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

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