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Dark Pharaoh {Power Gamer}
Jun 25th, 2014| Tip
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“Port Royal, I Hate to Leave Thee”

The opening turn of Jamaica presents a significant chance of combat, with all of the pirate ships aligned to depart Port Royal. With no initial cannon on board, the ensuing battles will be left to chance, and no bloody pirate should ever willing head into a fair fight. An early loss of cargo (and possibly position) can be severe.

Consider loitering within the safety of Port Royal’s waters, loading food and gold and cannon for a turn or two, and let the congested and contested waters thin out, then sail forth confident that you can pay your gold and food expenses and meet any impending threat. The initial sacrifice of position by lagging behind at Port Royal can easily be surmounted with a fully-ladened vessel.

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El Dorado
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Lone Token {Avid Gamer}
Aug 23rd, 2014| Rule
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“Playing with kids or reduce the strategy level for non gamers”

This game is really not hard but chances that you play this one with kids are high. And sometimes kids have difficulty to choose or make strategies.

We change the rule that you now roll a dice for the day action and after you draw the dice for the night action (or use 2 different color dice and roll them together). This way the only decision is to choose the card to play.

We even use this rule when playing the game with 6 no-gamer adults in order to speed up each player turn.

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Dark Pharaoh {Power Gamer}
Jul 13th, 2014| Rule
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“Double Trouble, or "Re-roll them bones!"”

An important aspect of the game is the Captain’s ability to roll the action dice and assign them to the Morning and Evening spots to best suit the card he intends to play that turn.

When doubles are rolled, however, this ability is denied the Captain, as the results are the same either way.

This random factor of luck should not deny the Captain a vital tactical decision, so our house rule stipulates that doubles cannot stand. The Captain must keep one die of the initial roll (after all, its also not fair that he should get to reroll a result that he might otherwise not want), but he must then re-roll the second die until a non-double result is obtained.

The Captain then assigns the Morning and Evening dice, as usual.

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El Dorado
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Lone Token {Avid Gamer}
Aug 23rd, 2014| Rule
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“0% strategy - 100% luck”

To simplify the game for kids we decided to go with 1 action card only instead of 3. When you roll the dice you only decide which dice you use for the day and for the night action.

This variant change a light strategy game to a fully luck based and chaotic game….

Not for all the games but when you play 2 or 3 games in a row changes are welcomed

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