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Kamikaze Raider posted:There's a Catan community? They've got bigass Catan tournaments and poo poo. Normies, dude.
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Kamikaze Raider posted:There's a Catan community? Catan sells. Well. 
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Jan 7, 2016 18:08
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Gutter Owl posted:So Catan has moved from Mayfair Games to Asmodee NA, further swelling Asmodee's all-consuming mass. (BGG, Mayfair's press release) Ahahaha, I can imagine the LGSs that will cheer due to the upcoming asmodee online pricing policy. However, their copies will still sit on the shelf with a layer of dust since Catan buyers are still gonna buy them at target or online.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:11
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Kamikaze Raider posted:There's a Catan community? A ton of non-nerds think Catan is like the height of board gaming.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:20
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Kamikaze Raider posted:There's a Catan community? I've met people who don't play board games, they just play Catan. Like, almost every day; and if there's a day they're not playing Catan, you can bet they're looking for players to fill those days. I know, it boggles my mind, too.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:23
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I played Catan yesterday, for the first time. It went better than Avalon and Codenames. I need a better family.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:26
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Things you don't want to hear from your teammates while playing Codenames: "Huh, this board has a few words that could mean more than one thing."
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Jan 7, 2016 18:33
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poo poo, last time I came around here, people were all about Catan. I guess the worm has turned. I was never interested in a deterministic Euro math game, myself.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:34
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Actually the problem people have with Catan is that its randomness obfuscates any real choices a player can make.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:36
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Anonymous Robot posted:poo poo, last time I came around here, people were all about Catan. I guess the worm has turned. I was never interested in a deterministic Euro math game, myself. Don't worry, the goons still love their wooden block trading games, Catan just isn't hardcore enough of a wooden block trading game to keep up anymore.  Myself I've never been a big fan of that sort of thing.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:39
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My family was lukewarm on Catan and in fact most games I've tried to introduce them too. The two that have gone well are Kemet, which they like, and Coup, which they adore.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:45
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I've really got to try Kemet again one day. I played it once on two player, was stomped, and got really soured on the whole thing. Really need to get more than one other person to play and experience this hullabaloo everyone is talking about.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:53
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Chomp8645 posted:My family was lukewarm on Catan and in fact most games I've tried to introduce them too. Good Lord, how did you get them to hang on for Kemet? I played Lost Cities and Modern Art with the family over the holiday. Lost Cities (the card game) was an instant hit and everyone wanted to play it, repeatedly. Modern Art did not go over nearly as well, which disappointed me. Patchwork is incredible and might be my favourite two-player game at the moment. People that rarely touch board games instantly get it and the tactile/tetris like effect of building your board and balancing time/cost is tons of fun. Highly recommended.
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Jan 7, 2016 18:58
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Morpheus posted:I've really got to try Kemet again one day. I played it once on two player, was stomped, and got really soured on the whole thing. Really need to get more than one other person to play and experience this hullabaloo everyone is talking about. Two player Kemet is terrible. It should not say on the box that it can be played with that amount. It's like playing the Game of Thrones game with 3 or 4 players and RAW. FulsomFrank posted:Good Lord, how did you get them to hang on for Kemet? Persistence, mainly.
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Jan 7, 2016 19:08
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Yeah, kemet two player works until the first fight, then it crumbles horribly into a one sided slaughter that plays out inevitably over several turns.
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Jan 7, 2016 19:16
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A buddy and I really like Kemet 2 player and tend to have great back and forth games. I do think it's better and more interesting at higher counts, but I think it's fine 2 player as long as players are semi-equally experienced.
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Jan 7, 2016 19:20
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Paper Kaiju posted:I've met people who don't play board games, they just play Catan. Like, almost every day; and if there's a day they're not playing Catan, you can bet they're looking for players to fill those days. This is the arm of someone I know. Apologies for the poor quality, but I cropped it to protect the innocent. 
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Jan 7, 2016 19:57
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There are no innocents here, everyone is guilty by association.
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Jan 7, 2016 20:07
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shut it down, board games are over, everyone go home
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Jan 7, 2016 21:04
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I used to play in a Catan tournament every year, and one time I jokingly offered a friend of mine sheep for sheep which lead to one of the other players giving a 5 minute lesson on how that's against the rules and cheating and an affront to god. I'm pretty sure that was actually the last time I ever played.
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Jan 7, 2016 21:23
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Big McHuge posted:I used to play in a Catan tournament every year, and one time I jokingly offered a friend of mine sheep for sheep which lead to one of the other players giving a 5 minute lesson on how that's against the rules and cheating and an affront to god. That guy was cool as hell.
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Jan 7, 2016 21:29
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With regard to Catan's popularity, does it have a lot to do with timing? My understanding is that when it was available first in the US (late 90s), the board game situation for adults was pretty grim, outside of grognard stuff. It turns out my area has a good FLGS so I went and played with some folks last night. My first game of Dixit (really impressed), then I taught everyone to play 7 Wonders which took pretty well, and then we got a little into a game of Dead of Winter. I can't really get into heavily themed games when I feel the theme is dumb, so the zombie game didn't take. I'm guessing there are American-style games out there that I'd actually like, but who knows? Part of the shop's impressive selection of demo games: 
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Jan 7, 2016 21:30
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Catan was pretty much THE gateway game for a long time. Probably for the reason you mention, that it was the first Euro style game to really gain traction stateside and make people realize that board games could be fun instead of a tedious rainy day diversion for children. I've vowed to never intentionally play another game of it again, but I have a soft spot in my heart for introducing me to the hobby.
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Jan 7, 2016 21:51
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Please do not post disturbing filth like this in the thread. A friendly reminder to everyone: shelve your games vertically. Namaste.
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Jan 7, 2016 21:56
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Catan is still the best seller at my local shop.
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Jan 7, 2016 22:06
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Ojetor posted:Please do not post disturbing filth like this in the thread. I, too, like warped boards.
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Acolyte! posted:I, too, like warped boards. I can only imagine what it would do to my stack of Combat Commander paper maps.
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Acolyte! posted:I, too, like warped boards. I see people posting this poo poo in BGG circles all the time but I've stored most of my collection (150+ games) vertically for years and I've never seen noticeable warping. I can only assume it's either a myth, only applies to a specific type of board, or a result of more circumstances than just "vertical storage".
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Jan 7, 2016 22:23
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Maybe if there is a ton of space inside so that the board goes like this / and ends up with a droop in the middle??
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Jan 7, 2016 22:24
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Maybe they live in a swamp?
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I'd actually be interested to hear what games people started out with and what they enjoy now. Would it be mostly Catan for people in the last 10ish years? D&d adventure system ravenloft -> more thematic co-op ameritrash and also mage knight and mostly. Euro competitive games make my partner brainbarf 
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Jan 7, 2016 22:31
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Boards would take a long while to warp but if you had figures and token and cards and poo poo I could easily see some dudes getting bent or losing a sword if you stack them vertical all the time. Especially if they're demo units at a store that are being regularly played by people who don't own them and don't give them as much care as you might at home.
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Harvey Mantaco posted:I'd actually be interested to hear what games people started out with and what they enjoy now. Would it be mostly Catan for people in the last 10ish years? Settlers for about 2 years (though I didn't really play more than once a month outside of the first month or two I discovered it), then Munchkin and Citadels for about 6 months, then the WoW board game (the really huge 3v3 one) for another year+ with some Pandemic, Small World, and Agricola thrown in. After that I moved away from most of my friends and so I had to look into online play if I wanted to keep playing, and that introduced me to a much broader category of game.
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Jan 7, 2016 22:37
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It seems like storing games vertically would make all the contents more liable to spill and get mixed up.
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Jan 7, 2016 22:42
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My friend suggested playing a 6p game of Here I Stand. None of us have played before and I don't trust two of the players to be "good" in the sense that they seem to have difficulty forming basic strategies in most games I've seen them play in. Do I agree to play or do I find an excuse to be busy forever?
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GrandpaPants posted:My friend suggested playing a 6p game of Here I Stand. None of us have played before and I don't trust two of the players to be "good" in the sense that they seem to have difficulty forming basic strategies in most games I've seen them play in. Do I agree to play or do I find an excuse to be busy forever?
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Jan 7, 2016 22:47
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My start was the stereotypical combination of Catan and Munchkin three or four years ago which in turn led me to actively seek out the SA boardgame thread. I thought everyone was kind of an rear end in a top hat and way too harsh initially but then it made me realize those games were in fact actual poo poo and caused me to be way more critical of design and quality and now I get to be the rear end in a top hat who's telling my friends they're idiots for buying awful poo poo sight unseen.
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Gumdrop Larry posted:My start was the stereotypical combination of Catan and Munchkin three or four years ago which in turn led me to actively seek out the SA boardgame thread. I thought everyone was kind of an rear end in a top hat and way too harsh initially but then it made me realize those games were in fact actual poo poo and caused me to be way more critical of design and quality and now I get to be the rear end in a top hat who's telling my friends they're idiots for buying awful poo poo sight unseen. My gateway game was Arkham Horror. I still don't know how I got into this hobby.
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I started with Arkham Horror and loved it to bits. I also used to play Munchkin and Talisman iirc, as well as Fluxx and Bang. When I played Caylus I thought it was dry and boring. My tastes shifted once I played Android, which I hated even though I wanted to love. Also I started agreeing with some of the stuff that Broken Loose was saying in regards to game design. I mellowed out since then though
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Anonymous Robot posted:It seems like storing games vertically would make all the contents more liable to spill and get mixed up. Baggies and Planos
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