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Radioactive Toy posted:What are some opinions on New Frontiers? I love both Race and Roll for the Galaxy, though I don't get them to the table as much as I would like these days. I bought and played New Frontiers once and the next day sold my copy of Roll for the Galaxy to a friend because I liked it so much better. I much prefer the action selection mechanic in New Frontiers to the dice manipulation of Roll.
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Qubee posted:Is there such a thing as interactive tutorials for board games? I feel like really big beefy games would be heaps easier to learn if there was an interactive tutorial (like in a videogame) that shows you what you can and cannot do, whilst letting you sort of play through it. I picked up 7 Wonders Duel and made so many mistakes that lost myself (or my opponent) the game, as I either misinterpreted the rules or outright forgot them - and this is a diddly game in the grand scheme of things! This can obviously be fixed by reading the rulebook properly, but sometimes it's hard to keep that much information fresh in your head without making a few mistakes. I think one of the best examples of this is Earth Reborn. To learn the game, you play through 9 scenarios in order (each with its own bit of narrative flavor and preset map layout) and each one adds another layer of mechanics so that once you've finished them all, you've learned the whole ruleset and can then play the full-blown game which incorporates everything, has randomized maps (you and your opponent take turns placing tiles to build the board) and is highly replayable on its own. Chubbs fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Jan 3, 2020 |
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Bottom Liner posted:New Frontiers - Played 3x Rad Valtar posted:I bought and played New Frontiers once and the next day sold my copy of Roll for the Galaxy to a friend because I liked it so much better. I much prefer the action selection mechanic in New Frontiers to the dice manipulation of Roll. Thanks for these. I might have to check it out, especially if there's an expansion that adds a bit more to the game coming soon.
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Radioactive Toy posted:Thanks for these. I might have to check it out, especially if there's an expansion that adds a bit more to the game coming soon. Tom said at Gencon it should be out at the beginning of the year and that he was already working on the second as well. His other new game Dice Realms should also be hitting soon and it's going to be a bit of madness. quote:In Dice Realms players vie to improve and expand their realms, represented by customizable dice with faces that can be popped out and upgraded for better ones.  people are going to learn what fiddly is 
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Bottom Liner posted:Tom said at Gencon it should be out at the beginning of the year and that he was already working on the second as well. His other new game Dice Realms should also be hitting soon and it's going to be a bit of madness. I had completely forgot that an expansion was coming. I’m always happy when a good game just gets more stuff instead of a bunch of new rules. Are you going to have enough room without the box now?
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Bottom Liner posted:Tom said at Gencon it should be out at the beginning of the year and that he was already working on the second as well. His other new game Dice Realms should also be hitting soon and it's going to be a bit of madness. Man, I miss Quarriors.
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Got my shipping notification for Living Planet finally. 
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Deathlove posted:Man, I miss Quarriors. Uh....really? It wasn't a super great game if I'm recalling correctly...and it's been completely re-implemented by the original designers as Dice Masters if you want to go and scratch that itch with kitschy-nerd-culture-brand-29 themed dice. A starter set is like ten bucks.
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Does anyone have recommendations for family-friendly escape room games? We tried one of the Exit games, and accidentally got a higher difficulty ones. I think we got Forbidden Castle. It was ok, but we started too late at night I think, and the kids lost interest pretty quickly.
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food court bailiff posted:Uh....really? It wasn't a super great game if I'm recalling correctly...and it's been completely re-implemented by the original designers as Dice Masters if you want to go and scratch that itch with kitschy-nerd-culture-brand-29 themed dice. A starter set is like ten bucks. no, not really, I definitely liked the concept of A TON OF DICE more than the execution.
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Funzo posted:Does anyone have recommendations for family-friendly escape room games? We tried one of the Exit games, and accidentally got a higher difficulty ones. I think we got Forbidden Castle. It was ok, but we started too late at night I think, and the kids lost interest pretty quickly. I've recently done "Unlock: Insert Coin" and "Exit: Haunted Roller Coaster" with my kids (9 and 11). Both games were too easy for an adult who has done puzzles before, but worked for this setup (adult + 2 kids).
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Deathlove posted:Man, I miss Quarriors. It’s getting the Qultimate Quidition soon 
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Bottom Liner posted:It’s getting the Qultimate Quidition soon It's been out for awhile. I was tempted to get it, since Quarriors was one of my first 'designer' boardgames. As is, I just have the base game that came in the cardboard box, not the awful tin one. https://www.boardgameprices.com/prices/quarriorqultimatequedition
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SoftNum posted:I've played JumpDrive and for the life of me IDK why you wouldn't just play race. That is what I told my friend except I said San Juan. (Race is almost certainly better but I don't play it often enough to overcome the iconography.)
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Funzo posted:Does anyone have recommendations for family-friendly escape room games? We tried one of the Exit games, and accidentally got a higher difficulty ones. I think we got Forbidden Castle. It was ok, but we started too late at night I think, and the kids lost interest pretty quickly. Escape the Room: Mystery at Stargazers Manor has some fun tactile puzzles and was a pretty easy experience for our group that plays a good amount of escape room games. It doesn’t have anything that goes outside of what are kind of standard “puzzle vocabulary” style things like the Exit games do, so if innovation is important this is not as great a choice, but it was worth the $20 for our group.
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Just got Living Planet. Wooden pieces are a bit small but everything else looks nice. Looking forward to tucking into it w/the boys later this weekend.
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Funzo posted:Does anyone have recommendations for family-friendly escape room games? We tried one of the Exit games, and accidentally got a higher difficulty ones. I think we got Forbidden Castle. It was ok, but we started too late at night I think, and the kids lost interest pretty quickly. Another suggestion that might make sense is one of the Ravensburger "Escape Puzzles". They're jigsaw puzzles. At the end, there's some differences between the puzzle and the box image. Those differences prompt some puzzles/riddles, which added together prompt a final puzzle. No single part of that is great - but altogether it works out pretty good. We ran one over Christmas when we had a bunch of family in one place, and a variety of people got involved in one part or another. Overall it was a hit.
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I've played Caylus and tried Calyus 1303 at PAX. The variable player powers isn't an issue, but getting more player powers using favor isn't as good as the old favor track. But the classic interaction with player buildings, the provost, and worker placement is still there. I wish they kept the old way for determining player order. But it still feels more like Calyus than you might expect, and it's faster. I don't miss coins at all. But I do miss the picture of the castle. Without the big castle, people forget that you get most of your points from building the castle of Caylus. But if you want faster Caylus, 1303 is good. If you can still regularly get OG Caylus out, I'd stay with the original version, though. I'm not sure if I'm going to buy it, because I'm waiting for the Pax Pamir and The King is Dead reprints this year and Oceans (an Evolution game). EDIT: Kemet 2: Blood and Sand has just been announced on BGG. In completely unrelated news, I'm selling my copy of Kemet if anyone wants it. golden bubble fucked around with this message at 04:50 on Jan 4, 2020 |
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So, what's the good version of Firefly? Because I want that pick up and deliver, wander around and upgrade your ship and complete missions feel, but I want it at less than three hours. And maybe with more player interaction. I've got Istanbul, which even though it's great, doesn't quite scratch that itch, and I've tried Islebound, which...just doesn't seem to work? Is it Black Fleet? Is that what I want?
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El Fideo posted:So, what's the good version of Firefly? Because I want that pick up and deliver, wander around and upgrade your ship and complete missions feel, but I want it at less than three hours. And maybe with more player interaction. I've got Istanbul, which even though it's great, doesn't quite scratch that itch, and I've tried Islebound, which...just doesn't seem to work? Outer Rim? Though that's a shade under 3 hours just. Oh just thought, Arabian Nights, though that's less of a games more of an experience. Aramoro fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Jan 4, 2020 |
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In Pandemic, when you cure a disease at a research station, do you then have to go and remove all the cubes of that colour on the board for it to be completely eradicated (with cures letting you remove the max amount of cubes of that colour per action)? Can diseases still spread with a known cure if you haven't removed all the cubes of that colour? Is the game instantly won when you cure all 4 diseases or do you need to remove and eradicate all the remaining cubes on the board?
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Yes, yes, and instantly won. Eradicating is a "if it happens, woohoo one less thing to worry about, but not part of actual victory conditions".
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El Fideo posted:So, what's the good version of Firefly? Because I want that pick up and deliver, wander around and upgrade your ship and complete missions feel, but I want it at less than three hours. And maybe with more player interaction. I've got Istanbul, which even though it's great, doesn't quite scratch that itch, and I've tried Islebound, which...just doesn't seem to work? The good version of Firefly is Duck Dealer.
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Okay, awesome, misunderstood rulebook then and we've been playing it on easy mode. As soon as we had a cure, we'd just stop adding cubes. I thought it seemed fishy.
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El Fideo posted:So, what's the good version of Firefly? Because I want that pick up and deliver, wander around and upgrade your ship and complete missions feel, but I want it at less than three hours. And maybe with more player interaction. I've got Istanbul, which even though it's great, doesn't quite scratch that itch, and I've tried Islebound, which...just doesn't seem to work? Merchant of Venus. It's an old 80s Avalon Hill classic. It's not perfect--it's literally a mutation of roll-and-move at its heart--but it's still pretty decent for a space-faring pick-up-and-deliver with a random galaxy, ship upgrades, and on-the-fly routing decisions. With one big caveat. Fantasy Flight published a new big box edition of the game in 2012. The box includes both the "classic" Avalon Hill version by Richard Hamblen, and a modernized reimagining by Robert A. Koulka. The reimagined version is complete dogshit. It takes forever, the hazards randomly end your turn instead of just costing money, and all the sci-fi cruft they added to make the game more pulpy and "exciting" just piss in the soup. Classic version or bust.
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Is there a reasonable way to get a copy of Root or should I just wait for another print run?
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mightygerm posted:Is there a reasonable way to get a copy of Root or should I just wait for another print run? There's a kickstarter that's shipping right now so it should be available in stores right away.
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Gooncensus on western legends?
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I had a bunch of store credit for a local game shop after selling them all my old consoles and video games so picked up a big fancy board game called Twilight Imperium. Any goons familiar with it ?
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EmmyOk posted:I had a bunch of store credit for a local game shop after selling them all my old consoles and video games so picked up a big fancy board game called Twilight Imperium. Any goons familiar with it ? Which edition? there's 4 different versions of it. Many people in this thread are familiar with it. It's a good game.
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CommonShore posted:Which edition? there's 4 different versions of it. Fourth! Brand new one Always wanted to get into big board games like this and figured I’d nothing else to spend store cred it on. Figure playing a few games against myself will be the best way to learn
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EmmyOk posted:Fourth! Brand new one It's not a bad place to get started. What you'll need more than anything else is to get 3-5 friends who are willing to spend 5-6 hours playing it. I don't find that the TI rules are particularly difficult. One "how to play" video should get you going.
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EmmyOk posted:Fourth! Brand new one For its size Twilight Imperium is pretty easy to learn and teach. It’s Star Wars if every player got to play an evil Empire. There’s a thread that can introduce you to some basics
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Awesome folks that’s what I was looking for. Ty for the pointers
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Finally getting Concordia to the table today at two players. Anything we should watch out for, or any beginner strategies we should know about?
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Everything you do on the board means nothing if you don't have the scoring cards to multiple whatever you focus on. The two generally go hand in hand but not always and the game can be decided by a late game card buy or two. Stress how scoring works throughout basically. Otherwise it's super smooth.
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Funzo posted:Finally getting Concordia to the table today at two players. Anything we should watch out for, or any beginner strategies we should know about? Select the right board. If you use the full Med board you'll have basically no interaction or intersection.
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Bodanarko posted:Gooncensus on western legends? It's probably the best sandbox game I've played but can be tedious and overlong with too many players. Going lawman seems to be much more effective than crook
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Finally got to play Brass: Birmingham and loved it. Worth the wait, though some of the rules took a bit of getting used to. Love the gearshift between the canal boat and rail eras.
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