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Wow, thanks for saving me some money. I got shadows of the past, I'll stick to that. Bummer that munchkin got Usagi and SotP didn't.
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It's one of those games that your friends/family who don't really play board/card games will break out once in a while as this funny new game they found. If you only have to play it once a year or so it's not the worst game (better than another Monopoly skin) but nobody who knows better should ever seek out more chances to play it
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Yeah it's a game my friends who know I board game, I go to their house and they pull out munchkin and cards against humanity and I try to decide which will hurt less to play. throwing myself out the window is preferable
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Mar 19, 2018 21:25
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Kaza42 posted:It's one of those games that your friends/family who don't really play board/card games will break out once in a while as this funny new game they found. If you only have to play it once a year or so it's not the worst game (better than another Monopoly skin) but nobody who knows better should ever seek out more chances to play it It is a horrible game. A real wreck of design from top to bottom. Gameplay-wise it has zero redeeming qualities. But it's got cute, funny art and plenty of in-jokes, and it can, in a pinch, serve as something to do while getting drunk with your friends. Because there's people who love it, for some reason, and will insist on playing this brand new expansion they just got, and 'playing bad games once in a while' is sometimes part of friendship.
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Mar 19, 2018 21:27
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My local game shop owner runs a Munchkin Invitational for a spot in like done national tournament. I turned and walked out when he told me this.
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Mar 19, 2018 21:29
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Rad Valtar posted:My local game shop owner runs a Munchkin Invitational for a spot in like done national tournament. I turned and walked out when he told me this. And how would a person serious about games ever tell their friends, "Uh, I was the World Champion of Munchkin..."
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Mar 19, 2018 21:34
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dwarf74 posted:But it's got cute, funny art For the life of me I have never understood the appeal of John Kovalic. Props to him for living his dream and all, but his art fuckin sucks.
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Mar 19, 2018 21:43
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dwarf74 posted:There isn't enough gameplay to Munchkin to support a tournament. How?? Make sure you're wearing the right shirt to get the edge on your opponents.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:06
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Bombadilillo posted:Yeah it's a game my friends who know I board game, I go to their house and they pull out munchkin The correct option is to introduce them to Red Dragon Inn, which has the benefit of being at least a decent game that normal people can get into and learn pretty fast.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:06
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Rad Valtar posted:My local game shop owner runs a Munchkin Invitational for a spot in like done national tournament. I turned and walked out when he told me this. You are *extremely* edgy!
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Mar 19, 2018 22:08
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Mors Rattus posted:The correct option is to introduce them to Red Dragon Inn, which has the benefit of being at least a decent game that normal people can get into and learn pretty fast. I used Cockroach Poker. We play good games. And even got them on Gloomhaven so...their lives are gone. But every once in a while I show up and they pull out some bullshit.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:09
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You can only play 'kill the guy with the ball' so many times and in so many ways.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:22
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Honestly Munchkin's biggest sin, which is related to its "take that" nature, is that it just takes so long to finally end. If it was a short, breezy game it wouldn't be remarkably better but at the very least it wouldn't have a tendency to take over game nights like some sort of smothering blob-monster when someone goes "hey let's play a game of Munchkin!" and there goes the next two hours down the drain. Exploding Kittens is hot garbage but at least it's over in like five minutes.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:25
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Kai Tave posted:Honestly Munchkin's biggest sin, which is related to its "take that" nature, is that it just takes so long to finally end. If it was a short, breezy game it wouldn't be remarkably better but at the very least it wouldn't have a tendency to take over game nights like some sort of smothering blob-monster when someone goes "hey let's play a game of Munchkin!" and there goes the next two hours down the drain. Exploding Kittens is hot garbage but at least it's over in like five minutes. Munchkin is the millennial generation's Monopoly. Back in my day, this was exactly the worst sin of board game nights everywhere, when someone hauled out Monopoly. I realize it's still a massive seller but I suspect that's exclusively to people over the age of ~40.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:31
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Kai Tave posted:Honestly Munchkin's biggest sin, which is related to its "take that" nature, is that it just takes so long to finally end. If it was a short, breezy game it wouldn't be remarkably better but at the very least it wouldn't have a tendency to take over game nights like some sort of smothering blob-monster when someone goes "hey let's play a game of Munchkin!" and there goes the next two hours down the drain. Exploding Kittens is hot garbage but at least it's over in like five minutes. Streamlined and not poo poo it become love letter. Take that for 3-5 min at a time.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:32
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A lot of "party style" games are like that in my experience, things like Cards Against Humanity and Epic Spell Wizards of Mount Skullzfyre, where (regardless of their other qualities or lack thereof) they wind up being extremely drawn-out affairs that only ever end when there's finally a group consensus to simply stop playing rather than the game actually reaching a natural conclusion. It doesn't help that a lot of these games are also brought out because there are too many people in attendance for them all to play other games which only support, say, 4-5 players and so rather than simply splitting off into separate groups to play different games simultaneously someone insists on a game that everyone can play together, even though cramming an excess of players into the same game of Munchkin only makes it take even longer.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:37
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Kai Tave posted:A lot of "party style" games are like that in my experience, things like Cards Against Humanity and Epic Spell Wizards of Mount Skullzfyre, where (regardless of their other qualities or lack thereof) they wind up being extremely drawn-out affairs that only ever end when there's finally a group consensus to simply stop playing rather than the game actually reaching a natural conclusion. It doesn't help that a lot of these games are also brought out because there are too many people in attendance for them all to play other games which only support, say, 4-5 players and so rather than simply splitting off into separate groups to play different games simultaneously someone insists on a game that everyone can play together, even though cramming an excess of players into the same game of Munchkin only makes it take even longer. Cockroach poker
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Mar 19, 2018 22:39
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My experience with those terrible unending Forever Games (like Munchkin) are they go on until enough people become bored and start playing suboptimally in order to allow someone else to win and bring an end to all their suffering.
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Mar 19, 2018 22:43
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FMguru posted:My experience with those terrible unending Forever Games (like Munchkin) are they go on until enough people become bored and start playing suboptimally in order to allow someone else to win and bring an end to all their suffering.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:11
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FMguru posted:My experience with those terrible unending Forever Games (like Munchkin) are they go on until enough people become bored and start playing suboptimally in order to allow someone else to win and bring an end to all their suffering. This is me when forced to play Risk, but I do this from the start of the game. Risk sucks.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:17
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Cards against humanity is one of those games someone pulls out for the first time and says "You're really going to enjoy this", but it always feels more like a demand than a statement.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:27
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Subjunctive posted:You are *extremely* edgy! If you quote too many of my posts you might wake up with a few cuts.
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Mar 19, 2018 23:51
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You know, I'm not one of those people who typically complains about Kickstarter being used by established publishers, but Munchkin is literally the money hose that keeps Steve Jackson in business. There is zero reason it needs to be Kickstarted.
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Mar 20, 2018 00:04
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Why not? Kickstarter isn’t some means-tested charity program, it’s a marketing tool. More the merrier, especially if they can deliver.
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FMguru posted:My experience with those terrible unending Forever Games (like Munchkin) are they go on until enough people become bored and start playing suboptimally in order to allow someone else to win and bring an end to all their suffering. Talisman.
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Mar 20, 2018 01:44
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I've had a lot of luck with using Fluxx and its variants as my quick party game of choice.
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Mar 20, 2018 01:48
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Ugh you get Kevin Eastman to to do Turtle art and Usagi Yojimbo and it's for... it's for... it's for...  Why do they have to put things I like so much in a game I have less than zero interest in playing, why.
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Mar 20, 2018 01:57
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Skull and Junk art are my favourite 'party' games. Shame they only scale to 6.
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Dude. Legacy: Life Among the Ruins 2nd Edition PDF dropped, and it is loving gorgeous. Glad I backed it.
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I am pretty sad that I missed that.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Skull and Junk art are my favourite 'party' games. Shame they only scale to 6. If you buy two sets of Skull with distinct art you can play with more, though it does draw the game out some.
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Kai Tave posted:If you buy two sets of Skull with distinct art you can play with more, though it does draw the game out some. I don't even think you need sets with distinct art - we put our 'dead' coasters under our scoring coaster so it's pretty clear whos stuff is who.
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Subjunctive posted:Why not? Kickstarter isn’t some means-tested charity program, it’s a marketing tool. More the merrier, especially if they can deliver. It's Munchkin. With the TMNT license, even. It's not going to get more eyes on Kickstarter than it will by sitting on the shelves at Target and Walmart and wherever else. Not even close, probably. And Kickstarters occupy a non-trivial amount of time and attention from the people running it, not to mention Kickstarter taking a cut, etc. I'm not objecting to it because I think it's an offense against principle or whatever, I just think it has the kind of market penetration that makes Kickstarter unnecessary. Obviously they must disagree.
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malkav11 posted:It's Munchkin. With the TMNT license, even. It's not going to get more eyes on Kickstarter than it will by sitting on the shelves at Target and Walmart and wherever else. Not even close, probably. And Kickstarters occupy a non-trivial amount of time and attention from the people running it, not to mention Kickstarter taking a cut, etc. I'm not objecting to it because I think it's an offense against principle or whatever, I just think it has the kind of market penetration that makes Kickstarter unnecessary. Obviously they must disagree. On the other hand, kickstarter means cutting out distribution chains, and that's a lot of money.
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Bieeanshee posted:Me too! I hope you like it! I'm gonna try and get at least 1-2 more out this year, we'll see how it goes 
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S.J. posted:On the other hand, kickstarter means cutting out distribution chains, and that's a lot of money. To some extent. You're still needing to do fulfillment and distribution to backers and unless you're not planning to release at retail at all (madness, when it comes to a Munchkin product), that'll still go through the usual channels. Still, I suppose it probably pays for itself and then some on those copies so why not.
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malkav11 posted:To some extent. You're still needing to do fulfillment and distribution to backers and unless you're not planning to release at retail at all (madness, when it comes to a Munchkin product), that'll still go through the usual channels. Still, I suppose it probably pays for itself and then some on those copies so why not. You're talking about close to a threefold revenue difference, which more than pays for the out of pocket expenses. And yes, it will eventually go to retail eventually regardless.
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Subjunctive posted:I am pretty sad that I missed that. It goes on sale tomorrow, so you won't have long to wait 
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pandasaurus/dinosaur-island-back-from-extinction Any thoughts on dinosaur island?
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Ettin posted:I hope you like it! I'm gonna try and get at least 1-2 more out this year, we'll see how it goes Where does Retrocausality fit in this release schedule?
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