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Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours (theonion.com)
submitted 1 day ago by AwesomeLowlander to c/[email protected]
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Though this is satire, we've all had that experience where we played a game (many times, even!) and only found out later that we got the rules massively wrong. Share your experience!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

After a whole playthrough of gloomhaven and Jotl, we finally learned in Frosthaven that crit and negate cards reshuffle the whole deck, not just that card. Same for ability cards. Our games normally ended with the minion deck either always critting, or missing. We justified it by thinking it was an intended clock by the developers, to make sure the end was extra difficult... all those games are such a breeze now :p

[–] AwesomeLowlander 2 points 1 day ago

Oof, that's crazy. And AN ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGH. Of a 1-2 year campaign!

[–] ryedaft 1 points 1 day ago

Only reshuffle at the end of the turn or if you run out of cards.