than working with a contractor. Implementing I spent a ton of time theorizing how much fun certain changes may or may not be. I made progress faster by iterating and testing quickly, rather than spending too much time planning. Prototyping I tried not to spend capital unless I needed to, both financially and temporally. My first prototype was index cards and poker chips. Once the card designs were more finalized, I used Print & Play to create more legit-looking prototypes. Get creative and spend only on what you need. In my case, card design was a huge value proposition, so I wanted to test it. Over time, I also improved at not asking my teammates to create something until I had it finalized in my head and self-tested. End Thanks for reading and hope this helps someone. At the end of the day, don’t forget that you’re creating something that brings fun to peoples’ lives. Have fun yourself and enjoy the process. Here’s Deadly Desserts if you’re interested in checking it out. Feel free to ask me anything. I’m also happy to test a few games for people. tl;dr: define a value proposition, test, synthesize, iterate, nice
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Hey all, bit of a long post here. I'm doing a little mental hand history as per the recommendation of Jared Tendler in his book The Mental Game of Poker. The idea is to improve a flaw in my game, in this case overcalling river spots. Thought I'd share my process as it will help me to do so, and maybe others. If not, I don't think I'm doing any harm. If you have comments, corrections, additions, I'm interested to hear them as always. I start by naming the problem. Then questioning what mental reasoning/emotional ties create that problem. Then for each of those, I work out the flawed logic underpinning it. Finally, I create a few key statements to refer back to. This time I really dug deep, because I think the problem merited it. So without further ado.. The problem: I call with hands I know I should fold on the river against opponents who are unlikely to be bluffing. The reasons: 1) I am attached to the strength of my hand. -> Hand strength is relative to all five board cards and the opponent's range. It changes with every street, and with every action by the opponent. Simple example: TT starts as a relatively strong hand, but changes in relative strength the moment someone cold 4bets. More complex example: AsJh on board Ac 3c 9s 5c 8d. Villain checks turn and overbets river. My hand is relatively strong when he checks, but when he overbets, it's strength suddenly polarizes. 2) I am attached to the size of the pot, the bigger the pot, the harder the fold. -> The size of the pot has no bearing on whether or not I have odds to call, the decision should be based on pot odds and the information I have available. If anything, the relative strength of a Villain's hand increases with their bet size and the size of the pot. Even though this shouldn't be case, it generally IS. 3) I want to see the opponents cards to see if I was right/wrong -> Being "right" in Poker is not about knowing exactly which two cards an opponent is holding. It's about knowing what their entire range is, and whether or not you had odds to call. Calling and seeing a hand shows you one tiny part of their range, and doesn't tell you whether you were right or wrong to call. 4) I want to see my opponents cards because I would rather lose and know, than never know at all -> That's the game ;) But seriously, we can find another way to "know", which is to see their aggression on various streets using the HUD, and eventually gather enough information to make those calls when it makes sense to do so. Also, we already know! The pool underbluffs, and we can determine their range on that basis. The range is what we (should) care about, not whether they have or don't have a specific part of their range. 5) I don't like the feeling of being bluffed -> No one does! However, opponents are actually unlikely to be bluffing. If they are bluffing and I fold a better hand, that's credit to their ability and is part of the game. I am only being exploited if I am being bluffed more often than I am being value bet. I am exploiting the opponent by overfolding, and denying them value. When they exploit that fact and begin bluffing huge pots, I can think logically about counter adjusting if it makes sense to do is. At the moment it is far me likely I am being targeted/exploited for overcalling, and opponents may even be betting larger sizes because they know I am likely to call! 6) I feel frustrated that I got so far into a hand with something marginal, and don't want to cut my losses -> Betting or calling with marginal hands is done because they have enough equity or future fold equity to do so. That doesn't mean their equity or fold equity is always going to materialize. They should only materialize a certain percentage of the time, probably less often than I believe. Both of those types of equity can also change in an instant. 7) My thought process is halted by the emotionally charged nature of big pots -> This relates to Unconscious Competence. I haven't practiced enough hand reading to be able to do it even when I am under stress, meaning it is not yet an Unconscious Competence. Meaning: More study needed off-felt for river decisions especially. 8) "Its only x amount more to call, and I can win the whole pot!" - thinking this would somehow avoid losing what I have already put in -> Money/chips were put in the pot as a bet on equity. The second that bet is made, that money is gone and a new round of betting takes place. The decision is equity vs. pot odds, nothing else. Also.. in a vaccuum, folding is actually a 0EV decision. No matter how many times I catch someone bluffing, the fact of doing so may have been -EV anyway. 9) I think the opponent will overbet as a bluff because I do that myself -> Everyone thinks differently. Part of the skill of Poker is using empathy to understand the thought process of other players. Underbluffing makes a lot of sense. Not everyone is rolled properly. Most people don't hedge their bets on an opponent folding to a large sizing when they have nothing, especially when they been burnt before by opponents who station them with 3rd pair! It is very hard to make big bets as a bluff that are +EV in the long run but feel terrible the times they are called. Most people are not capable of doing it even if they know it is correct. Its possible thats the reason they are playing the stakes they are and haven't moved up. Short term: Logic injections Hand strength changes with each action. Decisions should be made using odds vs equity. We are interested in range, not specific hands. You're not being bluffed, you're being exploited for value. Is it scary to bluff for this player on this board? Long term: Study more river spots to make decisions and hand reading an Unconscious Competence. Recognize which of these emotions/thought processes are occurring every time I'm in a hand and make a bad call on the river. Write them down after the hand. Anticipate that a stressful river decision may be approaching every time I reach the turn.
I played a long session of live $1/2 last weekend. It was brutal, total rollercoaster train wreck. I sat down with $300 and started bleeding immediately. I had a ton of suited connectors that didn't pan out and was getting beat by slow played KK and there was one a-hole that was totally picking on me. He slow played AKdd and hit a flush on the river. Reraising me, putting me all-in. The straw that broke the camel's back is that I went all-in for my last $150 with QQ and he beat me with 85o when he double-paired the flop. He was also annoying, complaining about every single dealer. Mostly how they were 'disrespecting' him by, as he claims, looking surprised when he won. IDK, but I switched tables and this fucker is still staring me down. I was going to flip him off, but I just waved instead and he finally looked away. Anyways, I'm at the new table and I'm still getting owned. I would bet my draws on the flop and turn and get reraised 3x. I would bet with top pair-top kicker, and get beat by a slow played two-pair or set. This table was FULL of talk between 3-5 players that were talking GTO strategy, and how to bet in previous situations. One guy bluffed a guy off a huge pot when he went all-in with 88 and guy laid down two pair, when a straight was on the board. Finally, I said fuck it, and thought, it's time to fight fire with fire. BTW, I have a TERRIBLE table image and I'm in the game for $800 with maybe a little over $250 in front of me. I bet $10 from LJ with TT and get two callers. Flop is Ts4c5d. It's not super dry, but I decide to check. Hijack makes it $25, CO calls. I call. Turn is 9s. I check, Hijack makes it $50, with both call. River is Jh. So, I'm a little annoyed that I let the Straight get there. I check. HJ goes all-in for $165. CO doesn't take too long and calls. I have it barely covered and call. I win when HJ showed QTss for a pair and busted flush/straight draw. The CO had 45hh. So, I'm thinking that I shouldn't have slow-played from the get-go. I'm thinking that I should've bet on the flop, and Cbet at least one street. I'm not unhappy with the check on the River as I was in bad shape. Any pointers to how to play it better? One other hand in this vein was when I opened to $10 with A5hh and get one caller from a guy that was habitually reraising me. A guy that was talking game theory with the other guys, and the one who bluffed huge and won before with 88. (BTW, this guy busted later when he went all-in preflop, got called and lost when his 44 got beat when AJ paired on the flop) Flop is Qh2h6c I check and he checks. Turn is the 9h. I check my nut flush and he bets $25 and I call. The river is a 3c and I bet. I didn't even count my chips; I just grabbed a handful of chips and placed them over the line and the dealer counts $55. The guy looks at me incredulously and asks, 'what in the world do you have?' He then says he has to see what I have and calls. I turn it over and he says, 'ah, figured.' These hands got me back on track. I ended up booking a win for +$52. I'm not sure that I played either hand correctly, but I played a lot hands like this...passive and trappy, and won. But results be damned, that can't be the way to play good poker, right? But what happens when the rest of the table are wild, trappy aholes (under the guise of GTO experts) and you keep losing when you get reraised when you bet draws and strong pairs?
CMV: Events such as Esports, chess, and poker should not be classified as sports, but are at the very most unconventional sports, which is to say competitions.
Disclaimer: Before I start, I am not demeaning the efforts of top competitors. Their sheer commitments to become masters are more than apparent through their inclusion of eating healthy, exercising, and countless hours of game study. It indeed is a respectable commitment. This will not be a subjective look at this topic like most of the debates are. As an ex-gamer, I do have a personal bias towards chess to tell the truth. When first drafting this argument, I actually tried to formulate why chess is a sport and video games weren't. Then I realised that they both weren't and shouldn't be considered as conventional. Do I still think most people say video games are sports to justify their gaming addiction? Yes. Do I think it's unfair for Esports to be compared as equal to Basketball? Absolutely. However, like I said, this is an objective comparison of the ever expanding world of competitive entertainment. And, as the rules say, I am open to discussion about changes There are two popular definitions for "sport" that have been used for this topic. The first one from is from dictionary.com: an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature Using this definition, we can automatically draw the line. Many pro-Esports people in this topic use chess as an comparison, saying if chess is a sport by this definition, then competitive video games can also be considered as one. However, while it does note that it can involve physical prowess or skill, neither activity is athletic by definition, which means physically strong, fit, and active. A Esports player may take up an exercise program to better their play, but it does not make them an athlete. It is not required for a person to be athletic to compete in Esports, chess or poker. The participants can not be called athletes, because the activity is not athletic. Therefore, by the definition found on dictionary.com, the argument that these activities can be considered sports is over. So now, we can move to the more ambiguous definition found in Oxford dictionary, which identifies a sport: an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or a team competes against another or others for entertainment So here, there is room for argument. Exertion simply means effort, so by this definition an activity such as Esports can be considered sport or sport like. After all, the word comes from disport which means in the sense of recreation or entertainment. However, this does not mean that they should be considered as conventional sports at all, far from it. Conventional sports are athletic, and have these identical seven attributes to be considered as such.
They occur in a physically, tangible environment
They require physical prowess, experience or exertion.
They require some sort of mental exertion and strategy
They are, by nature, competitive and have some sort of objective
They are pertain to being designated for entertainment of others, or have entertaining aspects
There is regular participants and competition that is self sustaining
There is a relatively high occurrence or probability for injury
These are what all athletic sports have in common, and can hold the present definition of a common or "regular" sport. Nonetheless, the Esports, chess and even bizarre activities such as dog boarding and outhouse racing meet many requirements on this list. I will refer to these as unconventional sports, even though chess and competitive video games are recognised for their sports like properties by the International Olympic Committee. They both get really close to qualifying as Olympic Sports, while those are different from sports played annually. According these overall requirements to be an athletic and annual sport, these fall closer to the definition of competition, which is the state or activity of competing. Additionally, this category can be split even further between physical competitions, or unconventional sports, and virtual competitions, or virtual sports. Physical competitions, such as chess and poker, meet six out of seven of the requirements above. Chess is notorious for its requirement of mental prowess, not unlike athletic sports are for their brute physicality. Physical exertion is present by moving the pieces or chips, and take place in a tangible environment where players can touch and interact physically with what they are doing. The objective for a chess player is to trap the king with his or her pieces, called checkmate. There is a definite competitive aspect, and self sustaining competition is conspicuous. Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE), or the World Chess Federation, has over 170,00 active members, with the United States Chess Federation holding about 93,000. Chess.com alone has over 20,000,000 registered users. Poker has a huge following and world championships occurring annually since 2004. The place it falls short is the lack of consistent or common injury of the players. The risks of athleticism are generally associated with conventional sports. The thing that ties these unconventional sports together is the presence of a physical and tangible environment during play. Virtual competitions, namely Esports, but also online versions of trading card games and E-chess, meet five out of seven qualities that conventional sports have. They do indeed include a great deal of mental concentration, prowess and overall development. Video games, thanks to a release of dopamine, do have mentally relieving benefits that are best showcased when played in moderation. Physical exertion of pressing keys or buttons on a controller is present as well. Physical and mental integration shown in top level events are astounding, with muscle memories and reaction times that are impressive to say the least. Competitive gaming is most known for its explosive popularity and ever expanding competition. Even twelve year olds are able to compete in these events. This is mostly due to video games being, let's face it, extremely entertaining to watch and play. Nonetheless, it does not by any means have a consistent injuring possibility, except for maybe a few cases of carpal tunnel here and there. What makes it set apart from the other unconventional sport is that it's strictly virtual. Gamers can not physically interact with the game they are playing. Virtual reality and the use of controllers is still not tangible. They experience only a fabricated world. And, in a gamer's mind, are they pressing buttons on a controller or are they playing a game? The use of controllers act as a medium of communication to the virtual world they are interacting with. Physically, competitive gamers have no connection with video games. Reiterating the beginning clarification, I do not demean unconventional sports, whether they are virtual competitions or physical. Many get offended at the generalising of their favourite competitive activity as a competition, which is why I used the word unconventional. Also note that the dedication to these unconventional sports can be as demanding as some physical sports are. Chess can be a lifetime commitment for many, and as I can confirm, many, many, many hours are committed to studying tatics and theory of the openings. In the same way, taking the relatively new fighting game Smash Brothers Ultimate as an example, many hours are devoted by top players into studying match-ups, labbing true combos with their main character, and studying frames data and the interaction between them in detail. The last thing I will address is the overall stereotypical attitude towards these unconventional sports. Many regard chess as a game for hopeless nerds, competitive video games for unemployed delinquents, and poker for financially unstable people. I won't deny these stereotypes as wrong, but as they're incomplete. Yes there have been World Chess champions that died penniless, and yes some Esports players are hot for a season and just vanish and are back to regular jobs. However, they don't consider the different, more positive aspects of these events. How excited these communities get over tournaments and announcements. The connections that are shared, the relationships that are built. How there is a general hype in these communities, and most importantly, how people's life stories are changed for ever. It is really easy for society to avert their attention from these moments. But the one thing to remember that everyone possesses on the Earth, and is born with, is a choice. A choice to live life how they please. Yes there will be consequences for every action, but no one can judge another individual's choices. Yes, society loves pointing fingers, but in reality, we are just as flawed as the people we condemn. It's just not right to tell a kid that they'll never make it in the NBA, NFL or whatever. And it is especially wrong to force it upon a person who dreams of becoming a competitive gamer that they will waste their time. If someone eventually falls out of being a top player, but still perceives it as an enjoyable experience, then it generally can't be classified as a waste of time. Imagine if a white collar person who reprimanded their son or daughter for wanting to be a competitor in Esports, saying they'll never amount to anything doing that, encountered a successful entrepreneur the next day who told them, "Office jobs are for soul-less people who chase money, and they won't ever make a mark on the world." That might wake them up from their corporate slavery, but some people might inherently enjoy their work. It's a really malicious punch to the gut. It doesn't matter if you think, or even know, someone is making a wrong decision for their life. At the end of the day, you have no control over the descions , even in parenting. Parents can do their best to influence children, and even have dominion over what they do and should be doing at a young age. After they grow older, there comes a point of life where they can't be ordered around anymore. Treat others how you would want to be treated.
[SP] A dragon saves the knight in shining armor from the princess
Well... this turned into a wild ride of a response. I woke and immediately responded to this simple prompt which... well which led to... this thing. Enjoy! The forlorn Reginald stared out into the night's sky. He looked through the window of his lofty bed-chamber in the highest part of the castle. He sat himself on the large king-sized bed with sheets of silk that would make any soldier feel a sense of true luxury. Reginald clenched the silks and felt his heart tremble with emptiness. He felt the tears as they came tumbling down his face as he remembered his life before becoming a prince. Reginald sat there, sobbing, as he reminisced about the journeys he would go on. He used to have all sorts of wonderful adventures when he was a knight of the land, well, more like the blight of the land. No one knew that Reginald conned most of the things he did, other than Malthazar and Calisto, but those two wouldn't call him a blight. No, that was reserved for all the lives that were probably lost thanks to Reginald's ruse. But Timmy, Reginald's orphan squire thought the world of Reginald... or at least Reginald assumed the orphan boy did. The only real thing Reginald could remember of Timmy was his horrified look whenever they breached a villainous hideout. A look so filled with dread that the vampire lord Brettlan had taken a special interest in him, or at least that's what Reginald thought. Brettlan kept saying something about wanting to get closer to the boy - saying that he needed to teach the boy things that only a father could. Reginald scoffed at that. Vampire lords couldn't have children, everyone knew that to be true from the rumors they heard. The only thing that Brettlan taught that day was how to take a proper beating from a con-man knight. Reginald gave a tearful smile at those days. He even remembered the time when he had to fight off pirates. The dread captain Calisto had been a scourage to the seven seas. Calisto would always be there somewhere on the high seas stealing from some poor sod - usually, it was Reginald's employer. In fact, it was thanks to dread captain Calisto that Reginald even became a knight. Through a series of fortune events, Calisto drunkenly admitted to being bested by Reginald. The news went throughout the kingdom and landed Reginald a place as the first-ever knight of the seas. Reginald had just been a sailor with the courage to challenge the fearsome pirate to a drinking game. Apparently, years of alcoholic debauchery had given Reginald a hoppy fortitude that survived the slurred insults of a dread captain. He was either brave or just competently stupid enough to survive. But now, Reginald couldn't even look his future wife in the eyes. He had saved Cynthia, the princess of Weiland, from the dragon Malthazar. Reginald thought it more accurate to say that he had convinced rather than saved. Saved had notions of chivalry and bravery. He had just convinced Malthazar to let him take the princess. It was known throughout the lands that the red-scaled dragon had a penchant for stealing away young princesses and keeping them captive. But that was mostly because of Reginald. He was the one that came up with the idea. Before his life as a sailor, he had helped the dragon. As for why Reginald would help? Well, they were, as they would say it, homies. A memory struck Reginald like a speeding arrow. "Yo, Regi, you thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?" The dragon asked him one day as a princess went passing by in a carriage. Back then, Reginald and Malthazar had been one part thief and one part a torrent of terror. It had worked well enough to secure Malthazar enough money to survive without Reginald. But, they still loved each other. Every time they'd see each other, they'd chant one single phrase over and over again. That phrase was, "Dudes rock." As for what it meant or if it held any meaning? Not really. They just liked how the words would tumble from their lips. They knew each other from childhood and had watched out for each other for years. Reginald could still remember their first meeting, sorrow stabbing him through again at the thought. "Ey, you a dragon or something?" Malthazar had asked with a gravely adolescent voice all those years ago. Reginald felt a renewal of the watery assault coming from his eyes as he thought about the wonderful day in a green undergrowth near Reginald's home village. "Nah, you a human? You don't look nothing like a human I ever seen," the child Reginald had said with hand gestures, imitating the adults of his village. The dragon's head had recoiled to the left, its neck curved from the cringe that the dragon must have felt. "You think I got me some fleshy bits like yous? Nah, all scales here, baby!" Reginald was now a sobbing, wailing man in that bedroom chamber. The memories stung at him like a cut from Calisto would or a claw from Brettlan. He had left Malthazar once the dragon had enough of a horde to generate new would-be heroes that he could cut down. That was when Reginald had left to become a sailor and find the most beautiful treasures for the horde. But then Reginald fell for another trap. Royal life. Once Reginald became a knight, he discovered how expensive and nice royalty had it. He would go to such lavish balls and dinners that he needed more. He thought marrying a princess would be the best bet. He remembered what Malthazar was doing, and at the time, an ingenious plan came hurtling into his mind. Reginald had dropped Timmy off with Brettlan, the vampire lord. He had no real good reason to other than the fact he knew the vampire lord would take care of Timmy. The creature of the night seemed to always have a guest room ready for the boy. So, Reginald figured the vampire cared about the boy enough to take care of him. Even though Timmy pleaded against it, Reginald just shrugged and figured no harm, no foul. He rushed back to his old childhood dragon friend. He would need the massive creature for this plan to work. When Reginald had found Malthazar upon his opulent pile of gold, Reginald pitched the idea. "Ey yo Malthy, how's about this. How's about you steal a broad and I come to save her. Then I get married to her and get all their fortune. I come back, and boom, you's and I are worth a kingdom in gold, eh?" Malthazar agreed in an instant. "See this is why I like you Regi, always coming up with these good plans. Never say I doubted that noggin." With that, the plan was sprung. Malthazar captured Cynthia, and Reginald had saved her. That was his downfall. Now as a prince, Reginald didn't have all the freedom he was so used to. He couldn't just go off and roam the high seas. He couldn't just go fight vampires now. He also most certainly could not see his scaly childhood friend. It was safe to say that Reginald held a broken heart even though he inflicted the pain upon himself. Had he not been so greedy for gold, then he would still be out there on the seven seas or even spending time with his dragon friend. Or possibly taking care of his squirely ward. But Reginald's sorrow flew away as a sudden gust of wind slammed through his bedroom chamber. He looked out to the black night sky but discovered it was red with scales now. Malthazar came to visit him. On his back was Dread Captain Calisto, Vampire Lord Brettlan, and even Timmy - who was now paler than before. "Guys!" Reginald came bounding up to the window while he cleared his face of tears. "What's you doing here?" Malthazar was the first to speak. "What does it look like, huh? We're saving you, don't you know?" Reginald's eyes went wide. They were saving him? That didn't sound right. "What's you mean you saving me? Can't you see I'm cryin' over here, huh? I didn't know I needed saving from water." Dread Captain Calisto cleared their throat. A voice that sounded like a female trying to fake a male's voice came sauntering through the air. "Well, I remember saving you a few times from the sea if I remember correctly." Reginald shot the captain a look filled with contempt. "Eh, what's you doing here huh? I thought you's supposed to be doing your sailing and what not?" Calisto shook their head. "Not any more thanks to you. Now, whenever I board a vessel they just give me money. Turns out they don't want to fight a friend of Weiland's new royalty. Do you know how much I miss the action?" Reginald nodded at that. He knew exactly the feeling. It was the same reason he had just been sobbing himself into a puddle earlier. He missed the thrill of battle. Then he looked at her confused. "Wait but I was fighting you. We ain't no friends!" Calisto shook her head in dismay. "I told them the same thing. It seems that everyone on the high seas thinks otherwise. Someone apparently spread rumors that we were friends before you became a knight. Whoever did that, I am going to kill them. I miss the thrill!" Reginald quietly nodded at that and made a mental note to never tell Calisto he had been the one that started those rumors. He thought they would have saved him. Now those rumors would put him in hot water, which he would absolutely need saving from. Finally, Reginald looked over at Brettlan and Timmy. "So, now I know why those two are here. But why are you two here, huh?" Brettlan was the first to speak between the pair. "Father-son bonding time, of course! Do you know how many years of my son's life I missed? I need to catch up to all of them! Plus he wanted to see you! The boy has been saying how much he missed your ill-aligned morals!" Timmy's lips went tight thin as he heard the words. He didn't want the last part coming out, but he did miss Reginald. Something about watching a man choose the absolutely wrong choice every time and getting out of trouble intrigued Timmy. "Yep," Timmy began hesitantly, "he's my dad. Turns out when your father is a vampire, it's really hard to see your half-human son. Everyone still thinks the vampire wants to kill you." Brettlan's head oscillated up and down at an alarming speed from those words. "The custody battles I had to fight just to get my son! It was nonsense. Now, look at him! He is finally coming into his own vampire powers!" "Wait but how'd you win the custody battle?" Brettlan laughed at that with such exuberance that Reginald wondered if the rumors about vampires being brooding masterminds held any truth. "Oh don't be silly! I just won the real battle," Brettlan said as he wiped a humourous tear from his eye. "I just razed the whole village to the ground and bam no more custody battle!" It seemed the rumor needed to be updated. Vampires could be enthusiastically malevolent. Reginald slowly nodded at that. If there had been any doubt in Reginald's mind that he was a bad guy, then it was wiped away from Brettlan's words. They were most definitely the bad guys. Then again, Reginald always knew somewhere deep down he was just a con artist moving from one role to another. But he never thought he'd find himself as a prisoner prince. Reginald looked at Timmy. The now pale man just looked like he hadn't been out in the sun for a while. Reginald shrugged. He hadn't been out in the sun in some time either. But here was his chance. Malthazar's voice came crunching through the window. "So you gonna hop on or what?" Now Reginald needed to decide. He could flee from his cage or stay and try to fix things. Before Reginald could decide what he wanted to do, the door burst open. It was Cynthia. She would always come by and check on her soon to be husband. At first, she thought him a dashing knight. But when she discovered he was nothing of the sort, she moved out of the room and into another. Reginald had caught her talking to servants about how to "get rid of a pest." At first, he thought nothing of it, but when his bowls of soup started to leave him feeling a little too under the weather, he caught on just who was the pest. Then came the accidents and the near-death experiences, and the assassins. Reginald actually liked the assassins. They used to try and kill him before he went to sleep. The extra action would be enough excitement to make him happy again. But Reginald had defeated enough of the assassins to the point where they would take the job, but just come keep Reginald company. Reginald had won a lot of money from all the impromptu poker games in his little prison of a room. But Reginald couldn't think about his swathes of ill-gotten finances. He needed to react to his now seething fiancee as saw the furious look on her face. "What are YOU do-," she tried to say but was cut off by the sudden rush of movement. Reginald sprinted towards the window and jumped out. As it turned out, jumping out of a window was preferable to chatting with Cynthia. Malthazar caught him on his back and the group went flying away. But Cynthia heard something in the night's sky. She heard the torrent of chanting that came from the group that was flying away. It was a simple phrase repeated over and over again. "Dudes rock." Cynthia snarled at the sight. "Oh, now I am definitely going to kill you," she said with pure vitriol in her voice. She angrily marched out of the room and slammed the door behind her. Then, like shadows in the night, four assassins reluctantly came out of their hiding spaces. Each one of them held a different item of food. One had packaged alcohol, another had a box of something called a "pizza," the last two had the various bags of poker chips and cards they had planned to use that night. "So," one of them began, "that was wild..." "Yep..." Another said. "... So do you all want to play, or should we head out?" The other three looked at each other and shrugged. "We are already here... I mean might as well, right?" The four of them nodded in agreement. They set up on the empty table near the window and began their nightly game of poker. After halfway through the game, one of them looked up and asked something that should have been the first thing the assassins deliberated on. "So... you think we should tell Regi?" One of the assassins looked up and her face contorted into something of cringed concern. "... Yeah... Yeah we should." They all absently nodded at that as they continued their game of poker.
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