Everyone can do better. Designers need to make games that women want to play with other women. Publishers need to have women selecting which pitches to develop. Game cafes need to look less like basements but most importantly parents should have their daughters select some games we play at home.

Thanks for the great feedback @ross-esmond.bsky.social. I've tried to address all the issues you brought into the light and it reduced the total amount of text in the rule booklet which is always nice. Now I'm just making sure I didn't lose anything important in the rewrite.

I should be able to do that.

I think I perhaps rely too much on the wording on cards to give the context for what an attack and defend-action is. I want new players to be able to understand cards but I haven't given the same context in the rulebook.

I see your point. Some units say "Duel a unit." and then there is a duel between that unit and the target unit.

I agree. The wording is confusing. A unit that protects another unit basically stands in-between a friendly unit and any attacker.

Good call! The second page is the back of the rulebook. It was moved to the top so the pages would align into spreads with the correct facing pages.

Oof! This is what happens when you forget to take the thickness of the trey material into account. Would explain why it's exactly one tile that doesn't fit.

Is it a keyword? Does it need to be short? Is "Swing the Telescope" too long? Is "Point" too abstract?

My 15yr daughter played Einstein's Garden +10 times at LinCon. Plays both solo and competitive. Such a great game!

This makes it easier to communicate that cards that are in play do not need any kind of activation in subsequent rounds, in the case of a stalemate in a previous round.

Cards in play are in play and do not need further activation.

I read my post and realized it's grammatically confusing!
You roll and draft dice together at the beginning of a round, and then you activate dice back and forth lowest to highest to play cards.
The dice values represent different army unit types: infantry, guards, archers, cavalry, and mystics.

In Bones & Banners is basically mana for playing cards that players draft at the beginning of each round. And then the dice activate in order so that some types of cards are played early and other types of cards are played late.

One paragraph background with setting and let the components ooze the theme but keep the actual rules straight.

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