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PerniciousKnid posted:I can't believe they stole Bluebonic from me. My group's were, respectively, Simpson's Jaundice, Gingervitis, and Eiffel 65 Syndrome.
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electing to name your black disease after a black activist movement should maybe raise a few flags or maybe im reading too far into this
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Hauki posted:electing to name your black disease after a black activist movement should maybe raise a few flags Yeah hmm I'm at a loss to think of a disease or plague that would work with black hmmmm
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May 13, 2018 06:35
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I reckon playing the game with CodA being the black disease is a harsh yet fair punishment.
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Hauki posted:electing to name your black disease after a black activist movement should maybe raise a few flags no that's the point, she's bragging about being a racist piece of poo poo on social media
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Bottom Liner posted:no that's the point, she's bragging about being a racist piece of poo poo on social media Also bragging about a lack of basic reading comprehension. You don't get to name diseases you've not eradicated.
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May 13, 2018 07:07
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Our black one we called Xeno-eggs which felt right ... a bad case of xeno eggs would ruin anyone’s day (and shortly everyone else’s, which was a nice fit).
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Well, after a year or so of basically playing zero games, I decided to pick up Roll for the Galaxy and Castles of Burgundy. I've played Race and enjoyed it, but really found it pretty difficult to learn and my wife is even less predisposed too that than I am; but hopefully Roll will scratch the itch without wholesale outbreaks of boredom. Castles of Burgundy I keep seeing recommended over and over again and I just decided to buy it for the sake of it. I think both of these will provide a good springboard for others (Terra Mystica or Gaia Planet; Kemet, etc.) should they prove enjoyable. I think it makes sense to start off with Castles first, though...
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canyoneer posted:Yeah hmm I'm at a loss to think of a disease or plague that would work with black hmmmm we had kohlera, alongside inbluenza and dysencherry. also jfc some people.
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i named the blue one anime because it spreads rapidly in the west
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Flipswitch posted:i named the blue one anime because it spreads rapidly in the west And needs to be eradicated.
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May 13, 2018 10:27
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I'm relatively new to this and I'm looking for recomendations. Since we want to start a board game group, we've bought a few games over the last months. Some of our favourites are Carcassone, Love Letter, Alhambra, Jaipur, Cartagena, Elder Sign, and I also have a spot for simpler games like Labyrinth and Scotland Yard. On most nights there's only three of us, but on weekends there's usually around 10.
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Spermando posted:I'm relatively new to this and I'm looking for recomendations. Since we want to start a board game group, we've bought a few games over the last months. Some of our favourites are Carcassone, Love Letter, Alhambra, Jaipur, Cartagena, Elder Sign, and I also have a spot for simpler games like Labyrinth and Scotland Yard. On most nights there's only three of us, but on weekends there's usually around 10. Barenpark is a great light game along the lines of what you've already got. If you want to start going deeper, I'd suggest a good worker placement game like Raiders of the North Sea, Viticulture or Godfather: Corleone's Empire (if you want something more thematic). Castles of Burgundy is a good step up. If you want some more thematic/aggressive games, Inis or Cyclades are good area control games with euro sensibilities. 7 Wonders is a must for any burgeoning gaming group. As is Dominion. Resistance Avalon will be a good pivot into social deduction if you start seeing numbers north of 5.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Yeah it's fine - less chance of the pieces warping, cheaper, but it's not as cool and the VP tokens are a lot smaller and therefore worse. Warped pieces are a feature, not a bug. It's the same reason Jenga has manufactured imperfections; dealing with them is part of the theatre.
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Thank you for those suggestions. I've been seeing Avalon everywhere but the box wasn't very descriptive. Another game that I really love as an English teacher is Codenames, and I've seen someone recommend Decrypto a few pages back. Any other language games that can be adapted to an ESL class?
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Our diseases were: Blue: Poutine Fever Black: Triangle Syndrome Red: White-Green Mold Oh the hilarity that was two of our players arguing about White-Green Mold. I game with role-players; argument was entirely in-character.
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May 13, 2018 14:08
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Spermando posted:Any other language games that can be adapted to an ESL class? Guess Who?
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OK Roll for the Galaxy has arrived, I would appreciate any advice for making the first game/s as painless as possible - any tips?
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Black was Man Flu Blue was HeB-GeeBs Yellow was Meltingitis
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May 13, 2018 14:54
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I forget which was which, but we had megasyphilis, Diet AIDS, and Cancer 2
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May 13, 2018 14:58
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The 2 diseases that stood out on ours was yellow which was apathy and blue which was genital leperocy. Yellow was my favorite because we got so close to curing/eradicating it so many times but just couldn't be bothered.
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May 13, 2018 16:07
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My favorite of our diseases is Spiders! (Exclamation point included.)
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We've only managed to name one disease so far It's the dreaded "a bit of a cough"
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I accidentally ordered two copies of the space empires 4x replicators expansion. Would it make sense to keep my spare and flip it? I have no idea about GMT games and expansion availability. SE4X is my first 
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Media Bloodbath posted:I accidentally ordered two copies of the space empires 4x replicators expansion. Would it make sense to keep my spare and flip it? GMT will take a long time between printing expansions. However, Close Encounters was available in stores for a very long time after printing, it's only this year or so that it's been effectively OOP. I'd just get rid of it locally (or return it if that's feasible).
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So my group played another couple of three player games of Cthulhu Wars yesterday, Cthulhu/Black Goat/CC and GC/CC/YS; both games Cthulhu ran away with the game and both games CC had a lot of trouble keeping up and couldn't get the final spellbook at all. Are we doing something wrong? We've played five games and so far, Cthulhu's won 3 of them, BG and YS have a win a piece, but CC has really never been in the running.
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Some Numbers posted:So my group played another couple of three player games of Cthulhu Wars yesterday, Cthulhu/Black Goat/CC and GC/CC/YS; both games Cthulhu ran away with the game and both games CC had a lot of trouble keeping up and couldn't get the final spellbook at all. Yeah, you're doing something wrong. What you're doing wrong I can't say without knowing which spellbook CC didn't get. CC is hampered a little in a 3 player with Cthulhu, though, as he wants to get Elder Signs from killing GOOs but he doesn't want to kill Cthulhu if he can avoid it. I think you're just having your Khorne moment with the game where everyone wants to fight and ignores the other routes to victory. When everyone is dickpunching everyone else Cthulhu is advantaged because he loves to fight. Compare this with the game I played yesterday: Goat, Opener, Windwalker, Tcho-Tchos and Yellow Sign, and there was no combat at all until turn 4. Opener got five gates and was running away on Doom points, but because nobody would fight him he couldn't get his sixth spellbook for losing a unit. I was the Tcho-Tchos and managed to sneak the win by suiciding Ubbo-Sathla into Hastur to get the book for a GOO dying in battle then flipping a ton of Signs I'd got from High Priest sacrifices in the Ritual.
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Jedit posted:Yeah, you're doing something wrong. What you're doing wrong I can't say without knowing which spellbook CC didn't get. CC is hampered a little in a 3 player with Cthulhu, though, as he wants to get Elder Signs from killing GOOs but he doesn't want to kill Cthulhu if he can avoid it. Very first game, CC never awakened Narly and skipped Thousand Forms, the other games, CC awakened Narly early and grabbed Thousand Forms. The one we skipped was Pay 6 Power.
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Some Numbers posted:Very first game, CC never awakened Narly and skipped Thousand Forms, the other games, CC awakened Narly early and grabbed Thousand Forms. The one we skipped was Pay 6 Power. I didn't mean the condition, I meant the spellbook gained. Pay 6 Power should be fairly easy in 3P if you use Thousand Forms correctly (i.e. on a turn when people burn PPs early on a GOO).
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deadwing posted:A side note on this - for the Mosque tiles, you only need to spend one good, and have the other goods. So, for a two player game, the person who gets the first tile needs to have two red goods and spend one, and the person who gets the second tile needs to have four red goods and spend one. I missed this rule for at least ten plays, and it sounds like you might also be missing it. Are you loving serious? Goddammit.
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Southern Heel posted:OK Roll for the Galaxy has arrived, I would appreciate any advice for making the first game/s as painless as possible - any tips? Make sure you have the rules for shipping down pat. The color-matching is the hardest thing for me to get people to understand. Don't be afraid to Abandon tiles that you don't want to build, or that have a better one under them in the stack. In my experience, you should have at most three or four in each stack at any given time. Taking a Stock action on an Explore die is way better than only having one die in the cup next round. Development powers that have an income connected to a phase(e.g. "Develop:Gain $2") happen whenever the phase happens. whether or not it's you, whether or not you participate in the phase. Really know what you want to do this turn. Don't count on anyone else to activate a phase you need. When playing two player, keep in mind that the die you roll for the extra phase has two explores, and one of each other phase.
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Southern Heel posted:OK Roll for the Galaxy has arrived, I would appreciate any advice for making the first game/s as painless as possible - any tips? Also check if anyone in your group is colour blind. We were 3/4ths of the way into our first game before one of the guys wanted to ship a purple good with a blue die - he announced it saying that the dice were the same colour so he gets full VP. I of course corrected him, saying he still got full points but it was a purple die. It took us 2 minutes of arguing before I asked him what colour he thought the die was: Him: "It's blue?" Me: "No, it's purple - oh right, you're colour blind aren't you?" 3rd Person: "Hang on, there are purple dice?"  I now always begin this game with new people by asking whether or not they are colour blind.
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Yeah, it is *definitely* not color-blind friendly (and even *with* color vision, they are not always super distinct).
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I don't recall was name went with what color, but he named our diseases in Pandemic The Jake Leg, Restless Balls Syndrome, and Too Much Diarrhea. Our Havens in Pandemic Season 2 were all based around fecal-related wordplay. My wife and I are basically children, it seems.
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We gave everything in Season 1 Sunny in Philadelphia references, and for Season 2 used Parks and Rec.
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million dollar mack posted:Also check if anyone in your group is colour blind. We were 3/4ths of the way into our first game before one of the guys wanted to ship a purple good with a blue die - he announced it saying that the dice were the same colour so he gets full VP. I of course corrected him, saying he still got full points but it was a purple die. I haven't played this game, but couldn't you replace or mark the dice?
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Huxley posted:We gave everything in Season 1 Sunny in Philadelphia references, and for Season 2 used Parks and Rec. Need to research synthetic crow's eggs to be able to produce the Fight Milk vaccine in high enough quantities
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a7m2 posted:I haven't played this game, but couldn't you replace or mark the dice? the dice look like this, so you can't really replace them. I guess marking them would be possible if kind of a pain. 
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a7m2 posted:I haven't played this game, but couldn't you replace or mark the dice? The dice have different occurrences of each icon depending on their colour so you can work it out by counting the faces (or recognising that certain icons dont appear on certain dice). I think one of them could *just* tell the difference between the two after we pointed it out. It also applies for the tiles but I think they were separate enough (or one time) that they'd just ask if they weren't sure. The irony of all this is that the game designer considered colour blindness might be a factor and was kind enough to cater for colour blind people... by giving green planets a dot near the number to tell them apart from other ones.  It's still a fun game, it might just be a little awkward if you're one of the ~7% of people reading this thread.
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a7m2 posted:I haven't played this game, but couldn't you replace or mark the dice? The best solution is to play the normal Race for the Galaxy card game, which has more distinct colours and doesn't pointlessly add a bunch of dice to the game.
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