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Flipswitch posted:Thanks for the replies all, I've written them down and am going to start looking through them to pick up. Yeah, he does. Dungeon Lords and Dungeon Petz are great worker placement games by him as well. Almost everything he's made is good.
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unpronounceable posted: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? In short, yes. I'm sure someone with better words can explain it better, but I think that it sits solidly with those two. It isn't as chaotic and glorious as Glory to Rome and it isn't as elegant as Race (everything is cards? great!) but you feel like you're playing a bit more of a 4X than when you play Race and since it isn't as easy to follow people as in GtR you have to plan more. In GtR you can probably follow most people in a single go-around (except the turn you have to Think to get more cards), but in Eminent Domain you have to plan your hand in advance because it is rare that you will be able to meaningfully follow everyone before it gets back to you. Any way you slice it, these three games are all in my top 10.
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May 6, 2015 02:36
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unpronounceable posted: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? I like 'em all. From the perspective of someone who likes role selection games, they are all worth playing. I'd say Eminent Domain feels slightly different than Race/GtR just like those two feel different from one another. The 'following' mechanisms are all different enough to make them interesting and not samey. In ED, it feels like it's more important to dump your hand since each turn cycle you get a full draw at the end of a turn. Also, you can't petition or follow for free like in GtR and Race so you need to build a good hand to benefit. It would be like GtR if you always got to think at the end of your turn, could discard as many cards as you wanted before thinking, and didn't have to have patrons to use cards in hand to follow, but couldn't petition and built your deck via deckbuilding.
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May 6, 2015 02:41
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Does Race or Roll for the Galaxy work better with 2 players as opposed to more? Are they the same in that regard?
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Bottom Liner posted:Does Race or Roll for the Galaxy work better with 2 players as opposed to more? Are they the same in that regard? I've played a lot more of Race. I definitely prefer Race with 2 players and probably 3 - it seems to have more tactical role selection there. Roll might be better with 4-5 but I'm not sure yet.
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May 6, 2015 03:25
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2 player Race is really good.
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May 6, 2015 03:52
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2 player roll is good - you roll a white die for a phase that will happen in addition to what players select. Of course, this adds variance, but also some interesting strategy, as you can take risks on it rolling certain phases.
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May 6, 2015 05:36
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Roll is good but Race is great with 2. Roll I played with 5 once and didn't like it. Exploration drags it down and most of the actions get called so it doesn't feel as important to guess what your opponents are doing.
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May 6, 2015 05:42
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I have the opportunity of grabbing the base Dungeon Lords for 10€ or so. How does the game work with 2 players? Are the expansions necessary? Not that the answers are going to matter much at that price, but I like to be informed.
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May 6, 2015 11:57
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Fat Samurai posted:I have the opportunity of grabbing the base Dungeon Lords for 10€ or so. How does the game work with 2 players? Are the expansions necessary? Two players can be pretty cutthroat, since in addition to your own actions you also control a dummy player with the primary purpose of loving with your opponent. Overall its not quite as good as it is with 4 players though. Expansions aren't really necessary, the base game is plenty fun (especially at that price).
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May 6, 2015 12:08
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I don't usually recommend the expansion for people starting out with the game.
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May 6, 2015 12:11
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Fat Samurai posted:I have the opportunity of grabbing the base Dungeon Lords for 10€ or so. How does the game work with 2 players? Are the expansions necessary? Yeah, it definitely doesn't matter at that price; get it, play it, if you got two plays in 2p you got your money's worth, and it's a game that can stand many repeated plays.
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Fat Samurai posted:I have the opportunity of grabbing the base Dungeon Lords for 10€ or so. How does the game work with 2 players? Are the expansions necessary? Jump on that immediately. The expansion is your standard Vlaada expansion: very good, not necessary, there to make the game harder once you get too complacent.
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But once you're played with the expansion, the base game can be kinda boring due to lack of options you're grown used to.
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May 6, 2015 13:34
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Fat Samurai posted:I have the opportunity of grabbing the base Dungeon Lords for 10€ or so. How does the game work with 2 players? Are the expansions necessary? Buy it! One of my favorite games. Worse case scenario you could probably resell it for more than that, but if you like Vlaada games and/or worker placement you should like Dungeon Lords.
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May 6, 2015 15:34
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Fat Samurai posted:I have the opportunity of grabbing the base Dungeon Lords for 10€ or so. How does the game work with 2 players? Are the expansions necessary? Game's not as good with 2 as four but yeah but it immediately
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May 6, 2015 15:53
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Flipswitch posted:Thanks for the replies all, I've written them down and am going to start looking through them to pick up. no problem dude, i love spouting off. yeah, galaxy trucker's loving fantastic, one of the most unique games out there. if you've got an iOS dingus, they just released a really nice app for the game, good way to get a trial version before you buy it
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May 6, 2015 15:59
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Well, apparently when someone says that they are selling the base box they mean they are literally selling the box. Empty. What's the point of this? Impressing my friends with my taste in boardgames?  Thanks for the answers. Now I want to buy the game...
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Fat Samurai posted:Well, apparently when someone says that they are selling the base box they mean they are literally selling the box. Empty. What's the point of this? Impressing my friends with my taste in boardgames? Because he put it in the expansion box maybe? I just give my boxes to a friend who decorates his game dungeon with them 
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djfooboo posted:Because he put it in the expansion box maybe? I just give my boxes to a friend who decorates his game dungeon with them
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May 6, 2015 16:36
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Fat Samurai posted:Well, apparently when someone says that they are selling the base box they mean they are literally selling the box. Empty. What's the point of this? Impressing my friends with my taste in boardgames? Probably got the anniversary edition box with the expansions and extras. Pretty sure that was a tier.
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May 6, 2015 16:38
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I can understand ending up with an empty box, and I can understand trying to make money out of anything. What I have problems with is buying an empty box. 
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May 6, 2015 16:48
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It's funny because I got the wooden box with the anniversary edition KS, but it's so nice I don't actually want to take it anywhere, so I ended up just holding onto old DL+Festival Season to take around anyways.
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May 6, 2015 16:53
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Fat Samurai posted:Well, apparently when someone says that they are selling the base box they mean they are literally selling the box. Empty. What's the point of this? Impressing my friends with my taste in boardgames? lmao
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May 6, 2015 17:06
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Fat Samurai posted:I can understand ending up with an empty box, and I can understand trying to make money out of anything. What I have problems with is buying an empty box. Its useful if you are clumsy and tear a big hole in your box like I did 
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Some good news for us Dominion players. I'm really looking forward to the open beta. (Yes we know that when Goku first launched it didn't protect passwords, no need to mention it yet again).
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Dre2Dee2 posted:Its useful if you are clumsy and tear a big hole in your box like I did My box was destroyed because of cat-related reasons and now I just tetris the entire thing into the tiny Festival Season box. It's quite... dense.
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Lorini posted:Some good news for us Dominion players. I'm really looking forward to the open beta. This is a completely different developer, right? A good version of Dominion on iPhone would get me to pay for digital expansions.
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Yeah completely different guys.
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Fungah! posted:no problem dude, i love spouting off. yeah, galaxy trucker's loving fantastic, one of the most unique games out there. if you've got an iOS dingus, they just released a really nice app for the game, good way to get a trial version before you buy it Galaxy Trucker's been ported to every platform now, so you can find it in the play store, amazon app store etc. No matter what device you have you should be able to get it.
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Played Viticulture again last night, after we picked turn order for the first year, one of the players, whose played 2 or 3 times now but keeps asking "what should I do now?" decided there were two many choices and ragequit. Still trying to get a finger on him as a player. I don't think he likes playing games, he just likes solving them and winning them.
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Too many choices... in... Viticulture?! There are like 3 choices in Viticulture. Even our MASSIVELY AP guy can play Viticulture fast. I think your friend just doesn't like fun.
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FISHMANPET posted:Played Viticulture again last night, after we picked turn order for the first year, one of the players, whose played 2 or 3 times now but keeps asking "what should I do now?" decided there were two many choices and ragequit. Your friend sounds like a tool, sorry. Normal people get annoyed when there are too few choices, or the choices are effectively meaningless and everything is actually based on luck. Is he one of those people that can only be satisfied if he feels like he's beating the system somehow? Like my girlfriend's friend with the fake degree who quit developing software, because it was too mundane, to try flipping houses, then quit that and is probably going to jail on drug charges?
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FISHMANPET posted:Played Viticulture again last night, after we picked turn order for the first year, one of the players, whose played 2 or 3 times now but keeps asking "what should I do now?" decided there were two many choices and ragequit. If he liked solving it, he'd solve it himself and stop asking you guys. Sounds more like he wants to be hand-held through to victory.
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He loves Domionion, but only because he's played thousands of games and has basically solved it. I hate Dominon playing with him, and find it enjoyable playing without him. But basically yeah, kind of a tool. I tried to bring Steam to the group and I'm not sure how other people felt about it, but he kept torpedoing and ruining the game for everyone rather than just saying "I'd rather not play this."
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FISHMANPET posted:He loves Domionion, but only because he's played thousands of games and has basically solved it. I hate Dominon playing with him, and find it enjoyable playing without him. But basically yeah, kind of a tool. I tried to bring Steam to the group and I'm not sure how other people felt about it, but he kept torpedoing and ruining the game for everyone rather than just saying "I'd rather not play this."
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May 6, 2015 20:03
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Winning games is the poo poo.
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thespaceinvader posted:I think your friend just doesn't like fun. That reminds me, I just wrote a thing about the thread's favourite word
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Ok so in Pictomania it says that "The player who made the most incorrect guesses is the black sheep for this round. If the black sheep has taken a bonus point token, that player loses 1 point for each star on that token. " So if you take the +3 bonus token, and you are the black sheep, do you just end up with 0 points or -3 points?
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Elysium posted:Ok so in Pictomania it says that -3, it's a risk reward thing. Well, plus whatever points for guesses you got right, of course.
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