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Lord Frisk posted:I was near Wilmington but traveled over to Cape Fear. It appears NC just had a bunch of stuff going on. NC has a metric fuckton of colleges in its larger cities. The Charlotte area alone has around 20 colleges, not including for-profits like Charlotte School of Law. Greensboro has at least 6 that I can think of off-hand, not including for-profit colleges or GTCC. So there is a large influx of nerdy youngish kids relative to a lot of regions.
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Fungah! posted:Yeah cats and maybe dogs are OK as long as the place doesn't smell like animals, but rodents are pretty much right out Ferrets aren't rodents, they are closer to Weasels than anything else. That being said, they DO smell and they DO poo poo.....a lot. Like a whole metric fuckton of animal feces every day. If you don't clean out their cage, that poo poo is rank. Look, I have a ferret, they are adorable, inquisitive, fun loving balls of energy when awake, and absolutely adorable when asleep. But by no means do they have a place in a retail business that is not a pet store.
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Lichtenstein posted:Talisman with Nickelback. For once, I think someone is being to hard on Nickelback. I would listen to them on repeat for 4 hours if it got me out of playing a game of Talisman.
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Fat Samurai posted:Now imagine having to play them again, knowing, deep down, that it's your own bloody fault. Just play kingmaker. The correct way to play munchkin is to choose a person, and spend all your cards and assistance helping that one person to win. The fewer turns it takes for that person to win, the better you did. It's like playing a traitor game in reverse. edit-Just remember, the true objective of Munchkin is to get it over with as quickly as possible.
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Tekopo posted:This was my plan all along, I had a shadowy past and was playing the long con. It's too late now. Are you......Rutibex?
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Heh, I came into the hobby through Magic the Gathering. A game store opened up across the street from where I went to High School. So after school me and a few of the nerdier people from school would go there and game. In between rounds of magic I got introduced to other TCG's like Warlord and LO5R, and Catan, Tsuro, and every lovely Steve Jackson game under the sun....Munchkin, NInja Burger, S.P.A.N.C. (dear God loving S.P.A.N.C.). The store lasted about a year before going under, and I didn't play many board games for a few years until I moved back to my home city after college and met up with some of my gamer friends, and they started me on Agricola and Caylus and a myriad of other board games. I still hate Agricola, but Caylus has definitely grown on me as have a lot of Euros, especially Ground Floor, not a very well known one but certainly a favorite of mine. Also, if I ever see S.P.A.N.C. in someone's game collection, I am leaving their game night and never going back.
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Broken Loose posted:None that are out yet. I have a kickstarter for a game called Final Attack! that should hopefully be live by the end of next week. The cat is now officially out of the bag. Definitely interested, I have a few friends I am pretty sure I can rope into playing this. Couple of questions for ya though: 1) What is the expected price point of the game? 2) Assuming your Kickstarter meets its goal, what timeframe could we expect the game to be distributed (within reason, I know you aren't clairvoyant) 3) Most of my playgroup is into competitive Euros with theme being an almost irrelevant afterthought, like your avatar's game, Caylus, what, if anything about Final Attack will appeal to them?
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MildManeredManikin posted:Oh yeah I understand why some anime stuff is Bad, but it seems fairly easy to distinguish what is and isn't. Yeah I think the most scantily clad female character is the Alien, and she's wearing shorts and and a sleeveless white shirt, nothing horribly revealing or demeaning. But I know plenty of people who won't even try Tragedy Looper because of the artwork.
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Broken Loose posted:Good Answers to My Questions Ok excellent, I guess my next question is when will the Kickstarter page go up?
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So my group has mined the included scripts with Tragedy Looper so I am working on getting a few together, and wanted to see what people thought of this one I put together. I haven't played it yet, but I'm more interested in seeing if anyone sees any glaring issues with it before I try running it:"Custom Script:Ingenue Rising" posted:Plots: Thoughts? Criticisms? Suggestions? Madmarker fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Feb 2, 2015 |
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Social Dissonance posted:It seems like it may be too difficult. With 12 characters a Hmm, Ill cut the Class Rep. All the other characters have good abilities for the characters to use to deduce roles or manage paranoia. If it still ends up being to hard, I'll try cutting the Butterfly Effect Incident.
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LuiCypher posted:Isn't the Dice Tower just a massive scam wherein Vasel and Co. get games for free from Take every opportunity to play a new game you can, from trash games like Exploding Kitten to Euro games, to Amerithrash, whatever you can. Immediately after playing a game and putting it up, record yourself talking about the game after dumping the pieces on a table. There, you can join the elite pantheon of board game reviewers. edit-It is mandatory you do no prep or practice for your review. Make sure it is entirely off-the-cuff, with no rehearsal behind it whatsoever.
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Feb 2, 2015 20:39
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EBag posted:And don't forget to make up inane top 10 lists every few days where you can cleverly recycle your top 50 games in new and exciting ways. How could I forget about the inane Top 10 Lists.... I'll give you your first list topic Top Ten Dog Games, these are Boardgames where a major component or mechanic involves canines. Make sure to spend over an hour on the video for this list, and not to actually write the list down anywhere so that people will watch your video
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Sistergodiva posted:You know what freaks me out about Vasel and the annoying fat(ter) ADD guy is? They seem really creepily christian, this creeps me out so much as someone from a almost completely secular nation. I live in the American South, and thats just something I'm used to. I've played DND with people who wouldn't play a Magic-using class because Sorcery is ungodly. I've seen all the "funny" Christian shirts constantly. Heck I know full grown adults who still refuse to say "shut up" or "that sucks" because they are swear words. I don't think its creepy, just really, really, really dumb. If I wasn't inundated in it, I am pretty sure I would find it creepier than I do, but I'm just so used to that nonsense I barely noticed.
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Impermanent posted:The best thing about the south is the stories you have to tell people about it after you've escaped. No the best part of the South, at least my corner of the South, is Cheerwine, Pulled Pork Barbecue (Vinegar Base), and Baptist churches selling Brunswick Stew. I say this as a liberal Atheist, but dear God, Brunswick Stew almost makes the hyper-Christians worthwhile. Echophonic posted:I've never found Zee (the other guy in the top 10s) all that offensive, he's better than Vasel or Sam at explaining why he likes something. I'll agree with you here. I still don't think he is all that good at it, but he is a far sight better than Vasel and both Vasel and Zee are much easier to tolerate than the Hyper-Christian, Uber-Grognard Stereotype given flesh that is Sam. Madmarker fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Feb 2, 2015 |
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Nobody answered this so I guess I will. I'll start by saying that I don't find Archipelago to be very fiddly. Now I define fiddly basically by "how much poo poo do you have to look up/potentially forget?", not by weight of game. So for example Arkham Horror is a very fiddly game because you can forget that the Terror Track has closed the shops, or that you were supposed to get a dollar because you have a special piece of equipment, or whatever. Some people use "fiddly" as synonymous with game weight, but I don't believe in that. If things are distinctly phased, well laid-out and easily referenced then that, to me, is not fiddly. Archipelago is great because I get to be a dick and say that I'm way behind everyone else and convince the rest of the table to pay for me in a crisis. That is easily the best part of the game.
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Mojo Jojo posted:I've only played King of New York once and I've got no real desire to play again. At least it was fairly fast I suppose. King of New York is Kaiju Yahtzee. It is a light game where your decisions at least matter, not as much as the die roll mind you, but at least they matter somewhat. Its a great beginner game because it is simple, and though someone really good at the game is more likely to win, the dice keep the experience advantage to a minimum. Its not a game I would choose to play frequently, but when coaxing people with fragile newbie egos into the hobby, its great.
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Arnm616 posted:I have recently been getting into board gaming and have been slowly introducing new friend groups to a few different games. I'm at the point now where I have a consistent 6-8 people who want to meet every week or so and the game that has been best received so far is 7 Wonders. My friends love 7 Wonders but I am getting a bit burned out on it so I'm looking for something else to add to my collection that can scale easily from 3-7 players, is fairly easy to learn but tough to master, and has some variety to it. Any suggestions? Unfortunately, 7+ is a tough number, there are a few Euro's that support 6 players, Ground Floor, Agricola, Caverna. However most boardgames have a range of somewhere between 2-5 players, so its almost always best just to split the table, as has been previously mentioned.
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StashAugustine posted:
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thespaceinvader posted:Castles of Burgundy is the prime example of dice being used well by allowing you do roll them then decide your actions, not roll to see if your actions work. Quantum is another example of dice used well in a game, hell the whole game is D6's.
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So my playgroup has now instituted the use of chess clocks in Caylus. I highly recommend it, it makes the game incredibly frantic as you recklessly jockey for position and resources.
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Lord Frisk posted:Every game should come with a timer Honestly, I really want to do that anytime we play a Euro strategy game. It really cuts down on the AP all my gamer friends have.
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Bobby The Rookie posted:I probably wouldn't play with less than four, with three or fewer I think you have to start controlling multiple species and the game already burns your brain enough controlling just one. Dominant Species is swingy and mean. It is a very good game, but if you are one to get mad when someone kills all your animals in a hex, then this might not be the game for you. (Glaciation is a bitch)
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Lorini posted:I just wish I could get a group to play...love the game and NEVER get to play it. Heh, we have 2 copies floating around our play group and have had two full groups of 6 playing the game at the same time.
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FTJ posted:I work in shipping and I don't doubt for a second the reason is US customs. You guys have the worst customs system in the western world. We're also Number 1 in people incarcerated...U.S.A! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
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Tightest grouping we've had in Caylus. 3 player game, first place was the black player with 72 points, Second place was the blue player(me) with 71 points and third place was the red player with 69 points. Also first time I've used the money track for anything, worked better than I thought it would.
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Tekopo posted:Good god, that's what BL is actually like? I TAKE BACK MY PLEDGE IMMEDIATELY To be fair, he was arguing with a serious gaylord.
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BonHair posted:I decided to check out The Dice Tower, and I hate these guys. I also disagree with them a lot. Their main arguments seem to be "fun", "theme" and "flavour". And that's mostly it. They never try to analyse what happens in a game, how the mechanics work or anything that would be helpful, except "they like it". No. Pretty much the only good thing about them is how prolific they are. I often first hear about games by scrolling through their list of videos and checking out ones that seem like the game isn't Cthulutan Exploding Kitten Quest: Journey to Save Flutttershy and then look up the game elsewhere. fozzy fosbourne posted:Just like Exploding Memes and Cards for Racism make me realize how unfair I've been to Catan, dice tower makes me appreciate SU&SD so much more. This
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sonatinas posted:There really isn't a need for ad hominem attacks against them. They are really bad on their own. Maybe you can retheme Caverna as some sort of missionary/cultural brainwashing worker placement game and see how they review it. They like Caverna. Tom likes it because he thinks its a more thematic Agricola and Sam likes it because he can pretend to be a dwarf. No idea bout Zee. Also, where are you guys finding out he's quiverfull? I mean I wouldn't be surprised, but other than Sam's horrible shirts I never see them really ram to much religion down people's throats in their reviews. Like they mention if its a good game for Youth Group or for a Class, but that isn't really the same thing.
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Aston posted:I like boardgames and all but I can't understand how anyone could watch an hour+ unscripted video of top ten lists, no matter how well put together it was. Eh, after you play enough strategy games, an hour is the same as 3 minutes. But their top tens are horrible.
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Broken Loose posted:For all of the quality issues of that video, the first 30 seconds are absolutely perfect. hazzah, congrats dude
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Poison Mushroom posted:I'll probably pledge closer to the deadline. Not because I'm hesitant, but just because I don't want to forget that I have $50 spoken for and get hit by another overdraft or some poo poo. Same thing here,I've had that happen once before.
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Chill la Chill posted:Board gaming could learn a thing or two from chess-boxing. I could get into Caylus-Boxing
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ChiTownEddie posted:Heres a random one: Skull, Love Letter
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Going back to an old topic, any recommendations on soundtracks for Tash Kalar? Castles of Mad Ludwig? BattleCON? I was thinking of something like that goofy Star Trek song that played when Kirk was fighting in an arena for TK, or maybe Mortal Kombat music or something? Maybe some playlist of Street Fighter music for BattleCON well the soundtrack for BattleCON is Guile's theme.
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Countblanc posted:Street Fighter is like, the least anime fighting game I can think of outside of 3D fighters and BattleCON is pretty clearly based off those if anything Blazblue has some good music, if nothing else, I want the announcer to start every game of BattleCON I ever play. "The Wheel of Fate is Turning, REBEL ONE, Action"
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Jedit posted:Allow me to increase the comedy of your day: Of all the things to make a loving movie about, loving Catan? I wonder who is going to play the sheep.
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fozzy fosbourne posted:Like Exploding Kittens!!! Bill Hicks posted:
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So, whats the goonsensus on Argent? The idea of having each of your workers have special abilities in a worker placement game seems really nice, and the artwork and component quality seems very good. Does it play well? Does the hidden victory point condition make the game to random, or is the deduction element well placed?
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Big McHuge posted:The ability to look at games in a critical light has turned me into "that guy" and I need to learn how to enjoy myself during bad games. Honestly, if you are with a gaming group, and they pull out a game you have no interest in, you can suggest alternatives or go do something else. I have a regular gaming gaming group and there is one game they will regularly pull out that I have no interest in. Now objectively it is a good game (Agricola), but I have never enjoyed that game no matter how many times I play. So rather than subject myself to it, I will either break off with another disinterested party to play some other game, or I will volunteer to go on a snack/cook out run, or just be honest and say, "Nah, this one isn't my speed, y'all go ahead though, I'll get in on the next game." Dulkor posted:I don't think there is a goonsensus yet, but my own opinions are: 1)Annoying but unsurprising, there are some people I will opt to play other games with. 2)Good 3)Not an issue, we played TI last weekend so we'll be set 4)Excellent, that almost sells me on it in and of it self. Thanks for the input, I will probably end up purchasing this game sometime in the not-so-distant future. Madmarker fucked around with this message at 16:51 on Feb 20, 2015 |
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