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  2. Posted

    Ace in the Hole says, "Set aside that die after it is resolved or removed."

    Does that mean it can sit out through the upkeep phase? The upkeep phase section of the RRG says for each player to perform a number of steps. Step 2 is "Returns all of the dice still in their dice pool to their matching cards."

    The RRG doesn't use the word "remove." Also, there's no card in play to return it to. So if I never resolve it, and my opponent doesn't manage to remove it before the action phase is ended, what happens to the die?

  6. Posted · Edited by bampop

    Heh. I played last night. I'd never dream of grabbing and rolling a person's dice. But I am the guy who reaches and grabs the random card from someone's hand like he's Doug Henning (David Blaine for all you children.) I didn't think about there really being no difference etiquette-wise. Luckily it was one of my closest friends and all of the stuff was mine. Glad I read through the entire thread.

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    Hm. Surprised I missed that. I'm listening to Smuggler's Den now, and I'm worried it'll ruin the game for me. They're talking team builds and I don't like to build stuff that I hear the internet talking about. I want to build stuff out of cards I like, but now I'm going to be thinking about playing AGAINST these teams. It's why my son and I never survived Pokémon.

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  9. Posted · Edited by bampop

    I know the quick answer is "most people have the starter(s) and some boosters;the meta will shake out," but is there a discussion yet as to how many upgrades, support, and events to bring? Obviously which ones depend on your team, but do you favor one character over the other(s)? I currently have a hero deck and a villain deck. They're built mostly on what I can legally put in based on what I own, so they have 8 and 7 dice cards respectively, and no rhyme or reason to the other cards except, "I can't wait to see how this card plays."

  10. Posted

    I'm the store owner and was there for the whole thing. I wrote the whole thing up somewhere up above. The first 2 comments were not lofged as complaints. just comments to hot/cold dice. The actual official comment came in after the top 8 round ended. He was not approached in front of other players. I have no idea where you read that. A TO asked him to join us in another separate room from the event. There were no other people around. Only the 2 TOs, myself, and the dice owner were present. In fact, none of the other participants were aware anything was going on until 2 other players not involved in the situation started arguing loudly with the TOs over the situation after they were told about it from the dice owner.

    From your own description, I can definitely see why OP was discomforted with the experience. That's like being asked to "come with me" at a casino in Vegas.

    I feel like you should take a step back and not take board gaming so seriously. Or come meet the people who frequent GYFO and see just how unintimidating our jolly bunch is.

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    Well then, I've obviously made some bad assumptions, but I still don't think they intended to act maliciously. I think the accusations of local bias clouded the issue and blew it up. (I say all of this as an outsider who only heard about it in store the next day and then from this thread.)

  12. Posted · Edited by bampop

    And you know what? I'll even make an argument against my own point to say that doing it privately means the accuser wouldn't even have known that he was using fresh dice. It was absolutely a less than ideal solution. But for heat-of-the-moment-during-top-four trying to think on their feet without official guidance? We're all looking at it as outsiders with perfect hindsight. I still think I'd make an effort to address what felt like a formal complaint.

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  13. Posted · Edited by bampop

    Then it feels like you skipped a lot BEFORE page 7 as well. Their proposed solution didn't single anyone out

    Oh, I missed the part where everyone was given new dice and instructed to use them. I thought it was just one guy who was, forgive the phrase, 'singled out' to use new dice.

    That's fair, but I don't think we will change each other's minds. I'm just pointing out that TOs didn't make the accusation or make things public. The OP was free to not take the new dice and nobody would have known except for a loud dissenting opinion. Heck, I bet the TOs wish they'd known the accuser would be gone before any resolution had been attempted.They made an arguably bad decision (arguably based on the split of opinions here) and they are hoping to learn from it.

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    I have every belief that the TOs acted in good faith and did the best they could under duress. But I still maintain their solution was the wrong one. It singled out a player as being a potential cheater, who then had to take special actions in an attempt to prove he WASN'T a cheater. It's not a good solution, and it puts the player in question 'on show' and singles him out.

    Then it feels like you skipped a lot BEFORE page 7 as well. Their proposed solution didn't single anyone out. A sore loser did and they tried the best they could with no official guidance they could find. It also did not put him "on show" as everything they did was private and away from prying eyes. His friend put him "on show" when he made snide comments to one TO and things got heated in the game room.

  15. Posted

    Again as a monday morning QB, I wouldn't even approached him.

    As a Monday morning QB, let's say you don't approach him and he goes on to win the day with a clear head. You run the risk of the accuser going on about how the TO didn't address a formal complaint. It seems the accuser was gone by the time it resolved anyway, but the TOs didn't know that he would be. Personally, as a volunteer for Dice Masters events at the same store (and our events have been waaaaaay smaller; half our regular players are friends) I would be more concerned with having someone report to WizKids that I didn't take their concern seriously and now someone they believe to be a cheater (rightly or not, and forgetting about the getting handsy with others' belongings) won out because of it.

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  16. Posted

    Once again am I the only one concerned that people (including the TO) rifled through another players stuff without his consent?

    First off, if you read the whole thread you are far from the only one. On the other hand, and I'm not saying it was right by any stretch, but by all accounts there didn't seem to be any "rifling" through. Even by the OP's account (unless I read it wrong; I'm open to correction) the dice were on the table and he watched the accuser doing it and was "flattered." He never raised that as a concern until the mob here started attacking the TOs handling of the situation. His concern was that the accusation got in his head and he feels he didn't play to his ability. Understandable.

    Under the circumstances, I think the TOs jumped on what they felt was a ruling that needed handling, and the "rifling through" is a subject to be breached with the store owner. Which may or may not have happened. I wasn't there, but I am a customer of Get Your Fun On and can state unequivocally that Marc runs the best store around and runs multiple events over multiple product lines on any given day. This is an awful tarnish on an amazing track record and I'm sure everyone involved would do whatever they could to rectify it properly.

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  17. Posted

    Good news. A week after noticing it was missing, and roughly 10 minutes after creating this thread, I noticed that since the Twin Shadows map has an ad on the back, and so did the Core Game map (when I disassembled the Skirmish Guide to keep it in a binder with all the maps) I put those two maps back-to-back in one sleeve. Thanks for looking.

  18. Posted

    I know this is a long shot, but has anyone bought two copies that would be willing to part with the skirmish map? I can't find mine and since I don't think it was missing when I bought the game, I don't want to go through the Damaged/Missing Components section of the website. My wife has paypal. I'll pay a reasonable amount plus an envelope and stamp. Thanks!

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