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Radioactive Toy posted:Great OP. Even if you don't care about teamplay, if 3-5p in your future, Concordia Venus (the standalone) version is the better deal. Comes with 4 maps (and one of them also as a smaller version for lower player count) instead of the base game's 2 (well, 1 of the maps overlaps). If you ONLY play 2p, I'd recommend getting whichever is cheapest (probably base game) + either Corsica or Creta (or both) which are better for 2p (the bigger maps are too loose, but that depends on personal taste too).
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It's true that succinct descriptions can be useful information. For example, "PRADA SLUT - There already is representation of women in board games. Just look at all my titty minis. What more representation do they need?" ----- For boardgame price comparisons, I suggest Boardgameoracle instead of Boardgameatlas. More useful for Canadians, too. Boardgameprices.co.uk for Europeans.
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Here's my pitch: Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadrant : Trading and Negotiation in the Elysian Quadran
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I've had players so overwhelmed by Spirit Island that I've had to do their turn for them (on top of doing my own....). Then I had a player who was like 'oh, I don't take any actions this turn'. And then we lost. So yeah, for the foreseeable future, Spirit Island is an exclusively 2p game for us.
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El Grande is amazing 5p and plays well on yucata.de
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I have an idea for a deck-builder. Instead of cards or chips, your deck consists of cardboard pieces shaped like David Sirlin's head, which you shuffle in your bag. Other players can attack you and make you gain negative turd-shaped pieces as well. But Llyranor, you ask, wouldn't players be able to feel the difference between turds and David Sirlin's head? No, no they wouldn't.
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!Klams posted:I just finished the Sleeping Gods campaign. That game is great! Really compelling, really fun, just a beautiful experience. I wanna play it again and go see stuff I missed, but I feel like my wife will probably need a bit longer before she's keen to jump back in the boat. Anyone have any input about the expansion? It feels like it might be a great way to make playing it though again more palatable? 2) Dungeons seems pretty skippable, imo. I asked in a bgg thread, and it doesn't seem to add much narrative, either.
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Admiralty Flag posted:I played Castles of Burgundy for the first time last night. I liked it a lot, noted the recommendation on BGG that it's best at 2, and so am thinking about getting a copy to play with my wife. Base game only is my recommendation.
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Fields of Arle is the best
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CitizenKeen posted:Please sell me on/off Rococo, specifically Deluxe Edition. I want goon opinions. How badly do you want to spend >100$ for a run-of-the-mill euro?
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Bus can be taught in 10 min or less.
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Fields of Arle is the best 2p WP. It helps that it was designed specifically for that player count. More medium-heavy than medium, though. Concordia is not WP, but it's better at 2p IF you get the Corsica and/or Creta map expansion(s). The base game or Venus standalone's smaller map is too loose for 2p imo (better suited for 3p). Llyranor fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Jan 23, 2022 |
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It doesn't have to be one or the other. 1) Feck blockchains 2) Feck minis 3) Threadban Prada
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Bootleg Root is great:strip_icc()/pic5499922.png)
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I found a video of Prada and leperflesh https://twitter.com/iNabber69/status/1485995146369978379
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Final Girl Season 2 looks terrible. I guess Van Ryder used all their creativity on that dumb popcorn NFT game of theirs.
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Sell Gloomhaven still shrink-wrapped, then play digital or get Jaws of the Lion.
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potatocubed posted:I feel that going from 'enjoys KDM' to 'is a rape apologist' is a jump too far. It's not just the KDM enjoyment, it's saying that a drawing of an almost naked woman being pinned down and tied up by a group is just a regular old magic ritual, downplaying the sexual violence implied. This has happened in the old thread. FulsomFrank posted:The sales up here have been pretty lame lately. I always get a chuckle when one of the big dogs in the GTA area, 401 Games, does a sale on like Canada Day or Labour Day and WHOA 6% OFF GAMES, INCREDIBLE. Better than a kick in the pants sure, but just barrel scraping.
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For Gloomhaven, I just put spindown dice directly next to the corresponding monsters
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If you're cheap, go for Folded Space. Otherwise I can't help you.
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mellifluous posted:I try to play board games weekly with my family, but it's tough to find a game that everyone likes. My brother has incorrigible AP, so I don't want to bring anything that runs long even with non-AP players, and my mum doesn't like complex rules or turn structures. I prefer low-luck, high-interaction games with straightforward rules (which I get to play with my regular gaming group), but I'm realizing that my AP-prone brother doesn't really share my taste - I think he prefers games that lean a little more multiplayer solitaire so that he can devise and execute some kind of grand strategy with minimal interference. For instance, he looked up Terraforming Mars and thinks it would be fun (I think he likes engine building and finding satisfying combos), but I think his AP would drag it out into a frustratingly long experience. I haven't actually played TfM, so this is just based on what I've read in this thread and seen in videos on BGG. 
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Arzaac posted:I'm sure this game is good but the art is extremely uncanny valley to me What do you mean? I've never seen a more accurate depiction of mer-cats.
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A meta can develop when certain players become predictable in their style of play, so you should definitely take that into consideration (and maybe even exploit that). In general, I do think tabula rasa is important. When we were playing Games of Thrones the board game (lol), it was with the social contract that, yes we would betray each other, and yes that's part of the game and won't affect the next game. Shifting alliances and keeping an eye behind your back was part of the game, and if you got rid of that the game would be diminished. Permanent alliances or being afraid of hurting other players' feelings made for a worse game.
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I will have no hesitation to kingmake the player who screwed me over less during the game
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Are there any boardgames out there that handle having a big event happen mid-game that is designed to slow all of the players down/throw a wrench in their plans/cause some damage without being overbearing and lovely?
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40$ is pretty cheap if you learned your lesson to never buy games again.
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The "don't look at the deck" RAW for Aeon's End were meant to reduce AP, not to make it a memory game.
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Jedit posted:I'm not a Kickstarter hater who lost $90, I'm a Foohaven hater who saved $250.
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armorer posted:I'm not really sure why people are hating on frosthaven, did I miss the memo or something? I played and enjoyed gloomhaven, and JotL has been heavily recommended in this thread in the past.
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I appreciate the sentiment of gathering receipts to permanently ban (or maybe give a 12-hour time-out, the 2nd harshest punishment) Rutibex for transphobia (and racism and islamophobia and classism, it seems?), but that seems like a mod's job to dig those up.
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Thanks for the information, it's good to know Rutibex kept his transphobia in other threads only, thank goodness.
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Thanks, Neville.
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That 6h probe is going to make Prada think twice before making GBS threads up this thread again.
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Elman posted:What's a good 4-6 player game? I was thinking of picking up Mysterium or Funemployed but I'm open to suggestions. While I'd prefer something relatively light, a heavier game might be fine if it's not too time consuming. Evolution: Climate (medium-light)
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Slyphic posted:Mysterium has gotten a LOT of table time. How long the game takes is hugely dependent on the player running the ghost. The most down time in the game is waiting for the ghost to assign visions, and a player that is indecisive or uncreative will choke hard doing this and bog the game down. Next time I play Mysterium, I intend to use some of the original Ukrainian rules and just ignore the fiddly guessing minigame, plus everyone will be able to see the 3 cards during the finale. Llyranor fucked around with this message at 15:27 on Mar 31, 2022 |
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Slyphic posted:We tried Ghost Team once. They have to whisper to each other and can't pay as much attention to the table and neither helps in any way. Two ghosts with two decks might work, never tried that. MockingQuantum posted:2 ghosts is a total toss-up, it heavily depends on the ghosts and their familiarity with the game, and if you have two indecisive ghosts it multiplies the time suck. That said we frequently do two ghosts when playing with six mediums, and the ghosts just split the table down the middle and each get three mediums they give visions to, and that actually works alright. It does add to the confusion in the guessing phase but at least with the people I play with that tends to be more fun overall. 2 ghosts for the whole table is tough unless the ghosts are okay with pointing and gesturing and probably misunderstanding each other more often than not, which once again can be its own sort of fun.
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Admiralty Flag posted:I recently played Concordia at a Meetup and enjoyed it. Amazon is running a promo where if you buy something that is listed as "sold by Amazon" and you have it delivered to a locker/hub, you can use the code 10OFFPICKUP to get $10 off a purchase of $20+. So I decided to order Concordia (already $20 off MSRP + $10 more). I'll get xpacs through my FLGS to make up for my sin of feeding the Amazon beast. Speaking of which:
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