How was it? What can you recommend? Or not?

After picking up the recipe on the site that shall not be named we finally got around to making it and absolutely love it!

Credit goes to ameliaisnotachef for the recipe:
Garlic Confit

• 1.5 heads of garlic
• 1 cup or so of olive oil- enough to cover the garlic cloves

Add olive oil to small sauce pan and heat on medium. Once oil is hot, add garlic cloves and reduce to low and cook for about an hour. Set aside

Harissa Chicken

• 3.5 oz harissa paste
• 1 tablespoon gently crushed coriander seeds
• 3 large cloves garlic, grated
• 1 tablespoon ginger, grated
• 1.5 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 0.25 cup olive oil
• 3 tablespoons honey
• 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 0.5 teaspoon cumin
• 3.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs, trimmed and cut into 1 inch pieces

Step 1
Add all ingredients except for chicken in a medium bowl and mix

Step 2
In a large bowl, add chicken and marinade and toss thoroughly. Chill for 2 hours or longer - overnight is ideal.

Cucumber Salad

• 6 Persian cucumbers, halved and sliced
• 0.5 cup diced red onion
• 0.5 cup apple cider vinegar
• 0.25 cup water
• 0.5 cup sugar

Step 1
Add apple cider vinegar, water, and sugar to a medium bowl and mix to combine until sugar is dissolved.

Step 2
Add cucumbers and red onion to bowl and toss. Refrigerate for 30 minutes and then drain- serve immediately! (Meh, it was entirely fine sitting like this in the fridge for a day)

Garlic Herbed Yogurt

• 1.5 cups plain greek yogurt
• 3 tablespoons chopped dill
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1.5 tablespoons lemon juice
• as many garlic confit cloves as you’d like (since they are cooked, they are milder)

Add all ingredients to a bowl and mix. Set aside

Final Assembly
When chicken is ready to be grilled, skewer all pieces of chicken and grill on medium high for about 6 minutes, flip and another 6 minutes. Cook until internal temperature reaches 170°F

Warm a piece of naan- I like to dampen paper towels and wrap the naan and stick in the microwave for about 30 seconds.

Spread a decent amount of garlic yogurt on naan, add a chicken skewer, and then top with cucumber salad.

Personal Notes
Yoghurt was too salty for my taste and the meat not salty enough. Overall the amount was good but I would probably move about half the salt from the Yoghurt to the meat.

Also this is a huge batch! Probably something like 6-8 portions depending on how much of an eater you are. The naans also add quite a bit of bulk.

I'm tinkering with a framework to implement board games in c# (similar to boardgame.io in JS) part of that is getting a handle on turn structures. (What is a round? what is a turn? who gets to go when? etc)

So I've gone through all my games and looked for recurring patterns and exceptions to them and here's what I've collected so far:

• There's always at least one structure that handles how player act or "take turns"
  • the vast majority of games do traditional turns - one player does things, then then another,
    • usually in a fixed order maybe going forward some times and backward other times.
    • sometimes the order can change
    • also possible are:
      • turn order decks (you don't know who goes next but know that everyone gets a turn)
      • action tracks (where whoever is furthest back gets to go next, possibly resulting in an uneven number of turns)
      • the next player is dependent on an action of the previous player
  • it's also possible that players can play simultaneously
    • a complete free for all is pretty common
    • it's also possible that players can act freely to some point, then have to wait for everyone else to catch up
  • another consideration, both for concurrent and sequential play is that sometimes some players are excluded (Codenames for example lets all guessers on a given team act concurrently but not the leaders or the other team)
  • there can be different rules at different times (like first picking a tile in sequence then everyone can place it simultaneously)
  • and there can be nested rules (like every player gets to run an auction but in every auction each player get's to bid as well)
  • one relatively common special case is where certain actions on a player's turn result in decisions being needed from other players (trades, attacks, "each player ..." effects)
• there are often structures that simply subdivide another structure
  • they can occur at any level. A game may be divided into "setup" and "play", a round could be divided into different phases but a single player's turn might also be divided into smaller steps.
  • these subdivision usually restrict / specify which actions are allowed in them
  • these subdivision often come with limits like: you can only do N actions
  • sometimes a player can "pass" sometimes they cannot

I'm wondering if anyone can think of an instance that is not covered by these "rules".

dpunked seems to be sleeping in... So, what did you folks play last week?

While I like the concept of the game, I find the amount of key words and rules to juggle cumbersome and my GF was unable to get a handle on what to do.

What's your experience with sticking with the game? Any tipps that helped you internalize the gameplay?

PS I've already tried in solo but it's even more fiddly that way.

your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a creature, the creature regains additional hit points equal to 2 + the spell's level.

What happens when I cast a level 1 spell using a level 2 spell slot?

Literal reading would suggest that the spell slot is irrelevant only the inherent level of the spell but I have seen statements to the contrary.

It's not a huge difference. But I'd still like to know.