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Memnaelar posted:speaking of poker chips, anyone have a recommendation for a good set to pick up as currency in boardgames? Don't play 18XX games as yet but I do have certain games where paper money (*cough* FCM *cough*) would be best replaced with chips. One friend pointed to a set for $100, but that feels steep for a set that will probably only get used once every two to three months or so... $24 at target gets you a set of 400 chips https://www.target.com/p/400pc-poker-game-set/-/A-12836088 They're not the highest quality, obviously, but there's enough there, and with the right colors (I guess), and solid and heavy. I bought them for Chex and The Soo Line.
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Memnaelar posted:speaking of poker chips, anyone have a recommendation for a good set to pick up as currency in boardgames? Don't play 18XX games as yet but I do have certain games where paper money (*cough* FCM *cough*) would be best replaced with chips. One friend pointed to a set for $100, but that feels steep for a set that will probably only get used once every two to three months or so... Note that Iron Clays as sold by Roxly are not enough to play an 18xx game.
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Mar 21, 2019 16:44
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Mayveena posted:Note that Iron Clays as sold by Roxly are not enough to play an 18xx game. Are you talking about the set in Brass, or the filled box of 100? I don't play 18XX so I don't know the scale of the economy.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:30
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Jedit posted:Are you talking about the set in Brass, or the filled box of 100? I don't play 18XX so I don't know the scale of the economy. Both. If you had 3 filled boxes (2 as an extreme stretch) and improvised something else for 500s, you would be able to play most 18xx's I imagine. Though the distribution would still be sub-optimal (too many 1s, and why the f do 10s exist).
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Mar 21, 2019 17:43
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Mini chips at discount poker shop are good, I have both a set of those and also Majestics from Apache.
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Mar 21, 2019 17:44
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taser rates posted:Mini chips at discount poker shop are good, I have both a set of those and also Majestics from Apache. "$26 for the chips in the colours you always wanted!"  "$61 shipping" 
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Mar 21, 2019 18:41
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Yeah I choked on that myself in the past.
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Mar 21, 2019 19:06
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The Eyes Have It posted:Yeah I choked on that myself in the past. Silly. Those aren't the eating kind of chips. 
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Mar 21, 2019 19:33
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Everyone talks about poker chips but little calculators to keep track of your routes seem extremely helpful, at least based on trying 1846.
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Mar 21, 2019 19:34
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I just use the cheap dice chips which are good enough for me. AceRimmer posted:Everyone talks about poker chips but little calculators to keep track of your routes seem extremely helpful, at least based on trying 1846. I'll keep track of individual routes on a piece of scratch paper, lumping them all into one number on a calculator can complicate things if a route drastically changes.
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Mar 21, 2019 19:58
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I've never played 18xx irl but it seems like id just get a laptop w the spreadsheet
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StashAugustine posted:I've never played 18xx irl but it seems like id just get a laptop w the spreadsheet There's a table with a bunch of crusty old guys and a laptop and an 18xx game every year at the con I go to, yeah. They usually play 2-3 of them over the course of the weekend.
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Mar 21, 2019 20:18
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I always have a boogie board on me, or toss it in one of the boxes because there's a lot of empty space in a 18xx box once you sort everything.
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al-azad posted:I always have a boogie board on me, or toss it in one of the boxes because there's a lot of empty space in a 18xx box once you sort everything. you better be talking about the beach toy
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Bottom Liner posted:you better be talking about the beach toy I only use that to cast off bad games like Bears vs. Babies I had to begrudgingly play, but the boogie board I'm talking about is basically an LCD dry erase. Kind of an upgraded version of those old magnetic drawing tablets from back in the day.
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silvergoose posted:There's a table with a bunch of crusty old guys and a laptop and an 18xx game every year at the con I go to, yeah. Those people are the reason why I don't like to advertise that I'm playing an 18xx at meetups. I don't mind playing with cool people, but those crusty old guys are usually trouble.
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Mar 21, 2019 22:51
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thedragonstomb/offensive-adult-party-game-by-the-dragons-tomb Finally, the first Cards Against Humanity clone I am willing to play
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Chill la Chill posted:There is a Klemens Franz 5G4D episode! 5G4D keeps growing on me. I don't think he's figured out the new 'Guild' format yet, but the reviews and interviews are VERY good.
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I feel like Pulsar 2849 really went under the entire industry's radar when it came out in 2017, but I played it a second time tonight and it's super rad. Really clever dice drafting system that rewards/penalizes weak/strong dice, lots of paths to victory, great visual presence, heavily modular elements for high replayability... it's a winner. Highly recommend.
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Mar 22, 2019 07:16
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You guys mentioned Catan Junior being better than the original, any other suprisingly good kid games? I'm looking for something to play w/ a 5 year old and not get bored out of my skull.
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Terminally Bored posted:You guys mentioned Catan Junior being better than the original, any other suprisingly good kid games? I'm looking for something to play w/ a 5 year old and not get bored out of my skull. https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Kinderspiel_des_Jahres Kinderspiel des Jahres is a different jury than SdJ and they do testing in kindergardens. 5 year olds often dislike strategic decisions though. Good childrens games are more like fun activities with a toy factor. In addition to those, I vouch for Rhino Hero. discount cathouse fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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Merauder posted:I feel like Pulsar 2849 really went under the entire industry's radar when it came out in 2017, but I played it a second time tonight and it's super rad. Really clever dice drafting system that rewards/penalizes weak/strong dice, lots of paths to victory, great visual presence, heavily modular elements for high replayability... it's a winner. Highly recommend. I played this once and wasn't overly excited. I won, but I wasn't sure how and that's not a good sign to me. Vladimir Suchy is a good designer, though.
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Terminally Bored posted:You guys mentioned Catan Junior being better than the original, any other suprisingly good kid games? I'm looking for something to play w/ a 5 year old and not get bored out of my skull. Our 4yo loves Worm Party, he likes doing stuff in ticket to ride/ttr:new york but not really aiming at the goals, uh card games can work (crazy 8's or the like), and there's always roll n moves like sorry, race to the roof.
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Terminally Bored posted:You guys mentioned Catan Junior being better than the original, any other suprisingly good kid games? I'm looking for something to play w/ a 5 year old and not get bored out of my skull. In the realm of dexterity games, I've had fun playing Rhino Hero Super Battle and Click Clack Lumberjack. The kid in question asked for one more play of the latter, then just smacked the entire stack over at once. Most fun he had all day. Kids!
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Terminally Bored posted:You guys mentioned Catan Junior being better than the original, any other suprisingly good kid games? I'm looking for something to play w/ a 5 year old and not get bored out of my skull. Another dexterity game is Animal Upon Animal. It's a bunch of big animal meeples being stacked on a crocodile. If they fall off, you take them back. First to place them all wins. They're actually crafted in such a way that they slot together in interesting ways, like the designers really thought about the meeple shapes. My 4yo also likes Indigo https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/116954/indigo Hex tiles, gems on the board, lay a tile to slide the gem along the path. Try to get the gems off your side. We can't play it competitively obviously, but it's nice for route planning and lining up hexes and collecting shiny things.
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canyoneer posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thedragonstomb/offensive-adult-party-game-by-the-dragons-tomb Pro click if you skimmed over this Memnaelar posted:speaking of poker chips, anyone have a recommendation for a good set to pick up as currency in boardgames? Aw man you’re supposed to google this first so you find the strange threads on poker forums where people are gushing about chipfeel Fellis fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Mar 22, 2019 |
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canyoneer posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thedragonstomb/offensive-adult-party-game-by-the-dragons-tomb "Why does this company sounds familiar why does this guy look oh poo poo of course, Dragon's Tomb!" Best rules explanations on youtube imo.
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Merauder posted:I feel like Pulsar 2849 really went under the entire industry's radar when it came out in 2017, but I played it a second time tonight and it's super rad. Really clever dice drafting system that rewards/penalizes weak/strong dice, lots of paths to victory, great visual presence, heavily modular elements for high replayability... it's a winner. Highly recommend. I really like it and still have it even though my wife isn’t a fan. I like the dice drafting and it’s one of those games where every decision is so crucial and you have to make tough decisions all game that will impact your play style.
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Someone needs to get dragon tomb guy to make an 1830 tutorial.
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I'm not super impressed by the Glen More II Kickstarter. Anyone here got a copy of the original I can take off their hands? I remember liking it, but not over $100 liking it, that's Gloomhaven level money!
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Indolent Bastard posted:I'm not super impressed by the Glen More II Kickstarter. I know there were a bunch of copies of the original (German) edition floating around at one point. Never did find an English one but honestly it's not that big a deal.
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Mar 22, 2019 15:26
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Well only these would be worse than plastic poker chips.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I'm not super impressed by the Glen More II Kickstarter. I didn't like the original but I'm 90% sure it's just me, everyone else seems to enjoy it. I also didn't like Heaven & Ale, which has some of the same "choose your next action, and if you go forward too far everyone else gets to take extra actions" stuff, and I dunno, maybe it's actually an auction in disguise so I'm suuuuper bad at it? (in before Chill says everything is an auction in disguise)
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Mayveena posted:Well only these would be worse than plastic poker chips. The plaques are weird, like, you see them on random cash game shows (high stakes poker and the like) and they always seem completely ridiculous, why not just have a bigger denomination of chip?
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Mar 22, 2019 15:41
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Mayveena posted:Well only these would be worse than plastic poker chips. If they came in sets of 10 you could use them as deluxe shares!
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Indolent Bastard posted:I'm not super impressed by the Glen More II Kickstarter. You could just get Kraftwagen which is usually $12 on Amazon.
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FulsomFrank posted:I know there were a bunch of copies of the original (German) edition floating around at one point. Never did find an English one but honestly it's not that big a deal. I stubbornly missed my chance at that several times. Chill la Chill posted:You could just get Kraftwagen which is usually $12 on Amazon. I'm buying a piece of nostalgia. Kraftwagen may be mechanically similar, but it isn't the game I played. (lame but true)
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silvergoose posted:I didn't like the original but I'm 90% sure it's just me, everyone else seems to enjoy it. Worker placements, like drafts, are just different types of auctions. There is no way to numerically supersede another bidder aside from taking adjacent positions that lower their choices to be less ideal, but you are still optimizing a limited set of resources. Heaven and ale has some of the worst tableau building tech tracks I’ve seen in a while. The ratios feel off though the idea is sound. I think the brewmaster has too much sway.
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I use plaques for large denominations because keeping a pile of chips around can get messy especially in games like Indonesia where 1s and 5s are common until the end game but you'll never break change for a $500. Variety in token shape and size is helpful to clear clutter. They also make a good president's share stand in. There's no reason to buy them if you have enough chip variety but they add a bit of extra blind and uh "chip feel" to the game. Seriously never heard anyone use chip feel before, I need a shower.
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Just use a Millennium Blades wad.
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