v1.021: One RNG to rule them all with Paul Sottosanti

Paul Sottosanti, game design veteran and certified cool guy joins Regal and Swimfan to talk about the role that randomness, variance, and luck affect games, mostly from a designer's perspective, in both general and case-specific terms.

0:00:00 Who is Paul Sottosanti?

0:29:18 Basic concepts and a tangent about the popularity of games

0:43:00 Drawing cards

1:20:00 Build complexity

1:42:27 Play-by-mail games

2:22:29 Horizontal progression and strategic diversity

2:39:45 Damage range

2:54:14 Rapidfire topics

Outro music by Cyranek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46LF80G6nB4

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