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fozzy fosbourne posted:BEHOLD Oh poo poo why isn't that on the box, come on
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My main concern with Tragedy Looper being anime was that it would have terrible writing (it did!), cruddy generic art (it did!) and mostly that it would preclude playing it with a some people. And it did. There was at least 3 people in my group who might have enjoyed it but wouldn't try it because of theme/art. Many people here might think "mmm anime is a diverse medium and it would be insane to cut yourself off from all of it", but that's a rarity - most people I know either have some fondness for anime (a small minority) or its a big negative (vast majority): for them it's all weird perverted crap. And, to be fair to them, a solid chunk of it absolutely is weird perverted crap. I have negative desire to get drawn into a real life discussion about how some anime is pretty good and it's a different culture and grandma why are you throwing those books away IT'S ART. I bought Tragedy Looper and had some fun with it. I recommend at least giving it a try. But it is really extra not hard to understand why anime-ness makes some people less likely to buy it. Whatever you might think about anime, there's a good chance lots of rational, normal people you know will sincerely hate it (and may, very realistically, make fun of you just for owning it).
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May 22, 2015 02:33
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post your anime cards itt
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May 22, 2015 02:48
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How does a harem give you money  p sure thats a bordello if it generates income
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May 22, 2015 02:55
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Anime is about being strong as gently caress in a world full of poo poo
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May 22, 2015 03:21
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To the guy wanting to buy the reprint of Tash Kalar http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O4CMRQU/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I bought this and it was the second printing.
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May 22, 2015 03:23
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Countblanc posted:Anime is about being strong as gently caress in a world full of poo poo 
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May 22, 2015 03:26
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Now someone do Vlaada as an anime
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May 22, 2015 03:35
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The worst submarine posted:post your anime cards itt
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May 22, 2015 03:40
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jmzero posted:My main concern with Tragedy Looper being anime was that it would have terrible writing (it did!), cruddy generic art (it did!) and mostly that it would preclude playing it with a some people. And it did. There was at least 3 people in my group who might have enjoyed it but wouldn't try it because of theme/art. Most "normal" people actually don't give a poo poo one way or another but on board game night you're going to be hanging out with huge nerds who have huge nerd opinions.
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May 22, 2015 03:42
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I'm trying to learn Mage Knight and I'm playing solo to teach my friends but I'm kind of feeling like I'm missing a few things. 1. If I run out of cards / don't kill a monster I'm battling (i.e. a raging orc) does that battle end or do I continue it next turn? If the battle ends does the monster keep it's damage? 2. I'm not sure about the limit to to things I could to on a turn. It says one action but then makes it sound as if actions are only attack or interacting with towns. So does that mean I can play as many other cards as I want? (Like cards that give me mana or something.) Is there any set of simple rules out there any people recommend?
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May 22, 2015 04:04
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Evil Vin posted:1. If I run out of cards / don't kill a monster I'm battling (i.e. a raging orc) does that battle end or do I continue it next turn? If the battle ends does the monster keep it's damage? The battle ends and the monster does not stay damaged. Everything in MK is all-or-nothing - you either block an attack fully or take all the damage (though that damage may be split amongst you + your units) and you either kill an enemy or it's undamaged. quote:2. I'm not sure about the limit to to things I could to on a turn. It says one action but then makes it sound as if actions are only attack or interacting with towns. So does that mean I can play as many other cards as I want? (Like cards that give me mana or something.) You can move and then perform only one action - i.e. interacting with a location or fighting a roaming enemy from a specific hex. You can play any number of cards around that action, but cannot move after the action. Symbols in the top-left of cards indicate which phases a card relates to - those with a + can be used at any time on your turn. quote:Is there any set of simple rules out there any people recommend? Check out Ricky Royal's videos. Stelas fucked around with this message at 04:18 on May 22, 2015 |
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May 22, 2015 04:08
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Stelas posted:Check out Ricky Royal's videos. Thanks I'll give that a watch.
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May 22, 2015 04:13
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quote:Most "normal" people actually don't give a poo poo one way or another but on board game night you're going to be hanging out with huge nerds who have huge nerd opinions. Normal people may not spend a lot of time thinking about them, but the idea that "Japanese cartoons are weird and perverted" is absolutely a mainstream stereotype. If you think normal people would be more likely than "huge nerds" to try Tragedy Looper (or watch some anime) then you've completely lost track of what normal people are like.
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May 22, 2015 05:37
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jmzero posted:Normal people may not spend a lot of time thinking about them, but the idea that "Japanese cartoons are weird and perverted" is absolutely a mainstream stereotype. If you think normal people would be more likely than "huge nerds" to try Tragedy Looper (or watch some anime) then you've completely lost track of what normal people are like. "Normal" people generally can't tell or care what genre the cartoon men on the card game their nerd friend is showing them are. They're cartoon dudes and most people don't give a poo poo what cartoons their nerd friend is interested in and aren't going to have their ANIME RADAR alerted by Tragedy Looper's art because, spoiler alert, only nerds give enough of a poo poo to have an ANIME RADAR in the first place. Non-nerds are unlikely to encounter Tragedy Looper in the first place, but they're also unlikely to encounter Viticulture or Argent or whatever other games the thread loves unless a nerd friend springs it on them. (Also, I suspect these days more mainstream people will think "Pokemon" than "porn cartoons" if the subject of Japanese cartoons comes up.) Benly fucked around with this message at 06:15 on May 22, 2015 |
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May 22, 2015 06:06
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Man, I'm sure glad I never made an anime game or else everybody would automatically assume it's weird and perverted
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May 22, 2015 06:17
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May 22, 2015 06:33
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quote:Man, I'm sure glad I never made an anime game or else everybody would automatically assume it's weird and perverted Just most people would assume that. And us, because we know you're weird and perverted. quote:"Normal" people generally can't tell or care what genre the cartoon men on the card game their nerd friend is showing them are. Again, you're just wrong - pretty much everyone sees differences and most care. Lots of people are a little nerdy - there's a threshold of nerdiness they're OK with. They watch Big Bang Theory and superhero movies and play Call of Duty and Mario. They wouldn't watch Star Trek or play World of Warcraft, but they know people who do. And lots of normal people play Settlers. It has a box with cartoon people on it. But they're not the same kind of cartoon people that are on the Tragedy Looper box (or the Argent box or the Sentinels box or the Tash Kalar box). People - nerds and non-nerds alike - have a whole set of preconceptions pop up when they see Disney style or comic book or fantasy art. I've played games with lots of mixed groups of people - co-workers, old friends from high school, people my parents know, teammates from rec league basketball, other soccer parents, lots of people - and there's huge drop offs in how well people react to games based on the type of art on the box. Nobody objects to friendly abstract cartoons like on the Apples to Apples box. Most people are fine with Ticket to Ride or 7 Wonders type art/setting. Lots of people are OK with something like Kemet. But I've started hiding the Tash Kalar box because people make fun of it. And I've always hid stuff like Krosmaster or Tragedy Looper - because they clearly, consistently signal a level of weirdness that people are generally uncomfortable with. These differences are not some nerd culture artifact - people from lots of different backgrounds react pretty similarly.
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May 22, 2015 06:48
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jmzero posted:Just most people would assume that. And us, because we know you're weird and perverted. Your experience has been pretty different from mine, then. I really have a hard time imagining most people I've dealt with who aren't already invested in nerdiness having more of a problem with "anime-styled art" on the game than they do with the convoluted time-travel murder mystery premise to begin with.
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May 22, 2015 06:57
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This is fantastic.
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May 22, 2015 07:04
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jmzero posted:But I've started hiding the Tash Kalar box because people make fun of it. Haha what?  I think you need to get less judgmental friends. I sprung Tragedy Looper on some normal workmates and have yet to be ostracized for it. Surely they're just waiting to drop the bomb.
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May 22, 2015 07:09
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Stelas posted:Haha what? One of your coworkers pauses as realization dawns. "The cartoons on these cards... are they Japanese? Are you trying to ANIME me, you pedophile?!" Your life is over.
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May 22, 2015 07:13
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Stelas posted:I sprung Tragedy Looper on some normal workmates and have yet to be ostracized for it. Surely they're just waiting to drop the bomb. That joke was
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May 22, 2015 07:15
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So essentially I was right about the reason people recoil from anything even vaguely "anime" is they either assume that it's all Pretty Warrior Tentacle Rape Panty Explosion or they assume that's what all their friends will think they're into because of it. Hey, speaking of board games that way overuse dice, last forever, and are generally terrible, Transylvania: Curses and Traitors kind of sucks.
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May 22, 2015 07:17
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I haven't been to BGG in a hot minute, did something happen to propel Machi Koro, Shogun, and A Study in Emerald to a decent position in The Hotness?
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May 22, 2015 07:27
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Can't even fit a deck and discard pile on a go board, -10/10 try harder ghost of board games.
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May 22, 2015 07:39
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Countblanc posted:I haven't been to BGG in a hot minute, did something happen to propel Machi Koro, Shogun, and A Study in Emerald to a decent position in The Hotness? Spiel nomination, Big box kickstarter, 2nd Edition.
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May 22, 2015 07:41
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Countblanc posted:I haven't been to BGG in a hot minute, did something happen to propel Machi Koro, Shogun, and A Study in Emerald to a decent position in The Hotness? Machi Koro was nominated for Spiel des Jahres, Shogun is getting a kickstarter for new box set/expansions, Study in Emerald is getting a 2nd edition. edit: is it worse that I knew all this off hand or that someone else beat me to it?
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May 22, 2015 07:43
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Dr. Video Games 0069 posted:Machi Koro was nominated for Spiel des Jahres, Shogun is getting a kickstarter for new box set/expansions, Study in Emerald is getting a 2nd edition. Both, I had to look up BGG to see what was going on with Shogun so you're nerdier and slower.
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May 22, 2015 07:59
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So I got my copy of Dungeon Lords Happy Anniversary. There are only 4 of those plastic token containers inside. The images showing how to arrange the bits on their website show them using 7 containers. Did they leave some out or is that normal? If it's normal is there a way to order extras? Also not sure where to put the 4 small round tokens with clown faces or the 5 gear tokens with rounded centers. Either way, going to take me a while to get all of these stickers applied.
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May 22, 2015 09:26
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The End posted:Study in Emerald Thanks for all the answers, they helped.
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May 22, 2015 09:57
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Fat Samurai posted:Thanks for all the answers, they helped. No worries. If he's contemplating it because of the second edition that's coming up, it's considerably simpler than the first edition and plays out in about a third of the time.
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May 22, 2015 10:32
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QnoisX posted:So I got my copy of Dungeon Lords Happy Anniversary. There are only 4 of those plastic token containers inside. The images showing how to arrange the bits on their website show them using 7 containers. Did they leave some out or is that normal? If it's normal is there a way to order extras? Also not sure where to put the 4 small round tokens with clown faces or the 5 gear tokens with rounded centers. Either way, going to take me a while to get all of these stickers applied. The extra 3 were kickstarter bonuses
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May 22, 2015 10:41
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The End posted:No worries. If he's contemplating it because of the second edition that's coming up, it's considerably simpler than the first edition and plays out in about a third of the time. Yeah, I think it was because of that. He's decided to pull the trigger. I managed to convince him not to get Serpent's Tongue, so I feel I have some leeway regarding bad recomendations for a while 
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May 22, 2015 11:02
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Broken Loose posted:Man, I'm sure glad I never made an anime game or else everybody would automatically assume it's weird and perverted Tokusatsu isn't anime 
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May 22, 2015 12:00
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Wait, there is an anime about Go? Do they put the pieces down with the finality of a coffin being closed? Are there thunders and japanese letter in the background during the games? How do you make Anime Go dramatic?
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May 22, 2015 12:11
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You have to believe in the heart of the stones.
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May 22, 2015 12:22
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Speaking of Go and animes, there's at least one cutscene in Dynasty Warriors where Go is played. It's unfortunately not very dramatic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe3jGhV6uFE
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Fat Samurai posted:Wait, there is an anime about Go? Do they put the pieces down with the finality of a coffin being closed? Are there thunders and japanese letter in the background during the games? How do you make Anime Go dramatic? There sure is, and it's actually pretty decent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_no_Go
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