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grate deceiver posted:Cube game arrived, I wasn't expecting there's so much other components. Looks cool as hell, stoked to try it...one day... "Wow this cool game showed up, I can't wait to maybe play it someday" Global death plague plus a divorce has really cramped by gaming. I need to pivot HARD to solo games
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jivjov posted:"Wow this cool game showed up, I can't wait to maybe play it someday"
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Llyranor posted:I don't even calculate score for Sherlock Consulting Detective. We just investigate as much as we want and enjoy the narrative. I think my wife and I investigated something like 12 leads the first time we played and were surprised to see that the target was four , but upon reading the solution we both immediately clicked that the game wants you to work like Holmes...solve the mystery by gathering relevant data, making inductive leaps, and deciding what are the key leads. We like that style better, but obviously the best way to play the game is the way it's most enjoyable to you.
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Admiralty Flag posted:I think my wife and I investigated something like 12 leads the first time we played and were surprised to see that the target was four , but upon reading the solution we both immediately clicked that the game wants you to work like Holmes...solve the mystery by gathering relevant data, making inductive leaps, and deciding what are the key leads. We like that style better, but obviously the best way to play the game is the way it's most enjoyable to you. Often the Holmes in the game behaves nonsensically in order to get his score. If you choose to play the game this way - gunning for a good score - you will alternately (and arbitrarily) get rewarded or punished for jumping to reasonable conclusions. And you will miss a ton of the game content - including most of the actual interesting bits of reasoning/evidence. You're effectively just skipping to the end of the book. I fully, absolutely agree with the people who choose to ignore the scores - as there are a few of the mysteries that are actually fun to work out if you take the time to do so. On Holmes cheating: I'm remembering one in particular where Holmes chooses to visit a theater immediately, where one character had gone before the murder. It makes no sense to do so; randomly going to any place mentioned in the introduction, with no idea what you're looking for there, SHOULD be a mistake. And, indeed, the character going to the theater was actually irrelevant - he had just randomly gone to the theater that night and it should have been a dead end. But if you do go there, you meet an actor who is, like, the murderer or something, and you are advanced far towards the answer. (I don't remember the details, but I remember we tried and failed to make sense of it at the time, and were all blown away by how dumb it was). Holmes getting paid off for going there is absolutely random nonsense. And if your goal is to play like Holmes and finish in 3 moves, you would have missed most of this story. To be fair, this particular cheat may have been another artifact of the terrible edition I played, which also chose to arbitrarily change the answer to some of the mysteries. jmzero fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Mar 25, 2021 |
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Mar 25, 2021 18:47
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Taught Spirit Island to two people yesterday (along with a third who'd played a bunch but for some reason still hadn't internalized the "one power, one land" rule). Went up against level 1 Brandenburg-Prussia and we pulled it off despite a bad event card early on. One of the new players was Thunderspeaker and had a great time just clearing out her board. All in all everyone had a blast.
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I did enjoy Consulting Detective, but this talk about it also reminds me that any game whose narrative comes from, well, a literal written narrative(*) lives or dies by the quality of its writing. Just like a good mystery story does. If the story doesn't hold together, if the conclusion(s) are thin, etc, it all falls apart. For a tabletop game it's one thing if the story elements are just flavor or basic setting, but when that narrative needs to be used to make actual gameplay decisions, well then the stakes are higher. Sadly, most written story in boardgamesland is not particularly good. (*) As opposed to the "narrative" emerging from the game's mechanics & gameplay elements. E.g. Root, Magic Realm, COIN games, etc
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When are they going to make those sherlock games but you are columbo instead... though I guess the point of columbo is the mystery is solved releatively easily...
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Snooze Cruise posted:When are they going to make those sherlock games but you are columbo instead... though I guess the point of columbo is the mystery is solved releatively easily... Unlike Sherlock Holmes you get a better score the more questions you ask, about how much their shoes cost and the square footage of their house.
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I'm only 4 cases into the Baker Street Irregulars which was released in 2020, and I've only played the original besides it, but it really messes with the formula in a lot of ways. The cases have all be stellar so far. If you were medium on the 'gamey-ness' of SHCD, I still suggest you try this one.
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SCHD and other narrative games like it are also cool in that you can play through them once and then sell/trade them away
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Mr. Squishy posted:Unlike Sherlock Holmes you get a better score the more questions you ask, about how much their shoes cost and the square footage of their house. The culprit gets a terror track which adds to your score and goes up as you find clues or unravel lies.
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Snooze Cruise posted:When are they going to make those sherlock games but you are columbo instead... though I guess the point of columbo is the mystery is solved releatively easily... incidentally over the last few months I've been taking in a Columbo episode every 1-2 weeks and they are brilliant and still hold up. highly recommended.
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That reminds me, I urgently need to watch all of Columbo and all of Poirot. A propos, are there any boardgames that use Agatha Christie IP's?
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theroachman posted:That reminds me, I urgently need to watch all of Columbo and all of Poirot. A propos, are there any boardgames that use Agatha Christie IP's? the mega OOP Mystery Express https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/65907/mystery-express is about solving a murder on a train as it travels across Europe. It's not quite the level of the greatest mystery novel of all time, but it's very clever. A big part of the game is taking hidden notes about which cards you've seen from which players' hands and when, so it's not for everyone.
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played the first 4 tutorial scenarios of JotL over the last few days. the fourth one is a big step up after the first 3 really feeling explicitly like tutorials! we got in a lot of trouble because my girlfriend (hatchet) played the exhausting ability of her cards almost every time they came up and fainted like 3/4 of the way through. fortunately i was in a really good position to pull enemies onto traps and use area of effect stuff to finish the last couple dudes off. lesson learned!
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jesus WEP posted:played the first 4 tutorial scenarios of JotL over the last few days. the fourth one is a big step up after the first 3 really feeling explicitly like tutorials! Yeah scenario 4 is a wake up call lol There's a GH thread if you want to check in 
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the mythos tales version of the sherlock holmes game is a lot of fun. i enjoyed the sherlock one but i started with jack the ripper and tbh it got to be kind of a bummer cause all those victims were real people
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jesus WEP posted:played the first 4 tutorial scenarios of JotL over the last few days. the fourth one is a big step up after the first 3 really feeling explicitly like tutorials! My fiancee bounced off normal Gloomhaven pretty hard, but JotL has been dragging her in. I want the normal game to come with a loving scenario book now with all the monsters printed on the pages, because not having to hunt and assemble the board or glance back and forth from the scenario guide to the poo poo you've set up is like night and day.
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John Dyne posted:My fiancee bounced off normal Gloomhaven pretty hard, but JotL has been dragging her in. I want the normal game to come with a loving scenario book now with all the monsters printed on the pages, because not having to hunt and assemble the board or glance back and forth from the scenario guide to the poo poo you've set up is like night and day. I'm not sure the economics that go into it - that's a LOT of custom art for the benefit of not needing tiles - but it's great. For physical GH we just use a divided file folder to sort tiles by letter and then a few good cheap Plano boxes for the overlay tiles and monsters. So it's pretty drat fast for what it's worth. It just ain't as fast or pretty as a book. Or clicking a button on TTS for that matter.
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theroachman posted:That reminds me, I urgently need to watch all of Columbo and all of Poirot. A propos, are there any boardgames that use Agatha Christie IP's? Yo, where’s my Columbo boardgame, someone kickstart this ASAP Let me roll a dice or draw a card for “rummage around the pockets of my filthy trenchcoat” or “annoy the hell out of the murderer”
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John Dyne posted:My fiancee bounced off normal Gloomhaven pretty hard, but JotL has been dragging her in. I want the normal game to come with a loving scenario book now with all the monsters printed on the pages, because not having to hunt and assemble the board or glance back and forth from the scenario guide to the poo poo you've set up is like night and day. I think eventually Isaac will sell a scenario book for Gloomhaven and Frosthaven but it probably won't come out so soon, maybe in a year or two earliest.
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theroachman posted:That reminds me, I urgently need to watch all of Columbo and all of Poirot. A propos, are there any boardgames that use Agatha Christie IP's? There's a cute little social deduction card game called Death on the Cards that features pretty much all of them. It's not a greatest hit or anything but it's breezy and fun and a decent 10 minute filler.
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StarkRavingMad posted:Yo, where’s my Columbo boardgame, someone kickstart this ASAP The best card in the game would have to be the "Ahh, just one more question..." card
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dwarf74 posted:I'm not sure the economics that go into it - that's a LOT of custom art for the benefit of not needing tiles - but it's great. They could reduce the art budget on the book by creating image "tiles" with debris and skulls and such on layers of the image, so that they're there to be toggled.
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A team social deduction game in the vein of Spyfall, with one known criminal and an unknown team of Columbos who know the answer to the mystery, and an unknown team of anti-Columbos who don't. Mystery would be a couple elements from some limited set of motives, means, etc. The Columbos have to identify everyone else on their team by asking seemingly aimless questions of the criminal, the anti-Columbos have to figure out the answer to the mystery while blending in by asking similarly aimless questions, and the criminal wants to pick out a subset of people who they think don't know the answer.
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Post by Candice Harris on the new John Company. Folks she deserves the views, so please read it on BGG if you can.
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alkanphel posted:I think eventually Isaac will sell a scenario book for Gloomhaven and Frosthaven but it probably won't come out so soon, maybe in a year or two earliest. I wish it was an option for FH, but that's not how it was kickstarted and not how it'll be made.
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Mayveena posted:Post by Candice Harris on the new John Company. Folks she deserves the views, so please read it on BGG if you can. Read it and looking forward to the Kickstarter. I have NO idea if John Company is For Me but Cole's designs always get my attention and are obviously well-considered. No idea if it could regularly make it to the table with my group once I have a group again, but I'll definitely be looking really closely at it.
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Mayveena posted:Post by Candice Harris on the new John Company. Folks she deserves the views, so please read it on BGG if you can. Thanks! I appreciate when people share stuff like this; I have a BGG account but I don't hang out there so I'd otherwise miss it. I have the original John Company and am super interested in the second edition, even moreso after reading some of the finer points brought up in the linked post.
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SkeletonHero posted:Death on the Cards Thanks both, I will check them out! StarkRavingMad posted:Yo, where’s my Columbo boardgame, someone kickstart this ASAP re:the quote above and other Columbo-game chat: 2P asymmetrical game like Watergate, make it happen! 
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I'm picking up someone's copy of Shadows over Normandie: Achtung, Chtulhu! plus assortered expansions cheaply. Game looks pretty cool. Does anyone here have any experience with it?
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Mayveena posted:Post by Candice Harris on the new John Company. Folks she deserves the views, so please read it on BGG if you can. Cole's design diaries (which she links at the end of her post) are also well worth the read. I love his thought processes.
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dwarf74 posted:I think you're probably right - it'll be well after Frosthaven. I would honestly not be too surprised if there was a Gloomhaven Revisited or something like that which also included balance fixes. Yeah maybe much later on Isaac can make a Gloomhaven 2nd edition, with all those balance fixes to items and classes. Maybe take hints from Frosthaven to overhaul the Personal Quest system in GH, and have better battle goals as well.
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Does anyone have opinions on the Kingdom Rush board game? Someone offered it in a trade, so looking for impressions
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I was playing godzilla tokyo clash outside today and a nasty wind gust carried away some bits. I'm pretty sure I lost a jet token, can anyone tell me how many jets the game comes with? I can't find a component count anywhere. I'm just going to 3d print some replacement bits anyway, but I'd like to get the count right. Edit: Disregard, I think I have all the jets. armorer fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Mar 29, 2021 |
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Managed to find a group to play the newly-arrived Oath with, here in Australia. The owner had played one game already so our setup reflected that history. Boy howdy! It’s a brutal teach and learn for the first game, but it has already sunk its claws into me and I am looking forward to playing it again.
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Speaking of, Oath is a really beautiful production (and a big table hog).          
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Wow, drop dead gorgeous. Whirligig is firing on all cylinders.
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Oath is Leder, but Whirligig did just launch the John Company 2nd edition kickstarter (and Pax Pamir 2 reprint) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1243243962/john-company-second-edition
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Bottom Liner posted:Speaking of, Oath is a really beautiful production (and a big table hog). Those look so good! I can’t wait for my copy in another month.
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