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I was playing Blue (Birds) and had drew the Domination card that let me win with 3 Fox clearings. Well I had 3 of those and I was at 10, but he GM said I couldnt play it. I had to discard it first, then pick it back up, and the play it on my third (now) turn with it.

is that how it works or did we do something wrong? We kept reading the rules and even looked online, but we were still confused.

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is it an ameritrash game

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I really wish someone on here would actually answer the questions I post. Almost every time I have a question I get no answers, only BS

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You didn't answer my question either and I'm giving you a bump so when the one root player in the world logs on to his gamefaqs.gamespot account he'll see it on the front page

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SoundNetwork posted...

You didn't answer my question either and I'm giving you a bump so when the one root player in the world logs on to his gamefaqs.gamespot account he'll see it on the front page

Ah, I thought you said it WAS a trash game

We had fun with it

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I haven't played Root, but I play a lot of board games, and there's a few enthusiasts here. @Medussa or @MedeaLysistrata may be one of them, but I might be mistaken.

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no luck. For the last year or so, my job was to make sure everyone else got to play board games, lol. unfortunately, I don't even think I saw that one out on the table.

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Root is fun, but I've only played once as the racoon

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I've only played it twice, and am by no means an expert, but my understanding of the rules is that you can play a domination card from your hand. It's only if you discard it to use its suit that it becomes available for people to pick up.

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marthsheretoo posted...

I've only played it twice, and am by no means an expert, but my understanding of the rules is that you can play a domination card from your hand. It's only if you discard it to use its suit that it becomes available for people to pick up.

Hmm

I would ask the Reddit, but I'm sure it's against the ToS to ask questions just like most Reddit boards.

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have you tried asking on Board Game Geek? I just looked at the game's forum, and it seems decently active.

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Medussa posted...

have you tried asking on Board Game Geek? I just looked at the game's forum, and it seems decently active.

Is that a Reddit page? You can't ask questions on Reddit, it's not allowed. If it's a website with a message board, then I'm not worry enough to sign up to ask something.

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Hey, I play root quite a lot - you could have played it immediately!

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bgg forum dedicated to rules questions for Root:
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/237182/root/forums/66

boardgame subreddit that definitely is ok with rules questions:
https://old.reddit.com/r/boardgames/

gamefaqs board game board:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/272-tabletop-gaming

good luck


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Thanks!

The next time we play I'll know. Or take those f'n cards out

Anyways, I'm sure the next game we play will be The Quacks of Quedlinburg

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I personally wouldn't take them out - they add another layer of strategy where you need to have a think about which clearings would be too dangerous for an enemy to possess. Since the player with dominion only wins on the beginning of their next turn, it makes everyone team up against them and if they can't hold their position, they're screwed for the rest of the game. It's much harder for the birds to win, so it's also a good way to counter balance that. Consider it kind of a final stand of a lower scoring player in late game.

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TarElessar posted...

I personally wouldn't take them out - they add another layer of strategy where you need to have a think about which clearings would be too dangerous for an enemy to possess. Since the player with dominion only wins on the beginning of their next turn, it makes everyone team up against them and if they can't hold their position, they're screwed for the rest of the game. It's much harder for the birds to win, so it's also a good way to counter balance that. Consider it kind of a final stand of a lower scoring player in late game.

It's because we sat there for over an hour arguing about how they were handled. Then my brother, the one that owns the game and was reading the rules, this is what he made me do -

[Blue, Birds]

• Use it has one of my. . .top cards. The one you have to use 1 or 2 cards to put into a spot
• Then not be able to do the stuff on my turn making me discard all of my cards [besides those 2 bird cards I always have up there] and put it off to the side
• Then take a turn to grab and use the card
• And then I could finally win

I had everything I needed when I got the card. I was above 10 and I had all 3 Owl locations. Like, I would get playing it and then giving everyone a chance to maybe make me lose one of those owl locations, but not 4 f'n steps to play a single card

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Did you not read the attached law of root? They have a secondary rulebook in every box which describes everything in incredible detail, there aren't many things that aren't covered in there.
Incidentally, you can use dominance cards in your decree as usual (only the colour matters for resolving the decree), it's one of the ways to store it so other players can't use it.

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^ yes, he read them over and over We simply were not getting it. I'm not a big board game guy. I'll play them, but he's the one that reads up and learns how to play to teach me. But it was brand new to both of us, and we just got confused. I didn't read the rules myself, though.

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It's certainly a game that you need to play a couple of times to get into - if you decide to play it again and need some help / advice, feel free to shoot me a PM or something and I'll try to help :)

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TarElessar posted...

It's certainly a game that you need to play a couple of times to get into - if you decide to play it again and need some help / advice, feel free to shoot me a PM or something and I'll try to help :)

Alright, thanks

I also plan on watching a group play on YouTube and see if that helps at all

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