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silvergoose posted:I just went back and listened to the heavy cardboard episode interview with Martin Wallace and...holy crap he sounds exactly like me and other nerds and he's pretty cool. Well, he's only been trying for 25 years. E: Oh God, I sniped page 2000. It is the End Times!
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Panzeh posted:People always tell me how much better it is than vassal and it just makes me scratch my head. I tried to learn vassal and gave up quite quickly. I tried to learn TTS and gave up quite quickly. They both are way worse than just playing a solo game.
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I can actually play games in TTS so it's light years ahead of vassal. But it does multiply the fiddlyness factor by about 10 vs tabletop.
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I like TTS and don’t think it’s that fiddly except when you’re trying to highlight specific stacks to move like in dominant species (for tundra). What’s really annoying is having friends who start doing chip stacking and card shuffling in the game because they just can’t calm down and need to fidget.
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Digital adaptations are almost always going to be fiddly, because stuff that's so simple it doesn't require any conscious effort in the real world (like "pick up these things and put them over there") suddenly requires actual focus. The only way to make it not fiddly overall is to recover some "fiddliness budget" elsewhere, by automating things that are fiddly in the real world but trivial for the computer to do.
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Has anyone played enough Root to know how it works with 3? My group doesn't have a fourth person very often.
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Hey, football highlights 2052 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/256876/football-highlights-2052
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Some Numbers posted:Has anyone played enough Root to know how it works with 3? My group doesn't have a fourth person very often. I think it would be fine at 3. I’m concerned about faction balance at two but 3 would be good. One game I played was basically 3 players because the vagabond player didn’t have a clue what to do and made zero impact on the game.
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Sinteres posted:I'm probably going to play Gloomhaven on TTS anyway, but this is a good post. In that it was totally unhelpful? The top quality posting we all expect from Rutibex, yes. cool goons posted:Alright thanks guys. I've got Gloomhaven in real copy and am enjoying it tremendously but one of our regulars is leaving town soon. We're in sort of a mad rush to PLAY PLAY PLAY so he can hit his retirement before departure; it seems like such a natural and fitting goal post. I thought I'd get it on TTS to start an alternate universe campaign so he can keep getting his fix and I can also rope in two or three other friends who aren't local and let them experience the magic. Would definitely like to know which module is the best if there's more than one though!
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I'm really lame and love the colour green a lot, and also, Spirit Island is fast becoming my favourite game. I noticed that there's an 'official' although somewhat limited expansion for 5 and 6 players that comes with green and orange token sets. Does anyone know where I could get a hold of these, or, something similar? They do have lime green discs on Meeple Source, which I'm a hairs breadth from pulling the trigger on, but they look like they'll be a bit big. It would be nice if all the sets matched. I guess I could just buy 4 different colours including green from meeple source.
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SuperKlaus posted:Alright thanks guys. I've got Gloomhaven in real copy and am enjoying it tremendously but one of our regulars is leaving town soon. We're in sort of a mad rush to PLAY PLAY PLAY so he can hit his retirement before departure; it seems like such a natural and fitting goal post. I thought I'd get it on TTS to start an alternate universe campaign so he can keep getting his fix and I can also rope in two or three other friends who aren't local and let them experience the magic. There's one that's scripted that does all the setup/scenario setup for you. It should be one of the top-most rated mods on the workshop.
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SuperKlaus posted:In that it was totally unhelpful? The top quality posting we all expect from Rutibex, yes. I think the board game thread will survive an occasional amusing post.  SuperKlaus posted:Would definitely like to know which module is the best if there's more than one though! Play this one (approved by Isaac so it's not piracy): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1359464779
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Root just got here, literally one day before I go to the beach for a week with a bunch of people that love boardgames.  Might be the first Kickstarter I've ever seen that came in early.
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I've got Massive Darkness and basically everything that comes with it from the Kickstarter but I've only touched it twice. The loot seemed boring but the classes were okay. I've seen some negativity on it here but I'm not sure what it is that's so wrong - can anyone tell me? To be honest I've played it so little that I don't mind the idea of just putting it up on Ebay like I did with the Others: Seven Sins.
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NmareBfly posted:[Root] might be the first Kickstarter I've ever seen that came in early. Yeah, mine showed up today too, and I can say definitively that it's the ONLY game KS I've received in like 6 years of backing games that officially delivered before their quote. Only a few days early, and I'd imagine lots will deliver in August as "on time", but drat, still really significant. Kudos to Leder Games for having their poo poo together.
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Merauder posted:Yeah, mine showed up today too, and I can say definitively that it's the ONLY game KS I've received in like 6 years of backing games that officially delivered before their quote. Only a few days early, and I'd imagine lots will deliver in August as "on time", but drat, still really significant. Kudos to Leder Games for having their poo poo together. My Root is scheduled to deliver on Monday, and it just shipped yesterday. That's pretty quick shipping too. Compare that to my Founders game which shipped 5 days ago, and is also arriving Monday. I just wish I had some time between the two games. Root is totally going to eclipse Founders :|
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Ravendas posted:I just wish I had some time between the two games. Root is totally going to eclipse Founders :| Yeah, as I mentioned last page, I have so much coming in from KS right now, and all overlapping Gen Con. I did a better job of working through my unplayed pile over the last year than I've done in the past, but I definitely need to be targeting being all caught up on new plays before August next year. Merauder fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jul 28, 2018 |
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Bottom Liner posted:Container is in stock and Root is available for preorder at a great price at CSI Both are available through Miniature Market for similar prices. https://www.miniaturemarket.com/led01000.html https://www.miniaturemarket.com/mcy1703.html
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Speaking of Tabletop Sim it's on sale this weekend. https://www.greenmangaming.com/games/tabletop-simulator-pc/
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Taear posted:I've got Massive Darkness and basically everything that comes with it from the Kickstarter but I've only touched it twice. The loot seemed boring but the classes were okay. It’s just not a very good game. CMON’s whole gimmick is overly produced minis, gameplay comes in a distant second.
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Plus the fact that they redid the entire games rules after the kickstarter ended, which pissed a ton of people off because the game ended up looking nothing like advertised IIRC
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S.J. posted:Plus the fact that they redid the entire games rules after the kickstarter ended, which pissed a ton of people off because the game ended up looking nothing like advertised IIRC I did read them and don't remember them being different honestly. The minis are amazing but man if you compare the loot in Arcadia Quest (for example) to the loot in Massive Darkness it's like night and day. There's just absolutely no character to any of the cards.
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Doom: The Boardgame (2016) was supposed to be kinda iffy balance-wise, right?
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Azran posted:Doom: The Boardgame (2016) was supposed to be kinda iffy balance-wise, right? there's some imbalanced scenarios, and the first scenario in the book is one of the most imbalanced one, so I think that's where a lot of the chatter comes from. I don't find the balance particularly bad.
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S.J. posted:Plus the fact that they redid the entire games rules after the kickstarter ended, which pissed a ton of people off because the game ended up looking nothing like advertised IIRC Making it doubly hilarious when the Overturn scammers stole the entire Massive Darkness rulebook then said "But it will be totally different when it is released!"
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deadwing posted:there's some imbalanced scenarios, and the first scenario in the book is one of the most imbalanced one, so I think that's where a lot of the chatter comes from. I don't find the balance particularly bad. The thing you should be most bothered by is that it isn't one person play as the Doom Guy and everyone else teaming up against him as the demons. FFG fix your loving game
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Glagha posted:There's a very good gloomhaven module that automates setup entirely and a lot of other fiddly functions. I highly recommend it because it's honestly easier to play than live which I normally wouldn't expect in tts. I don’t think there’s a mod that automates everything, but Gloomhaven Helper is probably the best one I’ve seen: http://esotericsoftware.com/gloomhaven-helper
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medchem posted:I don’t think there’s a mod that automates everything, but Gloomhaven Helper is probably the best one I’ve seen: I feel a bit weird using a non-official app but man that sounds really good.
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For our 2000th page, I present you the engine that powers gamesbyemail.com https://youtu.be/7n8LNxGbZbs quote:Currently, GamesByEmail.com uses some 80,000+ die rolls for play in games like Backgammon, Gambit (a RISK clone), W.W.II (an Axis & Allies clone) and others. To generate the die rolls, I have used Math.random, Random.org and other sources, but have always received numerous complaints that the dice are not random enough. Some players have put more effort into statistical analysis of the rolls than they put into their doctoral dissertation. http://gamesbyemail.com/News/DiceOMatic I stumbled on this site after reading that tumbled pipped dice roll 1s more frequently here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/That's_How_I_Roll_-_A_Scientific_Analysis_of_Dice quote:Afterwards we calculated the results and the Chessex and GW dice averaged 29% ones. Mind you that this is an average and our high was 33 and our low was 23. We removed any statistical anomalies and came up with 29%.
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Happy page 2000, thread! 
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Pierzak posted:Happy page 2000, thread! 
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Alas, I don't think any of these threads will ever reach page 2112, meaning that we will never be able to celebrate the true king of the DOAM format Risk 2112 AD.
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deadwing posted:there's some imbalanced scenarios, and the first scenario in the book is one of the most imbalanced one, so I think that's where a lot of the chatter comes from. I don't find the balance particularly bad. Man, really?! That was like, the MAIN issue with the old version, the first level is just an impossible hammering, with a boss monster that you don't really have the capability to overcome, and you slog it through to the final room, and it's got three boss monsters in it.
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Finally got to try out Tash Kalar: Nethervoid playing against Etherweave. Fun stuff! We both started in the center, but after some bloody melees kind of slunk away from eachother, and his abilities to randomly gently caress around with patterns and locations was no match for my ability to just poo poo out massive heroic groups leading to a hilarious turn: I occupied two red squares with heroics one of whom was the gateway, and he had the other two with heroics, and red conquest was the only feasible card I could get. Score is him: 4 + 1 legendary, me: 4 + 2 legendaries. I, using the aforementioned heroic groups, summoned Time Elemental and then just placed a single dude diagonally next to one of the red squares. Then, on my time elemental turn, I summoned Demon of Gluttony, which is literally "heroic summon, diagonal from any one your pieces. If you don't lose an action right after this, your gateway dies." and, thus, captured red conquest, got a third legendary, ended the game and won. TK is such an amazing game, it really is.
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Anyone played Tulip Bubble? It looks clever.
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Make that the theme of the next thread
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Magnetic North posted:Anyone played Tulip Bubble? It looks clever. It's very good. Packs a lot of game into a small box. The only issue really is that the market sometimes pegs or flatlines. Without a decent amount of movement, you can't do much to change your situation. But it's on the short side, cheap and highly transportable, so it does good.
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!Klams posted:Man, really?! That was like, the MAIN issue with the old version, the first level is just an impossible hammering, with a boss monster that you don't really have the capability to overcome, and you slog it through to the final room, and it's got three boss monsters in it. This one's the opposite way, it's extremely hard for the Invader to win on the first mission.
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