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I'm looking to get rid of the following board games and tabletop gaming-type other products: Unfathomable Wingspan Frosthaven Removable Sticker Set Pathfinder 2e Age of Ashes Adventure Path (all 6 books) Spot It We Didn't Playtest This At All + WDPTAL Legacies Legend of the Five Rings Living Card Game (all cards except last printed booster cycle, of which I have uhh two or three of the packs? A Crimson Offering is looking right at me, literally unopened) All of the above are in great condition, played once or twice at most, I promise. Well, (certain of) the L5R cards got used more, but always in sleeves. Regarding the FH Sticker Set, I removed exactly one sticker to place on the board, changed my mind, and put it back on the set sheet. Don't remember if it was a Walls or Scenario 1's sticker. L5R will come with three Ultra Pro binders, the 360-card ones I think, in light blue, green, and red colors. I don't really know what I want, TBH. But if someone wants these let me know and we can start working something out. We can talk about shipping matters, or if you're in the general California Bay Area, physical meet-up is possible.
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SuperKlaus posted:I'm looking to get rid of the following board games and tabletop gaming-type other products: You may want to also create an SA-Mart thread, since the additional subforum rules provide greater protections to buyer and seller. I say that every time I see one of these posts, but I can't remember that it was ever a problem.
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May 9, 2023 20:10
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SuperKlaus posted:I'm looking to get rid of the following board games and tabletop gaming-type other products: please create an SA-mart thread, I am interested in Unfathomable and potentially L5R and located in the Bay Area
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May 9, 2023 20:38
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million dollar mack posted:Alright I just read through the rules for Sidereal Confluence and now I'm really hyped to get this to the table. It wasn't nearly as complex as I thought it would be. Any teaching tips for this one, for a player count of 5-6? Also post a trip report once you've done it. I'm trying to get a game scheduled myself, which will probably mostly be beginners.
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May 9, 2023 20:51
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I've been out for the count on board games since maybe 2019, what's everyone's favorite games that came out since then?
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May 9, 2023 23:16
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Too many to count; but if I were to pick just one in a vacuum I'd pick Beyond the Sun. I simply love that game.
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May 9, 2023 23:18
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Sokani posted:I've been out for the count on board games since maybe 2019, what's everyone's favorite games that came out since then? Pan Am
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May 9, 2023 23:44
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Sokani posted:I've been out for the count on board games since maybe 2019, what's everyone's favorite games that came out since then? All quite good: Beyond the Sun Blitzkrieg! / Caesar! The Crew Deep Sea Imperium Classics/Legends Root Mauraders exp Sidereal Confluence 2nd Ed Best by a wide margin: Res Arcana + expansions
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May 9, 2023 23:49
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Sokani posted:I've been out for the count on board games since maybe 2019, what's everyone's favorite games that came out since then? My group loves Oathsworn
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May 10, 2023 00:18
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Bottom Liner posted:Best by a wide margin: Res for the Arcana is really good and is also online on Boardgame Arena. The online implementation has just the first of the two expansions, but the first expansion is twice as good as the second one.
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May 10, 2023 00:20
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Sokani posted:I've been out for the count on board games since maybe 2019, what's everyone's favorite games that came out since then? What games did you like to play? That might give us a starting point for recommendations. Let me second The Crew: The Search for Planet Nine* and its sequel (The Crew: Deep Blue Sea) as crisp, well-designed light co-op games for 3-5 to kill an hour (or while you're waiting for the rest of the group to show up). And at US$15 each, you can't go wrong with trying one. If you're into games that can be played solo or co-op, this was out in 2017, but I don't know if you'd have seen it. Spirit Island is the best game I own. Play as different spirits of nature wracking colonizers and driving them into the sea before they settle your island. It's an intricate puzzle that doesn't get stale due to the near infinite combination of spirits (each with different powers), scenarios, and adversaries (the latter two of which can be used to increase the difficulty level). * not to be confused with the Search for Planet X; that's a much heavier and more expensive game I know nothing about
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May 10, 2023 00:47
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I haven't heard of Res Arcana. Somebody please sell me on it.
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May 10, 2023 00:54
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CitizenKeen posted:I haven't heard of Res Arcana. Somebody please sell me on it. You get to make fun bullshit combos from a tiny set of cards. It hits the same kind of niche as Dominion or Race for the Galaxy (with which it shares a designer).
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May 10, 2023 01:02
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You can try it on BGA. It's a card game where two wizards, etc race to achieve victory in the same vein as Ascension, Dominion, etc It's very well thought out and balanced, but if you're not into such games it won't be the one to change your mind or light new fires in your brain. As mentioned, BGA has a digital version and great interactive tutorial, so you can try it there.
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May 10, 2023 01:03
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Admiralty Flag posted:What games did you like to play? That might give us a starting point for recommendations. I just want to hear about what people are into, maybe expand my horizons. Admiralty Flag posted:Spirit Island is the best game I own. This is my favorite game. I picked up Jagged Earth but that was around when my group petered out, so I haven't really played it.
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May 10, 2023 01:07
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Sokani posted:I just want to hear about what people are into, maybe expand my horizons. Speaking of Horizons and Spirit Island, there's a new Target exclusive starter edition that's a pretty reasonably priced way to pick up five new low complexity spirits that are a lot of fun.
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May 10, 2023 01:26
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I've noir played RA a lot but it's a game that needs drafting to be a game. Without that level of control over the makeup of your deck games just revolve around seeing who happened to get dealt the best engine for the table, and who is going to be producing a lot of skulls with no way of converting them into points.
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May 10, 2023 06:07
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Mr. Squishy posted:I've noir played RA a lot but it's a game that needs drafting to be a game. Without that level of control over the makeup of your deck games just revolve around seeing who happened to get dealt the best engine for the table, and who is going to be producing a lot of skulls with no way of converting them into points. Real confusing post when you read Ra as Ra.
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May 10, 2023 08:01
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Mr. Squishy posted:I've noir played RA a lot but it's a game that needs drafting to be a game. Without that level of control over the makeup of your deck games just revolve around seeing who happened to get dealt the best engine for the table, and who is going to be producing a lot of skulls with no way of converting them into points. I've played it a fair bit without drafting and probably got lucky but I don't remember this ever being a major problem, I'm sure it's good to draft once everyone knows exactly what all of the cards do but it's certainly still playable without it.
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May 10, 2023 08:18
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Finished a "complete" play through of Mind Mgmt (14 games with 2 players playing the same role every time), still such a great game. I'd probably want to do it again with sides switched if I wasn't moving soon. I don't often get a game to the table this often.
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May 10, 2023 08:28
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Bottom Liner posted:Real confusing post when you read Ra as Ra. Same Everyone should play Ra though.
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May 10, 2023 11:17
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Sokani posted:I've been out for the count on board games since maybe 2019, what's everyone's favorite games that came out since then? For me Dune Imperium has probably been my favorite in recent years. There's some games where I fall in love with the idea of it, like Oath for example, and they're still very good, but they require the right mental space for the entire group to really get into it and I end up taking it out only once every two months (or once a year for something like Sidereal Confluence). Dune Imperium with the Ix expansion, and now with Immortality, I could play every day. Just the perfect mix of mechanics to hit all my endorphin switches.
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May 10, 2023 14:00
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grate deceiver posted:For me Dune Imperium has probably been my favorite in recent years. There's some games where I fall in love with the idea of it, like Oath for example, and they're still very good, but they require the right mental space for the entire group to really get into it and I end up taking it out only once every two months (or once a year for something like Sidereal Confluence). Dune Imperium with the Ix expansion, and now with Immortality, I could play every day. Just the perfect mix of mechanics to hit all my endorphin switches. How is Immortality? What's it add compared to Ix and Base Game?
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May 10, 2023 15:08
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Sokani posted:I've been out for the count on board games since maybe 2019, what's everyone's favorite games that came out since then? Most of the games I play these days are older Euros (Concordia, Castles of Burgundy), but there are four games I regularly play you might not know:
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May 10, 2023 16:15
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we’re in a trick-taking renaissance atm. besides the aforementioned the crew and crew dsa I really like scout, brian boru, cat in the box. haven’t played it yet but heckin hounds is goon-made. & ARCS got crowdfunded for a milli and a half
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May 10, 2023 16:22
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FulsomFrank posted:How is Immortality? What's it add compared to Ix and Base Game? Double-replying because the posts are different. Immortality essentially adds a whole new gameplay axis to Dune. It adds a new market row of two dynamic (choosable) and one non-takeable static (I.e., deploy 2 troops to garrison or advance 1 on Tliexu track) cards, each requiring research tokens to purchase, a new Tliexu (sp?) track that gives you various rewards (spice, research tree advancements, VPs) as you move along it, and a research tree, which gives you branching options for benefits every time you move along it, many of which are acquiring research tokens (which are also troop cubes, much like Ix negotiators, so if you have a lot tied up here and on the board, you might not get the full benefit out of Heighliners). Your boring Dune the Desert Planet (yellow triangle) cards are replaced by Experimentation: yellow triangle and advance 1 on the research tree, or cash out the card for one research token in the reveal phase. New cards are either nifty standalones with useful ability powers or "graft" cards: play them along with another card and gain all the benefits of both (play locations & text box, which almost always includes draw 1 on the graft card to make up for the extra card being gone from your hand). Some graft cards have special abilities when grafted to other graft cards IIRC. I don't know if it's a must-have like Ix is, in that Ix fixes the spice->Solari->council rush cycle at the beginning of the game, but it adds a lot of enjoyable but mostly well-balanced play elements to the game. You cannot, however, ignore the research tree and the Tliexu track like you can the shipping track, because you'll get curbstomped by players who are making use of those benefits. Admiralty Flag fucked around with this message at 16:33 on May 10, 2023 |
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May 10, 2023 16:31
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panko posted:we’re in a trick-taking renaissance atm. This is so exciting to me, because when I first started pitching Heckin Hounds so many publishers told me that no one plays or likes trick taking games anymore. Some of those publishers are even now publishing trick taking games. It's a genre I've always loved. Personally my favorite trick taker (aside from Heckin Hounds ofc) is Fool by Friedemann Friese
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May 10, 2023 16:47
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I like Fool quite a bit as well. Other favorites are Sticheln and Mu, though I pretty much never get to play Mu since it needs exactly 5 to function.
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May 10, 2023 17:03
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Frozen Peach posted:Personally my favorite trick taker (aside from Heckin Hounds ofc) is Fool by Friedemann Friese We've come back to Bottle Imp a lot of times over the years. Great, unique design that's easy to pick up and surprisingly "thematic" feeling. Individual rounds often have pretty memorable narratives.
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May 10, 2023 18:32
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jmzero posted:Great, unique design that's easy to pick up and surprisingly "thematic" feeling. In terms of rules overhead, maybe, but in my experience it's a take that's super unclear how to win. Which is not an knock but I wouldn't describe it as easy. I knew I was making legal moves but I had very little inkling if they were going to win or lose me the game.
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May 10, 2023 18:51
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My favorite last few years game is Anno 1800, it's a midweight euro by Martin Wallace (Brass/ Railways of the World) based on the PC game. Extremely clever design, involves building up your own workers and factories in front of you, while competing for a limited number of upgrades in the center. It bakes conflict with other players into the efficiency puzzle in ways that I'm used to seeing in much meaner games, this one flows very nicely otherwise in a way I like. And the pacing is really good, a lot happens really quickly at the start, then it feels like it could just expand forever, before it ends really quickly and in an exciting way. I recommend looking up rules variants, there's a few ways I play that makes it a little less luck driven, but it's still pretty loosy goosy. It's just very fun though in general. There's been talk about an expansion that makes it more of a gamers game and I'm excited to see what that's like.
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May 10, 2023 19:13
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FulsomFrank posted:How is Immortality? What's it add compared to Ix and Base Game? Admiralty Flag already did a good summary, so short version - it's more cool stuff to play with. You get a kinda sorta fifth faction track to gain influence in, and a branching bonuses "research" track on a separate board. Also separate card market that you buy with a new resource. Visually it takes a lot of space, since it's a new card track + new board, but I think mechanically it adds less than Ix, mostly just more cool cards with new abilities.
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May 10, 2023 19:46
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an actual dog posted:My favorite last few years game is Anno 1800, it's a midweight euro by Martin Wallace (Brass/ Railways of the World) based on the PC game. Extremely clever design, involves building up your own workers and factories in front of you, while competing for a limited number of upgrades in the center. It bakes conflict with other players into the efficiency puzzle in ways that I'm used to seeing in much meaner games, this one flows very nicely otherwise in a way I like. And the pacing is really good, a lot happens really quickly at the start, then it feels like it could just expand forever, before it ends really quickly and in an exciting way. Most people I've seen were lukewarm on the game, but a dog would never lie to me so game must be fine, actually.
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May 10, 2023 21:03
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Azran posted:Most people I've seen were lukewarm on the game, but a dog would never lie to me so game must be fine, actually. I actively dislike Anno for various reasons I think I've talked about before. Did you opening hand have good cards or bad ones? Did you draw a randomly good Old World Island? Did you draw the New World Colony that you needed? It's all just random bullshit that I expect from Stonemier not Martin Wallace.
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May 10, 2023 21:27
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For what it's worth there's a couple of house rules that can fix those issues, such as removing powerful cards from the deck before dealing starting hands and doing draw two, pick one for exploration. I'm really casual about that kind of thing though so I still really liked it as a base game. Edit: I wouldn't use all of these but here's a couple of popular house rules.
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May 10, 2023 21:44
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Luck of the draw can be really brutal in a lot of games. I just played Ark Nova for the first time and goddamn should never wait for specific cards in that cause you'll get super hosed. Still really liked it, though.
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an actual dog posted:Luck of the draw can be really brutal in a lot of games. I just played Ark Nova for the first time and goddamn should never wait for specific cards in that cause you'll get super hosed. Still really liked it, though. Nah, what really chaps my hide are games where going late/last in the turn order is a significant drawback and you don't get adequately compensated for it (I'm looking at you, Great Western Trail, an otherwise great game where I always seem to go fourth, and, no, getting +$3 and being able to start wherever I want doesn't help when the labor pool's been drained of cowboys and craftsmen).
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May 10, 2023 22:21
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Fate Accomplice posted:please create an SA-mart thread, I am interested in Unfathomable and potentially L5R and located in the Bay Area OK, it's up.
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I second the opinion that Anno is a great board game. It's completely different to the computer game in all but name imho, but it's a great euro that plays pretty quickly with lots of fun n friendlyolish interaction ("who's got cotton? Have my gold!")
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I think Mayveena was quite fond of it last time I heard it brought up months and months ago. I was intrigued by it but put off by it appearing to be Yet Another Medium Weight Euro even though I love Wallace. It was on sale a while ago, I should have just grabbed a copy and sold it if I didn't care for it. I splurged and grabbed an unpunched copy of 1856 off ebay that I am hyped to get on the table. Got my cubes4me DE-LUXE components and trays so no excuses.
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