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A Feast for Odin is on sale for $60 https://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/231083 s'pretty great
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Bottom Liner posted:A Feast for Odin is on sale for $60 I often disagree with thread suggestions but A Feast For Odin is really as good as everyone always says it is, and it's staggeringly easy to turn the solitaire game mode into 2-player co-op if that appeals to anyone.
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Definitely want to jump on the 'endorsing Feast for Odin' bandwagon - It's a killer game. My favourite of 2016, by a fair whack.
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Sep 27, 2017 23:45
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Stop! I can't justify more purchases due to Gen Con! Please...wont someone think of the wallets?
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Sep 27, 2017 23:46
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For dexterity games, I can heartily recommend Click Clack Lumberjack, in what ever title/configuration you can find it. It seems to work well at any level of sobriety. Rhino Hero looks great, and they just came out with a larger version called Rhino Hero Super Batlle that looks a bit crazier. If you want one that definitely shouldn't be taken too seriously, I like Cube Quest. You get a bunch of plastic cubes to be your soldiers, some mats made of mousepad material to be your battlefield, and you start flicking. Cubes are harder to flick properly than discs. For those interested in Junk Art, there's also a plastic version for a lot cheaper. apparently it's nice solid resin, that some people are liking better than the wood. I'm 80% of the way through building my own rough approximation of a Crokinole board, will post pics when it's finished.
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So I got archipelago today and the open sea tile isn't on the opposite of the desert tile. Is this a misprint?
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Sep 28, 2017 03:29
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Chill la Chill posted:So I got archipelago today and the open sea tile isn't on the opposite of the desert tile. Is this a misprint? Nope, I have that aswell. Seems they didn't do that for some reason...
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Sep 28, 2017 06:11
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Skypie posted:Stop! I can't justify more purchases due to Gen Con! Please...wont someone think of the wallets? You got a few months to save up still...
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Bottom Liner posted:A Feast for Odin is on sale for $60 Jesus. Okay, how's it play solo? How much variance is there from game to game?
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Ragnar34 posted:Jesus. Okay, how's it play solo? How much variance is there from game to game? It plays well. Starting occupations make it more variable than Caverna. People also create solo scenarios for score attack challenges, with rules and restrictions like "You must perform seven emigrations" or "You must build two longhouses and you may not put food goods in them".
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Sep 28, 2017 08:26
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There's a pretty big discount on Rattle, Battle, Grab The Loot on CoolStuffInc as well, anyone have experience with that?
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Sep 28, 2017 10:12
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Alright, I paid for a copy of Seafall and by god I am going to loving play it. Any advice? Best number of players, what kind of mindset everyone should have going in, any rules stuff to watch out for, etc?
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terebikun posted:Alright, I paid for a copy of Seafall and by god I am going to loving play it. Any advice? Best number of players, Zero.
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Jedit posted:Zero. zing noted Is Subbuteo the soccer/tops game that Brin sets up for the "lads" in an episode of Gavin and Stacey?
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Goons, I need recommendations. Looking to get another Worker Placement, already have Archipelago and Agricola. What should I get next? Looking at Dungeon Petz or Viticulture, but am open to other suggestions.
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Sep 28, 2017 11:45
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MikeCrotch posted:Goons, I need recommendations. Looking to get another Worker Placement, already have Archipelago and Agricola. What should I get next? Looking at Dungeon Petz or Viticulture, but am open to other suggestions.
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Sep 28, 2017 11:56
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MikeCrotch posted:Goons, I need recommendations. Looking to get another Worker Placement, already have Archipelago and Agricola. What should I get next? Looking at Dungeon Petz or Viticulture, but am open to other suggestions. Caylus.
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That feeling when you are getting AP over buying a boardgame feeling pretty meta over here OperaMouse posted:Caylus. Tried Caylus before - I quite like it but I think it would be a tough sell with my group, since it has a bad case of the "I have no idea what i'm doing" when you first sit down and play it.
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Sep 28, 2017 12:21
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One more question: is Sushi Go Party worth the extra  over plain Sushi Go?
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Sep 28, 2017 12:31
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MikeCrotch posted:One more question: is Sushi Go Party worth the extra Yes, absolutely. Includes 3x as much stuff as the base game and drastically extends it's life while also expanding the possible playercount
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MikeCrotch posted:One more question: is Sushi Go Party worth the extra It's got a lot more replay value and variety, and is better outside of a few very niche situations (like if the price or box size really matters).
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MikeCrotch posted:That feeling when you are getting AP over buying a boardgame Caverna could work for that situation, everything is upfront and accessible in that game.
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Yeah Sushi go party is tons better.
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Chill la Chill posted:So I got archipelago today and the open sea tile isn't on the opposite of the desert tile. Is this a misprint? Technically yes but every copy got misprinted the same way and the designer's cool with it.
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Sep 28, 2017 13:36
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Sushi go party even contains all the original game's cards so you aren't missing anything.
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The only circumstance in which I'd hand someone a copy of Sushi Go! instead of the Party! version is if that person and the entire playgroup is extremely new to gaming generally, and if you're not going to be sitting right there to teach. (I've seen people for whom the Chopsticks! card was too heavy and complicated)
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MikeCrotch posted:One more question: is Sushi Go Party worth the extra Absolutely, there is literally no reason to buy Sushi Go instead of Party, and Sushi Go Party is an amazingly fun little game MikeCrotch posted:Goons, I need recommendations. Looking to get another Worker Placement, already have Archipelago and Agricola. What should I get next? Looking at Dungeon Petz or Viticulture, but am open to other suggestions. Viticulture with Tuscany, orrrrrr Bottom Liner posted:A Feast for Odin is on sale for $60
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Anyone have a good recommendation for an RPG in a box for 4-5 players? Maybe a little on the easier side, have a group of 3-4 experienced players trying to find something to ease someone into it. I'm already playing Gloomhaven. Was thinking of maybe Mice and Mystics?
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Nephzinho posted:Anyone have a good recommendation for an RPG in a box for 4-5 players? Maybe a little on the easier side, have a group of 3-4 experienced players trying to find something to ease someone into it. I'm already playing Gloomhaven. Was thinking of maybe Mice and Mystics? Mice & Mystics is pretty simple and repetitive, wouldn't recommend. Descent 2e or Mansions of Madness 2e with the app, maybe? Are you looking for an actual RPG or a game that resembles RPG combat? Kashuno posted:Viticulture with Tuscany, orrrrrr AFFO is not on sale on Amazon and I have vouchers to burn, alas
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MikeCrotch posted:Mice & Mystics is pretty simple and repetitive, wouldn't recommend. Descent 2e or Mansions of Madness 2e with the app, maybe? Are you looking for an actual RPG or a game that resembles RPG combat? Simple and repetitive is kind of why I was leaning towards it, the person we're trying to engage hasn't played anything more complicated than Pandemic or Carcassonne. Going full RPG probably would be a hard sell, was thinking a board game that was just a prepackaged RPG (a la Gloomhaven) would be a good half-measure. I mean, maybe I just get another copy of Gloomhaven and deal with being a backseat player in my own copy as the other one I'm playing will likely far, far outpace it. For people far along in Gloomhaven, does knowing what is coming have significant impact for actions you might take?
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Nephzinho posted:Anyone have a good recommendation for an RPG in a box for 4-5 players? Maybe a little on the easier side, have a group of 3-4 experienced players trying to find something to ease someone into it. I'm already playing Gloomhaven. Was thinking of maybe Mice and Mystics? Nephzinho posted:Simple and repetitive is kind of why I was leaning towards it, the person we're trying to engage hasn't played anything more complicated than Pandemic or Carcassonne. Going full RPG probably would be a hard sell, was thinking a board game that was just a prepackaged RPG (a la Gloomhaven) would be a good half-measure. I mean, maybe I just get another copy of Gloomhaven and deal with being a backseat player in my own copy as the other one I'm playing will likely far, far outpace it. For people far along in Gloomhaven, does knowing what is coming have significant impact for actions you might take? I don't want to get too repetitive in this thread since I've posted about this before recently, but I've been having a lot of success getting RPG newbies in my friend circle to try Descent 2nd Edition with the app. Everything is very clear and easy to understand and accessible with elves and dwarves and little plastic figurines for all the monsters, and the base game has everything you need to play -- literally an RPG in a box, and everyone who's played it has enjoyed it, whether utterly new to RPG's or diehard board game geeks. I've only had one failure and that was a friend's girlfriend who just hates all RPG's, apparently because an ex boyfriend made her paint all his miniatures. I tried to get the same group of people to try Gloomhaven and they bounced off it hard ("wtf is a Cragheart?"). I'm still hopeful they'll try Gloomhaven after i've used Descent to prep them for the concept of the tabletop RPG. Downsides of Descent are of course that it's relatively expensive, designed to sell you more expansions (selling all the boss monster figurines separately is particularly egregious), and you need a tablet or laptop or PC to run the app (technically it runs on a phone but the screen is too small to play well). Caps out at 4 players fully co-op with the app, 5 players if one person is playing Overlord (i.e., playing the monsters in opposition to the other four players, which some groups might not work with well). Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Sep 28, 2017 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I don't want to get too repetitive in this thread since I've posted about this before recently, but I've been having a lot of success getting RPG newbies in my friend circle to try Descent 2nd Edition with the app. Everything is very clear and easy to understand and accessible with elves and dwarves and little plastic figurines for all the monsters, and the base game has everything you need to play -- literally an RPG in a box, and everyone who's played it has enjoyed it, whether utterly new to RPG's or diehard board game geeks. I've only had one failure and that was a friend's girlfriend who just hates all RPG's, apparently because an ex boyfriend made her paint all his miniatures. This is kind of a great endorsement for Descent, I think we'll give it a shot as babby's first RPG.
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Why is the cragheart such a thing? You don't have to pick him If you're in the UK I'll sell you my copy of Descent 2e
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Gort posted:Why is the cragheart such a thing? You don't have to pick him I dunno, honestly. I was just showing my wife the Gloomhaven website and she pointed and was like "wtf is that" then "yeah that's too much for me." I don't really understand it either.
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My Essen preorders if anyone is interested. Click on preorders as a filter. I'd love to see others' preorders as well if you have them.
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If you want a fuller RPG experience that's still streamlined and comes in a nice colorful box I'm pretty sure you can still find 4E Gamma World online. Character creation takes like four minutes, the powers are fun to use, and the wacky post-apocalypse setting is broad enough that you can flavor it pretty much however you want (I ran a pretty memorable/fun one-shot of GW with a light Adventure Time re-theme for a bunch of nerd friends of mine once).
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Nephzinho posted:This is kind of a great endorsement for Descent, I think we'll give it a shot as babby's first RPG. I should also probably warn that the app is kindof clunky. The game wasn't originally designed for app play so you have to do a lot of things like track monster health by hand yourself and then tell the app what happens, and you frequently get situations where you have to make a good faith decision for the app (i.e., app says "attack closest hero" and two heroes are equidistant, but one has one health and the other is at full, you gotta do the needful). I've made a bunch of other posts about Descent in the thread recently so just click my post history button to the left and you'll see my comments in more detail. There are probably other just-as-good-or-better games out there depending on what you want, but our folks have had a lot of fun with it.
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Lorini posted:My Essen preorders if anyone is interested. Click on preorders as a filter. I'd love to see others' preorders as well if you have them. Agra is cool as heck, did an hour demo at Gencon. Love the pray mechanic and paying off other peoples workers if you want their spot. It is an instabuy for me when it comes to U.S.
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terebikun posted:Is Subbuteo the soccer/tops game that Brin sets up for the "lads" in an episode of Gavin and Stacey? No idea. Here's a recent international tournament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6XUus3z4sw
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Nephzinho posted:Simple and repetitive is kind of why I was leaning towards it, the person we're trying to engage hasn't played anything more complicated than Pandemic or Carcassonne. Going full RPG probably would be a hard sell, was thinking a board game that was just a prepackaged RPG (a la Gloomhaven) would be a good half-measure. I mean, maybe I just get another copy of Gloomhaven and deal with being a backseat player in my own copy as the other one I'm playing will likely far, far outpace it. For people far along in Gloomhaven, does knowing what is coming have significant impact for actions you might take? Not really? I mean if you've only played through once you might want to take the other side of scenario branching paths just to see what happens, but in my experience, there isn't a "correct" or "better" choice, it's just different. The only time I could see foreknowledge being an advantage is with event cards, but that's pretty minor. There's a lot of those so even with a lot a plays you don't see that many repeats and you could always simply let the other players decide if you think you might be biased because you know the outcomes. Also you don't need another copy. I'm playing 3 different parties with mine (solo, local club members and friends) and it works fine.
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