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Spinning Robo posted:Ive tried for years now to get people to play david sirlin's puzzle strike but i just can never get people to. What words do i say to help people realise the truth of sirlin's genius If you can't get people to just try a game they've never played that you already own so it costs them $0, you need new friends.
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Everything GW has ever produced is horseshit.
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Sep 18, 2014 16:13
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i wanted to buy carcassone but i made a vow to never pay more than a hundo for a boardgame and no one here in town sells it for less than 110 bucks jfc
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Sep 18, 2014 16:25
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:i wanted to buy carcassone but i made a vow to never pay more than a hundo for a boardgame and no one here in town sells it for less than 110 bucks jfc what wasteland do you live in, it's not that much even in australia
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Sep 18, 2014 16:27
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Broken Loose posted:board gaming confession: outside of teaching new people how to play, my last game of caylus was almost 2 years ago God...God dammit, why did it have to be that game  Seriously though guys Tragedy Looper is the best thing to come out since Archipelago. I'm finding the Looper less and less to be a game of deduction and more and more a tactical card game where information is an asymmetrical resource (bad guy starts with all of it, the more he reveals the weaker is plays will be; vice versa for good guys). Only thing that could be gently caress-ton-amazingest would be if the game figured out a way to procedurally generate scenarios; unfortunately a pure randomizer can lead to unwinnable situations for the good guys. That's okay; making balanced'ish scenarios is surprisingly easy.
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Sep 18, 2014 16:37
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Spinning Robo posted:Ive tried for years now to get people to play david sirlin's puzzle strike but i just can never get people to. What words do i say to help people realise the truth of sirlin's genius i dont know
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Sep 18, 2014 16:50
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Scyther posted:If you can't get people to just try a game they've never played that you already own so it costs them $0, you need new friends. about half my friends wont play new things, so any time board games come out (whichi s pretty rare) with them it's Agricola, Dominion, or loving scrub garbage like Stone Age or Race for the Galaxy.
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Sep 18, 2014 16:51
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Countblanc posted:about half my friends wont play new things, so any time board games come out (whichi s pretty rare) with them it's Agricola, Dominion, or loving scrub garbage like Stone Age or Race for the Galaxy. become friends with actual board gamers. profit. no but really I have like, my "regular" friends who I chill with and I'm lucky if they want to play something deeper than a trick-taking game (though, to be fair, Wizard rules) but I also hit up gaming conventions and game groups and make friends with people who buy all the new games so I don't have to. And then I end up hanging out with them a shitton and suddenly we go on soccer outings together. everyone needs more friends.
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Sep 18, 2014 16:54
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But Agircola rules.
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Sep 18, 2014 16:59
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Bubble-T posted:what wasteland do you live in, it's not that much even in australia lol brazil
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Sep 18, 2014 17:00
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Bottom Liner posted:But Agircola rules. Countblanc wasn't saying it doesn't, he was saying it's one of the few games they play, along with some garbage (though I actually still do enjoy stone age and race...okay I've not really played much of either for years, but I think I would still be up for playing)
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Sep 18, 2014 17:01
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yeah i love the gric, but i buy games regularly to play with my uni's group and itd be cool to show my older friends something made in the last 5 years. one of them asked to learn Splendor last week so that was cool since i love that game. the weird thing is that they're all really good at games, they just hate learning new stuff - i taught them The Resistance about two years ago and they liked it, and the second I tried to show them Avalon they buckled and made up some weird complaint about how the Assassin means all the strategy of the game is gone
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Sep 18, 2014 17:05
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ExtrudeAlongCurve posted:become friends with actual board gamers. profit. this is def a pro strat, i do that with local FG stuff, most of the people i play basketball with now are guys i met playing anime games. detroit is cool.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:06
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space hukl is the only gw game that's actually tolerable as a game on its mechanical merits but it's still a 1990's quality game at best, the modeling aspect actually counts several points against it, the game is blatantly advertised falsely, the price and printing strategy is ludicrous, warhammer fans are the worst, and gw is a poo poo company
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Sep 18, 2014 17:12
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ExtrudeAlongCurve posted:become friends with actual board gamers. profit. yeah most of my inner circle are my old castmates from rocky horror and as proper subculture geeks we're all also gamers then 80% of them moved away either for programmer jobs or to become community liasons for wizards of the coast or whatever, leaving me alone and depressed as i turned 30 with nobody left to board game with
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Sep 18, 2014 17:14
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Countblanc posted:yeah i love the gric, but i buy games regularly to play with my uni's group and itd be cool to show my older friends something made in the last 5 years. one of them asked to learn Splendor last week so that was cool since i love that game. the weird thing is that they're all really good at games, they just hate learning new stuff - i taught them The Resistance about two years ago and they liked it, and the second I tried to show them Avalon they buckled and made up some weird complaint about how the Assassin means all the strategy of the game is gone Oh is Splendor good? I saw it in a SU&SD video where they also reviewed Machi Koro and it looked cool but I didn't see anyone talking about it here.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:15
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want to play the gric now but i am stuck at work thx guys
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Sep 18, 2014 17:18
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Guy A. Person posted:Oh is Splendor good? I saw it in a SU&SD video where they also reviewed Machi Koro and it looked cool but I didn't see anyone talking about it here. its one of the few modern su&sd vids that i feel actually captures what happens when you plya the game. people are incredibly quick to pick up the strategy and overall goal since it's so mechanically transparent, and the game makes people incredible dicks in proper eurogame fashion. though i found out a few days ago that ive been playing it wrong until now - didnt realize there was a cap on the number of chips people could hold. also that the "take 1 chip of 3 different colors" action is still legal if there's only one or two different colors available. those might make the game less cutthroat, but ill have to test it at my group tomorrow.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:20
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inSTAALed posted:want to play the gric now but i am stuck at work Do you have an iPhone? The app is great.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:23
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Broken Loose posted:yeah most of my inner circle are my old castmates from rocky horror and as proper subculture geeks we're all also gamers i grew up in a big family with a plentiful supply of avalon hill poo poo so i'm basically set
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Sep 18, 2014 17:30
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boardgamings been great for me since i moved to the city, but i had a period where i didnt play wargames because my main wargaming buddy moved out the country
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Sep 18, 2014 17:32
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If you haven't, post in the LFG thread in TG to find board gamers. I met up with some really cool people through that and the only bad game they like is Cosmic Encounters.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:34
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Impermanent posted:If you haven't, post in the LFG thread in TG to find board gamers. I met up with some really cool people through that and the only bad game they like is Cosmic Encounters.
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Sep 18, 2014 17:35
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Bottom Liner posted:Do you have an iPhone? The app is great. no, android 
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Sep 18, 2014 17:38
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Impermanent posted:If you haven't, post in the LFG thread in TG to find board gamers. I met up with some really cool people through that and the only bad game they like is Cosmic Encounters. yeah sure im gonna take a plane to america to play with us goons yeah haha yeah i'm doing that 
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Sep 18, 2014 19:40
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:yeah sure im gonna take a plane to america to play with us goons yeah haha yeah i'm doing that plutonis just scared people find out hes not an rear end in a top hat irl 
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Sep 18, 2014 19:47
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more like no goons of my country to play with
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Sep 18, 2014 19:54
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:more like no goons of my country to play with there's at least one brasileiro who posted in tradgames for a while. i'm sure of it
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Sep 18, 2014 19:55
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Effectronica posted:there's at least one brasileiro who posted in tradgames for a while. i'm sure of it cyphoderus? only one i recall b/c he commented that on the aborted fatal and friends i made of a local game
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TheLovablePlutonis posted:cyphoderus? only one i recall b/c he commented that on the aborted fatal and friends i made of a local game that makes two with macunado, but of course that's three people in the fourth, fifth-largest nation in the world
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Broken Loose posted:space hukl is the only gw game that's actually tolerable as a game on its mechanical merits agreed, also that picture is amazing ...ly racist!!!
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Sep 18, 2014 20:07
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why does the fitl vassal module have -all the player aid cards on the side where it's much easier to use the popup -no zoom setting that lets you see the whole map at once
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Sep 18, 2014 20:08
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StashAugustine posted:why does the fitl vassal module have also poo poo i suddenly really really loving want to play Zendo ie the best deduction game ever
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Sep 18, 2014 20:11
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Yeah, cypho is Brazilian
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Sep 18, 2014 20:13
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id be down with skype stuff tho i already play 13th age with nite crew at fridays
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Sep 18, 2014 20:18
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Fellis posted:agreed, also that picture is amazing 
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Sep 18, 2014 20:19
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Tekopo posted:because vassal actually vassal ui question: is there a way to split up a stack of stuff thats on top of each other?
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Sep 18, 2014 20:20
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*makes a game about plantations, uses brown circles as "colonists"*
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StashAugustine posted:actually vassal ui question: is there a way to split up a stack of stuff thats on top of each other?
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StashAugustine posted:-no zoom setting that lets you see the whole map at once uhhhh, there's Fit Visible and you can also just choose 'Other...' for the zoom ratio
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