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Ouch, yeah $90 might be too much. My FLGS will back campaigns that have retail tiers, I'd likely just do that. Plus, I get a slight discount if I order through the store.
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$100 is a bit steep but I'm apparently a sucker. I'm sure Oath will be different to PaxPam because it's LG but I waited for that and it worked out badly. I'll probably just pull the trigger to be safe.
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So Oath, Return To Dark Tower, and I believe there is one more big KS going live tomorrow? Yowzas.
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CommonShore posted:I just ordered a 3d printer and printing new explorers is going to go on my list of things to make It should be something singular, to reflect how they have 1HP/Damage (in keeping with the other invader pieces). Maybe a little compass? Or a sword/machete?
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I wonder if anyone has already designed some? How should they look if I have to design my own?
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Krazyface posted:It should be something singular, to reflect how they have 1HP/Damage (in keeping with the other invader pieces). Maybe a little compass? Or a sword/machete? A little triangular tent?
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Straight White Shark posted:A little triangular tent? This or a little campfire?
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A pith helmet, a la the 19th century gentlemen explorers. Yes i know it doesn't match the morion helmeted dudes
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I was thinking maybe a tin soldier would work - same general theme, but much more compact and sturdy. But, because of the fairy tale, good luck finding one with both legs.
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Straight White Shark posted:A little triangular tent? This'd be really good I think, matches up with the angular towns and cities well visually Also now I want Dahan huts that are double pieces in some way to match up with the HP mnemonic. If I got a second set of huts I could saw 1/3 of each one off and glue them together into doublehuts maybe...
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xiw posted:This'd be really good I think, matches up with the angular towns and cities well visually Now that I think about it that might be more con than pro, I think having the explorers be very distinct from towns/cities does really help the readability of the board. Maybe this guy's idea instead? Bodanarko posted:This or a little campfire?
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Ceebees posted:I was thinking maybe a tin soldier would work - same general theme, but much more compact and sturdy. But, because of the fairy tale, good luck finding one with both legs. This was the way I was leaning - just a stumpier explorer instead of spindly guy who looks like Picasso's sketch of Don Quixote
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:So Oath, Return To Dark Tower, and I believe there is one more big KS going live tomorrow? Yowzas. Quoting my own post to say that tomorrow's third big Kickstarter is Foundations of Rome.
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SettingSun posted:Marvel Champions is great so far, but FFG is really testing my patience with the shortage on expansion packs. Is that more of a comment on the longevity of the current content, or just wanting more cause of how fun it is?
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Codeacious posted:Is that more of a comment on the longevity of the current content, or just wanting more cause of how fun it is? C. - a complaint on the fact that FFG still massively underestimates demand for their games
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Bottom Liner posted:C. - a complaint on the fact that FFG still massively underestimates demand for their games Ah, dunno how I misread "shortage" to mean "not enough content". Gotcha. I've seen complaints that some Arkham LCG packs are out everywhere too.
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Bottom Liner posted:Oath is $90 + shipping and 2021 delivery. That includes the neoprene mat and game journal to document what happens from game to game and a ton of printed meeples and cards. I'd prefer just a normal board and no book for $60-70, might just preorder a retail copy without the book for ~$75 or whatever it ends up being. That feels very steep for a big deck of cards and some meeples. Is a printed neoprene mat really that expensive? If it's driving the cost up that high it probably would have made sense to ditch it
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Oath is being published by Leder, right? I don't think he shares Cole's more minimalist sensibilities re publishing.
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hoiyes posted:Oath is being published by Leder, right? I don't think he shares Cole's more minimalist sensibilities re publishing. Yes. Gotta pay for that office. Also, every card has unique art from the same person, which also costs money. The KS listed 200+, but Cole before said 350ish cards I think, so we'll see if they're some kind of fake stretch goal kinda thing. Cards, screen printed meeples, tokens, neoprene, and their hard work. Plus, free coins and probably resin magic tokens for backing.
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Bottom Liner posted:C. - a complaint on the fact that FFG still massively underestimates demand for their games Yeah. I want to play Captain America, but not enough to pay double MSRP to a third party seller.
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Chubbs posted:Played The Isle of Cats over the weekend after the KS delivered last week. My group played this over the weekend also! I thoroughly enjoyed it. We played with 4 but I did incorporate some of the expansion core lessons and extra oshax tiles. The player who won went in HARD on lessons and ended up scoring something like 80 points between her public and private lesson stacks.
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Ravendas posted:The KS listed 200+, but Cole before said 350ish cards I think, so we'll see if they're some kind of fake stretch goal kinda thing.
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Hey, I'm sure this is a very very basic question, but I've ordered Wits and Wagers for a game for this weekend, the trouble is I'm in Europe and I'm concerned at exactly how americentric the questiosn are going to be. Like, will they be utterly impenetrable? If anyone actually still has/plays the most recent wits and wagers. I'm trying to break people in slowlyl to the concept of sitting down around a table and playing games. Fwiw I have a bunch of other things like Skull/Codenames/Times Up etc and hope to graduate to some deeper games once resistance is broken and people have fun.
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Abisteen posted:My group played this over the weekend also! I thoroughly enjoyed it. We played with 4 but I did incorporate some of the expansion core lessons and extra oshax tiles. The player who won went in HARD on lessons and ended up scoring something like 80 points between her public and private lesson stacks. Our winner hit 99 points. At one point he used the card that gets rid of any lesson to get rid of a public lesson for green cats, which screwed over another player who had been stocking up on them for the first half of the game.
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Von Linus posted:Hey, I'm sure this is a very very basic question, but I've ordered Wits and Wagers for a game for this weekend, the trouble is I'm in Europe and I'm concerned at exactly how americentric the questiosn are going to be. Like, will they be utterly impenetrable? It's not bad at all (at least in the edition we have). Most of the questions aren't trivia so much as general estimation skills - stuff like "What's the record for most tennis balls a dog has fit in its mouth?" Wits & Wagers isn't my favorite, but it's a pretty safe bet for filling a half hour pleasantly with most groups.
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You may want to scan through the cards quickly and remove any that may cause confusion (how wide is a football field?) but yeah it should generally be safe
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Played Escape Room in a Box: Flashback. By the same people who did Werewolf Experiment, which was a really solid escape game, so I was quite keen to do this. Like Werewolf, it has higher-than-normal production values for this sort of game (eg. instead of code wheels it has real padlocks) and it played very smoothly. The box has "3 Paths - 90 Minutes" written on it, so you'd be forgiven for thinking you could get 3 sessions out of this. Not really. There is not 3 paths through content or something (however that might work), rather there is just 3 distinct chunks of content, and then a little combined endgame. Having 3 distinct chunks does mean the game could scale reasonably up to 6 people - which is super cool. With 6 reasonable people (2 on each path), I'd budget it to take 40 minutes or so. We played with 4, which was kind of weird, and it took 50. If you have 2, it might take the whole 90 minutes. None of the puzzles were super brilliant, but there was some good gimmicks, everything was well put together, there was no groaners, and everyone just generally made steady satisfying progress. Not an all time great, and not a good choice if you're really into these games. But it's a great choice if you have a mixed experience group - and it's your best/only choice if you have 6 people.
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Llyranor posted:You think people would do that? Just make up fake stretch goals on Kickstarter? We will have no stretch goals.
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Fantasy Flight Games continues to be dismantled, with Star Wars Destiny being cancelled. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2020/1/14/the-saga-concludes/
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Shadow225 posted:You may want to scan through the cards quickly and remove any that may cause confusion (how wide is a football field?) but yeah it should generally be safe I guess you could do that, but on the other hand, it literally doesn't matter if anyone knows that or not, just guess. That's what most people will be doing for most questions anyway. Unless you just happen to know how tall the tallest giraffe ever was.
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Dre2Dee2 posted:So fantasy flight is being blown up to what, an arkham LCG and cosmic encounter? Armada players have to be getting nervous. L5R LCG players too.
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They’re launching a Keyforge RPG though!  As SVWAG said, it’s a double insult: fire the whole RPG department and have the last thing on their resume be Keyforge.
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Dre2Dee2 posted:So fantasy flight is being blown up to what, an arkham LCG and cosmic encounter? Don't forget the recently announced standalone game Cosmic Encounter Duel!
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Von Linus posted:Hey, I'm sure this is a very very basic question, but I've ordered Wits and Wagers for a game for this weekend, the trouble is I'm in Europe and I'm concerned at exactly how americentric the questiosn are going to be. Like, will they be utterly impenetrable? I don't know if it's available, but there's a similar game by a French publisher called Gambit 7. Also France-centric might not be any better for you, if it is! W&W often puts the source of their question on the card which can help with tricky/ambiguous ones.
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I just read through Cole's designer diaries regarding Oath. I am really impressed with the amount of thought & effort he puts into his game design. I disliked Root but liked Pax Pamir. Oath seems like a very ambitious design so I think it could go either way. I'll probably end up backing it though.
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Not going to lie, I am a big sucker for metal coins. I like metal pieces in all my games. I love my 1999 Avalon Hill Diplomacy with metal boats and cannons. I'd probably have upgraded to metal coins on Oath even if I had the option not to. Beyond the upgraded components, my guess on what's jacking the price up is the special storage solution in the box.
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Megasabin posted:I just read through Cole's designer diaries regarding Oath. I am really impressed with the amount of thought & effort he puts into his game design. I disliked Root but liked Pax Pamir. Oath seems like a very ambitious design so I think it could go either way. I'll probably end up backing it though. Oath is basically Pax Inis, so if you like Pax Pamir and/or Inis, you should like Oath.
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pospysyl posted:Not going to lie, I am a big sucker for metal coins. I like metal pieces in all my games. I love my 1999 Avalon Hill Diplomacy with metal boats and cannons. I'd probably have upgraded to metal coins on Oath even if I had the option not to. Beyond the upgraded components, my guess on what's jacking the price up is the special storage solution in the box.
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Anyone else tried Pax Transhumanity? I’ve only played it two player, and it feels like the set number of cards incentivizes Tycoon wins with only two players. But maybe we still don’t know what we’re doing? I’m enjoying it - the human progress splay is a great system, both in fighting over the regime and in how as it develops the total commercializing possibilities explode. In our third game I was able to force a computing regime and install all of my agents as patents, researching like crazy with my companies.
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