I love that you cover games on these topics that are so important. With the stagnant cards, I toyed with a 2-player variant option using the solo Rival deck, but it felt like that could complicate things rules-wise too much. Basically, it would be using the Rival cards so that at the end of each "round" (both players take a turn), you discard the card from display indicated by the red X on the Rival card. The card is face up, so you can see which card will be discarded. The extra maintenance is that you always have to shift cards to the right whenever they're removed from the display, either by players or by discarding, and then fill to the left. If you try it, I'd love to know how you feel about it!
Also, all of the patrons are based on real people from the time period. The diversity is a truer representation of the time than we usually get to see. It took a lot of research, but I was thrilled to find so many interesting stories! Lord Salomon is based on Salomon Sulzer, an Austrian Jewish cantor and composer. 🥰 The full list of the real folks is on my website with the educational materials. I'm so happy you noticed! 😃
Definitely agree that discarding cards at the end of the round is a lot of extra work, especially to maintain card order in the rows, as you point out. We'll talk it over and if we try it, let you know what we think of it. As we discussed, this is an issue in a lot of games at 2 players and we haven't yet seen the "perfect" solution that is simple, elegant and effective.
@@kirstenlunde That's wonderful to hear that these are all based on real people too, but it's your dedication to diversity that makes it so awesome. Others wouldn't have necessarily done the work to find more than the white male nobles and maybe their wives that were the most common patrons of the arts.
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I love that you cover games on these topics that are so important. With the stagnant cards, I toyed with a 2-player variant option using the solo Rival deck, but it felt like that could complicate things rules-wise too much. Basically, it would be using the Rival cards so that at the end of each "round" (both players take a turn), you discard the card from display indicated by the red X on the Rival card. The card is face up, so you can see which card will be discarded. The extra maintenance is that you always have to shift cards to the right whenever they're removed from the display, either by players or by discarding, and then fill to the left. If you try it, I'd love to know how you feel about it!
Also, all of the patrons are based on real people from the time period. The diversity is a truer representation of the time than we usually get to see. It took a lot of research, but I was thrilled to find so many interesting stories! Lord Salomon is based on Salomon Sulzer, an Austrian Jewish cantor and composer. 🥰 The full list of the real folks is on my website with the educational materials. I'm so happy you noticed! 😃
Definitely agree that discarding cards at the end of the round is a lot of extra work, especially to maintain card order in the rows, as you point out. We'll talk it over and if we try it, let you know what we think of it. As we discussed, this is an issue in a lot of games at 2 players and we haven't yet seen the "perfect" solution that is simple, elegant and effective.
@@kirstenlunde That's wonderful to hear that these are all based on real people too, but it's your dedication to diversity that makes it so awesome. Others wouldn't have necessarily done the work to find more than the white male nobles and maybe their wives that were the most common patrons of the arts.