Welcome Thaylen - better late than never. Thanks to Jeff for being willing to step in.
We are ready to begin.
For race selection we are going to go with random draw of two - you pick one to keep and one to put back in the pool. I shuffle and deal everyone one more race. Of those two the one that you choose is the one you play. I'm doing this for a few reasons: the players in Zero-1 enjoyed it, it gives us time to finalize house rules, and it buys me some time to get the other game running so I don't have to start two games at the same time.
It looks like we will stay pretty close to RAW (rules as written). As we are doing race selection please vote on the following...
1) winner of the game - RAW or as outlined in the first post of this thread.
2) number of artifacts - 6 or 8? If we go with 8 you will each place one and I will come up with a way to randomly place the last two (assuming there are enough planets to have
