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I have nothing against quarterbackable games (Ghost Stories is a 9 in my book) but Robinson Crusoe is imo a pretty bad game. Rutibex is right that it's best as a solo game, but at that point there's a ton of setup, fiddlyness and teardown for what can amount to 20 minutes of unsatisfying gameplay because Ignacy just couldn't bear to make his game less random. People talk about the game being too hard at times but it's even worse when Robinson Crusoe decides to be nice and you just coast through the scenario with your decisions barely mattering. For the amount of effort required to do a game of Robinson Crusoe solo I could play Mage Knight instead which is just way more rewarding.
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Yomi hits Steam this Friday, 9.99 for the first week.
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S.J. posted:Yomi hits Steam this Friday, 9.99 for the first week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ALwKeSEYs E: Gonna quote a post I made in the imp zone board game thread, for anyone looking for Hot Newbie Tips Countblanc posted:hm. unfortunately it's much more character-based than PS (which is already pretty asymmetrical), so a single beginner strategy doesn't really work as well, and i definitely don't know any beginner guides like that. they might exist but i wouldn't know where to point for them aside from the official forums and it sounds like you've already exhausted that. Countblanc fucked around with this message at 06:19 on May 5, 2015 |
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I played a bunch of Frank's Zoo this weekend. It's a team trick taking game where your teammate changes in between hands, based on score and who is leading. It also supports odd numbers of players. I'm not deep in the trick scene but this seemed pretty good and flexible with different player counts and skill levels. The teammate changing gimmick is kind of neat
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# ? May 5, 2015 06:23 |
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If you like that you should check out some Tarock games. Slovenian Tarock has hidden partnerships which are pretty cool. Whoever successfully bids the contract for the hand calls for a partner by naming a suit and whoever has the king of that suit is the declarer's partner. Of course, nobody but the person holding the king will know who is the partner until the king is played to the trick.
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# ? May 5, 2015 06:49 |
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What's the difference between Keyflower second and third editions (Huch)? I've seen some descriptions of the rule updates from 1e to 2e, but there's pretty much no info on the third edition. Is it just another run?
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# ? May 5, 2015 07:05 |
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Has DXV mentioned whether he's done with Dominion for now, or working on a new expansion? Also, I guess there is supposed to be a Kingdom Builder expansion some time this summer and another big Eclipse expansion this year, according to the designers of each on BGG forums.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Has DXV mentioned whether he's done with Dominion for now, or working on a new expansion? Also, I guess there is supposed to be a Kingdom Builder expansion some time this summer and another big Eclipse expansion this year, according to the designers of each on BGG forums. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/18107269#18107269 Donald X. posted:I have no plans for more expansions. I also had no plans for more expansions a year ago (I started working on Adventures in May 2014). So I mean. We don't have much data to work from here, but we have that. If you want assurance one way or the other, I can't give it to you.
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# ? May 5, 2015 15:09 |
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That is the nicest way of saying "I have no loving clue, seriously"
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# ? May 5, 2015 15:11 |
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I wonder how much money DXV has made from Dominion. It seems like a not poo poo mobile version could have made a lot of moola Speaking of, it sounds like the new digital dominion will be out this summer
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quote:At some point, you've gotta call it a day. I mean what about the people with storage solutions? And well. As I have said repeatedly, there are good reasons to switch from expansions to spin-offs. You run out of simple things to do. You already have endless variety with 8 expansions. There are things you can do in spin-offs that you can't do in expansions. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/1359309/secret-history-dominion-adventures I wish more board game designers talked to us
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# ? May 5, 2015 15:44 |
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Anyone else going to Gencon? Just found out I'll be in Indianapolis for two weeks that just happens to coincide with it, so I'm about to order my badge.
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Me and my bros will be! Kinda looking for a fourth dude to round out our gaming group for the events too.
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Bottom Liner posted:Anyone else going to Gencon? I live in Indianapolis So, yes.
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Texibus posted:Me and my bros will be! Kinda looking for a fourth dude to round out our gaming group for the events too. What kinda stuff do you guys tend to play? I"m pretty open to anything and never been before, so it'd be nice to have a group to do that stuff with. I don't have PMs, but feel free to email me defeldus@gmail.com
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# ? May 5, 2015 15:51 |
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I will be at GenCon again this year. I usually buy my ticket + hotel the day they open up as well as getting our group True Dungeon tickets.
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Bottom Liner posted:What kinda stuff do you guys tend to play? I"m pretty open to anything and never been before, so it'd be nice to have a group to do that stuff with. I don't have PMs, but feel free to email me defeldus@gmail.com Only thing we haven't gotten into very much is Role Playing games, aside from that we play most everything else. However, I think I'm going to sign-up for one event that will help me learn a RPG system.
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Flipswitch posted:Right now pretty much anything that's fun to play for a varied experience group. We've got few board game vets a few newer people so we're a bit of a mixed group. I don't think I've really nailed down a specific type of genre of board games I like but we do like co-op games quite a bit. Hardcore probably not so much but I'll take a look if it's good enough! hmm, OK If you're looking for a good coop, space alert's easily the king of the heap, it's frantic and can be hard as nails and it doesn't have the quarterbacking problem that other coop games get (where the loudest guy slash best guy at the game calls all the shots and everyone else just kind of twiddles their thumbs) because it's real-time and there's just too much going on for anyone to keep track of and oh god why did barry white come over the loudspeaker WHY IS THAT OCTOPUS LOOKING AT US LIKE THAT as far as other games go, not sure how many people you've got so i'll try to give a spread. kemet's pretty good if your looking for an area control game, it's cutthroat and super aggressive and surprisingly well balanced. it only works if your group's ok with being super aggro with each other though, i've played one game where no one fought anyone and it was awful\ dominion's like the best entry-level games i can think of because it's super easy to pick up and also incredibly deep, especially once you start adding expansions. if you get expansions, buy them in release order except you can skip alchemy because most of the cards range from bad to boring. apprentice is super cool though if your group's ok with super frantic games, get galaxy trucker. it's by the same guy that did space alert and a bunch of other incredibly good games, and it's frantic and hilarious. essentially everyone's building a spaceship out of garbage and flying it through the uncaring shithole of space, then bad stuff happens and everything blows up. incredibly fun, plays pretty quick, 5/5 great game if anyone else replies to this splendor's probably going to show up on their lists because it's the new poo poo, don't get it. it's an ok quickish game but it's hilariously shallow once you get a few plays in. that being said if you're looking for a copy i've got one i'll sell cheap i'm also going to plug tash-kalar because it's so good, it's by the same guy who did space alert and galaxy trucker. it's basically go meets magic the gathering, it's incredibly deep and surprisingly easy to get into. it's up on board game arena if you want to give it a shot before you buy it if your group's into logicy deduction games and you can deal with trace amounts of anime (lol if you can't) tragedy looper's pretty loving incredible. basically it's a 3v1 game, where the solo player's trying to make something bad happen with bluffs and murder and the team's trying to stop him with bluffs and maybe murder. it's fantastic, easily one of the best games of last year last thing on my list, if you're dead set on a fantasy adventure game and don't mind dipping your toes into a more hardcore game, mage knight's the tits. it's by the same guy who did space alert, galaxy trucker, and tash-kalar and a bunch of other great games and it's an incredibly smart deckbuilder adventure game where everyone goes on a rampage in fantasy countryside for spells and artifacts and so on. there's a ton of super fiddly rules (like, a lot), but the core mechanics are pretty simple. probably not a great starter game but it's definitely a personal favorite
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Fungah! posted:if your group's into logicy deduction games and you can deal with trace amounts of anime (lol if you can't) tragedy looper's pretty loving incredible. basically it's a 3v1 game, where the solo player's trying to make something bad happen with bluffs and murder and the team's trying to stop him with bluffs and maybe murder. it's fantastic, easily one of the best games of last year This is a really good description of Tragedy Looper. The only thematic difference between the protagonists and the mastermind is that the protagonists are, ostensibly, trying to kill fewer people. In any script where there's a serial killer present, it becomes a ridiculous tug of war manipulating character movements because the protagonists want to trick the serial killer into murdering people as a way to assist deducing their roles.
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The older dry Euros with cool (and relatively simple) mechanics but deep strategy like Tigris & Euphrates (just got a reprint), Puerto Rico, and El Grande (big box reprint later this year) are cool too. I like Felds but some people don't like Felds. Castles of Burgundy is really cheap and fun imo. Viticulture + Tuscany is where you should probably go for a worker placement. Caylus gets a reprint next month (!) Keyflower is my favorite game but is hard to find right now. Concordia is another good midweight game. Chaos in the Old World too although you probably don't need it and Kemet, at least right away. e: I went in thinking theme was really important for my group but we get the most mileages out of dull looking euros. Once people grasp a good game the mechanics rule all.
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I don't know who we're replying to, but I'm gonna throw Roll for the Galaxy/Race for the Galaxy onto fungah and t-bone's pile! Eminent Domain plus expansion when you want to try another deck builder after dominion E: puzzle strike if you want to go deep and have someone to consistently duel with and develop
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fozzy fosbourne posted:E: puzzle strike if you want to go deep and have someone to consistently duel with and develop How is puzzle strike with 3-4? I thought it was pretty good with the no player elimination ending and stuff, but if it's gimped somehow to 1v1 I won't bother.
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AMooseDoesStuff posted:How is puzzle strike with 3-4? I thought it was pretty good with the no player elimination ending and stuff, but if it's gimped somehow to 1v1 I won't bother. The victory conditions can lead to some disappointing endgames (though that's true of 1v1 PS as well) but the general mechanics work just as well.
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AMooseDoesStuff posted:How is puzzle strike with 3-4? I thought it was pretty good with the no player elimination ending and stuff, but if it's gimped somehow to 1v1 I won't bother. I think he more meant "people who are down to play a bunch" since PS is a game that greatly benefits from repeated plays. 3 and 4 player PS is still really good, but keeping everyone at similar skill levels is pretty strongly advised.
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Yeah, exactly. The skill curve starts off a bit steeper due to the asymmetric matchups, reactionary play, and different approaches to winning. Not as easy as Dominion where you can sort of fake it until you make it by mimicing other players and playing open handed. Basically, I find people have fun with Dominion almost right away, whereas Puzzle Strike can be confusing to players until they've played a few games, and then once they understand how to just play the thing, they won't understand how to win for a while longer.
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I have never managed to teach puzzle strike to someone without them saying "your character was better than mine" at the end of the game.
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Poopy Palpy posted:I have never managed to teach puzzle strike to someone without them saying "your character was better than mine" at the end of the game. Sounds like it perfectly replicated the fighting game experience to me
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Storage solution proof of concept: Try to imagine this poo poo all stickered and on a shelf. These cheap motherfuckers are exactly the size of a standard playing card and high enough to hold roughly two decks per drawer. The box in the back is to look good (well, not this one) and hold miscellaneous stuff (mounted boards, rulebooks, occasional baggie with cubes not worth cramming into these) for games held in the two shelves. Pictured set-up fit:
Notable poo poo that does not fit:
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Lichtenstein posted:Storage solution proof of concept: Cover the fronts and ask players to blindly pick a drawer and see what happens. Tzeentch vs the Empire vs Mexican businessman sounds pretty good. That looks ace and I am a massive fan of storage. Looks like it'd fit Game of Thrones, Kemet, Dogs of War and even Sheriff of Nottingham well. Fitting standard cards means Netrunner will work perfectly, and blind picking a Corp/Runner sounds great. Where did you get that exact box? I've stuffed most of my games into cheap tupperware, but am still jealous The Supreme Court fucked around with this message at 21:57 on May 5, 2015 |
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The Supreme Court posted:Cover the fronts and ask players to blindly pick a drawer and see what happens. Tzeentch vs the Empire vs Mexican businessman sounds pretty good. I'm picturing an absolutely crazy wargame system that would work with nearly any player set of pieces, in any game. Six player pawns and a player board and seven little discs from Tzolkin? The entire army of the potomac at Gettysburg? Sure, the system can totally handle that!
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The Supreme Court posted:Where did you get that exact box? Castorama, five bucks each. It's made by a local producer apparently, so no guarantees it'll be in stock where you live.
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silvergoose posted:I'm picturing an absolutely crazy wargame system that would work with nearly any player set of pieces, in any game. Six player pawns and a player board and seven little discs from Tzolkin? The entire army of the potomac at Gettysburg? Sure, the system can totally handle that! Get a small digital scale, assign attributes to pieces based on weight and colour. Green army men? They are light, but the green colour makes them archers which is handy. A black marble chess king? It's huge weight makes it slow and powerful, and the fact that its black gives it a poison attack Rutibex fucked around with this message at 22:28 on May 5, 2015 |
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Rutibex posted:Get a small digital scale, assign attributes to pieces based on weight and colour. Green army men? They are light, but the green colour makes them archers which is handy. A black marble chess king? It's huge weight makes it slow and powerful, and the fact that its black gives it a poison attack ... I don't want you to have good ideas. It conflicts with my worldview.
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OmegaGoo posted:... I don't want you to have good ideas. It conflicts with my worldview.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Eminent Domain plus expansion when you want to try another deck builder after dominion I think it got missed when I asked before, but how do people feel about Eminent Domain compared to other role selection games, like Race, or Glory to Rome? I can appreciate how it does something completely different to Dominion for deck building, but does the deckbuilding add much to role selection over strict hand management/tableau building?
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silvergoose posted:I'm picturing an absolutely crazy wargame system that would work with nearly any player set of pieces, in any game. Six player pawns and a player board and seven little discs from Tzolkin? The entire army of the potomac at Gettysburg? Sure, the system can totally handle that! I kinda wanna do a mix n' match COIN since the mechanics are pretty similar- Colombia vs Taliban vs NVA vs Syndicate in ancient Gaul. Faction balance would be way off though.
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StashAugustine posted:I kinda wanna do a mix n' match COIN since the mechanics are pretty similar- Colombia vs Taliban vs NVA vs Syndicate in ancient Gaul. Faction balance would be way off though. US from FitL in ancient Gaul? imagine the capabilities of an airstrike....
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You should throw in Khorne from CitOW and the Loyalists from A Study in Emerald somehow, too
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silvergoose posted:I'm picturing an absolutely crazy wargame system that would work with nearly any player set of pieces, in any game. Six player pawns and a player board and seven little discs from Tzolkin? The entire army of the potomac at Gettysburg? Sure, the system can totally handle that! Yessss. Alternatively, Game of Thrones, Kemet and Chaos in the Old World have similar enough combat and territory systems that this'd possibly work Giant scorpion vs a siege engine with Jamie Lannister vs a Bloodthirster fozzy fosbourne posted:You should throw in Khorne from CitOW and the Loyalists from A Study in Emerald somehow, too The Supreme Court fucked around with this message at 22:44 on May 5, 2015 |
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Thanks for the replies all, I've written them down and am going to start looking through them to pick up.Fungah! posted:super great post I might look into Galaxy Trucker first because our group is loving Space Alert and a couple of them who hadn't played (many) board games before were surprised how nuts it was, so another frantic game sounds like something they might enjoy because they've been really enjoying our get boardgame get togethers. I'll check out Kemet too but I'm not sure how some members of our group will get along with it. Quite a few of my other mates own Dominion so I'll try it with them as I've been meaning to try it for a while. I'd played Space Alert once before picking it up so learning it hasn't been too bad, by the sounds of it though I've hit the peak of co-op games. It sounds like Vlaada Chvátil hammers out some seriously amazing games.
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