Splendor | Game Over | Thanks for playing!

[Snakes]

Play card III (the 7 ruby one) from my hand

[Farren]

Snakes receives a 2 Ruby discount due to cards in play.

He pays: 3 Rubies 2 Gold (subbing for 2 Rubies) to play a Tier III (public) card from his hand. He gains

4 VP

and a permanent 1 Onyx discount.

Snakes has 15 VP

, which means Round 24 is now the last round of the game.

As Snakes is the last player in turn order, that means ...

Congratulations to Snakes for winning Splendor!

GAME OVER.

Final scores:

1st place: Snakes, 15
2nd place: the worst, 10
3rd place (tie!): Nancy Drew 39: 5 (tiebreaker: 12 cards)
3rd place (tie!): Sirius9121: 5 (tiebreaker: 12 cards)

[Farren]

There's no more turns to play out, right?

With Snakes's play, this is correct.

[Farren]

Debating whether to open up signups for Game 2 or to run another game. This game ran pretty well, I thought - pace of play was excellent, only real goof was the one at the very end with PEdit not kicking in to catch Sirius's move change before resolution.

I'd be up for running this again, but I'm limiting myself to modding two games max, so running this again means *not* running something else.

If I run something else, I'd probably run Blue Moon City next. I've got that one 99% ready to roll.
If I run this again, I'm going to make some interface tweaks - the ones we talked about earlier, plus changing the tiers from I/II/III to C/B/A and keeping each card's ID number instead of changing it to 1/2/3/4 for the shop and stripping it away when it leaves the shop.

Thoughts in general? (Anyone is welcome to chime in here, including people who weren't playing Splendor.)

[Snakes]

That was fun! Thanks for the game, Farren.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Spoiler:

Debating whether to open up signups for Game 2 or to run another game. This game ran pretty well, I thought - pace of play was excellent, only real goof was the one at the very end with PEdit not kicking in to catch Sirius's move change before resolution.

I'd be up for running this again, but I'm limiting myself to modding two games max, so running this again means *not* running something else.

If I run something else, I'd probably run Blue Moon City next. I've got that one 99% ready to roll.
If I run this again, I'm going to make some interface tweaks - the ones we talked about earlier, plus changing the tiers from I/II/III to C/B/A and keeping each card's ID number instead of changing it to 1/2/3/4 for the shop and stripping it away when it leaves the shop.

Thoughts in general? (Anyone is welcome to chime in here, including people who weren't playing Splendor.)

Please auto sign me up for the next one, I thoroughly enjoyed this and please put me on your PM sign up list for any future Mish Mash games you run.

[Nancy Drew 39]

That was fun! Thanks for the game, Farren.

Congrats!


I actually thought the game would end when there were no more tokens to take or cards t play/draw. I think had I actually understood what I was doing right from the beginning - including buying power, I’d have done better. I’m still confused about the nobels still.

[Farren]

Noble	Cost	VP
N-1	4 DIAMOND 4 SAPPHIRE	3

To try to explain the Nobles a little better, let's use this one as an example.

If, at the end of your turn, you have four cards in play with a DIAMOND discount AND four cards in play with a

SAPPHIRE

discount, then you've reduced the cost for this Noble to zero - and you would automatically claim the Noble at the end of your turn, gaining 3 VP. This is effectively a free action.

Unlike cards (where you can use any combination of tokens and/or discounts to pay the cost for playing it), only discounts are effective for Nobles. So if you had the four DIAMOND cards in play, but only two SAPPHIRE cards, you would not be able to claim the Noble - even if you had a pair of Sapphire tokens to make up the difference.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Noble	Cost	VP
N-1	4 DIAMOND 4 SAPPHIRE	3

To try to explain the Nobles a little better, let's use this one as an example.

If, at the end of your turn, you have four cards in play with a DIAMOND discount AND four cards in play with a

SAPPHIRE

discount, then you've reduced the cost for this Noble to zero - and you would automatically claim the Noble at the end of your turn, gaining 3 VP. This is effectively a free action.

Unlike cards (where you can use any combination of tokens and/or discounts to pay the cost for playing it), only discounts are effective for Nobles. So if you had the four DIAMOND cards in play, but only two SAPPHIRE cards, you would not be able to claim the Noble - even if you had a pair of Sapphire tokens to make up the difference.

Okay then my obvious issue would be the “claim” part. Was there any point in the game where I was entitled to claim but didn’t and i was disadvantaged by not understanding this?

[Farren]

Please auto sign me up for the next one, I thoroughly enjoyed this and please put me on your PM sign up list for any future Mish Mash games you run.

I'll be happy to send you a PM if I start up any new Mish Mash games, or if I open this up for signups for Game 2. Can't auto-sign you up for Game 2, as I'm not sure if I'm running it yet - that'll depend on if there's more interest in this or Blue Moon City, since I don't think I can handle running both of those at once.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Please auto sign me up for the next one, I thoroughly enjoyed this and please put me on your PM sign up list for any future Mish Mash games you run.

I'll be happy to send you a PM if I start up any new Mish Mash games, or if I open this up for signups for Game 2. Can't auto-sign you up for Game 2, as I'm not sure if I'm running it yet - that'll depend on if there's more interest in this or Blue Moon City, since I don't think I can handle running both of those at once.

[the worst]

Congrats Snakes! Well played everyone.

This was really well modded, Farren. Thank you very much for the game.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Congrats Snakes! Well played everyone.

This was really well modded, Farren. Thank you very much for the game.

+1

X 1,000

[Farren]

Okay then my obvious issue would be the “claim” part. Was there any point in the game where I was entitled to claim but didn’t and i was disadvantaged by not understanding this?

Claiming a Noble is actually mandatory - if you can claim it, you must. When the worst qualified for Noble N-3, he didn't explicitly state that he was taking it with his turn.

My general policy on that sort of thing is that if a player forgets to do something mandatory, I will do it for them - unless it requires a choice to be made, in which case I'll ask the player what choice they want to make (much like I did with the discards).

You didn't qualify for any Nobles during the game - nor did anyone else, other than the worst and N-3. You were close to N-4; you only needed one more Emerald card and one more Onyx card to qualify for that one. But the worst was even closer; all he was missing was a single Emerald. If the game had gone on just one more round, he could have played I-2 for free to get that last Emerald card, too.

You were three cards away from all of the other Nobles.

[the worst]

Oh yeah sorry; given it was mod ran I was working on the assumption the noble would be taken automatically. It would probably have been polite of me to mention that I qualified for it as well.

[Nancy Drew 39]

Oh yeah sorry; given it was mod ran I was working on the assumption the noble would be taken automatically. It would probably have been polite of me to mention that I qualified for it as well.

I had no clue what even the purpose or point of them was and how having them benefits us?

[Farren]

The benefit of them - they provide 3 VP each. That's all they do, but when game is 15 VP, 3 VP is fairly significant. Especially since you can claim them in addition to taking your turn; the worst picked up a total of 6 VP when he snagged N-3 - 3 from the card he played and 3 from the Noble. 40% of the game-ending goal collected in a single turn.

They're easy to forget about, as they require an absolute minimum of 8-9 cards - and most of the time, it's pretty tough to *only* collect cards that go towards collecting a specific Noble. And I've seen games where not a single Noble was collected.

[Snakes]

I figure I had an unfair advantage since (I think) I was the only one who had played Splendor before. I'd be up for playing it again.

[Farren]

Looks like there's more interest in Splendor than there is in Blue Moon City, so I'll go ahead and run this again.

Signups are now open for Game 2.

[the worst]

I'll probably need to skip this one - I may be spread a bit thin for the next couple of weeks.

Interested in game 3 though (I'll restate when/if it goes into signups )

[Nancy Drew 39]

/in

Thanks for letting me know.

[dsjstr]

/in

[Sirius9121]

In

[Snakes]

/in

[Farren]

And that's four!

Setting up the game.

Rolling for starting player ...

Original Roll String: 1d4

1 4-Sided Dice: (3) = 3