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Good games that the OP excludes because they're >$100 and/or too complex for new people: Too Many Bones :strip_icc()/pic6624323.png) Condense a fantasy epic into a few hours, except you're playing as something out of like an 80's Jim Henson-esque movie. All your skills are on unique dice, so you grab your clutch and throw. No pencils, no calculating a bunch of boring modifiers, and because the game is so short, all your 'earnings' are meaningful and fast.  Components are.. interesting. All your skills come from dice, completely unique to each character. All characters and enemies are represented with poker chips. Even your life is on chips stacked under you, leading to some comedy as you take damage and watch your character shrink down beside towering enemies. Your character "tableau" is a neoprene mat with holes punched in it. :strip_icc()/pic3504350.jpg) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr43RVRtv8s A good review. If you're lost as to what to buy, I would buy the base game, and then if you're into it, grab Undertow. From there, it's pretty open. 40 Days adds new encounter cards and enemies. Splice & Dice is a mishmash of content, including some "hard mode" bosses if you've gotten too good at beating up the base game bosses. There's a pile of characters and addons as well. You could play this with new people who are used to D&D or similar (so long as you already know how to play). Lisboa :strip_icc()/pic3209553.jpg) Rebuild the city of Lisboa after the fire/flood/earthquake of the 1750sish, by scooting cubes. The smuggest king since Caylus. I would describe it as the ideal representation of Euro game. Lots of small pathway decisions with a central focus of re-building the city. Components that are fancy as gently caress. Double-thick cardboard tokens, nice recessed player tableaus, slick card finishes, little wooden pieces, and small booklets as player aids. Definitely a game that impresses.  If you've got a hardcore Euro group, this is the one to play. Rococo :strip_icc()/pic5132726.png) Make fancy dresses for Louis XV's fancy party. Send people out to get cloth, patterns, tufts, or whatever else you need to make a fancy dress (or puffy pantaloons or whatever it is the men wear). Put your fancy dresses somewhere in the party house and watch the game board fill up as people fight to have the most fancy dresses in the different party rooms. Like Lisboa (same publisher), absolutely baller components: :strip_icc()/pic5783683.jpg) :strip_icc()/pic5783689.jpg) Wanna make a dress with those tufts. Metal coins if you want them. Not very hard to play, could pull this one off with new people who have played most any other modern games. Anachrony :strip_icc()/pic3499707.jpg) Escape your people from a big bad planetary meteor crash by going forward in time and getting things from your future self, but then repaying it later (or not, I suppose) before a singularity eats your things. Make other players upset when you leave them behind and fly away before impact. Build weird buildings inside your district to prepare for escape, or send your people to planet surface in a Gundam to Get Stuff, but those things aren't cheap to power up. :strip_icc()/pic2983884.jpg) :strip_icc()/pic3450733.jpg) See forward in time to know what technology you'll develop next turn, just in case you want to grab the resources for it. Or, if you miss out, I suppose you can always build an engine to send yourself back to a previous turn and build the project then, materializing it in your present existence. Pay back those "borrowed" resources while you're at it. Can also get ~fancy paintable robots~ that your people sit in, if you really want them. New print runs of this game split out the content into a few different boxes to change the pricing around. Other cheap and/or good games for new people: Flamme Rouge :strip_icc()/pic3482520.png) Old-timey bicycle race. Vroom your riders around different tracks to finish first. Start with a fresh deck of high-movement cards, and slowly lose them as you play them each turn. Pace your riders to the end -- pulling too far ahead gives you low-value exhaustion cards, but sticking close to the pack might give you some free movement as you slipstream in another riders wake, waiting for the opportunity to sprint ahead. Or, get clogged up behind in a comical pile as people suck wind going up the final hills.  Short and easy to play. The Quacks of Quedlinburg  Make the best potion for the fair by chucking in ingredients at random from your bag. Each ingredient gives you a bonus and makes your potion even more impressive, but go too far and the entire thing explodes in your face. Did I mention you can't ever look at the ingredients in your bag? How many of those moths did you buy again? This is a good party game / family game / light-ish game and good "skill equalizer", since most of the game revolves around how much risk you're willing to take on as you keep reaching into that bag. Note that there are some swings of good/bad luck, so don't play this one with a group of whiners who will get butt-hurt about how "fair/unfair" a game about making wizard potions might be. The two Expansions are Herb Witches and Alchemists. Herb Witches adds some new ingredients and some "once-per-game" witch stalls to grand you a special ability (maybe you need to unexplode that pot?), Alchemists adds some interesting asymmetry as you pick an "ailment" you like to cure, granting you some extra buying power, a more stable pot, or maybe just supercharging your ingredients? If you're cheap, you can also buy coin capsules (like what coin collectors use) to put your ingredients in. If you're not cheap, you can get a set of fancy plastic ingredients that make huge shaking sounds when you dig through your sack, and also cost as much as the game. PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Apr 6, 2022 |
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silvergoose posted:They're all links to good descriptions of the game on BGG, which is even more helpful! Just put like “Flamme Rouge - Race bicycles around a track”. If they want more details they can click through to the BGG page. Unless you’re suggesting someone click through 40 games with no helpful context to a massive synopsis of each one.
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Leperflesh posted:This is a good suggestion, maybe you can give it a go for a few, if several people write like 5 each, they'd all be written up pretty quickly. This is what I've got from the games I've played enough of to make a statement. For "post length" reasons they're extra short, but are probably enough to gauge thematic interest from someone who has no idea what any of these names mean. quote:2 Player games I also noted "card" games specifically since "card game" people will easily play similar games but not if you throw a board in front of it (e.g., Flamme Rouge) even if the mechanics are card-specific. Also, Caylus 1303 should probably replace "regular" Caylus. Can adjust so it's not as much "build a thing" description, but a some of the original suggestions are basically iterations of the same game (Agricola and A Feast For Odin)? PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Dec 30, 2021 |
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Magnetic North posted:Hey, just for funsies, click that hyperlink to the BGG page. At the top, they've added the ability to suggest a one sentence description for games. For AFfO, it says, "Puzzle together the life of a Viking village as you hunt, farm, craft, and explore." That's a nice description, and hits the type of game, the theme and a few key actions. Why would someone write a description when one already exists? It's almost as if BGG has already crowdsourced this labor. Because it has. Okay, then put those descriptions on there instead. It’s more helpful for new people to whom the names mean nothing.
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Stickman posted:BSG has the tentacle remake, but what’s out-Space Alerted Space Alert? There's nothing wrong with Space Alert, but it's not really an "introduction to board games" style of game, especially when you have more options in the co-op space in the 13 years since its release. It's also hard to keep track of what's happening if you're new, and the "lol don't worry about it just watch the chaos" isn't always broadly appealing. It's a niche game. I'd still play it if someone put it on the table, but I can't think of anyone who I'd think "yeah.. Space Alert is what's going to get them into this hobby", especially when I'm staring down like.. Quacks of Quedlinburg (chaos) or Pandemic (co-op) or Flamme Rouge (play some cards). Even Magic Maze if I think they would love real-time. Space Alert fits into the "someone who already plays some board games but want's something a bit weird and different than what they know" PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Dec 31, 2021 |
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I use KMC Perfect fits for normal sleeves since they don’t add bulk and cards fit in boxes better.
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Year-end stats: Missing a handful of "didn't bother to keep score" games of Monikers and some other PnPs, but otherwise good. The "all of your kickstarter games are getting delayed 9 more months hope you didn't want to play anything since march" was rather disappointing.
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Board Game Stats, with whatever the "insights" add-on was. Syncs with BGG, which is nice.
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Kickstarter success:  majestic as gently caress
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I like Ascension, it's probably my favorite of the "straight" deck builders. It's more variant/tactical than Dominion. I've probably played a thousand games of it on iOS as well, since it simplifies shuffling and counting.
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10/10 would go there
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Archenteron posted:Vlaada has a market row game? Bunny Bunny Moose Moose
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Jedit posted:Laughing my rear end off at them including a place to play digital Cards Against Humanity, aka Apples to Apples: Casual Bigotry Edition. You don’t get it, you’re just not playing with the right people, ones who don’t use “the three-fifths clause” as relating to race.
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Rococo is good and the experience is nice, especially with the upgraded pieces. It’s got that same “elegant” feel as Lisboa. It’s not particularly complex either. Easily made it to my shelf.
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Lisboa has better mechanics (and is a better game from the same publisher at the same price) but the experience of playing Rococo is what carries it. The pieces are nice and it’s fun to build the dresses and see the board build up, with enough depth that it’s not a dumb game of “pick resources and build a thing” Given the choice I would take Lisboa over Rococo (though I own both) but I wouldn’t turn down Rococo or “always” play a similar game over it.
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I still need to really play my copy of Radlands. The production value doesn’t disappoint though. They use the same PVC cards as Too Many Bones.
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Opinion on Final Girl ?
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Gejimayu posted:I want to get a couple worker placement games as I like the idea but haven't really clicked with one yet. I had and sold Agricola (found it to be lacking in fun choices), and I have Sons of Anarchy which I enjoy a bit. We mostly play deck building games or roll for the galaxy (WP adjacent i suppose?) for our medium weight euro fix. We play at 2 usually. I was thinking I'd try Viticulture as a strictly worker placement game and wanted to pick up one of the newer hybrid ones like everdell or arnak. Any recommendations? I prefer games with a bit more interaction usually. Concordia sounded interesting but doesn't seem great at 2? Champions of Midgard or Anachrony
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Magnetic North posted:There are various reasons why goons should pass this project, mostly Kickstarter's crypto baloney and Mayday and all their shell-game shell corporations being shady in various ways. I know there have been other controversies including ones about their board quality and to quote one redditor: "Beware Mayday games. Period. They've been a shitshow forever." Hi, Blockchain != Crypto Kickstarter likely just uses blockchain to decentralize transactions so they can absolve themselves of liability for chargebacks / failed projects and facilitate pledge selling. Unless you can point me to an exchange where Kickstarter is actually selling crypto.
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The face of not building the castle because some gently caress moved the provost again
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Artisans of Splendent Vale pledge manager is back open for a little while. Get it while you can. e: my bad, was actually the preorder? Or something? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renegadegamestudios/artisans-of-splendent-vale/posts/3411893 e: found preorder here https://renegadegamestudios.com/artisans-of-splendent-vale/ PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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Furthermore, I’m tired of charades. Don’t people know the calories they expend gesticulating and yelling are creating negative value equivalent to the cost of consumption?
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Ubik_Lives posted:I feel like Prada had a point here, because while using a blockchain system is hideously inefficient compared to traditional methods, it's orders of magnitude better than Bitcoin. I hope Kickstarter switches to an all-Bitcoin model so the $300 all-in pledges only cost about $25 by the time the funding period ends. Actual game chat: Is Puzzle Strike 2... good? Bad? Want to wave that wand around ngl. PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Jan 25, 2022 |
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Infinitum posted:Crosspostin, cause more people should own Crokinole Saw this, does a $100 board hold up or is it better to get a higher-end one from elsewhere?
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Slimy Hog posted:Can we take this to QCS or something? I'm not liking this pages-long derail about Prada slut and crypto. Still waiting to hear how Final Girl Season 2 plays out
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Redundant posted:I play some games solo but don't own any solo only games. I was tempted by the French resistance game and Final Girl but decided against both for one reason or another. I like it. It’s got more of a hectic air hockey / foosball feel than crockinole.
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Slimy Hog posted:2nd-ing this. My hot take is that Gloomhaven is only fine A spicy take that I agree with Dr. Lunchables posted:Haha, drat. 18 pages? A new record. I haven’t played digital but the setup and bookkeeping sucks
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I played Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective with my wife but it would easily work as a solo game.
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The Eyes Have It posted:My biggest pain point in Gloomhaven was managing all the health tracking for all the enemies (and when you get to four players, there are a LOT of enemies and they have a lot of health). Even using some small d10 dice to track health gets super clunky as enemy count rises. I bought some little stands that have life spinners built in.
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I used these PLASTIC bases (they had white paint on the numbers). I didn't want to use an app for bookkeeping (like Descent), but I did use an app for a spoiler-free room setup and campaign tracking (since it's annoying to understand what you have prereqs for). Couldn't see terrain or monsters until I opened doors, couldn't see advanced paragraphs of the scenario or rewards until I triggered them. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Viper915 posted:Is Meeple Realty any good? They don't have a Spirit Island insert, but they've got some other things that look decent. Yeah, they're probably the best of the wooden inserts, I have a pile of them. I don't know about Spirit Island but I have a few for other games and they're really nice. The problem with other organizers is that they're often strictly utilitarian and you have this big ugly box on the table. Meeple Realty tries to incorporate some style into the insert so it enhances the look while you play. It's both useful and makes the game look better: Quacks  Pipeline  Nyan island  they also have a dinosaur that shits dice 
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Chip Theory Games is making some Elder Scrolls game: https://chiptheorygames.com/the-elder-scrolls/ Too Many Bones is an absolute banger and it has "Character building & combat inspired by Too Many Bones"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUI9lATTKnI My wallet is ready
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fresh off the gamefound verdict: excellent PRADA SLUT fucked around with this message at 01:44 on Jan 31, 2022 |
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Now do King Caylus
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What are the "new" Sherlock games? I played the old box (with Tim
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Mind MGMT expansion coming soon, likely opening orders for the original box as well. Also, Lovecraft Sherlock
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Megasabin posted:Any thoughts on Puzzle Strike II? I know the first one was considered a legit good deck builder/1v1 game. Do people who understand the first think the second sounds like it's shaping up well from a design standpoint? Two days left and I'm considering backing. I'm going back and forth on it too. My only concern would be if the turns end up being way too long while multiple combos trigger. Usually in a "direct" 1v1 you want shorter, quicker turns, or at least some form of reaction from the other player An extra $75 for the Ultra Pro sleeves is steep though. All-in is only $100 without it. It's here, at any rate: https://tabletopia.com/games/puzzle-strike-2
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good and fun game Quacks has a $75 big box: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QXMW8H4/
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MIND MGMT Kickstarter is up, get in
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