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Lottery of Babylon posted:Isn't this the same designer who Vlaada sat down and explained, "If half the cards are bad and the game is balanced on you drawing 2 good cards and 2 bad cards, then sometimes you draw 4 bad cards and the game is unplayable or 4 good cards and the game is trivial"? Good to know he learned absolutely nothing. Other highlights of Vlaada design wisdom from part 1 and 2 are "maybe increasing the difficulty when the player is already losing isn't a great idea".
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Fat Samurai posted:I like Hanabi because the rules are pretty clear. "Point at a number", "Point at a colour", "I'm going to toss my leftmost card unless someone tells me not to", "I'm keeping the card you point at unless I have a drat good reason not to", "I won't throw a card if you flinch when I grab it", "If you point at a 3 and I could place a Red 3, the 3 you've pointed at better be red"... This has only ever been a problem for me when playing with 10 year olds, and younger.
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I had an Amazon list, but decided to patronize my FLGS instead. I ended up getting Cash N' Guns and Spyfall. Just reading Spyfall's directions after I got home made me smile. Really excited to get that to the table. Out of everything I wanted, CnG was something that I've seen recommended here the most, and my group tends more towards party games than anything crunchy, so I went with that.
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I only played Imperial Settlers once but it seemed pretty fiddly and boring. I don't think Ignacy spends enough time fine-tuning his games from a mechanical standpoint.
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Do any Australians in this thread source their GMT wargames locally (like the Coin series). Most places will stock Twilight Struggle and Dominant Species but since Milsims closed down I haven't worked out which local stores stock wargames. You can order direct from GMT but they subsidise shipping to the tune of usd$60 which I think loses them money.
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Tekopo posted:Daily reminder not to buy Wizkids stuff. hey, it's only been seven months since I put in a replacement request for damaged parts on my mage knight expansion, they might still bother to reply... some day
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dishwasherlove posted:Do any Australians in this thread source their GMT wargames locally (like the Coin series). Most places will stock Twilight Struggle and Dominant Species but since Milsims closed down I haven't worked out which local stores stock wargames. You can order direct from GMT but they subsidise shipping to the tune of usd$60 which I think loses them money. I've seen some of their games at good games, but it's patchy. In my experience GMT subsidise p500, but standard orders are shipped by the option you pay for (so surface is pretty slow, but they don't dip into their own pockets.)
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Last two orders I have had have arrived by ups air mail two weeks after the p500 even if I choose the cheapest option. The postage cost on the package is more than what I paid for the game, and more than the 20usd I paid. Would rather not screw them tbh.
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Fair enough. I've only ever got the subsidy on p500 orders.
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There is a KickStarter on at the moment related to expansions to the Resident Evil deck-building game. It is asking for 30,000 dollars. If the KS succeeds, the organiser will use the money to approach Capcom and ask them to make more expansions. Probably hand over the money in doing so. If that fails, they will try to buy the right to make an expansion from Capcom. They have no expansion material in mind. The normal cost to chip into this is 1 or 5 dollars, bit if you give 25, you will get an undetermined extra. There is no mention of what if they don't get any permission from Capcom. There is no mention of any previous KS experience or game making experience. How did this even get set up?
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Fat Turkey posted:There is a KickStarter on at the moment related to expansions to the Resident Evil deck-building game. It is asking for 30,000 dollars. The barrier of entry to put up a Kickstarter project is a paragraph of text and an image. Maybe once a month there'll be a Star Wars 2 or something and staff rarely looks at them.
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The idea of a kickstarter to give Capcom free money is amazing.
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Fat Turkey posted:There is a KickStarter on at the moment related to expansions to the Resident Evil deck-building game. It is asking for 30,000 dollars. It can't be any worse than the actual RE deckbuilder
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Is the GOT deckbuilder good? It was a rec at the game shop, and I'm intrigued, but didn't want to drop the money on it.
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If you actually mean a deckbuilder, I have no idea it existed but assume trash for many good reasons (including not knowing it existed). If, on the other hand, you mean the LCG, it's pretty good, just make sure you're buying into the current edition.
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Lichtenstein posted:If you actually mean a deckbuilder, I have no idea it existed but assume trash for many good reasons (including not knowing it existed). It had a bunch of expansions, so I'm assuming the LCG. The guy described it as a deck builder, which threw me off. He definitely should preface the fact it's a LCG if he tries to sell that to other people.
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A lot of people aren't really aware that "deckbuilder" has any connotation other than "any game where you perform an activity that could be described as "building" something that could be described as "a deck" at some point before or during the game". Some get actively hostile if you tell them the term has a specific meaning in the context of hobbyist games. The same people will tell you that their favorite "worker placement" game is Carcassonne. Because you PLACE WORKERS in it, so it must be a worker placement game, right?
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Did it look like this? If so, it's a great game, probably my number 1 all around. You really need two boxes to build real decks (but that will give you enough for 4 players easily), but it's absolutely worth it if you like MtG, AGoT, or card games in general. Also, it's currently 50% off at Barnes & Noble for their summer sale (in store only), so you could pick up two for $40 total there.
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Bottom Liner posted:Did it look like this? Yep, that one. I'll keep it in mind.
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ImpactVector posted:I went back and read the blog and it sounds like he did do some trimming, but maybe just didn't apply the same principle to all of the decks. But yeah, that's pretty much what happened. Here's something I'm wondering, how does the design of something like Robinson Crusoe compare to something like Ghost Stories where both are cooperative games that are intentionally kick-your-poo poo-in hard? I haven't played RC so I'm not sure of how it plays. All I see from Goon-census is that it's largely bad.
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Ghost Stories is very much not my thing, and I and my wife *like* co-op games and treat them as co-operative puzzle solving. Most co-ops are really just you and limited resources against a semirandom horde of some kind/mounting pressure and Ghost Stories is sure like that but with dice to resolve poo poo, no idea how that gets a free pass in this thread but different strokes  I mean I think RC gets a bad rap so who am I to complain about dice of all things.
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Mister Sinewave posted:Ghost Stories is very much not my thing, and I and my wife *like* co-op games and treat them as co-operative puzzle solving. You're not supposed to be rolling dice in ghost stories except to save poo poo, you don't roll if you don't have the gems unless you're crazy and/or desperate. GS is fine, not really my cup of tea either but it's a solid game that I'd play if others wanted to.
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I guess, I just really  that game. Even played it enough to win a few, before knowing there was better stuff out there.
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Is there a good resource for buying trading games locally? Trying to beef up my collection without breaking the bank. (I'm in Calgary)
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w00tmonger posted:Is there a good resource for buying trading games locally? Trying to beef up my collection without breaking the bank. Best bet is to hit up local meetups and boardgamegeek.com auctions for local sellers.
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w00tmonger posted:Is there a good resource for buying trading games locally? Trying to beef up my collection without breaking the bank. http://www.kijiji.ca/b-calgary/board-games/k0l1700199
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Are Cool Mini or Not games just style without substance? Shut up and Sit Down plugged their Kickstarter for Massive Darkness, but my impression of their other products (i.e. Zombicide) has been 'fantastic miniatures to entertain you, because the actual gameplay won't'. I've never played one though, so I can neither confirm nor deny.
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Has anybody had a good experience with One Night Ultimate Vampire? My group played the hell out of ONUW and were really excited about the new stuff, but it's fallen flat every time we try it. It seems like if we use predominantly ONUV roles than the role cards don't get moved around enough to make the game interesting and if we predominantly use ONUW cards there's not enough going on with the marks to make them worth including. Maybe we've just used bad combinations of roles, any suggestions on how to make it work?
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Obama 2012 posted:Are Cool Mini or Not games just style without substance? Shut up and Sit Down plugged their Kickstarter for Massive Darkness, but my impression of their other products (i.e. Zombicide) has been 'fantastic miniatures to entertain you, because the actual gameplay won't'. Gameplay video for Massive Darkness looked alright, they basically ignore complex monster AI in favor of allowing the heroes to abuse the simple aggro rules. It gave me a strong Warhammer Quest vibe though with XP going to killshots and (almost?) completely random encounters.
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Obama 2012 posted:Are Cool Mini or Not games just style without substance? Shut up and Sit Down plugged their Kickstarter for Massive Darkness, but my impression of their other products (i.e. Zombicide) has been 'fantastic miniatures to entertain you, because the actual gameplay won't'. Zombicide is indeed pretty simple, but not awful if you want a game about mowing down zombies with dice rolling. Arcadia Quest is great. Xenoshyft is poo poo. So yeah, their games are all over the place.
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w00tmonger posted:Is there a good resource for buying trading games locally? Trying to beef up my collection without breaking the bank. There isn't really a lot aside from the online options mentioned that I'm aware of. Maybe you could hit up Fallcon or something in a few months? Meetup might work, but from what I'm seen many aren't well attended. Aside from Meet, Eat, and Compete, which is awesome but there's no buying/trading so not what you're after. It's getting better, but considering we only just got our first board game cafes around here I think Calgary has been a bit of a deadzone until recently.
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silvergoose posted:You're not supposed to be rolling dice in ghost stories except to save poo poo, you don't roll if you don't have the gems unless you're crazy and/or desperate. Robinson Crusoe sounds somewhat similar, in that it apparently requires players that are completely disinclined to question game design in any capacity.
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Bottom Liner posted:Zombicide is indeed pretty simple, but not awful if you want a game about mowing down zombies with dice rolling. Arcadia Quest is great. Xenoshyft is poo poo. Blood Rage is also great. I think they're batting about 33/33/33 between great/eh/bad games.
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I live in a small(ish) town and Meetup lists 3 or 4 different board game groups. Granted my small(ish) town is less than an hour away from Washington D.C. but you'll be surprised what you can find online.
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Bottom Liner posted:Zombicide is indeed pretty simple, but not awful if you want a game about mowing down zombies with dice rolling. Arcadia Quest is great. Xenoshyft is poo poo. So CMON is actually a weird publisher in that it employs many design studios. This leads to some inconsistencies. Think of the ASMODEE umbrella of design studios, but for mini-heavy games. Zombicide: Studio Guillotine Arcadia Quest: Spaghetti Western Games Xenoshyft: Actually CMON as far as I can tell
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djfooboo posted:So CMON is actually a weird publisher in that it employs many design studios. This leads to some inconsistencies. Think of the ASMODEE umbrella of design studios, but for mini-heavy games. Oh yeah, this explains a lot.
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I've had Mysterium sitting on the shelf for a while waiting for a chance to get to play it. Finally had a chance last night and I thought it was really fun. The artwork in the game is also pretty great.
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Reason posted:I've had Mysterium sitting on the shelf for a while waiting for a chance to get to play it. Finally had a chance last night and I thought it was really fun. The artwork in the game is also pretty great. Were you the ghost and if so did you make spooky ghost sounds while delivering your visions while wearing a sheet? Also, for some reason in the resolution phase when I'd let the players know whether they've guessed right or wrong, I somehow always channeled Muray Povich," Player X.... that is NOT your vision."
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djfooboo posted:So CMON is actually a weird publisher in that it employs many design studios. This leads to some inconsistencies. Think of the ASMODEE umbrella of design studios, but for mini-heavy games. Any word on which is responsible for Massive Dorkness?
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Obama 2012 posted:Are Cool Mini or Not games just style without substance? Shut up and Sit Down plugged their Kickstarter for Massive Darkness, but my impression of their other products (i.e. Zombicide) has been 'fantastic miniatures to entertain you, because the actual gameplay won't'. Rum and Bones is trashy as gently caress but very entertaining.
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