Poorhammer E75 - Challenging the Rule of 3

Solely Singleton

English - July 18, 2023 00:02 - 38 minutes - 37.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 41 ratings
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On this episode, Brad and Eric reflect on the Rule of 3’s positives and negatives, and discuss alternative rules that could possibly make list building more interesting while still not restraining creativity too much. This will end in some amount of people completely missing the point and being extremely mad. Luckily they don’t read episode descriptions.

00:15 - Intro

00:55 - Those Nids lookin’ juicy

02:07 - What is the Rule of 3?

11:11 - What if… Rule of 2 instead?

15:32 - Possible problems

19:34 - Game balance

23:04 - The Elephant in the room

24:53 - Solely Singleton

28:26 - It’s just a thought experiment

35:42 - Outro & News

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