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Fate Accomplice posted:while this is top of mind it sure would be nice if mostly European designers stopped theming games based on non-European cultures. I'm looking at you Agreed, we need more European, medieval trading and/or farming games.
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My group had a go at Voyages tonight! This is a recent Kickstarter that fulfilled very very quickly because it's a one-page print-and-play game. Not counting the rules, of course. This is a multiplayer solitaire game wherein you each control a ship on a vast hex-based ocean. Every round three dice are rolled, and you pick one die result to be the speed at which your ship will move, one to be the vector along which your ship will travel, and the third to be the "Duty," which is a little crossword puzzle looking thing where you cross off the number you picked. You earn points from visiting islands, exploring uncharted waters, finding and selling various goods, fighting pirates, and various other whatnot. People keep saying it was designed by Mr Roland Wright, but I don't think it's one of his works. For one thing, I like it better than the vast majority of those games, and for another, (it seems to me) the primary action in a roll and write game is rolling some dice, and either picking where to draw a thing, or picking which thing to cross out, and since the only part of it that really counts as that is the Duties, which uses only one third of the dice, and at most one eighth of the page space, I'd describe this more as a roll-and-move game. If it's a roll-and-move game, it's the most interesting roll-and-move game I've ever played, And even if you do call it a roll-and-write game, it's certainly the most thematic roll-and-write game I've ever seen. This thing has elements of pickup and delivery, exploration, set collection, questing... and the system has the potential to be ridiculously flexible in what you can do with more than the three maps that were included in the Kickstarter. If you want to play it, it should be available for online purchase in early 2022, and I heartily recommend it!
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 09:26 |
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Yea, Voyages is pretty cool. I've played it some five times now w/my partner (just map 1). It's kinda like a mash-up between Ganz Schön Clever & Railroad Ink. I also dig the theme and art style. Lovely little game.
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Kiranamos posted:Indian cultural issues continue to be glossed over by most/all of the board game community. Holi and Jaipur are ok all things considered. Rajas has a random Kali dice holder for reasons. The new Cranio Maharaja is one of the worst offenders by far, and you left out Ganesha which is just as bad. There are BGG threads for both if you’re interested. After playing Rajas I went looking for that because I had a strong suspicion that it wasn't particularly sensitive, and I wasn't surprised to be right. The game is mediocre to boot!
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Admiralty Flag posted:Didn't see an answer to this and I didn't want it to get lost in the new thread discussion, so I wanted to try asking again; I want to know if it's worth getting Recharged. BTW introduced Power Grid to my wife and daughter a couple of nights ago as "like Monopoly but actually fun", and even though we were a player or two short of optimal it was a big hit. If you own the original edition, there's no need to buy Recharged. There aren't any big changes in the new box, and the changes to the rules can be easily carried to the first edition if you want. The list of rules changes can be found here: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2182107/recharged-version-rules-changes
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# ? Dec 28, 2021 14:26 |
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Euro designers treat other religions like it's Smash Bros
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Llyranor posted:Euro designers treat other religions like it's Smash Bros Let's be honest, Smash Bros: World Religions would be absolutely amazing to play.
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Llyranor posted:Euro designers treat other religions like it's Smash Bros I could post the Religion Tier List for Europa Universalis 4. Edit: The two S-tier are Orthodox Christian and Aborigine Alcheringa.
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Phelddagrif posted:If you own the original edition, there's no need to buy Recharged. There aren't any big changes in the new box, and the changes to the rules can be easily carried to the first edition if you want. Thanks!
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:Let's be honest, Smash Bros: World Religions would be absolutely amazing to play. Invisible Mohammad would be too OP
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:Let's be honest, Smash Bros: World Religions would be absolutely amazing to play. Street Fighter: World Religions is a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZcQkbbCw1Q
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My Hollandspiele order just arrived in Australia! Very excited. Picked up the Field of the Cloth of Gold, Meltwater, Escape From Hades and Nicaea. Seems like I got one of the copies of Meltwater with yellow discs instead of black. Now that it's out of print I wonder if this makes it even more valuable since it's rare. For real though I think I actually prefer the yellow to black. Pops more on the table and feels radioactive. Very keen to give tFotCoG a try because I don't have many 2p games that play super quick and it seem alike such a fun puzzle. Nicaea is on the opposite end of that spectrum, looks like it'll be fun with a big group. Escape from Hades I'm curious about, the rules look like a fairly light wargame, not too many rules but the player aid is 4 pages with one page just dedicated to all the phases. I'll have to get it on the table to see how it actually plays. I love the boxes that Hollandspiele uses because they are so thin, it's great they really don't take up a ton of shelf space. The cardboard chits also seem pretty good, quite a dense cardboard, I almost thought it was MDF or something when I first got my hands on it. My rulebook for Escape from Hades came with some damage on it, a bit crumpled and it's got some kind of brown stain on the front cover which is a bit disappointing but not a huge deal. The other big thing are the maps for Hades and Meltwater just being folded paper, they are going to be a pain in the arse to get to lay flat, I have a transparent acrylic sheet but I don't think it's big enough, and definitely not for the double map for Hades. I'll have to get another or a bigger one to go with it, kind of a pain. The canvas maps for Nicaea and tFotCoG are nice enough, I don't love or hate them but I'm just glad they aren't folded.
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# ? Dec 29, 2021 03:02 |
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I unexpectedly got to play DUNE (the gale force nine release) and it rocked HARD, that is all
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The Eyes Have It posted:I unexpectedly got to play DUNE (the gale force nine release) and it rocked HARD, that is all Heckin' YES! Who did you play as, and who won? Was it the full six? G'drat I love dune. /edit: so as not to be such a one note Dune stan; Played The Initiative finally this weekend, and had a really really good time with it. It's got such a nice vibe, with an endearingly earnest plot that serves as a great foil to 'creepy shenanigans'. You essentially role play as characters in a comic (you read before and after each mission) who are themselves, playing a board game that they found at a car boot sale. The board game is about spies, and you have to crack codes, but then 'stuff' starts happening that means there's also a meta-game going on outside of the board game. The puzzles aren't hard, but you always have a nice "ah-ha!" Moment solving them. I could absolutely see someone judging it on the quality of the core game loop finding it dull, but the story and meta stuff is all really cool to me, a bit like playing a creepy-pasta or something. !Klams fucked around with this message at 11:51 on Dec 29, 2021 |
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The Initiative is definitely greater than the sum of its parts - the game, the comic, and the puzzles are each just a little on the side of bland for my taste, but they combine to make such a consistent vibe that I can’t help but be charmed by it. Brock’s special ability is a little broken though - or at least we’ve abused it heavily and didn’t lose once through the entire campaign.
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# ? Dec 29, 2021 21:47 |
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New thread. What's in the box?
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# ? Dec 30, 2021 00:14 |
bg 5e, huh
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Magnetic North posted:New thread. extremely well done OP
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# ? May 23, 2024 16:53 |
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Tekopo brings a Christmas gift of closing this loving thread, happy holidays one and all.
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