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Subjunctive posted:I am experiencing some disappointment when reading this post. (I’m going to stain and assemble my BT this weekend.) I mean you saw the same videos I did before purchase, I imagine. The map trays are not organized in that top bin in any way besides "make them fit just right". I didn't really think it would be that great for actually using the tiles.
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ShaneB posted:I mean you saw the same videos I did before purchase, I imagine. The map trays are not organized in that top bin in any way besides "make them fit just right". I didn't really think it would be that great for actually using the tiles. What video is that? And I'll probably eat my words here but honestly searching through 30 double sided map tiles doesn't really seem like the end of the world, especially when there's so many other components to set up. It's less map tiles than Descent 2E (hell it's about half as many map tiles as ImpAss), and I think I'd much rather fit everything back in the box if at all possible even if it means sacrificing the quick alphabetizing job I did last night with the folio.
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Dec 7, 2017 17:39
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Wait you guys put Gloomhaven away? Weird
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Dec 7, 2017 17:41
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Bombadilillo posted:Wait you guys put Gloomhaven away? Not that I've played it yet, but....cats, man. Cats.
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Dec 7, 2017 17:42
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food court bailiff posted:What video is that? Stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW4XlmZOwtk
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Dec 7, 2017 17:46
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food court bailiff posted:Not that I've played it yet, but....cats, man. Cats. mine jumps on our table even when we're playing also children, you leave that poo poo on the table and your kids will eat it for breakfast or something
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Dec 7, 2017 17:50
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food court bailiff posted:Not that I've played it yet, but....cats, man. Cats. Toddlers for me. Keeps asking to play, we keep telling him when he's older, he keeps saying he's older now.
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Dec 7, 2017 17:52
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Doorknob Slobber posted:mine jumps on our table even when we're playing also children, you leave that poo poo on the table and your kids will eat it for breakfast or something My youngest is just shy of 5. So past that. There's hope!
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Dec 7, 2017 17:57
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silvergoose posted:Toddlers for me. Keeps asking to play, we keep telling him when he's older, he keeps saying he's older now.  my almost 5 half plays. Tell him he can flip the hit deck when you tell him and he'll love life then wander off after a turn or two!
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Dec 7, 2017 17:59
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Bombadilillo posted:
No that's not how my little one does it. He will yell "No baba turn, I flip cards" and refuse to let go of the deck until you go through the entire thing one by one and then carefully put it back into the box.
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Dec 7, 2017 18:15
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ShaneB posted:I mean you saw the same videos I did before purchase, I imagine. The map trays are not organized in that top bin in any way besides "make them fit just right". I didn't really think it would be that great for actually using the tiles. No, that video is interesting! Wonder how I missed it.
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Dec 7, 2017 18:33
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Can someone tell me how big an accordion folder to get?
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Dec 7, 2017 19:55
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Got my shipment yesterday, punched everything out, no component issues anywhere. I've got a big group of people interested and my understanding is that the game supports characters dropping in and out, as well as mixed-level parties. Has anyone run the game with a large pool of players rotating through play sessions? Any tips on running a campaign like that?
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Some Numbers posted:Can someone tell me how big an accordion folder to get? I got one that's big enough to easily hold a standard letter-sized sheet of paper, and which is a bit over an inch thick at the bottom, and it's -barely- big enough. Try to find one with an expanding bottom.
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Dec 7, 2017 19:59
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plester1 posted:Got my shipment yesterday, punched everything out, no component issues anywhere. The sessions scale based on player count and level independently. It works well but, two level 4 characters and a level 1 will not work well, too far behind. Pedantically within the rules you can level yourself down by swaping out your high level cards from the card pool for level 1 cards. For the fun way, just bump any low character up to your prosperity level like they made a new guy and give them some gold. They can play along with the same characters if they want when they show up. (There is infinite grinding available in the game so its not going to mess anything up.) As for the campaign, well it is a story. You can do random scenarios with the cards or replay scenarios, or catch them up on why you are doing stuff. Up to you and how much they/you care.
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Dec 7, 2017 20:03
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Some Numbers posted:Can someone tell me how big an accordion folder to get? I got this and everything fits fine, but there are no internal dividers. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006OM09Y/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Bombadilillo posted:For the fun way, just bump any low character up to your prosperity level like they made a new guy and give them some gold. According to the rules, whenever Prosperity level increases, all new characters and all existing characters at a lower level can immediately bump up to a level matching the new Prosperity level.
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I finally received Gloomhaven last night. Had a friend over I used to play DnD with and went through the first three missions. Friend took a picture of my 5x5 table that was completely covered in cardboard, this game is huge. Initial impression is that this game is amazing. We were up until 2am playing and are planning on getting together for more scenarios tonight. A Spellweaver and Cragheart team is really good. Haven't lost a scenario yet but they are always very close. I'd like to thank the thread for recommending a starting stamina potion, it has been invaluable for the Cragheart.
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Dec 7, 2017 20:11
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Stamina is drat near mandatory for every character. CaptainRightful posted:I got this and everything fits fine, but there are no internal dividers. Oh poo poo, missed that! nevemind then
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Dec 7, 2017 20:14
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It's a good start to Gloomhaven when you nuke 4 bandits dead in the first room with the Spellweaver inferno card 
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Some Numbers posted:Can someone tell me how big an accordion folder to get? https://www.amazon.com/Smead-Frequency-Expanding-Pockets-70863/dp/B0186K7B3O/ This is the one I have. All tiles fit (even the dreaded T-shapes), and it has internal dividers.
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Dec 7, 2017 21:05
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Gotta say my first run was pretty anticlimactic. Played with the solo rules so every mob started at level 2 and was taking multiple turns to kill. Kept hitting negative modifiers or nulls early on. My spellweaver got 1 shotted by a random mook with a x2 multiplier, and then my Cragheart just stumbled around barely doing any damage at all before running out of cards completely. I think the one retaliate 2 card was like the bulk of my damage that game. I was down to just 1 damaged dude left on the map too but he just kept shielding up and I kept hitting -1s again after another null made me reshuffle  Kinda feel like I did something wrong there.
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Dec 7, 2017 21:35
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Kiranamos posted:It's a good start to Gloomhaven when you nuke 4 bandits dead in the first room with the Spellweaver inferno card  The Scoundrel had lost 4 cards for soaking by the time we finished that first room.
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Hauki posted:Gotta say my first run was pretty anticlimactic. Played with the solo rules so every mob started at level 2 and was taking multiple turns to kill. Kept hitting negative modifiers or nulls early on. My spellweaver got 1 shotted by a random mook with a x2 multiplier, and then my Cragheart just stumbled around barely doing any damage at all before running out of cards completely. I think the one retaliate 2 card was like the bulk of my damage that game. I was down to just 1 damaged dude left on the map too but he just kept shielding up and I kept hitting -1s again after another null made me reshuffle No it didn't. self quote Bombadilillo posted:
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Dec 7, 2017 21:38
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FYI, complaining in this thread works. My copy is arriving next Wednesday!
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Bombadilillo posted:No it didn't. Mm, fair enough, thanks for the reminder, but I don't think it would've realistically changed anything. I think losing those cards would've put my spellweaver in the same situation as my cragheart with regards to being forced to rest, then unable to take a turn with the remaining card and declaring exhaustion. Maybe it would've given me one last attack though, I don't honestly remember now.
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Hauki posted:Mm, fair enough, thanks for the reminder, but I don't think it would've realistically changed anything. I think losing those cards would've put my spellweaver in the same situation as my cragheart with regards to being forced to rest, then unable to take a turn with the remaining card and declaring exhaustion. Maybe it would've given me one last attack though, I don't honestly remember now. That's possible. But one last attack with Spellweaver? Splosion time! That can be a huge turn if you burn a bottom action card and burn a top action card. Its actually super fun to go out in a blaze of glory and see how many baddies you can take with you. You aren't exhausted til you start your turn and don't have the 2 cards to allocate. Or more rarely if you have to discard and have 0 cards in hand to do so. But I find more often you start a turn with 2-3 cards and know its your last and can 
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Bombadilillo posted:That's possible. But one last attack with Spellweaver? Splosion time! That can be a huge turn if you burn a bottom action card and burn a top action card. Its actually super fun to go out in a blaze of glory and see how many baddies you can take with you. Alright I went back to look at the board, I'd sorta started scooping up already but I'm pretty sure at that point I had just rested again to reshuffle on the spellweaver, so I would've had 3 cards left in hand and none in discard, I'll try playing this out from here. edit: well, 2 cards played & waiting on initiative, so 1 left in hand after that
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Dec 7, 2017 22:09
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Kiranamos posted:It's a good start to Gloomhaven when you nuke 4 bandits dead in the first room with the Spellweaver inferno card ...you mean the fire orbs that's awesome, or the level 9 inferno card that I'm just two levels away from goddammit so close want to burn everything down
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Hauki posted:Alright I went back to look at the board, I'd sorta started scooping up already but I'm pretty sure at that point I had just rested again to reshuffle on the spellweaver, so I would've had 3 cards left in hand and none in discard, I'll try playing this out from here. Hum, well, I hit my own x2 on the last attack so... I guess I would've won? I didn't have enough left to grab the treasure chest or any of the (numerous) remaining coins on the ground though.
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First turn chat. I find that the first rooms in scenariso are designed to really hamper you in some way. So while mathematically it costs you a lot of theoretical rounds to lost a card on turn one if you can clear the room, or seriously ruin the enemy engine its totally worth it.
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Bombadilillo posted:First turn chat. I find that the first rooms in scenariso are designed to really hamper you in some way. So while mathematically it costs you a lot of theoretical rounds to lost a card on turn one if you can clear the room, or seriously ruin the enemy engine its totally worth it. I... tried for that actually and then promptly hit a null on my fire orbs  Got it back in the second room off whatever the recover lost spell is and used it to pop a bunch of dudes at once though at that point I'd already spent a bunch of time (and cards). Kinda wishing I'd bought stamina potions over power potions the way things played out, but oh well.
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Hauki posted:I... tried for that actually and then promptly hit a null on my fire orbs The stamina is infinitely more useful then the Minor Power. Were you drawing a different hit card for everyone you hit with a group attack?
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Bombadilillo posted:The stamina is infinitely more useful then the Minor Power. Uhh... I think for the most part I was, but now that you mention it I'm pretty sure I just nulled the whole attack when I first hit it on Fire Orbs.
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ChiTownEddie posted:Yeah. It was a print change from v1 to v2, but the punch boards didn't change. The rulebook did though! The component list is wrong in both versions. It lists the right number in the first edition but has four extra monsters, then lists those extras in the second without including them.
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Got this punched last night and the wife wants to put it on the table tonight. She's pretty set on the Spellweaver, any recommendations for a good partner, or rather, any class that should probably be avoided?
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hoiyes posted:Got this punched last night and the wife wants to put it on the table tonight. She's pretty set on the Spellweaver, any recommendations for a good partner, or rather, any class that should probably be avoided? Cragheart for control/tank/heal/autodamage goodness.
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Tinkerer in general is not great for 2-person parties, Scoundrel requires an ally to be in melee range to really get much value from their kit. Otherwise I think you're good.
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Hauki posted:Hum, well, I hit my own x2 on the last attack so... I guess I would've won? I didn't have enough left to grab the treasure chest or any of the (numerous) remaining coins on the ground though. In my experience there's gonna be a lot of coins lying around unless you have certain classes with specific cards in hand. You'll have more options to gobble them up as the campaign progresses, but in general winning > getting another coin or two, and that goes double at low difficulties where each coin is only worth 1 or 2 gold. Chests are usually worth it, though.
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silvergoose posted:...you mean the fire orbs that's awesome, or the level 9 inferno card that I'm just two levels away from goddammit so close want to burn everything down Yeah the Impaling Eruption card that traces a 4 hex path of destruction and got me 4xp as well.
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malkav11 posted:In my experience there's gonna be a lot of coins lying around unless you have certain classes with specific cards in hand. You'll have more options to gobble them up as the campaign progresses, but in general winning > getting another coin or two, and that goes double at low difficulties where each coin is only worth 1 or 2 gold. Chests are usually worth it, though. Sounds like your group doesn't jeopardize the win for marginal rewards enough. ...but seriously, how has my group not lost yet considering how much we fight over coins.
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