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I'm thinking about picking up arcadia quest and have the dark souls game coming in the mail (because even though I only play trad games these days I'm still a dork) -- does anyone have experience with explaining the former one to newbies? I'm really looking for a dungeon crawler kind of game. Used to just wing it with heavily houseruled d&d/gamma world rulesets, but maybe an actual professionally produced game would work better. Sorry if the thread is full of this, checked the last few pages.
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I'm still exploring so I'm just gonna buy/pledge for both I think!
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Apr 25, 2017 13:02
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Well, pledged for the gloomhaven second printing, from what I've seen it's a good game to crawl through with friends.
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Apr 25, 2017 18:27
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Anyone here have experience with replaying Gloomhaven? I'm fine with persistently changing my Pandemic Legacy box (great experience/game, btw) but wanted to keep that one around for guests/more people than just a party or two. I was thinking about just making the stickers into fridge magnets.
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Apr 25, 2017 20:13
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The best worker placement game for 2-3 players I've played is Lords of Waterdeep (officially 2-5 players), does it outperform that one given you have 2 players?
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Apr 25, 2017 20:51
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Oh I didn't know dudes on a map was the name of a genre, whoops. I have stone age, LoW, and agricola... But despite their bgg rankings I'd rather play any other game
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Apr 26, 2017 04:17
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Yeah I think you can tell I'm not the most knowledgeable trad gamer haha. I'll keep those in mind along with blood rage and nexus ops, some others I saw being mentioned favorably.
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Apr 26, 2017 05:20
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Carcassonne is land placement obviously, like Catan
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Apr 27, 2017 17:07
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HoMM got me into board games
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Apr 28, 2017 04:19
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Rutibex posted:HoMM 3 is one of the golden eternal games, I have never become tired of HoMM 3. It is always fun to play just one more game/round. This. I wish the hd remake had the expansions :X
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Apr 28, 2017 04:37
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I wanna try mansions of madness so badly, but my flgs doesn't have a demo version. Worth?
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Apr 29, 2017 12:39
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I have that game, but didn't know it had MoM. Will try. Also I live in Europe so shipping from the US might be expensive.
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Apr 29, 2017 15:51
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Race for the galaxy is pretty great.
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Apr 29, 2017 17:15
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I played Imperial Settlers twice before giving up on it. Egypt won 2/2 times, and it never really was close
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Apr 29, 2017 22:18
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Cheen posted:Of all of them I would play everything a second time with enthusiasm except for Cosmic Encounter The game just feels so sloppy and loose and that there isn't that deep of a strategy. Can someone change my view? I sort of enjoy this game but it takes too long on average and the game length is also extremely random, ranging up to several hours in the worst cases. While the diplomatic part is enjoyable enough, the Destiny deck kinda ruins it. It'd be a nicer game if it lasted half an hour on average, didn't randomize your targets, and didn't have broken combos you can just RNG into without any thought. Basically a convoluted way of saying I like the art and variety of alien powers. Also, I'm ordering Mage Knight after demo'ing it. We made a few mistakes, but if you don't try to cut corners and stick to the rules when starting out it's not that bad. Takes a long time though, so I don't think it'll see much play since our attention spans often don't stretch past an hour or two these days.
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Apr 30, 2017 21:31
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Yeah we ran out of funding as well and we got beaten in our last match. It was close, but definitely requires more careful play. P:L is so much fun 
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May 1, 2017 04:20
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Yeah it's fun enough but you really need a fun gaming group so the duds (anything with 4+ players and the Hate for example) don't cause it to be shelved forever right away. One of my friends owns all expansions and it does make a difference, though. I wouldn't play the base game like I would with, say, Dominion etc.
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May 1, 2017 06:43
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Jabor posted:"we had Fun" does not make a game good. You're able to discuss the fun parts of specific games while at the same time acknowledging its mechanical flaws and merits.
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May 1, 2017 07:15
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I actually own their Frag game. It's awful.
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May 1, 2017 09:08
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Rumda posted:Good is objective fun is purely subjective Good isn't objective. If it were, we wouldn't be discussing it here. Rutibex posted:The other factors (like balance, replayability, depth of strategy, randomness) These things are subjective too and really depend on your group. The value of balance is largely dependent on whether players prefer asymmetry over symmetry and/or are very proficient/willing to break games open. Replayability is dependent on the group's need for variety. Depth of strategy doesn't have to mean more fun either (consider time spent waiting on other players), and randomness is such a general term it's pretty useless as well. You can go all the way from liar's dice to chess, random to predetermined. Is chess a 'better' game because it's less random?
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May 1, 2017 14:22
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Anyone interested in an in depth review of the dark souls board game? Can't imagine it'll even get close to MK or gloomhaven but maybe there's something specific people wanna know about
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May 1, 2017 20:35
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It's coming in the mail and I've got three game nights planned due to national holidays. I'll type up something when we have played some.
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May 1, 2017 20:43
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Playing codenames with 12 people is on my bucket list
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May 2, 2017 20:09
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I'm really excited, having backed the second print run.
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May 3, 2017 14:16
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Pandemic legacy was a huge hit in my group, and we're all pnp/d&d players, so...
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May 3, 2017 17:32
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Another recommendation post for 7 wonders duel. I love both 7 wonders and the duel version, and the latter one is an excellent 2p drafting game.
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May 4, 2017 02:17
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No way
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May 6, 2017 06:14
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Argh, I wish I didn't have to pay thirty bucks in shipping/handling/import now.
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May 7, 2017 15:54
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I eat both apples and oranges. While we're talking about food anyway, what board game friendly snacks do you guys stock up on when hosting a night?
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May 8, 2017 05:11
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Rubella, inbluenza, but we haven't named the other ones yet.
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May 8, 2017 11:45
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We lost in April last time, and now smoothly won two in a row with the medic and quarantine specialist to keep disease load low while the researcher and scientist churned out cures. Previously we kinda discarded the medic and went for a more mobile strategy, but his power to clean clusters of disease early on really owns. We made the six required military bases permanent after upgrading blue and red thrice/twice, it's really nice.
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May 9, 2017 05:06
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Sirlin is joyless and soulless, makes sense
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May 10, 2017 12:28
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Concordia is an excellent game, very fun if a little long few playthroughs last month
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May 10, 2017 17:51
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Mage knight just arrived, time to dig in. Dark souls still hasn't, which is pretty sad but to be expected. I hope gloomhaven performs better in the shipping department.
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May 15, 2017 18:06
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Mage Knight trip report: We had to stop 2 hours in, so at least we managed to finish the first three turns.
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May 15, 2017 21:23
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instant pledge
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May 15, 2017 21:42
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I don't own monopoly but I do own the game of life It's worse
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May 16, 2017 11:52
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I still don't have my dark souls box sadly, guess that review I promised won't be coming for a while. And this weekend is game weekend too, sad!
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May 19, 2017 05:28
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COIN, but with memes
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gently caress yeah. A friend just bought us Terminal Directive (a:netrunner legacy)
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