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Harold Fjord posted:Also, Bloodborne card game. It's probably my favorite for 5 right now The pub. For the pub. Pocketable card games + dice games work are the best for this. Small box games, like have been recommended above are also good.
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Harold Fjord posted:A bit! as in, doing one? Harold Fjord posted:Also, Bloodborne card game. It's probably my favorite for 5 right now the original ask was for meatier 5-player games that work well in a bar setting. between the player boards, the market row, and the tokens, bloodborne card game has almost as large of a table footprint as challengers, with the added logistical complexity of requiring a good space to chuck dice. good game though.
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It's all very small individually. Perfect for knocking a beer over trying to make it fit. Too many bits I concede, were always worried to lose one
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panko posted:strongly disagree with the challengers! recommendation. opinions on the gameplay aside it’s a massive table hog and has a surplus of tokens (that sometimes sit on cards) and the box/setup isn’t exactly what I’d call ‘bar-portable’. Yeah that's fair. I've only ever played it on BGA so I forgot how much space it actually takes up.
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uncle blog posted:What's a fun game for 5 players that can comfortably be played at a pub while also being a bit meatier than something like High Society or Love Letter? Have you looked at any of the Tiny Epic games? Skull is a good game but it might not be meatier than Love Letter.
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I can’t think of a worse game to play in a pub than any of the tiny epics. Tons of fiddly pieces and table space for what are extremely mid games at best.
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Jan 27, 2024 02:31
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I played Lisboa in a pub once, get on my level 
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Amazon has a lot of Bohnanza expansions right now, are any of them good?
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uncle blog posted:What's a fun game for 5 players that can comfortably be played at a pub while also being a bit meatier than something like High Society or Love Letter? The crew. Deep Sea would be best.
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Should I pick up Nusfjord or Agricola if I want something that can scale well up to 3-4 players? I've already got All Creatures Big & Small and I really like it FWIW
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Azran posted:Should I pick up Nusfjord or Agricola if I want something that can scale well up to 3-4 players? I've already got All Creatures Big & Small and I really like it FWIW Nusfjord plays a bit faster, but you'll recognize more of the stuff in Agricola. Agricola has a thing where because of the way new base spaces come in it's not quite the same game from 2 to 4 players; I think it's that clay is the rarest resource for 2-player, reed for 3-player, and wood for 4-player, but that's more of a concern at elevated levels of play.
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mini trip report: steampunk rally still fun af, inched over the finish line first with von zeppelin and ran well into the village on the final turn (perfectly blowing up every single machine part except for my cockpit), only to come second by a single space to the wright brothers covering nearly the entire board all at once (they had only moved seven spaces before that final turn).
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Jan 27, 2024 11:55
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uncle blog posted:What's a fun game for 5 players that can comfortably be played at a pub while also being a bit meatier than something like High Society or Love Letter? My boardgame group meets in a pub, so I'm assuming you mean a pub with tables. We've found that games like Dream Home, After Us and Alien: Fate of the Nostromo can just about be played with five people at a table for four if we pull up an extra chair.
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Yeah our meetup is in a pub as well so we've made all sorts of things work.
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PRADA SLUT posted:I played Lisboa in a pub once, get on my level Root was as fast as I've been in a pub
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I used to play 18xx every week at a pub. Once I played 18oe on a table tennis table.
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Fond memories of bringing out a copy of 1824 in a plain box with a sticker on top, a game I had ordered directly from the designer that he had printed and hand-cut himself.
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Too Many Bones is the ideal pub game. All components are waterproof so beer spills are irrelevant.
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With that table footprint? You'd be playing on the floor, so you'd need neoprene kneepads as well.
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Looney Lab Pyramids.
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Fluxx is ideal since drunkenly arguing about the rules is the entire point
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my third twilight imperium game, and first ranked league game, AND BY THE MOTHERFUCKING CLAN OF SAAR, I WON! goddamn, and it was only a 12 hour game too
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although, now i've been declared to longer be a newbie, so if i miss anything going forward, there will be no mercy for me. also promises of apocalyptic war come next game man, space nomads fuggin ruuuuuul!
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Cindy the SKULL posted:my third twilight imperium game, and first ranked league game, AND BY THE MOTHERFUCKING CLAN OF SAAR, I WON! goddamn, and it was only a 12 hour game too Ranked league TI? I haven't heard of that, outside of some people who stream it sometimes via TTS or something similar.
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Magnetic North posted:Ranked league TI? I haven't heard of that, outside of some people who stream it sometimes via TTS or something similar. well, we've got like 12 players. i think that's a league
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Cindy the SKULL posted:well, we've got like 12 players. i think that's a league I mean, it sounds awesome. If you've got 11 other TI fans, that's terrific and sometimes rare despite its popularity. I'm more curious as to the 'how' of the league, how it scores, number of rounds, etc.
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Magnetic North posted:I mean, it sounds awesome. If you've got 11 other TI fans, that's terrific and sometimes rare despite its popularity. I'm more curious as to the 'how' of the league, how it scores, number of rounds, etc. oh, 6 games per year, you have to attend at least 5, your victory points are tallied from your best 5 games. you can attend more than 6, but then your score from the 2 games in that slot of 2 months of games is added together and divided by two (so averaged). no limits on race choices, player with the lowest score chooses first, except that you may choose Nekro Virus only once this year, and the player who scores the highest VP on their Nekro game is crowned the Nekro Lord of All.
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every single person in our league currently either has a diagnosis for being on the autism spectrum, or is currently being studied for a diagnosis. funny
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Tekopo posted:I used to play 18xx every week at a pub. Once I played 18oe on a table tennis table. I'm imagining the jocks looking sadly at the table tennis table. "Hey you'll be done soon, right?"
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silvergoose posted:Which version with a terrible visual design flaw was that? (for the record I love Medici) The scoring track is loving awful. Cute game though, but I’m not sure what a “good” amount to bid is? The first one of the game was 15 so I’m not sure we calibrated accurately.
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million dollar mack posted:The scoring track is loving awful. Cute game though, but I’m not sure what a “good” amount to bid is? The first one of the game was 15 so I’m not sure we calibrated accurately. Is that the one with faint lines between the squares and barely readable numbers? I hate that score track! In terms of good bids, very hard to say. The 10 can be worth a ton...unless other stuff is more important. Getting a solid foothold on the tracks is great, but competing makes you sad.
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PerniciousKnid posted:I'm imagining the jocks looking sadly at the table tennis table. "Hey you'll be done soon, right?"
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it's around 3am when people start trying to figure out how to get the leading player their last few points as fast as possible
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Cindy the SKULL posted:every single person in our league currently either has a diagnosis for being on the autism spectrum, or is currently being studied for a diagnosis. funny as someone both on the spectrum and has played ti 4 this makes an incredible amount of sense tbh
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mikeycp posted:as someone both on the spectrum and has played ti 4 this makes an incredible amount of sense tbh it is frankly speaking, a prequisite
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Cindy the SKULL posted:oh, 6 games per year, you have to attend at least 5, your victory points are tallied from your best 5 games. you can attend more than 6, but then your score from the 2 games in that slot of 2 months of games is added together and divided by two (so averaged). no limits on race choices, player with the lowest score chooses first, except that you may choose Nekro Virus only once this year, and the player who scores the highest VP on their Nekro game is crowned the Nekro Lord of All. That's a great system. I like that it encourages everyone to play to win all the time. Most games I've played there's always one player so far behind they just decide to say gently caress it and space-risk their neighbor. Edit: gently caress it, gonna steal the idea and see if I can convince my friends to do four games per year.
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Hey so, have any of you played Gloom and Frost haven? Me and my wife played GloomyH with some friends, and while it was great fun, it did get 'very' samey. I wasn't that fussed, enjoying it right to the end, but my wife got a bit bored with it, and then the plot was kind of just there, and the ending fell incredibly flat. She was finished with it long before we stopped playing. I accidentally saw a couple of the frost haven characters a while ago and was totally smitten, they look SO much more interesting than any GH character, and I loved GH! But, for a few reasons, including my wife not really fancying any more, we never bothered Just recently, a new couple we know have shown an interest, and they're going to get and play it, and asked if we wanted to. I'm instantly in, and my wife has said she'd like to because she wants to socialise, but isn't sure. Without spoilers, does Frost haven have more level diversity than GH? GH was super one note, you pretty quickly had seen all that levels could possibly be. Does FH have more, like, managing your home town? You got achievements in GH, but they didn't really do anything. She enjoyed all that admin side of things, and stickers, but not really the payoff. It sounds like it does, with the whole, build your town thing, but in practice does that actually amount to anything? Is there more 'game diversity' I guess, or is it just elevated by the more complex champs?
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!Klams posted:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3840191 So to make it short - yeah. There's a ton more character and scenario diversity in Frosthaven. The Outpost phase is a lot more central and there's some elements that make it more than simple admin. I think the payoff is definitely there, and from what you've posted, I expect you probably will too. 
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dwarf74 posted:Hey goon! Do we know Frosthaven? Oh goodness yes. Come by and visit the Gloomhaven/Frosthaven thread! Ooooooh, nice, yeah, will go check that out, thanks! Gosh, I just read the descriptions of the base FH classes and I'm unbelievably hype!
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Ohthehugemanatee posted:That's a great system. I like that it encourages everyone to play to win all the time. Most games I've played there's always one player so far behind they just decide to say gently caress it and space-risk their neighbor. hell yeah bratna! loving, everybody copy, mebbe we can make for an international league eh?
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