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dropkickpikachu posted:Board games are DOTD on Amazon today: https://t.co/HkeiU40d1y Cross posting from the Boardgame Deals thread: Kingdomino: 2-4 Tile Drafting Game. Quick and solid. Deception: Murder in Hong Kong: Party Social Deduction Game. One person is trying to point everyone else to a combo of cards chosen by another player using plaques rather than words. Cash n Guns: Party game where you point guns at everyone else and bluff in order to split the loot amongst the least amount of players. LEss people standing at the end of each round, the more loot you get. You get literal foam guns. Takenoko: Light colorful game about growing and eating bamboo as a panda. Loony Quest: 2D platformer where you trace your route through each level using a marker on a clear sheet of plastic. It's one of my favorite low key games. Abyss: Push your luck set collection thing with really great art. The art is kind of wasted on such a mediocre game. I haven't gotten to play these, but they are also well regarded: Inis: Area control game with emphasis on drafting. Isle of Skye: Carcasssonne with an auction. Imhotep: hard to explain concisely. You have 4 different ways to ship cubes, and you want to do so while screwing you opponents as much as possible. New York 1901: Build New York with tetris/Patchwork like mechanincs. I'm curious to hear about Kodama, 7 Ronin, and Steam Park.
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Inis. You go for Inis. It's so elegant a design for a DOAM game and it uses nearly perfect information. That price is insane (but honestly the "right" price for that game if it wasn't asmodee controlled).
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Just learned there are Codenames Disney and Marvel coming. I dont think I'm nerdy enough for those.
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What are some great 2P campaign style board (not LCG) games? Basically some kind of RPG-lite fare? I'd prefer it didn't take more than 60-90 minutes, and didn't require any kind of doubling up on characters, just something that works with pure 2P.
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ShaneB posted:What are some great 2P campaign style board (not LCG) games? Basically some kind of RPG-lite fare? I'd prefer it didn't take more than 60-90 minutes, and didn't require any kind of doubling up on characters, just something that works with pure 2P. Tales of Arabian Nights? That's a big hit with my friends. E:Did anyone try out Rising Sun at Gencon? I know they've got a charity event going on and I'm very curious about the game.
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ShaneB posted:What are some great 2P campaign style board (not LCG) games? Basically some kind of RPG-lite fare? I'd prefer it didn't take more than 60-90 minutes, and didn't require any kind of doubling up on characters, just something that works with pure 2P. You want gloomhaven
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Rumda posted:You want gloomhaven Yes I do. That's why it's preordered. 
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BTW if anyone has been looking for an Arkham core set, Cardhaus just emailed me about this going back in stock, since I had put it on my wishlist before finding it locally. http://www.cardhaus.com/catalog/board_games/arkham_horror_the_card_game/391793
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Isaac Childres taught Suddenly Susan and I how to play Founders of Gloomhaven and then we played an entire game of it. It's good!
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I liked the video I saw of it, it looks like Factorio in boardgame form. Does it work well with less than 4 players? The "dummy player resource" mechanic seemed forced.
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Fat Samurai posted:I liked the video I saw of it, it looks like Factorio in boardgame form. Does it work well with less than 4 players? The "dummy player resource" mechanic seemed forced. That mechanic feels necessary to me. First of all, the game is balanced around each player controlling exactly 2 resources. I imagine in a 2-player game, if each player controlled 4 resources, there would be too much opportunity for tactically making sure a certain resource never hits the board, which I think would ruin the flow of the game. If we accept that a player shouldn't be granted control to more than 2 resources, this second point shows up. When using someone else's resource that's worth 1 VP, you're costing yourself 2 VP against them, and 1 VP against other people. Using a dummy player's resource would only be a 1 point differential against everyone without the weird doubling. The game wants players to trade with each other, not with the dummy, so this feels necessary to make trading against the dummy extra unattractive.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:Isaac Childres taught Suddenly Susan and I how to play Founders of Gloomhaven and then we played an entire game of it. Forgot to mention, Founders of Gloomhaven is Concordia meets Steam. There isn't cooperation, but you will need to use other players' resources, which you pay for with both money and VP during scoring.
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Couldn't find it on the last bunch of pages so here is the Pandemic Legacy Season 2 preview from GenCon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oyihklWZhs No spoilers included, just basic descriptions of the starting mechanics. Biggest takeaway is that the game is on the boat, so it should be sooner rather than later, and that rather than giving default characters, they give default roles and a series of character portraits for stickers.
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Haha no loving wonder Games Workshop and FFG had an unfriendly split late last year: 
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dropkickpikachu posted:Haha no loving wonder Games Workshop and FFG had an unfriendly split late last year: Oof, yeah, that would do it. I'd love to learn more though. Gotta storm some troops.
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dropkickpikachu posted:Board games are DOTD on Amazon today: https://t.co/HkeiU40d1y I haven't heard of most of these, but Flip City is a fun mini-deckbuilder.
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dropkickpikachu posted:Haha no loving wonder Games Workshop and FFG had an unfriendly split late last year: Pretty sure it's the other way around. The Runewars mini game and this were made after GW signaled they were pulling their licenses.
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I did it, I ordered Tash-Kalar. Now to find a friend into abstract games.
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please knock Mom! posted:I did it, I ordered Tash-Kalar. Now to find a friend into abstract games. Just played it today and had a tight game go to tie breakers (I lost ). It's a ton of fun and I quite like it 2 or 3 player. Also got HMS Dolores and Tigris and Euphrates on the table today. HMS Dolores is a nice fun little card game. There is a fair bit of strategy in quite a light game that plays quickly. We basically used it as filler as one player had to leave about 30 minutes after we finished T&E. T&E was a blast though I got completely crushed. As I have no idea what I am doing I may have accidentally kingmade in the process of making a catastrophically bad play. Any strategy advice for this one? Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Aug 19, 2017 |
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I'm finally getting Caylus.  Too bad BL isn't here to give me pro tips anymore. Also ordered Gallerist and Inis, the latter because it was so cheap and in case my friend's copy explodes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYh6Kludlgg Any of you ever heard of this game Bunny Kingdom? It isn't out yet but it looks pretty interesting. I'm wondering if any of you have played any other games by this dev or if any of you have gotten to playtest it or anything like that.
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Silvergoose I hope your city be strong against the evil that is coming
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Fat Samurai posted:I was reading the archived BSG thread and 50% of the posts were you complaining about not being able to run some program on a Mac. I don't own a Mac, but yeah the programs aren't very good.
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Lorini posted:Silvergoose <3 Seems like the not zees were outnumbered by some ridiculous magnitude, so all's well I guess?
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FirstAidKite posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYh6Kludlgg Richard Garfield? Never heard of him, must be a new up and coming designer.  he's the designer of, among other things, Magic: the GatheringSeriously though, his last drafting game, Treasure Hunter, gets a decent amount of play with my group, and the addition of area control to the mix seems like it'll be pretty cool. Scoring looks like it might wind up being a little fiddly though.
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I actually picked up Bunny Kingdom at gencon after a bunch of recommendations floated by me. It looks interesting, a drafting game a la 7 Wonders except instead of building a civilization the cards allow you to take territory, increase your strength via buildings, and gain missions that, if completed at the end of the game, get you carrots (points).
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Morpheus posted:I actually picked up Bunny Kingdom at gencon after a bunch of recommendations floated by me. It looks interesting, a drafting game a la 7 Wonders except instead of building a civilization the cards allow you to take territory, increase your strength via buildings, and gain missions that, if completed at the end of the game, get you carrots (points). I'd love to hear impressions once you get some plays in.
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deadwing posted:Richard Garfield? Never heard of him, must be a new up and coming designer. Certainly explains why I haven't heard of him then I don't play MtG.Of course, I feel like this implies that I know the names of any board game designers and companies. Which I don't.
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FirstAidKite posted:Certainly explains why I haven't heard of him then Here's a primer Vlaada Chvatil: god among designers Reiner Knizia: a whole lot of okay games, a few gems Richard Garfield: designed magic Uwe Rosenberg: Agricola and many other worker placements
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I'd say Rosenberg has designed 3 games: Agricola, Patchwork, and his true masterpiece Agricolapatchwork.
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Huxley posted:I'd say Rosenberg has designed 3 games: Agricola, Patchwork, and his true masterpiece Agricolapatchwork. Merkator and bananza get no love.
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There's also Steve Jackson, who is different to Steve Jackson.
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David "Yomi" Sirlin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_VOCJyFg8
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silvergoose posted:Here's a primer Richard's game design book is also noteworthy. Tom Lehmann designed 1846 and some other crap. Bohnanza is the best Uwe game.
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Stefan Feld: confusing action selection mechanism + setting up one-shot combos instead of engine building
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Eric Lang: the Snoop Dogg of board games. He'll put his name on anything but the quality ranges from great to garbage.
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Ignacy Trzewiczek: Thematic games with some really bad mechanics behind them. Ignores Vlaada's advice. D. Brad Talton: Anime as gently caress games that need a technical writer on them, but otherwise good for the most part. Eric Lang: Dudes on a map games, but Chaos in the Old World is the only one that receives near universal praise. Christophe Boelinge: Criminally underrated, but Dungeon Twister, Archipelago, and Earth Reborn are great.
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Also that libertarian guy with the bizarre afterword at the end of his rulebooks. Ecklund?
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It's hard to fault Vlaada right now, since he has kids. gently caress kids. (Codenames Duet was actually designed by a codenames fan and Vlaada was like no, you can't put it on BGG as a fan variant because instead you're working with me to publish it since it fuckin rules)
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