You make scoring hands from your deck and try to clear a threshold of X points within Y hands, discarding a bad hand only up to Z times. Jokers change gameplay and scoring rules, and making good use of them is essential to beating blinds past the first boss round.
It's easy to lose track of time while playing
In Illinois you might hear "downstate" to refer to anything south of Champaign-Urbana
This is completely unnecessary, just note how many torch-hours the party enters the dark place with and update when they're out of the dark, out of time, or at the end of the session, whichever comes first.
Instead of crying for defed, move to an instance that already has.
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