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Another cool step up from Kallax is the Ivar system. You can make it whatever size you want and it rounds corners
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CaptainRightful posted:If you want to step up from Kallax to furniture that's actually made out of real wood, try the new Nornas. You can even stain or paint it whatever color you'd like. 
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Single Tight Female posted:Same size, so I can stack them and watch everything crumble under the weight of Vlaada-goodness. Leeds store has them in stock from tomorrow too. Cheers. If the construction is the same as the old shelf, you can leave out one of the vertical splines on the top level and be fine. 
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sector_corrector posted:
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Gutter Owl posted:If the construction is the same as the old shelf, you can leave out one of the vertical splines on the top level and be fine. From glancing over the assembly instructions, it is.
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Old timers know that the Expedit is the one true board game shelf. All these millennials with their Kallax don't know that the Swedes are selling them an inferior product.
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Tekopo posted:"Hardest Rules Ever" -> "Axis and Allies" On a flowchart with Arkham loving Horror no less
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CaptainRightful posted:Unrelated, my girlfriend found this: BSG, Cosmic Encounter and Arkham Horror classified under "less than 2 hours," 0/10
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Vlaada Chvatil posted:Old timers know that the Expedit is the one true board game shelf. All these I wish they just raised the price on the Expedit instead of canning it 
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Some Numbers posted:BSG, Cosmic Encounter and Arkham Horror classified under "less than 2 hours," 0/10 That's accurate for Cosmic Encounter. I used to play a lot of it and it usually lands in the 1-1.5 hour range. The playtime has a lot of variance but I think the longest game I ever played ran for almost exactly two hours.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:That's accurate for Cosmic Encounter. I used to play a lot of it and it usually lands in the 1-1.5 hour range. The playtime has a lot of variance but I think the longest game I ever played ran for almost exactly two hours. Fair enough, I've only played CE 2 or 3 times. 2 hours is nowhere near accurate for Arkham Horror and BSG.
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Rutibex posted:Race for the Galaxy can be condensed down into a single deck of cards, so that might be good if you are looking for a bit of meat on you backpacking trek. How do you shrink Race down to 52 cards, without throwing out half the deck?
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Zveroboy posted:Well my girlfriend and I really enjoy Dominion! It's gone as cheap as $20 on amazon sales in the US, so £16 sounds like a good price for a punched but unplayed copy. I bought it new, and had a punched but unplayed copy for 3 weeks or so, because the rulebook looked daunting so we chickened out and just played X-Wing instead a few times  djfooboo posted:I wish they just raised the price on the Expedit instead of canning it The difference is that the Kallax is only available in veneered particleboard compared to the Expedit's painted pine construction, right?
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StashAugustine posted:On a flowchart with Arkham loving Horror no less Arkham Horror's rules aren't hard, the rulebook is just incomplete and lacking copy-editing. As all FFG rulebooks are.
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Some Numbers posted:Fair enough, I've only played CE 2 or 3 times. BSG an experienced group that doesn't get too bogged down in infighting can get through in maybe 2.5 hours, assuming you're playing to Kobol. I'd never recommend it as a <2 hour game and wouldn't agree to play it if anyone needed to leave in the next 3.5 hours. As for Arkham Horror... ahahahahahahahaha.
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canyoneer posted:It's gone as cheap as $20 on amazon sales in the US, so £16 sounds like a good price for a punched but unplayed copy. Correct. It's basically the same piece, at the same price, just with poorer materials.
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Some Numbers posted:Fair enough, I've only played CE 2 or 3 times. Managed to end a game of AH in about 5 minutes. It took two turns to meet the end victory condition due to a combination of luck and characters.
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I went with BESTA from Ikea. Works great. Particularly if you have to move your shelves, you can just reset them to whatever you need. I didn't like the Kallax, the cube is too small to be very flexible.
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So I was gonna post about this yesterday but fell asleep, and now BGGNews scooped me. Does anyone have any opinions on the abstract Push Fight? Back in 2012 Ben Kuchera from Penny Arcade Report wrote an article praising this weird little novelty Jerry Holkins got from a jiu jitsu instructor in Missouri. And now Penny Arcade has bought the publishing rights to the game, and they're selling a slick wood edition through their store. And uh, my wallet is trying to crawl out of my purse again. Anyone wanna warn me away?
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Besides it being Penny Arcade, you mean?
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Did anyone comment on the next part of the SU&SD's top 50 games? http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/blog/post/susds-top-50-games-ever-2015-40-31/ A Few Acres Of Snow is on there with no mention of the degenerate broken strategy of "thin your deck" Paul: I think, of all the games out there that feature deckbuilding, that gradual collection of cards that represent growing powers and resources and abilities, A Few Acres of Snow does it best. 
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taser rates posted:Besides it being Penny Arcade, you mean? Yeah. I'm not enthused about giving them money, but I don't dread it either. Whatever you wanna say about Mike "Dickwolves" Krahulik and friends, they run a slick corporate empire. So I'm reasonably confident I'll get a nice manufactured good delivered in a timely manner. And the game itself isn't designed by PA, Cryptozoic, or Lone Shark, which significantly raises the odds of being maybe-not-poo poo.
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I don't think I'd rate enough games highly enough to come up with a top 50...
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:How do you shrink Race down to 52 cards, without throwing out half the deck? A "deck of cards" doesn't have to contain exactly 52 cards, I just meant that you could take all of the Race for the Galaxy cards and throw an elastic around them, it's not as small as a standard deck of cards but still easily small enough to take in a backpack camping.
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Good god, the penny arcade deckbuilder was one of the worst games I've ever played...
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Lorini posted:I went with BESTA from Ikea. Works great. Particularly if you have to move your shelves, you can just reset them to whatever you need. I didn't like the Kallax, the cube is too small to be very flexible. Flexibility lies in gaining inches hanging out the back slightly and leaving a vertical support or two out on an upper shelf. You can even get drawers for the drat thing to hide small games. If you arrange vertically, the Kallax is hard to beat.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:BSG an experienced group that doesn't get too bogged down in infighting can get through in maybe 2.5 hours, assuming you're playing to Kobol. I'd never recommend it as a <2 hour game and wouldn't agree to play it if anyone needed to leave in the next 3.5 hours. If you're sufficiently organised and don't um and ah over decisions too much it's entirely possible to play games of Arkham Horror which have take less than 90 minutes including unpacking and clearing up. I've done it. More than 2 players -> Cribbage 
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MrL_JaKiri posted:If you're sufficiently organised and don't um and ah over decisions too much it's entirely possible to play games of Arkham Horror which have take less than 90 minutes including unpacking and clearing up. I've done it. I've done it once when we accidentally stumbled into a very early close-all-the-gates win condition because of some particularly lucky card draws. I'd be surprised if it could be done consistently, though.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:I've done it once when we accidentally stumbled into a very early close-all-the-gates win condition because of some particularly lucky card draws. I'd be surprised if it could be done consistently, though. It can be, my housemate who was obsessed by it decided we should play through all the Ancient Ones in alphabetical order and I think only one game lasted more than 2 hours.
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Tekopo posted:Man I'm never gonna be deceived by SU&SD reviews again. The one for Pandemic Legacy was legit but christ is Mafia de Cuba a dumpster fire of a game. Even disregarding the broken strategy it fails: it asks people to first of all not pay attention to the game in order for it to work and then it has one player be the center of attention while other people barely have any say in the game at all. I got distracted by all of the talk of 'sexy' components and should have done my research. The earlier I get rid of it the better. Too much loving downtime for a party game. I read this post a while back and finally watched the video. I love games like this. Do you know why? Because with 10 poker chips, 15 coins, and a box I can make my own copy; and honestly it wouldn't be that different from the $25 MSRP or $16 CSI priced copy. It may be trash, but I can try it out and see for myself for free (as I have poker chips and coins handy).
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Scyther posted:Did anyone comment on the next part of the SU&SD's top 50 games? Not me on the Few Acres of Snow, but I waded in there to trash some Dead of Winter and Machi Koro (neither of which are on their list... yet).
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Played another game of Dungeon Lords last night, drat I really like that game despite me essentially blundering around without much strategy. I want to pick up Dungeon Petz too, but I'm worried that an anniversary edition for that's going to be announced soon.
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Big McHuge posted:Not me on the Few Acres of Snow, but I waded in there to trash some Dead of Winter and Machi Koro (neither of which are on their list... yet). Quinns "I've written lots about this, and can't be bothered writing any more! *runs away, farting sparkles*" Where can I find these writings?
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Toshimo posted:Why the gently caress would you want your deck builder to be foiled? It looks good. It's subtle, but still adds a nice touch to a collector's edition. It's foil the way Wizards does it with Magic, where the effect is moderated based on what it's on/around. Also, the art and frames were redesigned from the first edition and it's (thus far) the only way to get the first two sets on the art reprint:  Some people want little metal trains or premium pieces in their games. I think more collectors editions should do things like this with the base game components (foiling cards, alternate art, using metal or sculpted material for resources, alternate game board design, etc), instead of just having a base game with a little collectable statue or figurine or something. PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Dec 8, 2015 |
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Indolent Bastard posted:Quinns While looking for them 
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Sloober posted:Managed to end a game of AH in about 5 minutes. It took two turns to meet the end victory condition due to a combination of luck and characters. Did you seal a gate every turn, or find and use the Wake The Ancient One magic book and bopped it in the nose?
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StashAugustine posted:While looking for them There are assertions that between the 2nd edition rules and Wallace's own errata the game is greatly improved. That said, the damage is done and many people wouldn't touch the game with a 10' pole.
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Archenteron posted:Did you seal a gate every turn, or find and use the Wake The Ancient One magic book and bopped it in the nose? Seal a gate. Got lucky with about everything, but it was very anticlimactic.
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CaptainRightful posted:If you want to step up from Kallax to furniture that's actually made out of real wood, try the new Nornas. You can even stain or paint it whatever color you'd like. That chart is like a decade old.
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Want a healthy dose of Fremdschämen? Pandemic Legacy: Inside the Box
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