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Looking for a cooperative LCG for me and the wife to play two player. Lord of the Rings looks interesting and I see they just released Arkham Horror. What would be the best one to start out with?
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Dec 6, 2016 01:25
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Different enough that it comes down to which theme you like more. LotR obviously has a lot more content available if that matters to you immediately. Arkham is less about deck building and is built to be more of a campaign/rpg-lite game whereas LotR feels more like a coop dueling card game. If you decide on LotR I have the core/Hobbit saga expansions/first two cycles for sale in the trading thread.
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Dec 6, 2016 01:29
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I'm of the opinion currently that you should start with Arkham Horror right now. It seems to have learned a lot from LOTR which started off comparatively rough. If you skip right to the later LOTR quests that are designed far better it'll be pretty tough with out a decent card pool. Plus with AH LCG the investment is so much smaller to see if the co-op LCG works for you haha. Don't have that whole mega back catalog to question if you should buy them or worry about when they'll be reprinted.
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Dec 6, 2016 01:31
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Thirsty Dog posted:How? The Rabbit's Foot draw is a response to losing a skill check. It's not just a draw action. Card draw is always an action you have available to you; Rabbit's Foot just means failing those skill checks isn't such a blow. And no, you wouldn't have had 3 draws - like I said earlier, it's an exhaust, so once per turn only. Yes, I know the Foot is once per turn. I'm talking about using it on three separate turns, failing a check on each. And I was trying to draw so many cards because I needed more Intellect/Wild icons to pass the check with anything other than the single +1 token.
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Dec 6, 2016 01:44
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Rad Valtar posted:Looking for a cooperative LCG for me and the wife to play two player. Lord of the Rings looks interesting and I see they just released Arkham Horror. What would be the best one to start out with? Lotr is hard as god drat balls a lot of the time. The experiences I have had with that game is either roll over it or get rolled in 3 rounds. It's ridiculous. Arkham is much tighter as it currently stands and I would definitely recommend it assuming you were more invested in an enjoyable co-op experience than a deckbuilding toolkit.
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Dec 6, 2016 03:09
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For LOTR and Arkham, what are the best ways of organizing your scenarios? Card longboxes are the only things I can think of, but does anyone have any good printable dividers or anything?
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Dec 6, 2016 03:23
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GrandpaPants posted:For LOTR and Arkham, what are the best ways of organizing your scenarios? Card longboxes are the only things I can think of, but does anyone have any good printable dividers or anything? I've used these for lotr. http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/76256/geckoths-lotr-dividers
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Dec 6, 2016 03:29
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Jedit posted:Yes, I know the Foot is once per turn. I'm talking about using it on three separate turns, failing a check on each. And I was trying to draw so many cards because I needed more Intellect/Wild icons to pass the check with anything other than the single +1 token. Drawing cards wildly is real risky for the exact reasons you found out. It's not a cureall because of the weaknesses. You still haven't answered why you didn't use Wendy's ability. You also shouldn't be spending 3 turns in the Study. There's only 2 clues on it in 1P. That's nine chances you had to obtain two clues. Even with the obscuring fog after turn 1, that should not have taken you three turns. Before obscuring fog comes out, Wendy will succeed on 10/16 pulls (+1, 0, 0, -1, -1, -1, Skull, Skull, Cultist, Elder Sign) without committing a single thing to her test. That chance is of course higher because of Wendy's ability. After OF comes out, you only need to find a way to either commit an additional +2 or utilize one of Wendy's many risk mitigation tools to reach the same odds. OF goes away on the first successful investigation, so don't hold back. Just get it gone. You should really consider watching a a gameplay vid on Youtube or something, you may need to reconsider your approach. I recommend noaloha, he's pretty good. Or sell me that core set for 20, either way.
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Dec 6, 2016 03:37
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Just finished our first Arkham campaign that we started a week ago. I was Wendy and my friend was Roland. We used the default decks. Results as follows: Found Lita, killed the ghoul priest, burned the house down. Uncovered 5 out of 6 cultists before resigning, Wolf-man Dave escaped. Managed to get the clues onto the act in the last turn before the Agenda would have flipped. Crisis averted! Nobody believed us though, 2 mental trauma for the both of us. We misunderstood so many things, hard to really call it a win. I still really like it though. Definitely getting a second core set. Stand out cards for me were Lucky, the 2 talents that let you burn resources to boost a stat (hard knocks and dig deep I think), and that event that cancels all chaos draws for your turn (Will to Survive). I don't remember all the changes I made, but I know I dropped the baseball bat, stray cat, both neutral knives, and my leather coat (since I picked up a bullet proof vest). I upgraded Luca (who I never drew), grabbed the 2 perceptions, bought Alqinnah who I never played, upgraded Get Lucky and then kept both the regular and upgraded version because it's so good. I basically ditched a lot of fight cards and let Roland deal with most monsters. Never ended up using Wendy's amulet. Didn't draw it the first game, didn't draw events my second game, wish I'd played it my third instead of discarding it since I ended up with a ton of events in my discard that time but eh, I got a ton of mileage out of my rabbits foot. Failboattootoot fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Dec 6, 2016 06:21
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Rad Valtar posted:Looking for a cooperative LCG for me and the wife to play two player. Lord of the Rings looks interesting and I see they just released Arkham Horror. What would be the best one to start out with? LOTR is really hardcore, so unless you big fans of the lore I would go with AH. Sure, you'll have less stuff to buy (might not be a bad thing), but it does the storytelling and immersion bit much better. Also, it really is designed around campaign play which is perfect if you can keep the same group around.
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Dec 6, 2016 07:23
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How far are people getting into the agenda deck by the end of Scenario 1? I haven't beaten it (only using starter decks) yet, but the scenario's been ending one way or another with like 3 doom tokens on the Agenda 2 card. I'm wondering if I've missed a rule or we should be spending way more actions to build up cards/resources because the 7 and 10 doom thresholds on Agendas 2 and 3 seem really high. Also in my first game my boyfriend and I totally missed that the final enemy in Scenario 1 has the "x the number of players" icon next to its health. I felt a little underwhelmed by how easy it was, then realized our mistake later. That would've made it much more dicey.
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Dec 6, 2016 07:24
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Context posted:How far are people getting into the agenda deck by the end of Scenario 1? I haven't beaten it (only using starter decks) yet, but the scenario's been ending one way or another with like 3 doom tokens on the Agenda 2 card. I'm wondering if I've missed a rule or we should be spending way more actions to build up cards/resources because the 7 and 10 doom thresholds on Agendas 2 and 3 seem really high. I think they are intentionally really high just so the scenario won't end prematurely (which would be an anticlimax the first time you play). It's the first scenario after all, it's designed to be super winnable (but feel like it's still tight). I've played it 4-5 times now and not even once has the agenda deck moved to agenda 3.
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Dec 6, 2016 08:34
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For Arkham Horror LCG does it look like two core sets will still be warranted after there's been a cycle or two of scenario packs/expansions, or is it more just the lack of a larger card pool right now that makes it necessary for deck building? I'm pretty likely to end up grabbing a bunch of expansions for it as they become available so not sure whether I should bother with two core sets from the outset.
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Dec 6, 2016 09:40
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Kerro posted:For Arkham Horror LCG does it look like two core sets will still be warranted after there's been a cycle or two of scenario packs/expansions, or is it more just the lack of a larger card pool right now that makes it necessary for deck building? I'm pretty likely to end up grabbing a bunch of expansions for it as they become available so not sure whether I should bother with two core sets from the outset. You definitely need 2 core sets if you ever intend to play with more than 2 people. Even setting that aside, there are some core cards I would definitely always run 2 of's given the choice.
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Dec 6, 2016 09:52
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Kerro posted:For Arkham Horror LCG does it look like two core sets will still be warranted after there's been a cycle or two of scenario packs/expansions, or is it more just the lack of a larger card pool right now that makes it necessary for deck building? I'm pretty likely to end up grabbing a bunch of expansions for it as they become available so not sure whether I should bother with two core sets from the outset. Since you get exactly one copy of each class-specific card, I believe that dual core will provide useful for at least a couple of cycles. The thing with coop LCGs is that the expansions must contain a scenario as well, which in turn means fewer player cards. So given a pack of 60 cards, 20(?) are scenario-specific, leaving 20x2 cards for the investigators, i.e 2-3 unique cards per class per pack. The core set gives you 14 cards per class, which is about what a cycle will give you (excluding deluxes). So if you buy two cycles including deluxes, expect that the core cards will still be about 25% of the class card pool. You certainly won't need two cores at that point, but I can still see quite a few cards that you'd like to have two of, like Machete, Lucky!, Look what I found, Drawn to the Flame, Shrivelling, Dynamite Blast etc. Historically speaking, I think all LCG cores includes vital cards for decks long into their future. Then again, if you are fine with a restricted deckbuilding experience, you can easily wait it out and buy it at a discount later/not at all, Dunwich Legacy should arrive quite soon too. Zerf fucked around with this message at 11:45 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Dec 6, 2016 11:42
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Bottom Liner posted:the trading thread. Where is this?? I can't find it.
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Dec 6, 2016 14:14
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Board Game Trading Thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3501008&pagenumber=45&perpage=40
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Dec 6, 2016 15:59
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GrandpaPants posted:For LOTR and Arkham, what are the best ways of organizing your scenarios? Card longboxes are the only things I can think of, but does anyone have any good printable dividers or anything? I have been using this guys, and I like them a lot. http://www.designedbyryno.com/
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Dec 6, 2016 18:24
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Can somebody with more skill than me make some dividers for AH LCG?
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Dec 6, 2016 19:16
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COOL CORN posted:Can somebody with more skill than me make some dividers for AH LCG? I like these: http://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/138641/vertical-themed-dividers-sleeved-cards
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Dec 6, 2016 19:21
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Arkham chat: Can I include a second copy of an Investigator unique asset in the deck? How much does it cost? Does it count against the 30 card limit?
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Dec 6, 2016 19:52
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Fat Samurai posted:Arkham chat: Can I include a second copy of an Investigator unique asset in the deck? How much does it cost? Does it count against the 30 card limit? If you're referring to the specific cards that are ordinarily not counted against the deck limit, then no, you cannot include extra.
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Dec 6, 2016 19:55
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On the accessories topic, I heard that 26mm coin cases work great for the chaos tokens in Arkham Horror. Anyone have any cool customizations for the game? Litko has a bunch of cool tokens. This is my first Fantasy Flight Lovecraftian game, so I didn't realize that many of the tokens in Arkham Horror LCG were universal to other games made by them, meaning there's a lot of stuff out there already. This token set is pretty cool, but it's the price of a core set and is probably tight on tokens for a two player game. I do like these health and sanity dials.
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Dec 6, 2016 21:15
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BJPaskoff posted:On the accessories topic, I heard that 26mm coin cases work great for the chaos tokens in Arkham Horror. Anyone have any cool customizations for the game? Litko has a bunch of cool tokens. This is my first Fantasy Flight Lovecraftian game, so I didn't realize that many of the tokens in Arkham Horror LCG were universal to other games made by them, meaning there's a lot of stuff out there already. This token set is pretty cool, but it's the price of a core set and is probably tight on tokens for a two player game. I do like these health and sanity dials. Haven't done so yet, but my SO and I are going to get this or similar as a replacement for our chaos cup, which now is a normal teacup. Accidents have already happened... Zerf fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Dec 6, 2016 21:18
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Bottom Liner posted:Different enough that it comes down to which theme you like more. LotR obviously has a lot more content available if that matters to you immediately. Arkham is less about deck building and is built to be more of a campaign/rpg-lite game whereas LotR feels more like a coop dueling card game. I would love the LotT stuff but with a kid who has her first Christmas and a birthday in the next month I'm guessing the asking price would be high enough my wife would kill me.
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Dec 6, 2016 21:21
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A buddy of mine got a bunch of those little lozenge coin cases from some Chinese seller. $6.50 for 100 of them. Don't know the details yet (I'll find out), but here's the pic he posted on Facebook http://i.imgur.com/W45TDud.png
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Dec 6, 2016 21:24
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BJPaskoff posted:On the accessories topic, I heard that 26mm coin cases work great for the chaos tokens in Arkham Horror. Anyone have any cool customizations for the game? Litko has a bunch of cool tokens. This is my first Fantasy Flight Lovecraftian game, so I didn't realize that many of the tokens in Arkham Horror LCG were universal to other games made by them, meaning there's a lot of stuff out there already. This token set is pretty cool, but it's the price of a core set and is probably tight on tokens for a two player game. I do like these health and sanity dials. I like the idea of custom tokens but the glaring HEALTH SANITY CLUE lettering is really obnoxious to me. Like for real if i want to buy custom poo poo i am pretty sure i don't need that kind of labeling
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Dec 6, 2016 22:19
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ConfusedUs posted:A buddy of mine got a bunch of those little lozenge coin cases from some Chinese seller. $6.50 for 100 of them. Don't know the details yet (I'll find out), but here's the pic he posted on Facebook I swung by a really run down coin collector shop outside of Bellevue and they wanted $1.50 each for those coin lozenges. Good to know I wasn't wrong to think they were nuts.
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Dec 6, 2016 22:42
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ConfusedUs posted:A buddy of mine got a bunch of those little lozenge coin cases from some Chinese seller. $6.50 for 100 of them. Don't know the details yet (I'll find out), but here's the pic he posted on Facebook Would appreciate the information. The ones on Amazon are about $7 for 10, which seems insane to me, but they're probably sturdier than the cheap Chinese stuff. Luckily I'm not housing ancient coins.
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Dec 6, 2016 22:46
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PJOmega posted:I swung by a really run down coin collector shop outside of Bellevue and they wanted $1.50 each for those coin lozenges. Good to know I wasn't wrong to think they were nuts. There's a hobby store near me that wanted $1 for each of them, and they were square. I probably could have talked him down in price because I'm fairly sure he's had them forever, but at some point I'll find them for $6.50 for 100 and my friend can have some also.
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Dec 6, 2016 23:04
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Friend hasn't replied yet, but I found 25 of them on Amazon for $9, prime eligible. I also found a 100 pack like he was talking about for ~6.50 + shipping on Ebay. Don't know what shipping would cost. I think this is probably what he bought, since the price is about right and ships from China. Edit: he says he got them from Amazon but the seller is now out of the 26mm ones. The EBay ones are identical. ConfusedUs fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Dec 6, 2016 |
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Dec 6, 2016 23:39
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Sloober posted:I like the idea of custom tokens but the glaring HEALTH SANITY CLUE lettering is really obnoxious to me. They got other varieties. I got some red tentacles, magnifying glasses, and hearts/minds-none with words. It's just been kinda a pain finding something for resources-there's a site in Russia with some that look cool, but shipping's 2-4 weeks and I hope in that time someone closer will be doing some. I also found some mini-crates on etsy (I guess used for one of the star wars games) but they wanted 12 bucks for 8 which is a bit higher than I wanted to go now. Also it's funny how difficult it's been to find just miniature dollars (which I'd use for resources, iirc the board game uses dollars for resource tokens anyway). Only the russian site I saw had them. But there's like 1000 different brain/heart tokens (some even fully 3d).
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Dec 7, 2016 06:47
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Soothing Vapors posted:You should really consider watching a a gameplay vid on Youtube or something, you may need to reconsider your approach. I recommend noaloha, he's pretty good. I'll take a look at it. This isn't a game I'm making GBS threads on to be edgy or contrarian, I really want it to be good and so far I've been very disappointed.
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Dec 7, 2016 14:29
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ConfusedUs posted:Friend hasn't replied yet, but I found 25 of them on Amazon for $9, prime eligible. Can you link to the eBay one? The only ones I can find are $26 for 100.
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Dec 7, 2016 15:12
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COOL CORN posted:Can you link to the eBay one? The only ones I can find are $26 for 100. http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-Clear-26mm-Plastic-Coin-Capsules-Coins-Containers-Boxes-Holders-Storage-/172213882088#shpCntId
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Dec 7, 2016 16:59
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Zerf posted:Haven't done so yet, but my SO and I are going to get this or similar as a replacement for our chaos cup, which now is a normal teacup. Accidents have already happened... That thing looks more prone to accidents than a simple teacup. Besides stability problems, you may be playing the game and suddenly and through no fault of your own sacrifice a goat, for example.
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Dec 7, 2016 17:28
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ConfusedUs posted:http://www.ebay.com/itm/100-Clear-26mm-Plastic-Coin-Capsules-Coins-Containers-Boxes-Holders-Storage-/172213882088#shpCntId Aw, out of stock 
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Dec 7, 2016 17:32
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BJPaskoff posted:On the accessories topic, I heard that 26mm coin cases work great for the chaos tokens in Arkham Horror. Anyone have any cool customizations for the game? Litko has a bunch of cool tokens. This is my first Fantasy Flight Lovecraftian game, so I didn't realize that many of the tokens in Arkham Horror LCG were universal to other games made by them, meaning there's a lot of stuff out there already. This token set is pretty cool, but it's the price of a core set and is probably tight on tokens for a two player game. I do like these health and sanity dials. I would be shocked (shocked I say!) if we don't see some fancy custom acrylic tokens for Arkham Horror coming out of Team Covenant in the next few months. Their Star Wars Destiny set just came out, so I would expect this game to be next on their list. I'm finding surprisingly few good storage options for AH. The box is too small for a Broken Token Insert, and shoe-box style white cardboard is just... boring.
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Dec 7, 2016 17:58
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COOL CORN posted:Aw, out of stock There are lots of other sellers/etc if you look at similar items.
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Dec 7, 2016 17:59
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You know what I'd actually like to pimp out my game? Dunwich Legacy When is it duuueeee?
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Dec 7, 2016 18:34
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