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It's certainly not a good look and implies the creators just sorta think all Asian stuff is the same.
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It’s as innocuous as Kung-Fu Panda in that it doesn’t make any direct real world analogs but I struggle to think of any other region that gets turned into funny animals more than Asia. Like you never see Zebra Zulu or Hail Chicken Caesar.
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TorakFade posted:Here's The Villagers, yet another kickstarter game. I'm usually the first person to silently roll my eyes at people who buy games "for the minis", but I'm intrigued by the wooden coins they promise. At least if they have nicer graphics than the cardboard coins shown. Game looks ok, I think.
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al-azad posted:It’s as innocuous as Kung-Fu Panda in that it doesn’t make any direct real world analogs but I struggle to think of any other region that gets turned into funny animals more than Asia. Like you never see Zebra Zulu or Hail Chicken Caesar. Maybe I'm missing a joke here, but Chicken Caesar is a real game.
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pospysyl posted:Maybe I'm missing a joke here, but Chicken Caesar is a real game. Yeah I was super it confused on the point he was making, but assumed he didn’t know about this game.
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Merauder posted:Yeah I was super it confused on the point he was making, but assumed he didn’t know about this game. I actually own it and it's endearing enough for me to not sell it. It does live in the closet though as opposed to the main shelving units.
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jadarx posted:So what we messed up was LOS. I missed the rule about anything using priority target needing a straight line. So that does change a lot. I'm doing a solo play today, so howfully that puts a better spin on it. It won't if you forget that you use at least two heroes when playing solo.  Your experience isn't truly representative, though. I find that Gather scenarios are much harder than the other kinds because they demand that you specialise your worker instead of your hero, and they're also not scaled properly for less than four players. When I play with new people I usually use Desecrated, the easiest combat scenario, but you could as easily jump into Story 1 if people know the rules. Zark the Damned posted:Desectrations. Assuming all 6 of those controlled gates are desecrated areas already you'd only need one other area (two without high priests) to hit 26. Ah, yes, I always forget Feast.
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al-azad posted:It’s as innocuous as Kung-Fu Panda in that it doesn’t make any direct real world analogs but I struggle to think of any other region that gets turned into funny animals more than Asia. Like you never see Zebra Zulu or Hail Chicken Caesar. https://youtu.be/xCD3hg6OEQw
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pospysyl posted:Maybe I'm missing a joke here, but Chicken Caesar is a real game. No joke, you just rarely see anthropomorphic animals in a fantasy universe outside of generic European analog or Southeast Asia. Chicken Caesar is such an easy pun that I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner, but the only Chicken Caesar I’m interested in is Sir Digby Chicken Caesar. E: really it just speaks to a greater issue that the only fantasy that’s easily packaged and sold is generic European and mystical Far East. al-azad fucked around with this message at 18:04 on May 26, 2018 |
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May 26, 2018 18:02
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Jedit posted:I'm pretty sure power is hard capped at 20, although I've never had to find out. And yeah, 6 gates, 6 cultists and a bunch of Desecrations.
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TorakFade posted:Here's The Villagers, yet another kickstarter game. They put together a TTS module and I've played it a couple of times. The card balance is all over the place and it suffers from the same problems as most market row games, in my opinion. There aren't many actual choices to make, and the winner is generally the person who had a valuable card show up when it was their turn to draft the most times. I haven't tried the solo mode.
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Can anyone recommend a good trick taking game for exactly 3 people, that's language independent, and plays fairly fast?
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hoiyes posted:Can anyone recommend a good trick taking game for exactly 3 people, that's language independent, and plays fairly fast? Haggis.
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That's such a specific list of requirements to have a perfect answer for, it's bizarre. Haggis is good.
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Any reason not to buy the 1st edition of Dominant Species? I don't care about the updated art on the cards, the rest looks the same and the rules are unchanged, right?
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hoiyes posted:Can anyone recommend a good trick taking game for exactly 3 people, that's language independent, and plays fairly fast? Trick of the rails is what you want
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Today in "Kickstarter was a mistake" quote:It's a serious DnD meets MTG meets Yahtzee style Demon apocalypse with a ton of tokens. 
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Chimera is also good.
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Sticheln is the perfect trick tacking game with three. Haggis is a climbing game.
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Bottom Liner posted:Any reason not to buy the 1st edition of Dominant Species? I don't care about the updated art on the cards, the rest looks the same and the rules are unchanged, right? Rules are the same, just download the newest rulebook since it has some clarifications.
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Bottom Liner posted:Today in "Kickstarter was a mistake" Electric Hobo posted:Well, there's a lot of Comic Sans in it, which makes some people irrationally angry.
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I just played four months of Pandemic Legacy S2 in one go, we kept on crushing a month in a single hour, and deciding we had one more left in us. Somehow, I'm most excited to see what other groups' boards look like, when we're done with this.
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May 27, 2018 12:10
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Anyone know how long the Imperial Assault App campaign is?
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This just came through the ole 18xx mailing list:quote:I proudly anounce the beginning of the kickstarter campaign of 18Lilliput: quote:In 18Lilliput players try to build up the best railroad network by using action cards and get richer than the other players. 60min 18xx? Yeah that's a pledge. I mean Rolling Stock looks rad but it's still like 4 hours. Lonny Orgler has like 9 18xxs (18CZ, 1880: China, 1844/1854, etc) under his belt too (and Russian Railroads), so certainly a designer to trust. And speaking of 3 player trick takers: Yokai Septet is a reprint of 7 Symbols, and 7 Nations, which is a very highly regarded trick taker from Japan. There's a KS for it running now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ninjastargames/yokai-septet T-Bone fucked around with this message at 22:10 on May 27, 2018 |
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Ghetto SuperCzar posted:Anyone know how long the Imperial Assault App campaign is? It's 5 missions with text interludes. So mission --> text adventure where you can make an attribute check to gain fame --> text adventure with attribute checks for fame and maybe gain an ally --> next mission, and so forth and so on. About the same length as short campaigns like Bespin Gambit. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 22:12 on May 27, 2018 |
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Can 18XX really be distilled down to a card game and still deliver an actual 18XX experience? 60 minute version sounds like something I’d try but not if it’s not really representative of the genre.
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Bottom Liner posted:Can 18XX really be distilled down to a card game and still deliver an actual 18XX experience? 60 minute version sounds like something I’d try but not if it’s not really representative of the genre. "being" a corporation is a big tip off that it's missing a good chunk of the 18xx formula.
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It seems most similar to 1846, you can still start new companies and cross invest but there isn't dumping.
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Bottom Liner posted:Can 18XX really be distilled down to a card game and still deliver an actual 18XX experience? 60 minute version sounds like something I’d try but not if it’s not really representative of the genre. Yes, trick of the rails already exists
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T-Bone posted:This just came through the ole 18xx mailing list: Neat. I'll give it a shot & encourage that kind of development work. E: and yeah sticheln is great with three. Only like a 50% chance one of the players will be genetically unable to figure out the rules
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Anyone want to make me an offer on John's Company? No one in my group is interested in playing it.
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Lorini posted:Anyone want to make me an offer on John's Company? No one in my group is interested in playing it. Any chance you'll be at Origins?
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Nope, but a local friend will be if you want to do a deal with him. I'm playing games with him this Saturday so I could give the game to him then.
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silvergoose posted:Chimera is also good. Thanks for all the suggestions, this one looks like the likely candidate. It's to play with mother-in-law, who is also a Canasta shark, so building runs and the partnership aspect is pretty appealing!
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hoiyes posted:Thanks for all the suggestions, this one looks like the likely candidate. It's to play with mother-in-law, who is also a Canasta shark, so building runs and the partnership aspect is pretty appealing! poo poo, if you've already got regular cards lying around, just play skat
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Lorini posted:Anyone want to make me an offer on John's Company? No one in my group is interested in playing it. Hold the fools hostage. Electrify the knobs.
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Lorini posted:Anyone want to make me an offer on John's Company? No one in my group is interested in playing it. Why not? Seems like from your posts it’d be right up their alley?
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My fiancee ordered me Eko and Onitama for my birthday yesterday! They'll arrive sometime early June. I'm excited to get to try them out since I've heard real good things about Onitama and I thought Eko looked like a lot of fun and it looks pretty too. Are the Onitama expansions worth getting or do they just clutter up the main game?
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It's just more cards for movement. Since the game only ever uses 5 in a session there's no additional clutter
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Lorini posted:Anyone want to make me an offer on John's Company? No one in my group is interested in playing it. Were you going to be at UKGE? I might be interested and I have friends going.
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