Board Game Arena

Is this a problem specific to prestige? […] Isn't that the nature of the game, in a game in which there is no communal card pool and all drawn cards are random face-down cards? Yes, the problem is specific to prestige. The core of RFTG is managing randomness and taking calculated risks, like in pok...

Prestige is a bad mechanic. We have another season with BOW turned on and yup, Prestige is still bad. Way, way, way too many games that are effectively over on turn 1 or 2 because one player gets an early Prestige point and snowballs that into an impossible-to-beat advantage. A card that particular...

I've never played with Prestige. Is this from the Brink of War expansion? […] I think I recall reading the Prestige rules and not being all that interested. Is this a setting that can be disabled (like takeovers or goals), or is it automatically included when playing with the expansion? Yes, the Pr...

After jamming a bunch of games in Season 20, yeah, Prestige is bad. There are many BOW cards that are good, but the Prestige mechanic adds too much variability, especially when combined with earlier cards that were already prone to causing non-competitive games (Galactic Developers). Basically I'm c...

Definitely would like to see more than zero takeovers in Arena mode — it's an interesting wrinkle, and the part where it's complicated and beginner-hostile isn't a real downside in Arena mode because Arena mode is clearly marked as "this is the full-contact version of the game." Also it'd ...

Let people quit if they want to — on every game , not just Heat! Trust users' judgment about when they have stopped having fun (or, in Arena mode, trust their judgment about when they have lost a not-yet-concluded game). If you let people concede at any time, yes, there are downsides to that, but a...