Virtual Designing and Playtesting

Pardon my negativity here, Mario; it

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I despise playing board and/or card games in a virtual environment.

The_Ender, I too, do not favor playing boardgames in the virtual environment over the real world. The best thing about boardgames--the thing I tout everytime someone asks about my hobby--is that it exists in a social setting of friends around a table. Why then, would a virtual game table be exciting to me...? Well, I only have so many friends who are willing to meet only so often to play games. On the occasions when I

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Maybe it

Egad!! Thoth. The Thoth Engine is essentially what I was innovating... only after the fact. In fact, I remember where a newsflash on this site mentioned Thoth and I think I even downloaded for evaluation not knowing exactly what it was.

Well, today I bought a copy of Games magazine. (I almost never buy Games magazine because it