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Morpheus posted:Introduce a new board gamer the same way I do, with a copy of Dungeon Lords and an hour of explanations on its mechanics. This, but Space Alert. And after an hour of rules explaining, I get to say "...and also, games only take about 20 minutes".
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So I'm thinking of starting up a meetup group and am anticipating the possibility of getting just one person on the first few meetups. What are the best 2 player games out there?
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Aug 21, 2022 17:13
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swampcow posted:So I'm thinking of starting up a meetup group and am anticipating the possibility of getting just one person on the first few meetups. What are the best 2 player games out there? Go Hive Napoleons triumph
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Aug 21, 2022 17:17
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Hanamikoji and Fox in the Forest are good 2p games and very portable.
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Caper: Europe Blitzkrieg (or if the fact that one person has to play the Axis is a turn off, Caesar! instead) Patchwork 7 Wonders Duel Land Vs Sea Carcassonne Azul (or Azul Queen's Garden for a more puzzly one) These are our small box 2 player hits that have always been popular and well received
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Aug 21, 2022 21:03
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Thanks for the suggestions!
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Aug 21, 2022 23:18
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I did some shopping and came away with schotten totten 2 Under falling skies Tiny towns: fortune The paper tales expansion Not a bad haul
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Street Horrrsing posted:I did some shopping and came away with I've got (and played) Tiny Towns Fortune and Under Falling Skies. UFS is amazing! Fortune I have only played once so far, but Tiny Towns is one of our favs with the kids, and from that play it seems pretty good. Will likely be added to the game for most plays like Villagers was.
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Aug 22, 2022 01:34
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I can't rave enough about Botanik as a 2p game. Hands down my favorite short (but longer than Schotten Totten) game. A mix of tile drafting and tile laying, with some interesting creativity and the perfect helping of meanness/hate-drafting, which is to say, just a taste.
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Aug 22, 2022 01:42
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Santorini is great at 2
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We're looking for a long-ish game with RPG elements and someone recommended LOTR Journey to Middle Earth. Has anyone played it? How complicated is it and how hard to set up? vv Thanks Spermando fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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Spermando posted:We're looking for a long-ish game with RPG elements and someone recommended LOTR Journey to Middle Earth. Has anyone played it? How complicated is it and how hard to set up? I'm playing this at the moment and absolutely love it. It's not complicated generally, there are a few slightly fiddly rules to remember about terrain but pretty much everything else important is summarised on the back of the rulebook. Once you've set up your characters (pick one, get their deck and combine it with a set of standard cards, one random weakness and a starting profession deck) there is basically zero setup as the app tells you which map tiles to grab as necessary. It's important to keep all the bits in the box organised though, or you'll be rooting around for stuff. All the map tiles have numbers on so just make sure to keep them in order. Takes me less than a minute to unpack everything required to play, even with all the expansions.
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Aug 22, 2022 12:04
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Morpheus posted:Introduce a new board gamer the same way I do, with a copy of Dungeon Lords and an hour of explanations on its mechanics. i dont explain anything i just make them sit there and watch while i set up shadows of brimstone with every expansion
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Spermando posted:We're looking for a long-ish game with RPG elements and someone recommended LOTR Journey to Middle Earth. Has anyone played it? How complicated is it and how hard to set up? Too Many Bones
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PRADA SLUT posted:Too Many Bones I like Too Many Bones but it's not an epic campaign like Journeys in Middle Earth. My one real gripe with JiME is that you are stuck with the same number of players for the whole campaign, unlike Gloomhaven and Descent: Legends of the Dark. It's otherwise fantastic. I love Mansions of Madness, and this is similar in gameplay but campaign based and there are no dice; your success is determined from the deck you build.
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Is Too Many Bones good? I demo-ed it at Gencon, but I felt like it was way too fiddly with too many reference sheets for not enough depth.
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Aug 22, 2022 22:08
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When we gonna get "not enough bones" or "the ideal quantity of bones"
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Arzaac posted:Is Too Many Bones good? I demo-ed it at Gencon, but I felt like it was way too fiddly with too many reference sheets for not enough depth. It's very good but the rulebook is dogshit. The game really isn't that fiddly when you know how to play, but the rules are spread across multiple reference sheets which makes it annoying to learn.
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Aug 22, 2022 22:15
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Alright, that's fair, I get that. I recently bought Ark Nova (at GenCon as you might expect) and I felt like there was a similar problem, where the game itself is intuitive enough but the rulebook was extremely wordy and very dry.
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Quote-Unquote posted:I like Too Many Bones but it's not an epic campaign like Journeys in Middle Earth. Funny you should say that, we've been thinking of getting Mansions of Madness as an alternative.
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FirstAidKite posted:When we gonna get "not enough bones" or "the ideal quantity of bones" Not Enough Bones, a game about making hillariously inaccurate dinosaur skeletons
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Aug 22, 2022 22:25
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armorer posted:Santorini is great at 2 While the box states 2-4 players, it actually is a 2 player game.
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Aug 22, 2022 22:40
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Quote-Unquote posted:It's very good but the rulebook is dogshit. board games dot txt
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Aug 22, 2022 22:54
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Got super excited when Target emailed me saying Horizons of Spirit Island was in stock,but when I went to the website it was out of stock, I'm guessing it was a freak accident as bgg isn't talking about it either. I'm guessing they are getting ready to put it up for preorder soon.
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Joe Chill posted:While the box states 2-4 players, it actually is a 2 player game. Yeah, I agree 100%
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apostateCourier posted:Not Enough Bones, a game about making hillariously inaccurate dinosaur skeletons game where everyone but one person is given enough bones and people guess who’s skeleton is bullshit a fake archeologist goes to iran
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apostateCourier posted:Not Enough Bones, a game about making hillariously inaccurate dinosaur skeletons Can't wait for the Magdeburg Unicorn expansion
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I'm so excited for spirit island horizons e: tho not excited enough to get the name right lol. Horizons of spirit island
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Arzaac posted:Alright, that's fair, I get that. I recently bought Ark Nova (at GenCon as you might expect) and I felt like there was a similar problem, where the game itself is intuitive enough but the rulebook was extremely wordy and very dry. i've been having a poo poo of a time with Imperium's rulebook, the game itself is one of those really simple rulesets + complexity that comes from card sets, but man I had to reread the cleanup phase section about 8 times and work through it with the cards before I understood what the point of the token shuffling was (it's just a simple latch to prevent you getting the reshuffle benefit more than once a round)
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apostateCourier posted:Not Enough Bones, a game about making hillariously inaccurate dinosaur skeletons Reskin Yahtzee with various bone symbols 
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John Company 2E arrived. Box is loving packed. Doesn't have as good a storage solution as Pax Pam 2E unfortunately. Rules seem equally dense, can't wait to play it.
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Speaking of Santorini being only a two player game, does anyone have thoughts on Santorini: New York as a multiplayer title?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:John Company 2E arrived. Hell yeah, looking forward to getting mine soon. Aetherworks here in Australia sent a message a couple of weeks ago to lock down addresses but no word yet on actual shipping confirmation.
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KongGeorgeVII posted:Hell yeah, looking forward to getting mine soon. Aetherworks here in Australia sent a message a couple of weeks ago to lock down addresses but no word yet on actual shipping confirmation. I'm in Sydney and my first Auspost notification only came in yesterday so there wasn't much time between the confirmation and it arriving.
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Yeah, got my copy in Canberra today. Thing is dense and beautiful. Should get to play it tomorrow night, looking forward to being some despicable people!
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Spermando posted:Funny you should say that, we've been thinking of getting Mansions of Madness as an alternative. Mansions really needs expansions in order to shine. Same might be true of JiME, no idea because I'm an insane person and bought everything at once.
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I got JC2e too (also in Canberra) after having mostly forgotten I ordered it. Trying to work out online how well it scales with player count, anyone know if it’s good 2p or needs more people to shine?
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Doctor Spaceman posted:John Company 2E arrived. Excited for mine to arrive, but I think getting mine later as I'm a Eurogoon and they're in Germany somewhere.
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PRADA SLUT posted:board games dot txt I think Sidreal Confluence is the game with the highest ration between terrible rulebook and game quality. Great Western Trail is a contender as well.
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