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Elysium posted:projects, landmarks, and events). I consider them such a core part of the game now it feels ridiculously vanilla to play without them. I These cards are so good. Really helps spice up the game. I actually only own Renaissance and have Empires on the way. Debating whether I should bother with Adventures (the various little tokens seem a bit fiddly). sirtommygunn posted:Never heard of it, but I'll look into it now. Llyranor fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jan 7, 2020 |
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rchandra posted:In addition to being limited by player count, the 1x employees are limited to 1 per player. Whoops! Thanks. I would've had to settle for a Radio + planes, instead of just radio hegemony.
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Man that RPG news sucks because I was just getting into their Star Wars stuff with online resources and I was hoping to buy some of the rulebook later when I have money and/or face to face players
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StashAugustine posted:Man that RPG news sucks because I was just getting into their Star Wars stuff with online resources and I was hoping to buy some of the rulebook later when I have money and/or face to face players I have a ton of all three of their lines (Edge of Empire, Age of Rebellion, and Force and Destiny) that I'd likely be willing to bundle and sell you if later comes sooner than expected.
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The tile redesigns in these new 18xx games are so bad Yellow track with black outline on a white tile?! And don’t even get me started on the parallax
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Is that a winterized track or are they converting it to a rail trail or something?
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Bottom Liner posted:Is that a winterized track or are they converting it to a rail trail or something? The car leaked its corn cargo.
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Memnaelar posted:I have a ton of all three of their lines (Edge of Empire, Age of Rebellion, and Force and Destiny) that I'd likely be willing to bundle and sell you if later comes sooner than expected. Cool, I'll keep that in mind if needed. thanks!
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COOL CORN posted:It's corn well you are the authority on this
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canyoneer posted:woods corn I though it was a myth
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Bottom Liner posted:well you are the authority on this
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BTW the player menu in Ketchup kinda sucks. It has an employee tree of just the new stuff and the old stuff it branches from, but not a full tree. It's also missing the round structure so this one from BGG is a complete tree and has the round structure on it so players don't have to fumble with two awkward menus. Also here's a complete new milestones + module milestones aid I combined for 5x7 laminates. https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/192882/all-career-paths-round-reference 
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Nocturne is maybe my favorite Dominion expansion ever and I thought Renaissance was top notch as well. Keep em coming.
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Some Ketchup pics. Lobbyist and apartments are probably going to be 100% inclusions along with the milestones.    
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Bottom Liner posted:Some Ketchup pics. Lobbyist and apartments are probably going to be 100% inclusions along with the milestones.
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hoiyes posted:I kind of never want to learn FCM because there's something really magical when you look at shots of a game and you literally can't parse anything about the gamestate at all. It's even better if you interpret everything as a dudes on a map wargame
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hoiyes posted:I kind of never want to learn FCM because there's something really magical when you look at shots of a game and you literally can't parse anything about the gamestate at all. Boy do I have some pictures for you!   You might know Bus  Next two are linked  
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As an aside, Greed Incorporated is the newest splotter I have fallen in love with after one singular play and if anyone has a copy to sell/trade or knows someone who would let one go, hit me up please! It is really the holy combo of an 18xx shady money movement and company building, and John Company negotiation, nepotism, and company failure, and all wrappped up in a neat package that pokes fun at the modern rich and how awful the financial crisis was
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Really enjoying the category of goods: Blah blah. Yeah, I also love 18XXs for the same reason, and also like reading the strategies and getting those real Mornington Crescent vibes, knowing I wouldn't enjoy anything beyond Stephenson's Rocket in that category.
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I fuckign love dragging out an 18xx in a public board game cafe, especially on MTG night, because all of the light game regulars come by all like 
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My wife decided to try out one of the local stores doing a medium/medium-heavy board game night and had a pretty bad experience. They advertised being an open group bringing in new members, but it looked like everybody was there to just play with their own particular clique. There was an overflow group that she wound up with that decided to play 7 Wonders. She had not played it before--and neither have I--and asked for an explanation. There was another couple involved that had played 7 Wonders Duel. This guy then goes on to explain to them the differences between it and 7 Wonders before just explaining certain very minute aspects of the game without any kind of overview. She didn't have any idea of what the scoring criteria even were. Gameplay-wise, we have Among the Stars since we chose some time ago to get that instead of 7 Wonders based on a hunch, so she understood the mechanics and basics theory of drafting game strategy. She tried to place the same tile twice. The lady next to her looked at her with wide eyes and flared nostrils like she had just killed a kitten in a church. I guess you're not allowed to place the same tile twice. She didn't know, but the host just said, "I told you that you couldn't do that!" and they got kind of pissy about the whole thing. So the dude across from her just watched her play area the rest of the game like a hawk. She ultimately tied for second without having even known what the final scoring was supposed to be like. The couple that had played 7 Wonders Duel before left afterwards and when the guy that explained 7 Wonders came back inside with Agricola she nope'd the gently caress out. On the other hand, we now have a nice meme of screaming "YOU CAN'T DO THAT" while pointing at each other in horror when making a mistake playing an unfamiliar game. Edit: LOL I kept typing "7 Windows." Rocko Bonaparte fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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Fellis posted:As an aside, Greed Incorporated is the newest splotter I have fallen in love with after one singular play and if anyone has a copy to sell/trade or knows someone who would let one go, hit me up please! Do you reckon it will get reprinted? It seems perfect for a reprint.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:My wife decided to try out one of the local stores doing a medium/medium-heavy board game night and had a pretty bad experience. They advertised being an open group bringing in new members, but it looked like everybody was there to just play with their own particular clique. There was an overflow group that she wound up with that decided to play 7 Wonders. Board gamers, and especially ones that play at game stores (Because no one will invite them to their houses), are garbage people and you should not associate with them.
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Aramoro posted:Board gamers, and especially ones that play at game stores (Because no one will invite them to their houses), are garbage people and you should not associate with them. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 12:22 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:My wife decided to try out one of the local stores doing a medium/medium-heavy board game night and had a pretty bad experience. They advertised being an open group bringing in new members, but it looked like everybody was there to just play with their own particular clique. There was an overflow group that she wound up with Sounds about right, almost similar to my experience. But replace playing with their own cliques with playing Magic the Gathering. We even paid £3 each to get in, expecting a proper board game night to meet people, cause that's what was advertised. Staff members were kinda rude after they'd taken our money and just kept saying to go downstairs to a basement area. Ended up playing with the only table that was actually doing board games and it was painful, especially the beginning when we grabbed an empty table and were excitedly waiting for people to come downstairs, only to get angry deathstares from MtG players cause we were sitting in the competition section without realising.
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Yeah, I can't be bothered playing with strangers. I just bribe my friends with food
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Llyranor posted:Yeah, I can't be bothered playing with strangers. I just bribe my friends with food Same but tea and coffee.
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So far, I've been successful at having a monthly board game night. I keep a regular time and place so people can plan, and then I spam a dozen emails with an invitation letting them know the game, and how many seats there will be. Then the first to RSVP via email get the seats. I make sure there is a YouTube rules video in the invitation as well.
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Haha sucks you nerds don't have anyone to play board games with. *goes back to playing Great Battles of Alexander against his opponent, a stuffed lion named Philotas* Your move, Phil! Ah, you can't use your hands, that's okay I'll play your side for you!
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It's funny: this topic is part of SVWAG's episode for this week. I haven't been able to attend our LGS's board game night recently but we were always welcoming to new people. Mostly because the time constraint meant it was lighter games anyway - I save my heavier games for Friday night instead, which replaced FNM. As for Friday night, it's funny but I hadn't realized my group has become more exclusionary by default because not only did we play mostly mid-heavy games, we started scheduling games ahead of time so we know who's available and what is to be played. We will still have more "open" nights when we'll just play with whomever, but that's usually when we brought a bunch of midweight euros and are in the mood to play the latest generic euro. The exclusion might be a problem in a smaller group except that the meetup is large enough that anyone new can play anything with anyone and I have taught 1830 and Indonesia to people who brought a bag containing CAH and Munchkin and "heard about the board game night" but were intrigued by the stocks and maps. Our group has thought about moving our Friday night games back to someone's place but we're far enough from each other that the meetup is conveniently centrally located anyway.
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Pierzak posted:get out of this thread you garbage person  Never!
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I didn't know anyone else who was into board games, but thanks to my FLGS I was able to meet several other gamers, and eventually formed a group of guys who were willing to dive into Gloomhaven with me. Cut to almost 2 years later, I'm still friends with them and we play steam games online several nights a week, and meet up for game nights at least once a week. One of them has his own house (with no spouse or kids) and we're converting an empty upstairs room into a gaming room and it's been awesome. We don't go to the store nearly as often but I still try to get in there once or twice a month just to check in and say hi to some of the nicer folks who aren't part of our little crew. Just sayin, FLGSs that have game nights are a great way to meet people. But yeah, you may have to endure some of the more... difficult personalities there before you end up meeting people who jive on your same level.
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Turning non board gaming friends into board gaming friends seems to be a lot harder than finding board gamers and then making friends with them. Honestly if you go to an FLGS that is supposed to be new person friendly and the staff doesn't seem to help, ask to speak to the owner. They'll many times be receptive to the issue and work with the staff to make things better for new people.
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Bottom Liner posted:BTW the player menu in Ketchup kinda sucks. It has an employee tree of just the new stuff and the old stuff it branches from, but not a full tree. It's also missing the round structure so this one from BGG is a complete tree and has the round structure on it so players don't have to fumble with two awkward menus. Also here's a complete new milestones + module milestones aid I combined for 5x7 laminates. Thank you for this! My copy of ketchup is on its way to me and I was waiting to see how they looked in the box vs ones folks had online. Im gonna try to get your milestones printed and laminated before it shows up
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Do you reckon it will get reprinted? It seems perfect for a reprint. No idea! I was joking while playing that I will finally get a copy and they will announce the reprint because I have had bad luck for reprints lately (but more on the selling side, when they crater historically high prices) I have messaged trade requests to some people on BGG, but honestly it doesn’t seem hard to PNP a copy by myself instead of paying $200+ for a bunch of cards
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My wife and I have found that the more female friendly a place is the less likely it is to suck. Our local place has feminine products in the (very clean) bathrooms and you see women there for DnD and boardgame nights. Never had a bad experience with customers or staff through years of netrunner and board games. Contrast it to a store we wanted to go to when living out of state: we walked in and saw one of those febreeze diffusers on every single card table and noped the gently caress outta there.
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