Post by: Grant Rodiek I really love working on Field Marshals. I spent so much time on Frontier Scoundrels, Poor Abby Farnsworth, and other failed designs, so finally landing on something worthwhile is good for the creative soul.

Post by: Grant Rodiek I intended to write a more substantial and useful post about play testing and iteration, but I've been so busy doing just that with Field Marshals that I haven't had time. Perhaps for Friday? Instead, I thought it'd be fun to share one of my worst design ideas.

Sam Liberty is one of my favorite people on Twitter. He's hilarious, but also a very thoughtful, accomplished designer. I've been bugging him to write for Hyperbole Games for months, but he's too busy doing TED Talks, getting games published, and in general trying to convince me to make Field Marshals about combative pastries (he's serious).

Post by: Grant Rodiek A peer and I were discussing his new design recently. I noted that his game featured a large number of Actions, which led to a really interesting discussion about the number of actions available to a player, accessibility, arbitrarily limiting players, and more.