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MockingQuantum posted:Don't be me, don't have a room full of 230+ games, of which you play maybe 5-10% with anything like regularity. It is a fool's errand. If you want to be a respectable board game YouTube personality then you need this many games. That way you can have a massive wall of games behind you as a background for videos.
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I don't know the artist's name but he is ubiquitous with Euros and I hate his doughy-faced, brown and yellow design. He does Snowdonia and a bunch of other ugly Euros with melting wax humans but his work is all over the place.
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May 17, 2018 22:04
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Rutibex posted:If you want to be a respectable board game YouTube personality then you need this many games. That way you can have a massive wall of games behind you as a background for videos. Or you could buy set-up boxes straight from distributors or small shops, like at least one YouTube personality was doing for a while, then hope somebody at the company asks why you haven't actually reviewed their game they can see in each video, and admit it's because all you own is the box. As is, with all the games I have, I get the hassle of having a room full of games without the adulation and celebrity that comes with having a couple hundred views per review video. It's a hard life I lead.
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May 17, 2018 22:07
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al-azad posted:I don't know the artist's name but he is ubiquitous with Euros and I hate his doughy-faced, brown and yellow design. He does Snowdonia and a bunch of other ugly Euros with melting wax humans but his work is all over the place. I assume you mean Klemenz Franz, King of Not Knowing What Humans Actually Look Like. Alternately he may be King Who Has a Bunch of Jaundiced Friends and Family Members. Either way, I'm pretty sure he's the one that does all of Rosenberg's games, at least.
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May 17, 2018 22:10
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The best way to curb a game buying habit is get into 18xx/p500 GMT wargames E: you’ll still buy too many games, they just don’t show up all at once
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May 17, 2018 22:17
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al-azad posted:I don't know the artist's name but he is ubiquitous with Euros and I hate his doughy-faced, brown and yellow design. He does Snowdonia and a bunch of other ugly Euros with melting wax humans but his work is all over the place. The box art for Neuland actually owns. Fellis posted:The best way to curb a game buying habit is get into 18xx/p500 GMT wargames Were you the one saying you’ve been waiting for 5+ years for deep thought games to deliver some 18xx?
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May 17, 2018 22:21
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MockingQuantum posted:Don't be me, don't have a room full of 230+ games, of which you play maybe 5-10% with anything like regularity. It is a fool's errand. Start your own game convention and then you can justify it as the lending library. Worked for my buddy.
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May 17, 2018 22:27
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MockingQuantum posted:I assume you mean Klemenz Franz, King of Not Knowing What Humans Actually Look Like. Chill la Chill posted:The box art for Neuland actually owns.  WHO KEEPS GIVING THIS GUY WORK?!?!?!
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May 17, 2018 22:29
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Bottom Liner posted:
finishing up my 1xAll purged a bunch of stuff along the way. Super happy with the lean, mean gaming machine my collection has become.
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LongDarkNight posted:Start your own game convention and then you can justify it as the lending library. Worked for my buddy. Nah, I'd do it half-assed and there are already too many local half-assed conventions involving board games. Also I don't actually like a good portion of the games we own so I'm hesitant to recommend them to people anyway. PlaneGuy posted:finishing up my 1xAll purged a bunch of stuff along the way. Super happy with the lean, mean gaming machine my collection has become. My wife's new years resolution was to do a 1xAll of our game collection this year, I think we're less than a quarter of the way through it and haven't even touched some of the more ponderous, time consuming games. It does not bode well for us.
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PlaneGuy posted:finishing up my 1xAll purged a bunch of stuff along the way. Super happy with the lean, mean gaming machine my collection has become. What’s your favorite racing/bidding game and do you play town center with card city’s split/choose rules? If you don’t, you should try it because it’s so much better. You’ll need a screen
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al-azad posted:
I'm assuming he meant Nusfjord, but that wasn't Klemenz Franz. Some of the art he does for the actual game assets and his graphic design isn't too bad but holy gently caress are his illustrations and box art godawful. Dennis Lohausen is a bit better, having done some of Uwe's more recent games like Glass Road, Fields of Arle and Feast for Odin.
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May 17, 2018 23:24
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Maura Kalusky also belongs in the pantheon of lovely boardgame artists.
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EBag posted:I'm assuming he meant Nusfjord, but that wasn't Klemenz Franz. Some of the art he does for the actual game assets and his graphic design isn't too bad but holy gently caress are his illustrations and box art godawful. I want to believe Franz was fired personally by Rosenberg after the Caverna cover.
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CaptainRightful posted:Maura Kalusky also belongs in the pantheon of lovely boardgame artists. *looks up the name* ohhh the Harem / Pearl Diver / Shanty Town guy.
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May 17, 2018 23:52
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Fellis posted:p500 GMT wargames I can afford this, these won't charge for months! PlaneGuy posted:finishing up my 1xAll purged a bunch of stuff along the way. Super happy with the lean, mean gaming machine my collection has become. You have good taste but all those cutthroaty money games and no 18xx or Chicago Express? T-Bone fucked around with this message at 00:01 on May 18, 2018 |
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I have a friend at work who I recently got into board games and his wife has an advisor in grad school that has 1200 games. Most are given to him by people he knows in the board game industry because he use to design games for TSR. He just gave 2 unopened board games to my friend for nothing.
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al-azad posted:I don't know the artist's name but he is ubiquitous with Euros and I hate his doughy-faced, brown and yellow design. He does Snowdonia and a bunch of other ugly Euros with melting wax humans but his work is all over the place. Blame ugly Europeans, boardgame artists are just tracers and aren't responsible for the source after all 
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Rad Valtar posted:I have a friend at work who I recently got into board games and his wife has an advisor in grad school that has 1200 games. Most are given to him by people he knows in the board game industry because he use to design games for TSR. He just gave 2 unopened board games to my friend for nothing. At that point you are less of a board game collector, and have become a board game archivist.
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May 18, 2018 00:44
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CaptainRightful posted:Maura Kalusky also belongs in the pantheon of lovely boardgame artists. Whoever did the box cover for Darjeeling also deserves a spot.
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May 18, 2018 02:57
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MockingQuantum posted:Nah, I'd do it half-assed and there are already too many local half-assed conventions involving board games. Also I don't actually like a good portion of the games we own so I'm hesitant to recommend them to people anyway. Sell everything you don't play at the end. Completed the challenge!
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May 18, 2018 04:40
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I hear you guys on not buying too many games and I'll take it to heart. The main reason I've bought so many games is because I've been trying to find a game that works and is fun for a multilingual and multicultural group (Chinese and various expats in China; shared language is English but not all fluent). Codenames is the exception, but I got Pictures soon after which takes away one layer of language. Carcassonne and Arkham Horror (because I got it in two languages) worked out really, really well. I expect Caverna might work well too. Better than Agricola, as there seems to be a little less reading (or at least reading where someone can't help to assist). Space Alert works really well. It's just up to the communication officer and captain to make sure everyone understands. The cards are very clear and unambiguous. I probably wouldn't have bought Avalon, Carcassonne and Caverna if not for these circumstances. But it is true that I'm eyeing a lot of games and need to practice restraint a bit.
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a7m2 posted:I hear you guys on not buying too many games and I'll take it to heart. The main reason I've bought so many games is because I've been trying to find a game that works and is fun for a multilingual and multicultural group (Chinese and various expats in China; shared language is English but not all fluent). Oh, in that case I have another recommendation for you: 
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Rutibex posted:Oh, in that case I have another recommendation for you: Do NOT listen to this, talisman is and always will be trash, like the recommender.
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May 18, 2018 05:24
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holy poo poo I didn't realize he was back lmao
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MockingQuantum posted:I assume you mean Klemenz Franz, King of Not Knowing What Humans Actually Look Like. e: confused him with franz vohwinkel
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So I'm thinking about getting Modern Art cause I don't really have an auction game. Would this be a good start? And should I get the Oink or CMON version?
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Selecta84 posted:So I'm thinking about getting Modern Art cause I don't really have an auction game. The Korean one.
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:The Korean one. That one doesn't seem to be available near me :/
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a7m2 posted:Chinese and various expats in China Are you guys in Shanghai by any chance?
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terebikun posted:Are you guys in Shanghai by any chance? Unfortunately, no. Guangdong.
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silvergoose posted:Do NOT listen to this, talisman is and always will be trash, like the recommender. Talisman got me into boardgames. 
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Selecta84 posted:So I'm thinking about getting Modern Art cause I don't really have an auction game. As much as I love Modern Art I find that my group likes Ra better.
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May 18, 2018 13:19
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kaujot posted:Talisman got me into boardgames. Which is fine, and people can have fun and/or nostalgia with Talisman, and it changes nothing about whether it's a trash game.
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May 18, 2018 13:24
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Harlock posted:As much as I love Modern Art I find that my group likes Ra better. Gonna check that one, too. Thanks
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May 18, 2018 13:25
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Yeah seconding Ra, it's my favorite auctiony game. Others that I like are Keyflower (worker placement) and castles of mad king ludwig (more of a pricing game than an auction game).
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May 18, 2018 13:26
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Good, I will definitly look up Ra then.
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If you find that you really like stabby auction games, Chicago express and the estates areboth good for that. The latter will be reprinted around December. But all of the other recommendations are good. I love auction games and I have them all 
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I have a pnp copy of the estates and I hope to get another auction game to ease my Group into them as it can be quite mean I've heard.
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Played Ra for the first time a couple of weeks ago. We really enjoyed it once we figured out how the scoring worked. Recommend!
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