New to BGDF from Colorado

Hello fellow designers and gamers! I am a board game player and aspiring designer from Colorado who is hoping to gain some insight into the design and prototyping process. My philosophy is that a good board (or card) game should be easy to learn but hard to master, the rules should be quick and to the point laying out the basics of gameplay but the real depth of the game should be in the components and the ways in which they "break" the rules. This allows players to develop a variety of strategies and customizations that increase the replayability of the game a hundred-fold. I also feel that a game should be designed with a balanced amount of luck and player strategy, too much luck and the strategy ends up getting undermined, too much strategy and the game can become bland and uneventful. These are the types of games I love to play and enjoy designing the most. I cant wait to start learning from and contributing to the forums!