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So if someone were to use the creative commons licensed images from the Dominion wiki, and then crop them into convenient resolutions for Dominion .NET, how taboo is that to share here? Asking for a friend.
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T-Bone posted:I really think Argent's complexity is vastly overstated. If you can play Kemet and Ciotw you can play Argent, so I would keep it in mind as an option (especially if your friend has experience with some other WPs). Rules wise Argent is dead simple, the complexity comes from the sheer amount of stuff to keep track of (spells, treasures, supporters, all changing from round to round and some with every purchase, potentially different school layouts each game, etc).
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Dec 10, 2015 22:26
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StashAugustine posted:Cardboard chits are the way, truth, and life Gentlemen prefer wooden cubes.
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Dec 10, 2015 22:33
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Poopy Palpy posted:Gentlemen prefer wooden cubes. There are only so many colours you can paint a wooden cube before they become difficult to distinguish. Cardboard chits are superior.
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Dec 10, 2015 22:42
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Kai Tave posted:Rules wise Argent is dead simple, the complexity comes from the sheer amount of stuff to keep track of (spells, treasures, supporters, all changing from round to round and some with every purchase, potentially different school layouts each game, etc). Yeah there's definitely a lot of overhead. Everything does flow in a pretty natural/logical way, there's just a hell of a lot of flow.
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Dec 10, 2015 22:46
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Poopy Palpy posted:Gentlemen prefer wooden cubes. Cubes are only acceptable if they have NATO symbology on them.
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Dec 10, 2015 22:52
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Poopy Palpy posted:Gentlemen prefer wooden cubes. Cube this:  *backflips onto a fighter jet and flies away laughing*
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Dec 10, 2015 22:52
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Foehammer posted:So if someone were to use the creative commons licensed images from the Dominion wiki, and then crop them into convenient resolutions for Dominion .NET, how taboo is that to share here? Asking for a friend. lmao just stick to the gis images like you already have been, it's not like we aren't all used to them from isotropic
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Dec 10, 2015 23:00
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Lichtenstein posted:Cube this: I could beat your swords to ploughshares and give you Agricola.
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Dec 10, 2015 23:05
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Tumbled clear acrylic cubes like in The Gallerist's kickstarter bonus thing are so sexy.
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Dec 10, 2015 23:08
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Impermanent posted:OK thread I feel like I've got a shitload of good euros on my shelf and probably am not going to buy another mediumweight euro for a while because I basically got the good ones now. It's only expensive imports of Food Chain Magnate and probably contributing to kickstarters for the reprint of Arkwright when that comes out. So now I'm asking a broader question: What are the best, simpler ameritrash games? Maybe Cyclades?
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Dec 10, 2015 23:18
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Happy page 666, hail Satan. What evil games are people playing to celebrate? After finals I will play Yomi as Menelker in honor of our dark Lord.
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Dec 11, 2015 00:20
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Countblanc posted:Happy page 666, hail Satan. What evil games are people playing to celebrate? After finals I will play Yomi as Menelker in honor of our dark Lord. I'm trying to buy a copy of Cave Evil off a guy on BGG.
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Dec 11, 2015 00:22
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Countblanc posted:Happy page 666, hail Satan. What evil games are people playing to celebrate? After finals I will play Yomi as Menelker in honor of our dark Lord.
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Dec 11, 2015 00:29
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Impermanent posted:OK thread I feel like I've got a shitload of good euros on my shelf and probably am not going to buy another mediumweight euro for a while because I basically got the good ones now. It's only expensive imports of Food Chain Magnate and probably contributing to kickstarters for the reprint of Arkwright when that comes out. So now I'm asking a broader question: What are the best, simpler ameritrash games? Blood Rage is legitimately a Good Game, but also involves smashing ace models of Vikings and monsters together.
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Dec 11, 2015 00:35
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The closest I've gotten to playing games recently is describing Bohnanza beans to my 3-year old daughter. 'What's this?' 'That's a wax bean.' 'Oh... What's this?' 'That's a stink bean.' etc. It's one of my most played games recently. 
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Dec 11, 2015 00:38
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Countblanc posted:Happy page 666, hail Satan. What evil games are people playing to celebrate? After finals I will play Yomi as Menelker in honor of our dark Lord. same but puzzle strike
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Dec 11, 2015 00:39
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Same but Quince. The Hell of Bureaucracy
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Dec 11, 2015 00:49
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Countblanc posted:Happy page 666, hail Satan. What evil games are people playing to celebrate? After finals I will play Yomi as Menelker in honor of our dark Lord. Capitalism games.
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Dec 11, 2015 00:51
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Dec 11, 2015 01:03
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I'm going to play solitaire Hanabi and cheat a lot to get a perfect score.
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Dec 11, 2015 01:06
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I like Betrayal at House on the Hill and based on comments from other threads I'm about to be told why I'm wrong.
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Dec 11, 2015 01:35
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DStecks posted:I like Betrayal at House on the Hill and based on comments from other threads I'm about to be told why I'm wrong. There's nothing wrong with liking bad games.
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Dec 11, 2015 01:43
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It's a fine game if you want a narrative experience and don't care about your decisions mattering. You may not like having to worry about that in games and if so you're the target audience and hey bro like what you like. You might also like Eldritch horror if you want a similar ish game but with a little more complicated decision making.
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Dec 11, 2015 01:44
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I really wanted to play Tragedy Looper tonight, but I've been informed that a fifth person is attending. I might try to make it work anyway.
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Dec 11, 2015 01:45
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Teaching two and playing our first four-person game of Suburbia tonight. Hope it goes ok!
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Dec 11, 2015 01:46
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Taking Carcassone, Dominion and Camel Up home for the holidays. Actually figured out that I can pack Carc and Dominions into the smaller Carc expansion boxes, except for the scoreboard. May have to print out a foldable one.
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DStecks posted:I like Betrayal at House on the Hill and based on comments from other threads I'm about to be told why I'm wrong. Liking bad games is a-ok — no pleasure is greater than a guilty one. What's frowned upon is thinking bad games are good just because you like them.
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Dec 11, 2015 02:12
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SilverMike posted:Don't get this one if you want decent. It's basically a series of 50/50 flips with some dice luck thrown in for good measure. You call various Run or Pass defenses and if you get it wrong you usually give up a 1st down even if you called one of the moderate defenses. 1st & Goal is alright for what it is, but yeah, it's so super-light. It has less strategy than Tecmo Bowl - everything besides choosing the play you're going to run hinges on the draw of the cards and the roll of the dice... It's more like watching a football game than coaching one. That said, I confess to having a copy on my shelf because for some reason, it's the only dice-heavy game I've ever played where I can consistently roll poorly without really feeling too badly about it. e: Also, the dice could be a lot better. The referee die looks too similar to one of the others, I can't remember which, but I'm constantly accidentally reaching for it. The team dice sets, disappointingly, are stickered. Jinkeez fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Dec 11, 2015 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:Is there anything out there that scratches the ol' Blood Bowl itch? I don't really think there is anything out there. I've said this all before but man, I wish there was a violent sports game that could include the risk management parts of Blood Bowl, aka One Big Reason Why Blood Bowl Is A Good And Fun Game. Oh yeah, last time I dug around the web for games like Blood Bowl, I came across Grind. Wow, this game looks like a gigantic turkey.
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Dec 11, 2015 04:07
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Tippis posted:Liking bad games is a-ok — no pleasure is greater than a guilty one. Actually according to the long-winded comment section of SU&SD, bad design is subjective and even if it wasn't it's a-ok as long as you have fun!
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Big McHuge posted:Actually according to the long-winded comment section of SU&SD, bad design is subjective and even if it wasn't it's a-ok as long as you have fun! He said the forbidden word!
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Impermanent posted:It's a fine game if you want a narrative experience and don't care about your decisions mattering. That's sort of what helps it work, though. Betrayal is a great game for people of different skill levels to play because you can't meaningfully get good at it, but you still feel like you're making strategic decisions and planning things out. Like, my brother-in-law is crazy good at board games, I don't even like playing Catan with him any more because he always wins, but in Betrayal the winner is pretty hugely dependent upon luck without it feeling obviously luck based. Yeah it's a terrible design if you're playing it to win, but as something that, say, the cousins can all play together without anybody feeling useless or anybody dominating the game too hard, it's pretty great.
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Dec 11, 2015 05:59
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We haven't seen Cosmic Encounter on SUSD's top 50 yet, here's hoping they finally realised it's dogshit.
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bobvonunheil posted:We haven't seen Cosmic Encounter on SUSD's top 50 yet, here's hoping they finally realised it's dogshit. After wading knee deep into that shitpile earlier in the week, I'm fairly confident it will be in the top 3.
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DStecks posted:That's sort of what helps it work, though. Betrayal is a great game for people of different skill levels to play because you can't meaningfully get good at it, but you still feel like you're making strategic decisions and planning things out. Like, my brother-in-law is crazy good at board games, I don't even like playing Catan with him any more because he always wins, but in Betrayal the winner is pretty hugely dependent upon luck without it feeling obviously luck based. Source your quotes.
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Dec 11, 2015 06:29
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Anyone have any opinions on Steampunk Rally? Looks like a pretty interesting time-waster at least.
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Countblanc posted:Happy page 666, hail Satan. What evil games are people playing to celebrate? After finals I will play Yomi as Menelker in honor of our dark Lord. Gonna see if I can get some Batista action in Cuba Libre once Christmas break starts DStecks posted:That's sort of what helps it work, though. Betrayal is a great game for people of different skill levels to play because you can't meaningfully get good at it, but you still feel like you're making strategic decisions and planning things out. Like, my brother-in-law is crazy good at board games, I don't even like playing Catan with him any more because he always wins, but in Betrayal the winner is pretty hugely dependent upon luck without it feeling obviously luck based. Thematically and mechanically it's totally different but this is what I really like about Codenames- someone who isn't Good At Board Games can still meaningfully contribute but there's still a large element of skill in the game.
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Dec 11, 2015 06:33
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StashAugustine posted:Thematically and mechanically it's totally different but this is what I really like about Codenames- someone who isn't Good At Board Games can still meaningfully contribute but there's still a large element of skill in the game. The thing about Codenames is that, in my experience playing it thus far, it's often just as enjoyable to lose as to win. Games are either neck-and-neck affairs where things go down to the wire or someone fucks up in hilarious ways, everyone has a laugh, and the next round is set up in 30 seconds. Losing in Betrayal often feels arbitrary and like a huge anticlimax. I can't say I really have any fond memories of the time we played Betrayal and because of a bunch of random chance the traitor/survivors steamrolled the other side.
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Roluth posted:Anyone have any opinions on Steampunk Rally? Looks like a pretty interesting time-waster at least. It's pretty great actually. A drafting game with some actual mechanical complexity in how you build your machine and strategy in when to push and when to play it safe.
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