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I have no idea why any local laws would be passed to prohibit the sales of used items, as at least in the US, the Supreme Court has ruled on resale and you can resale your stuff. Local laws can't supersede that.
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memy posted:Am I misremembering or did Patrick Stewart himself join in on that dogpile? Stewart's was months earlier, people just photoshopped the tweets together to make it look like it.
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Bottom Liner posted:I like Smash Up ok as long as you have dice to track totals and only play to 10 points. My smash up house rule is to only ever play with three people and three bases, it's kinda my guilty pleasure, scratches my mtg itch that pops up from time to time. And yeah, dice to track break points are essential
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Rutibex posted:This is going to be entertaining lol. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyWiaJIhTH4 Real talk. You can like whatever you like, but you like utter trash.
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Here's my review of Smash Up!canyoneer posted:Had some friends over tonight. Wife said, "hey, last time we didn't get to play [friend]'s game. We should play it this time. Ever heard of Smash Up? Does it come recommended?" I'll add that the balance is really poor. I'd recommend King of Tokyo as a light game that's much better thought out and more fun. Fluxx is best when short and silly. There's not a great deal of depth to it, and the nature of the game is such that you're not really strategizing beyond your next turn. Keeping it small is a big part of keeping it short. It's worth 15 minutes of your time every now and again, but really suffers when it's dragged out to 45 minutes.
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I forgot to mention that I'll mostly be playing 2-players, occasionally 3-4.
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Even from an It's Just Fun!TM perspective, Smash Up is really bad. It never feels like you're smashing anything up. Minions don't attack, they just stand around until the sum of their power reaches a certain threshold. Literally the only thing it has "going for it" is that it's Ninjas Versus Robots So Cool You Guys!!!
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My favorite thing about Smash Up is how they didn't even bother including a way to keep score in the game. Not even any point markers or whatever. They eventually had to add that stuff into one of the expansions.
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Boz0r posted:I forgot to mention that I'll mostly be playing 2-players, occasionally 3-4. My go-to recommendations for 2 player games are: Ticket To Ride Castles of Burgundy Valley of the Kings Afterlife Dominion All of those are great with 2, and also scale well with more. And of course, Lord of the Rings LCG and X-Wing Miniatures 
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Even from an It's Just Fun!TM perspective, Smash Up is really bad. It never feels like you're smashing anything up. Minions don't attack, they just stand around until the sum of their power reaches a certain threshold. Yeah, having played both the big problem I have with Smash Up and Sentinels of the Multiverse, both big multiplayer nerdbait cardstravaganzas that people in my neck of the woods seem to love, is that they're dull as hell.
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Boz0r posted:I forgot to mention that I'll mostly be playing 2-players, occasionally 3-4. 7 Wonders Duel is good, but only does 2. Tash Kalar if you're ever in the mood for something a little heavier, though it's best as 1v1 or 2v2, not 3p. Carcassonne is a classic and it scales up well.
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If I have a crowd of friends who want to play games like Exploding Kitten or Fluxx, what should I bring for us to play instead? I was aware Exploding Kitten was trash and I can see why people rag on it but Fluxx is my choice out of our party game rotation.
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If you enjoy Fluxx, don't let us talk you out of playing it.
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Some Numbers posted:If you enjoy Fluxx, don't let us talk you out of playing it. This, but if you're interested in trying something new that suits crowds/parties well, see if you can find Codenames, Skull, or Coup.
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^ Thank you.Some Numbers posted:If you enjoy Fluxx, don't let us talk you out of playing it. It's a form of game I enjoy but I do wish there was a bit more to it. The group loves casual, light, fast stuff because it's 80% casual level gamers, myself included. If there's something similar that mitigates what people don't like about Fluxx I'd be pretty excited to check it out. The best I've got so far is Monopoly Deal, from a recommendation in a thread here. There's a fair bit more strategy but I could still pull it out with four drunks who don't play many games, it has a fair dose of 'gently caress you' in the mechanics, plus people dig it because they like Monopoly but hate playing Actual Two Hour Monopoly.
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Yeah, Codenames and Coup are the best light, party-gameish recommendations I can think of.
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Some Numbers posted:Yeah, Codenames and Coup are the best light, party-gameish recommendations I can think of. Love Letter is another super light, super quick filler game that my group enjoys quite a bit.
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Kamikaze Raider posted:Love Letter is another super light, super quick filler game that my group enjoys quite a bit. The big problem with Love Letter is it only plays four people tops, so depending on the party situation it makes a bad game since it means you'll be breaking into groups. I know, I know, I don't disagree that breaking into groups to play two separate games is a perfectly viable and overlooked solution to "everyone cram into the same game," but if we're talking a bunch of friends getting together to drink and play something as opposed to Board Game Night then you probably want something everyone can play together. Also just speaking for myself but I find Love Letter a little too light and filler-ish.
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Kamikaze Raider posted:Love Letter is another super light, super quick filler game that my group enjoys quite a bit. In addition to all of the previously mentioned, Spyfall is also a fun and quick, if imperfect, social/party game.
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Sushi Go is also pretty good at that role, and can play up to five.
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Skull is fantastic in that setting and plays 6.
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An alternative to Skulls would be Welcome to the Dungeon. I like it better because you have some information, which is also the reason some people don't like it as much. Neither are bad though. The Resistance / Avalon and One Night Ultimate Werewolf fill the portable traitor game niche.
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If you are into dumb pop culture stuff, Slash is pretty good for parties. It is Apples to Apples but with slash fiction. It even has an advanced mode where the judge includes a story prompt with their card and everyone plays their card face up then tells a story based on the prompt and their card. Good dumb fun.
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One Night Ultimate Werewolf is another great party game that plays in 10 minutes and can work with 10+ people.
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If you have enough dice, Liar's Dice can technically hold quite a lot of people
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Bohnanza might work although depending on your group's definition of light it might be too much.
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Thank you for the recommendations everybody! The group is around 20 people and we'll break off into 2-3 tables. A typical set up for us would be something big and long like Caverna or a lighter wargame on one table, something in the middle like The Resistance or Mafia on the second table, and a primarily social table which flits between game-free loving around and Fluxx and Munchkin type stuff. The group isn't a gamer group, it's a community event primarily that a couple of gamers in the community run. Slash looks like it'll go down a storm with the casual table. Love Letter and Codenames were already on my radar from research but Skulls, Coup, Welcome to the Dungeon and Sushi Go will be getting investigated.
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Just a reminder to all Oz goons that the Mighty Ape boardgame price drops end on Saturday. Worth checking out
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Sleeved and sorted Millenium Blades, working on sleeving more Battlecon stuff. I also think BattleCon just out grew my loot crate : (
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Judd Stackington posted:If I have a crowd of friends who want to play games like Exploding Kitten or Fluxx, what should I bring for us to play instead? I was aware Exploding Kitten was trash and I can see why people rag on it but Fluxx is my choice out of our party game rotation. I bring some games to my dodgeball group after party thing on Wednesdays, most of the people aren't familiar with what a lot of what modern games have to offer, and they typically have a pretty solid time with: Cash n Guns, Coup, Code names, & Camel Up. Plus, they're easy to teach to people who are sweaty and a little tipsy and they're quick.
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Favorite 2 player game at the moment is tash kalar and probably will be for a long time. Agricola is also the poo poo and scales really well up to 5.
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w00tmonger posted:Favorite 2 player game at the moment is tash kalar and probably will be for a long time. Agricola is also the poo poo and scales really well up to 5. TK is so hard I dunno how people play it* *I've only played online and I am terrible at playing games online in general. But TK I feel would be impossible even with physical pieces.
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The thing I most appreciated about the physical version of TK, after learning how to play online, is simply being able to rotate the cards. It's such a small thing, but that makes it so much more playable for me compared to on BGA
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w00tmonger posted:Favorite 2 player game at the moment is tash kalar and probably will be for a long time. Agricola is also the poo poo and scales really well up to 5. Same. I've been playing it since it came out and TK is good poo poo. It gets better and better, especially once you reach the first threshold of competency that is recognizing the patterns for the legendary cards from memory.
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Judd Stackington posted:Thank you for the recommendations everybody! Seconding Love Letter, Codenames, and Sushi Go, but if you've got 6-10 slash fans I feel you could get really creative with your party games.
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Anyone done 2 rooms and a boom? It looks interesting but I don't know how many people I should really be throwing at it, and whether or not it makes sense to divide a party into 2 for however long...
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w00tmonger posted:Anyone done 2 rooms and a boom? It looks interesting but I don't know how many people I should really be throwing at it, and whether or not it makes sense to divide a party into 2 for however long... It can go over very well with the right people (which is kind of a non-endorsement, considering the same is true of pretty much any game, but...), and the dividing of people isn't really an issue. Only problem I have with it is that you have to ease people into it by using only a couple core roles to teach the game, at which point the game isn't very interesting, and might cause you to lose interest. If you try to put all the interesting roles in right away, you risk overloading people and making it too chaotic/confusing and also alienating people. I think it's something you have to start with a small core group who enjoys the social deduction/interaction genre (best number is probably the 11+ count where the game allows for Color Sharing), get to know stuff really well, and then add in a few new people to a group over time. Doesn't help with a one-shot party or opportunity much. I ran two games of it on NYE this last year, each with 30+ players, and of those about half or more had never played. Basically all of the above is what happened. Boz0r posted:I forgot to mention that I'll mostly be playing 2-players, occasionally 3-4. My go-to list of (strictly) 2 Player games are: Hive Hanabi 7 Wonders Duel Biblios Onitama (just released last week, highly recommend) The Duke Santorini (KS ending tonight, but will be at retail later this year) Merauder fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Apr 28, 2016 |
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w00tmonger posted:Anyone done 2 rooms and a boom? It looks interesting but I don't know how many people I should really be throwing at it, and whether or not it makes sense to divide a party into 2 for however long... I've not played it, but according to the rules a regular game only takes 15 minutes. Less if you have 9 players or fewer, in which case you just skip the 5 and 4-minute rounds. If time is really pressing, I'm sure you could just, say, half the time for each phase. Ideally, most of the people there will want to play (or at least won't object or poo poo up the game) and can agree to spend 15 minutes playing a social game.
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The Narrator posted:I've not played it, but according to the rules a regular game only takes 15 minutes. Less if you have 9 players or fewer, in which case you just skip the 5 and 4-minute rounds. If time is really pressing, I'm sure you could just, say, half the time for each phase. Ideally, most of the people there will want to play (or at least won't object or poo poo up the game) and can agree to spend 15 minutes playing a social game. 15 minutes is a bit of a misleading number though. Especially if you're playing with new people, the abstract nature of social deduction games is often tough to explain to new players, so I'd expect with a full group of new people that you're going to want 30+ minutes for the first attempt at the game. If you go for a second attempt it will go a little faster, but even if everyone knows what's what the 15min is technically still a bit inaccurate since that's the official round count for 5 rounds, but there's a brief period in between each round where you swap players between rooms that doesn't happen instantaneously, and usually adds 3-5min to the overall game time. Expect to spend closer to 45-60min playing two games with new players.
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unpronounceable posted:The thing I most appreciated about the physical version of TK, after learning how to play online, is simply being able to rotate the cards. It's such a small thing, but that makes it so much more playable for me compared to on BGA OTOH, keeping track of the piece differential is annoying and BGA does it for you.
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