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Jun 20, 2020 08:26
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Lmao https://all-aboardgames.com/products/300-chessie-chips-spares
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Jun 20, 2020 12:52
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If you're willing to pay that you might as well play with real money.
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Jun 20, 2020 13:00
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Bottom Liner posted:Seki is great but he's scum Anything specific? I know there's no way for him not to be and also be a billionaire, just curious.
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Jun 20, 2020 13:42
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That's about 450 dollars for effectively custom stickers, and that's being generous with buying the extra sleeves and shipping costs. AAG it's getting good games but should reevaluate their chip business.
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Jun 20, 2020 14:36
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Those are astoundingly ugly
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ketchup vs catsup posted:https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/29/meet-matt-calkins-billionaire-board-game-god-and-techs-hidden-disruptor/#efc73216e77d See, and dudes like this who just do it for shits and giggles make it tough for people who aren't aristocrats to stay in it. Holy gently caress it's 17th century print culture all over again.
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Jun 20, 2020 15:24
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Spiggy posted:That's about 450 dollars for effectively custom stickers, and that's being generous with buying the extra sleeves and shipping costs. AAG it's getting good games but should reevaluate their chip business. It's a one time sale of his custom set of chips, he's not making a business out of it. Those are extremely high end custom order chips, certainly not for everyone.
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Jun 20, 2020 15:35
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I played game 2 of Fog of Love. We started as high school sweethearts...and neither met out destiny. We both ended up...pretty much where we started. She became Macho. I became Disorganised. I didn't understand the rules for special cards so we never got a chance to ask to marry or even upgrade the relationship. Whelp. We just sorta stayed a couple and forgot you can go beyond that.
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Jun 20, 2020 15:41
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taser rates posted:extremely high end custom order chips 
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Spiggy posted:That's about 450 dollars for effectively custom stickers, and that's being generous with buying the extra sleeves and shipping costs. AAG it's getting good games but should reevaluate their chip business. To be clear, he's selling those at cost. I don't think anyone wanted them.
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Jun 20, 2020 16:17
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I wonder how slippery they are... Get JC on the horn and have him do some tests!
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Jun 20, 2020 18:24
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I’ll never understand this trend of trying to make “boardgame poker chips”. There’s nothing wrong with traditional chips in the first place.
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Jun 20, 2020 18:27
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Traditional chips are unmarked, you just know that greys are 20. Boardgamers are already holding onto the rules by their fingertips, making them remember what grey is too is inviting disaster.
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Jun 20, 2020 19:13
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CommonShore posted:See, and dudes like this who just do it for shits and giggles make it tough for people who aren't aristocrats to stay in it. I’m just happy that someone is designing wargames. Are you also upset that Jason Matthews, a Washington lobbyist, and Ananda Gupta, a Riot games developer, or Ed Beach, who works at Firaxis, or Lee Beimmicombe-Wood, who works in IT, are also designing wargames because it stops the little guy from designing? Most people don’t do war game design as a job unless they’re Mark Herman or Dean Essig. It’s clearly a hobby for the vast majority of people involved. It’s really not enough for most people to make a full time job out of it.
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Jun 20, 2020 23:48
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Volko Ruhnke is a CIA spook. He develops consims for their strategy people for a living. Purely making boardgames for a living isn't a full time, well paid gig for many people at all.
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That reminded me of an article a while back, and this quote that ties into the discussion a page or two ago about games involving "bad" real life things:V R posted:Elegant as the COIN Series is, I ask Ruhnke if his goals are a stretch. What’s going to happen when one of the uninitiated sits down and realizes his options don’t include shuffling resources to trade goods in the Mediterranean, but rather terrorism, assassination and extortion? “You’re bound to launch some highly consequential thinking,” he says. “Not only about what should and shouldn’t be fun, and why it is, but about the world you live in.”
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The End posted:Volko Ruhnke is a CIA spook. He develops consims for their strategy people for a living. i still would love to play a hella classifed version of COIN where all the cards are based on top secret intel but otoh the world is so stupid that im fairly sure the only diff between those games and ours is faulty intel
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Hey! It’s me, the guy new to board games back again. I asked a few pages ago about good two player games and a lot of you recommended Pandemic. Someone brought up Pandemic Legacy and i’m seeing that game got for a smooth $70 - $80 dollars. Does it just include a lot more, is it out of print?
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Papes posted:I’ll never understand this trend of trying to make “boardgame poker chips”. There’s nothing wrong with traditional chips in the first place. It's simply aesthetics. I think the Iron Clays look lovely and the absurdly overpriced super custom whatever ones linked above look like poo poo.
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LODGE NORTH posted:Hey! It’s me, the guy new to board games back again. I asked a few pages ago about good two player games and a lot of you recommended Pandemic. Someone brought up Pandemic Legacy and i’m seeing that game got for a smooth $70 - $80 dollars. Does it just include a lot more, is it out of print? oh oh oh, you're the perfect person for this. https://twitter.com/BoardGameGeek/status/1273748364526567424 There's a free Print and Play version of Pandemic: Hot Zone - North America available. Hot Zone is basically a mini-version of Pandemic, with some slightly modified rules, that takes about 30min max to play. It's a really good 'in-between game' for my groups while I wait for people to arrive for bigger games, etc. If you like Hot Zone you will enjoy the full version of Pandemic. Also not sure how much it personally matters to you, but Legacy Season 3 is due ~this yearish~ but seems to have been delayed due to rona related reasons. If you can hold off you might be able to get Season 1 or 2 on the cheap!
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Won't 3 probably spoil both 1 and 2 on premise alone?
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CaptainRightful posted:It's simply aesthetics. I think the Iron Clays look lovely and the absurdly overpriced super custom whatever ones linked above look like poo poo. Nerds like to have ~pretty things~ as well. Merchants of the Dark Road Kickstarter just posted the factory samples of their deluxe two-tone metal coins and they rule.     Glad I'm all in on it, they look really unique and not something you see often. PMush Perfect posted:Won't 3 probably spoil both 1 and 2 on premise alone? Yeah but from a discount perspective, it's win/win for newbies. One of my groups has expressed interest in picking up Season 3, even though we haven't played 1-2. Not sure if that matters too much for carry over?
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Resident Evil Inventory Manager turned into a $125 deluxified Euro sounds extremely not my jam.Infinitum posted:oh oh oh, you're the perfect person for this. This rules though!
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CaptainRightful posted:It's simply aesthetics. I think the Iron Clays look lovely and the absurdly overpriced super custom whatever ones linked above look like poo poo. We all have bad opinions  For an actual answer, there's quite a bit more to chips besides just the aesthetic appeal. The weight, type/quality of material used, and visual clarity of edge spots and colors are what I consider when I play with chips, and iron clays are very not good by those standards. taser rates fucked around with this message at 07:20 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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taser rates posted:We all have bad opinions Are you seriously gonna stan for overpriced Generic Poker Chips /w Custom Centre over Iron Clays? 
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Like if you want some fancy traditional poker chips, for actually playing poker, you can just get a set of Rounders replicas on the 'cheap'. http://www.classicpokerchips.com/stock/rounderss.htm http://www.classicpokerchips.com/stock/index.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtarhjRLx30
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Messing around on TTS I definitely think I like the basically every Petersen game I've played but they are all pricey and giant as hell. Not gonna lie though, I would totally dig a giant Orlanth miniature. Thankfully though, Spirit Island is more reasonable price and size wise.
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Forgotten Waters rulebook pdf has a pirate name generator section. You can be Sleepy Jojo, Comrade Mao and He-Beast the Swole. I'll wait for a localized version release before checking it out, though.
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Tiny Epic Pirates revealed some pretty punny 'themed wrestler' level pirate names during the campaign   Alice O'Malice and Niki Knuckles are pretty great. Should have been Cheeky Nandos though SelenicMartian posted:He-Beast the Swole. This is great, and I'm stealing this next time I get to play a D&D 1 shot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ud1oB4ei4
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Infinitum posted:Are you seriously gonna stan for overpriced Generic Poker Chips /w Custom Centre over Iron Clays? As pretty as Iron Clays may be, and I'm happy to have them, they really aren't that great for a game that needs to use them in high numbers. In Brass you have like 10 chips max in front of you at any given time, but in choo-choo games you'll be building stacks (especially on corp charters where space is at a premium). Iron Clays have at least two aspects that make them epecially bad for that purpose: They're actually very slippery (so it's easier to make a stack fall over), with no physical indentation except for that tiny dimple in the very middle, and their side patterns are harder to read than most chips.
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I honestly don't understand the enduring appeal of having a whole bunch of mediocre games that primarily exist as a proof of concept about how small you can make mediocre games of all different genres.
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Infinitum posted:oh oh oh, you're the perfect person for this. Oooh, this is super cool. I'll probably pick up some cardstock and make this. Should I try this, then Pandemic, and then Pandemic Legacy?
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LODGE NORTH posted:Oooh, this is super cool. I'll probably pick up some cardstock and make this. Should I try this, then Pandemic, and then Pandemic Legacy? If you like it just buy Pandemic Legacy
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The End posted:I honestly don't understand the enduring appeal of having a whole bunch of mediocre games that primarily exist as a proof of concept about how small you can make mediocre games of all different genres. 1) they totally own for camping and 2) a lot of the Tiny Epic games are actually very good, I think Mechs, Zombies and Tactics are all fun, good games. I’ve honestly never understood the love here for Tiny Epic Galaxies, I played that one first and honestly walked away with an opinion like yours above, but others have impressed me.
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food court bailiff posted:I’ve honestly never understood the love here for Tiny Epic Galaxies, I played that one first and honestly walked away with an opinion like yours above. Did you play with five, by any chance?
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food court bailiff posted:1) they totally own for camping Tiny Epic Galaxies hits for people who have played Twilight Imperium. TEG is TI Mini.
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CommonShore posted:Tiny Epic Galaxies hits for people who have played Twilight Imperium. TEG is TI Mini. Seriously? 
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