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Talk about your favorite board games here. Get people interested in trying something new.

My list doesn't include a lot of new games. Don't have the time to play really, so no point in investing in anything new. But here are some great ones you guys should try if you have the chance.

Betrayal at House on the Hill: This is a co-op game where the players investigate the namesake House on the Hill. The house is made up of random room tiles, so the layout is different with every exploration. Things start off simple at first, but as the house is further explored the chances increase that the "haunt" will begin. There are about 60+ random scenarios that can occur with the haunt. Perhaps a mummy comes to life looking for a bride, or a werewolf stalks the halls, or the house itself comes to life. In every scenario a "traitor" is revealed, and one of the players becomes the villain and has his own set of winning requirements. There is a 2nd edition out. They fixed a bunch of stuff including making sure that the "Underground Lake" isn't an attic tile.

Robo-Rally: This is a game that comes with it's own level of frustration. Each player represents a group of bored-as-hell AIs who control the robots in a manufacturing plant. They decide "what the hell, let's have a race?" and Robo-Rally was born. Each player gets a robot to torment and is issued a series of move cards that they may input into their bot's programing. Each of the five moves is carried out simultaneously with each player, with a higher valued card having move priority. And since the robots can push, shoot, or screw with each other, there is a lot of potential for shenanigans.

Vegas Showdown: Each player takes on the role of a Vegas Hotel mogul who try to outbid each other on various hotel/casino rooms, and then use them to create a winning floorplan. The winner is the tycoon with the most "fame", however "Population" and "money" are almost as important as they are the only way of getting increased funds to help you outbid for the expensive additions available later in the game. Unlike the first two this one has a game play of only about an hour, which makes it considerably short.

Monopoly Deal: The card game version of Monopoly, and probably 10x better than Monopoly itself. Each game is about 10-20 minutes long.

We pretty much played the classics at my house, but game night was a HUGE deal when we were kids and is probably one of the reasons that our family is as close as we are.

Favorites include: Trivial Persuit, Uno (yeah, it's a card game, but you included the monopoly one ), Yahtzee, Sorry, Mouse Trap, Boggle, Operation.

My favorite obscure game was I Vant to Bite Your Finger. I have to actually convince people that this game existed.

Bowielee said:

My favorite obscure game was I Vant to Bite Your Finger. I have to actually convince people that this game existed.

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I watched the commercial... and still refuse to believe it ever existed.

Shawnacy said:

Robo-Rally: This is a game that comes with it's own level of frustration. Each player represents a group of bored-as-hell AIs who control the robots in a manufacturing plant. They decide "what the hell, let's have a race?" and Robo-Rally was born. Each player gets a robot to torment and is issued a series of move cards that they may input into their bot's programing. Each of the five moves is carried out simultaneously with each player, with a higher valued card having move priority. And since the robots can push, shoot, or screw with each other, there is a lot of potential for shenanigans.

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This one is my favorite too. I don't know any new games, but we always gather happily for a round of Robo Rally shouting "Do the Robo dance!"
The Robo dance is when everybody twitches and twists his head as he tries to figure out the movement planning for his droid. Because not only are the robots moving simultaneously but also the board, the droid factory, has a lots more potential for shenanigans as the conveyor belt pull robots along or change their orientation and direction.

Man, the fact that you call those "old" games makes me feel incredibly old.

Robo Rally is the oldest of the bunch I think. The rest are probably nearing a decade.

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Robo Rally is the oldest of the bunch I think. The rest are probably nearing a decade.

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Seeing as most of the board games I played were made in the 70s and 80s, yeah, it makes one feel a bit long in the tooth

I really enjoy Small World but don't get to play it enough. This video does a better job of explaining it than I can, while being pretty entertaining itself.

I love Tabletop too damn much.

I really want to play Last Night on Earth.

I've only recently been initiated into the world of super board games. Mansions of Madness, Colliseum, Small World, Shadows Over Camelot are the first bunch I've played. Apparently the next one we're playing is Relic, which is apparently the Warhammer 40K version of Talisman, a game I'm told is good.

Bowielee said:

I really want to play Last Night on Earth.

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You aren't the only one - I can't find anyone down here to play it so I haven't looked at investing in it yet (plus I want to paint the minis too).

Also - here is Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day playing it. (doesn't appear to be 100% rule correct)

Growing up, Aggravation was my game of choice.
EDIT: The six-sided version.

--Patrick

ncts_dodge_man said:

You aren't the only one - I can't find anyone down here to play it so I haven't looked at investing in it yet (plus I want to paint the minis too).

Also - here is Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day playing it. (doesn't appear to be 100% rule correct)

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I've literally watched every episode of Tabletop a minimum of twice

Tag for later. Got lots to say...

I love Smallworld, Robo Rally, and Last Night on Earth as well. Good times.

Fireball Island is the greatest game of all time. Period. End of discussion.

Man, I haven't played Robo Rally in years! I miss it.

As for the classics, I played a lot of Clue and Scrabble growing up.

king of Tokyo
You hand your friends are giant robots battling one another for domain over Tokyo! Gain energy points to unleash attacks, and win by either killing your opponents or gaining enough victory points.

Sentinels of the multiverse!
You ad your friends are superheroes trying to stop a villain and his or her crew from their goals. Each villain has a win condition, and each hero a special focus. Gain powers or use tech to bring down the bad guy in a series of different environments. The best thing is the game runs itself on it's turn system so no one has to be the bad guy. Depending on the number of.heroes, the setting and the villain it can be either really easy and fun or really hard and also fun.

werewolf
Like assassin, but with a fantasy setting. You are either a werewolf, or a villager. If you are team evil you want to kill everyone at night in their sleep. If you are team good you want vote on who you think is a werewolf to execute. Try not kill villagers though! If it comes down to 50/50 good vs evil, evil wins. Lots of additional characters to play too, like the seer who can, once per night, determine if someone is a wolf or not. Con: needs a moderator

No love for Arkham Horror in this thread?

I played Arkham Horror a long time ago, I much prefer Mansions of Madness.

Catan

Battlestar galactica

Twilight imperium

Dominion

Small world

Arkham horror

House on haunted hill

Modern art

Liberte

Game of thrones

Memoir 44

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Battlestar galactica

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I'm a big BSG fan - am assuming that since you listed it it's decent - any specific thoughts about it?

Ticket To Ride! But I've only played on iPad...

ncts_dofavourite board games and got me into the show.n said:

I'm a big BSG fan - am assuming that since you listed it it's decent - any specific thoughts about it?

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Its one of my favourite board games and got me into the show

You play cooperatively as cast from the show trying to get to the lost colony. The different characters have different special abilities.

At the beginning of the game everyone draws cards that say you are a cylon or you are a human.

Give it a try its really cool.

No love for Risk?

True story: My family and I never bothered to read the instruction booklet for Risk when we first got the game, so we just houseruled everything at first. So you got wacky scenarios like "any territory can attack any other territory, regardless of location."

Played Settlers of Catan today. I've played it before a few times, but this is the first time we had a chance to pull out my copy of it which I received last Christmas. For those who are unaware for some reason, Settlers is a resource management game that requires careful planning and strategy to win. The board is made of specific land types that each yield a particular resource, and it's a race to tap these resources. There are a good number of expansions, but we just have the base set. My wife actually walked away the winner of our game. She was just as shocked.

Risk: I make it a rule to never break out Risk amongst my friends. I have become disenchanted with it over the years, but that's not the main reason I avoid it. Mostly it's the rage that the game brings out in people. After I denied him a continent bonus a friend of mine tossed the board into the air and proceeded to strangle me.
You think I'm kidding but this actually happened. He was pissed.

He'll choke out a bitch over a Risk game? That's pretty messed up.

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I have a specific thought: It's an awesome game! It's a bit hard to play as a cylon the first time though, because you can't ask about the rules, etc, if you want to stay undercover (no one knows who the cylons are), plus the humans can collectively devise strategies whereas you are on your own.

Chess 2 the sequal to chess is awesome with a videogame version in the works.

If your going to play Betrayal at House on Haunted Hill, you really do need to get the 2nd edition by Wizards of the Coast. It fixes so many things.

Arkham Horror is much better if you get the expansions, especially The King in Yellow.

I have never played a game of Risk that didn't ether end with everyone quitting or a fist fight.

You guys have some fucked up friends.

You guys need to play war fish. It's an online RISK where you just get an email notification when it's your turn. You can okay a games.over a few weeks or if you have time start a Google hangout or something and just have fun. It's got different maps and stuff too so you can play differently scenarios.

Man, I love this thread. I love games, and I am desperately jonesing for a regular game night with friends. Worst part about being a grown-up = no free time.

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You guys need to play war fish. It's an online RISK where you just get an email notification when it's your turn. You can okay a games.over a few weeks or if you have time start a Google hangout or something and just have fun. It's got different maps and stuff too so you can play differently scenarios.

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And you can't choke someone over Skype or G+.

Love Twilight Imperium but rarely have the time to play a whole game. Eclipse is my current obsession.

I have and play risk regularly for playstation. Only thing that irks me about it is people leaving just before you win so the game ends in a draw.

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Risk: I make it a rule to never break out Risk amongst my friends.

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You better keep Junta away from them too!
Hilariously realistic, but not for anyone taking games too seriously...

I got some strangling back in 1991 over Warhammer Fantasy as a shot from my ctapult veered off-course and hit an allied friend's infantry. First he shouted at me why I took the risk and I better shouldn't have tried to calm him down by saing "it's only a game"...

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. . . shouldn't have tried to calm him down by saing "it's only a game"...

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Ah, how I miss game shop people! /sarcasm

As much I liked gaming at my local place, there were those certain set of people who played there that you obviously knew they had no life outside of their game.

Cheesy1 said:

Ah, how I miss game shop people! /sarcasm

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He was one of my actual gaming buddies, not shop...
Today he's a lawyer...

Civilization, just for the sheer epicness. It's just as good to play and as hard to stop as the computer game and you better plan on playing a whole weekend if you want the full experience!

And even though it's more of a card game I absolutely love Avalon Hill's Atlantic Storm, captures quite the feeling and spirit of those convoy battles in WW2.

Sorry, just assumed that was the case. Bad memories of overzealous gaming nerds!

We have a closet absolutely stuffed to the rafters (it's a small closet, meant to be a linen closet) with board games. Our favorites are a series of games released by Mayfair Games, that are rail games, like EuroRails, Russian Rails, China Rails, Lunar Rails, Tokyo Rails, India Rails (we kind of went all out) and, sadly, Empire Builder (which was their version of America Rails, but they did a really crappy job of landscaping the US and understanding what's really produced in most US cities).

We've also really enjoyed Arkham Horror, Shadows over Camelot, Apples to Apples (which is really more a card game than a board game), and of course, Munchkin.

But then we went over to a friend's house to play a session of Shadowrun, and our closet was put to shame by their wall of games. Though, to be fair, they have an excuse. One of them works for WotC as a game designer. And on that note, we had a lot of fun with Lords of Waterdeep.

I loved Munchkin, until about the fourth time playing it suddenly dawned on me that every single game ends almost exactly the same two ways. One person is in the lead and about to win, everybody goes all out and pull out all the stops to stop this from happening, he will either pull it off anyway and win or he won't and the second place person will win in the next round or two.

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I loved Munchkin, until about the fourth time playing it suddenly dawned on me that every single game ends almost exactly the same two ways. One person is in the lead and about to win, everybody goes all out and pull out all the stops to stop this from happening, he will either pull it off anyway and win or he won't and the second place person will win in the next round or two.

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That's sort of the point. The game is about simulating a pen and paper session that has gone off the rails. Those NEVER end well.

My brother just bought the latest expansion for that, which includes Lizard Guys and Centaurs. Our dungeon and treasure stacks are so freakin' huge! It's awesome!

I didn't see Dominant Species, which is a phenomenal game of worker placement/area control.
Libertalia is a pirate game with decks and plays a decent amount of players.
7 Wonders is of course a classic card draft game where you build a society.
Citadels is a role selection game which causes you to choose a role and build cities with cards
Bang! is an excellent party game to play around a table, roles are randomly dealt out and every 'faction' has a different goal for winning

I could do a whole lot more. Love me some board games!

Bang is the best card only "board" game I've ever played. That game is just incredible. My only problem with it is once a player is eliminated that's it, they're done. I'm not a fan of player elimination in board games.

Frank said:

Bang is the best card only "board" game I've ever played. That game is just incredible. My only problem with it is once a player is eliminated that's it, they're done. I'm not a fan of player elimination in board games.

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Yeah, that can be frustrating, especially if you out yourself as a bandit early and get trounced for it.

Have you played any of the Mystery Rummy games or Plato 3000?

Oh shit, I forgot Glory to Rome, which may have the most confusing card rules ever written for the most elegant game design ever.

Battlestar Galactica, Pegasus expansion. A great game, as some people have stated previously. I guess my group of friends hasn't been able to come up with proper human strategies yet, since in most of our games, the cylon players end up winning.

Brass. A game set in north-western England during the Industrial Revolution. The players build cotton mills, forges, canals, railroads, and various other things to sell stuff to the markets for money used to build more. A nice game and a fun way to spend an evening.

Agricola. You take the place of a prosperous medieval farmer, and try to build up your farm by planting crops, acquiring livestock, building improvements, doing other things, and procreating madly to produce more workers for your farm. It is a nice game, though in my opinion a bit too much of your game is determined by the quality of the Occupation and Minor Improvement cards you get dealt with at the start, particularly when combined with the hyper-competitive nature fostered by the game board. Poor cards or ones that are spread all over the place make it very difficult to win against competent opposition.

BANG! is one of those games where there are simple rules to playing it properly. Each role has it's own tactics that really need to be observed to give you a better chance at victory.
Sheriff: It's not your job to guess who is who. If anything you are doing your self a disservice by attacking someone at random. If you get your deputy killed (or even the renegade) you are increasing the odds for everyone else. What should you do? Sit back and relax. If you are playing with expansions, just stock up on blue and green cards. Prepare for war. Once the deputy(s) is(are) dead you know that everyone else is fair game. Just remember that the Renegade is on your side until you and he are the last man standing.
Deputy: You have the easiest role, because you know exactly who is who. You know everyone else besides the Sheriff is a target. Use this to your advantage by picking fights with people who can't defend themselves. Start with the person on your immediate right (skipping the Sheriff). If you draw blood, the others will likely go for the kill.
Renegade: Same as the Deputy, but you might want to sit back a bit and see who goes after who. You'll have to take chances more than the other roles, but your biggest challenge will be preparing yourself to go head to head against the sheriff. And if he's been stocking up, you better as well.
Bandit: Everyone wants to kill you. Even other bandits. But honestly they shouldn't. Bandits can take out a Sheriff in one turn if they work together. The longer the game goes on the worst your chances are that you'll be able to take down the Sheriff. Your best option is to attack within the first or the second round. And if you are directly to the Sheriff's left you better damn well be the first person to open fire. Yes it outs you right from the start, but if the other bandits are smart they will take the hint. They will each get a turn before the Sheriff has the chance to defend himself.

Frank said:

Bang is the best card only "board" game I've ever played. That game is just incredible. My only problem with it is once a player is eliminated that's it, they're done. I'm not a fan of player elimination in board games.

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I love the expansion where there is a card that brings back all the eliminated players as ghosts for one round. They get a full hand of cards and can play as normal. Once the round ends they are dead again.

I've ended up the Renegade an inordinate amount of times and it's definitely the most fun part to play. It's easily the most challenging too.

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I've ended up the Renegade an inordinate amount of times and it's definitely the most fun part to play. It's easily the most challenging too.

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Renegade absolutely is the hardest role to play. In the online game he's also worth the most points if you are victorious. Heck. You even get a small bonus if you are alive no matter how the game resolves.

Agricola is a great game, just not for me. I despise feeling like no matter what I do I'm losing, even if I'm doing well.

Race for the Galaxy- Card game with role selection. Play with the first expansion but beyond that gets silly. Apparently they are doing a reboot.

Shawnacy said:

I make it a rule to never break out Risk amongst my friends. I have become disenchanted with it over the years, but that's not the main reason I avoid it. Mostly it's the rage that the game brings out in people.

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Mostly this. I enjoy the computer version of Risk for old-style Macs, but playing against other real humans just leads to too much tension.

stienman said:

Fluxx is a fun game for small groups.

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I would have mentioned Fluxx (I have the standard and the Monty Python variants), except that I don't consider it a board game.

--Patrick

stienman said:

It's a game I play when I'm bored, and it has over one hundred very thin, small boards.

QED.

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http://xkcd.com/759/
Read the rollover.

--Patrick

My wife picked me up Dominion and Munchkin for my upcoming birthday.

Dominion is great fun for a specific type of person. The expansions allow very different play styles; make a good choice about what you like and don't. I have no love whatsoever for cards that let you mess up each other's decks, and prefer more "peaceful" card combinations, but to each their own.
if you like Dominion, there's a good chance you'll like Puzzle Strike as well. Different graphical style, it plays with chips instead of cards, but it's a bit similar and in some ways more fun. Definitely more involved/aggressive.

stienman : if you like Puerto Rico but think it takes too long, give San Juan a spin. It's the card game based on it. Slightly simplified, but easier to play (can easily be played in train or car) with practically no set-up and goes a lot faster.

If you can manage Risk without fighting, try Attack!. Awesome game (the board being about 2.5 m² helps ), less luck-based and more in-depth, it's Risk to the next level. Don't try to finish a game in under 8 hours though. Err, that's with expansion? Without, it's just a meh version of Risk

Argicola is fun, but I agree it's too luck-based. Crappy cards will lose you the game if you're playing players from anywhere near the same level.
Le Havre, from the same creators, solves that but is even more complex and takes even longer. Not for the faint of heart, but it IS a fun and interesting experience once you get the hang of it.

I'm surprised to see Arkham Horror come up so much in this thread! It is a beast of a board game. I happen to looooove cooperative board games. I like competitive ones too, but coop games are my favorite. Arkham is high on the list. I also like Pandemic, especially with the expansion, and BSG (which is only partly coop). Over spring break, I played a lot of Ghost Stories, which is hard as hell but lots of fun, and some Sentinels of the Multiverse. My wife received Mice and Mystics for Christmas, which is an epic fantasy adventure that we have to continue one of these days. Last year, I pledged to the coop game Zombicide, which I think just about everyone here would love to play. They just Kickstarted two expansions, smashing the pledge total record for board games.

For competitive games, I like Small World (with micro expansions), Neuroshima Hex is fun, Stone Age, Suburbia (which is better than Vegas Showdown, I think), and if you like some lighter fare, Catan and Ticket to Ride are classic, Marrakech is worth checking out, and Pastiche is probably the most beautiful game I've ever played.

If you're in southern Oregon on the I-5 corridor and want to try a few games you've probably never played before, give me a jingle! :-p

Man, fuck Ghost Stories. I hate that game soooo much.

I like Small World, though I think it is one that has to be taken in moderation. Some of the combinations are ridiculously OP!

Tress said:

Man, fuck Ghost Stories. I hate that game soooo much.

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We had to fail at that game 4 or 5 times before we started beating it. It has a brutal learning curve.

MindDetective said:

We had to fail at that game 4 or 5 times before we started beating it. It has a brutal learning curve.

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I remember thinking the same thing with Arkham Horror now any group I'm with needs to have a bunch of extra rules to even risk losing the game.

My current Obsession is Lords of Waterdeep. You play as the guys in the shadowy bar who send adventurers out on quests to gain presitge and power in Waterdeep. It's an awesome game and I always come out having a blast even if I lose badly.

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My current Obsession is Lords of Waterdeep. You play as the guys in the shadowy bar who send adventurers out on quests to gain presitge and power in Waterdeep. It's an awesome game and I always come out having a blast even if I lose badly.

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I loves me some Waterdeep. Great game.

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I like Small World, though I think it is one that has to be taken in moderation. Some of the combinations are ridiculously OP!

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True but everyone has equal chance of picking them up. And for all the underpowered combinations, those usually sit until the end of the game and get a giant bank on them, sometimes making it worth picking them just for that alone.

We bought the realms expansion yesterday and the map variety that it adds is awesome.

Yeah, I have the game and all the expansions.

Only one we dont have is underground.

My wife and I have our Birthday-Boardgame-Bash coming up this weekend. Settlers of Catan, Dominion, Munchkin will be the line-up.

Dixit is an awesome game, especially for playing with people who are not used/don't like tabletop games that much.

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Dixit is an awesome game, especially for playing with people who are not used/don't like tabletop games that much.

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How do you pronounce that? In India, it's a surname and is pronounced Dik-shit. No joke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dikshit

Though some spell it differently.

Like Dicks-it.

Not much better when written phonetically.

It's more or less how I pronounce it in Spanish (dic-sit), and I guess it's similar in the original Latin

This is the game http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39856/dixit[DOUBLEPOST=1365178745][/DOUBLEPOST]Ninja'd

Been playing Tsuro with my wife. It's great because no matter who wins no one gets mad.

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How do you pronounce [Dixit]?

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Huh. Here I thought it would be pronounced French-like, which would make it sound like "Deceit" except with the accent on the first syllable.

--Patrick

I've been thinking of ways to improve Quarriors, as a lot of people don't like the advanced rules (and I prefer them). When I have time I'm thinking of writing a set of rules which make the game more like Magic.

Recently played "Tempus" for tehe first time. Fun game, sort of in between Colonists of Catan and Civilization (board game). Once everyone knows the rules, I think it'll move at a good pace and the turns are interesting. Tactics wise, I suck at it, but hey, what else is new?

Why wasn't Settlers of Catan called Colonists of Catan?

That's nice alliteration!

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Why wasn't Settlers of Catan called Colonists of Catan?

That's nice alliteration!

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My apologies, Settlers. It's called Colonists in Dutch and French. (Les Colons de Catane, in French, really. Yes, they think it's a colonoscopy simulator. Don't go to a French hospital)

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My apologies, Settlers. It's called Colonists in Dutch and French. (Les Colons de Catane, in French, really. Yes, they think it's a colonoscopy simulator. Don't go to a French hospital)

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I assumed it was in other languages, I wasn't correcting you. Just mentioning how much more I like the name Colonists of Catan.

I just want to add to this: Cards Against Humanity

If you've played Apples to Apples, it is essentially that, but with VERY ADULT THEMES and some truly horrifyingly hilarious cards.

If you've not played Apples to Apples, why are you reading this thread and not heading out to buy Apples to Apples?

I've been playing Ticket to Ride Nordic Countries with my wife quite a bit lately. She kicks my ass all the time.

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I just want to add to this: Cards Against Humanity

If you've played Apples to Apples, it is essentially that, but with VERY ADULT THEMES and some truly horrifyingly hilarious cards.

If you've not played Apples to Apples, why are you reading this thread and not heading out to buy Apples to Apples?

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We've played this game online a few times as a board. It's fun as shit!

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I just want to add to this: Cards Against Humanity

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It was here or the political thread.

--Patrick

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It was here or the political thread.

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I don't think this would be considered controversial humor outside of WBC itself.

Picked up Hive today. It looks like a great game and I can't wait to give this a few rounds!

I miss board games. It used to be my family bonding, but now I don't have anyone who wants to play them.

Played Robo Rally with my wife the other day. She'd never played before. I haven't played it in several years. It's one of those games that really requires a lot of patience and a cool head. It's not a game for people who get frustrated easily. There is a lot that can happen in the game. And since all of your moves for an entire turn are plotted out, in secret, of everyone else, there's plenty of opportunity for something to go wrong. There is also a lot of potential for someone to get left behind. My wife and I played a relatively short game setup, with only three checkpoints. When I touched the final flag my wife had just touched the 1st. This could be attributed to first time inexperience, but she's a pretty quick learner. I think the main problem with the game is that there is plenty of potential to get knocked completely off course. If you make a single wrong move, or someone messes with your move then it's likely that the rest of your movement and board elements will knock you one, maybe even two, complete turns off course.
Also with only two players there is a lot more potential for someone to get ahead just through luck. With more people involved there is more likelihood of bumping heads with someone else which can cripple the leader enough to let everyone else catch up.
I think that with this game you can definitely adopt the strategy of taking out the competition, but it's a better idea to still attempt to go for the flags as quickly as possible.

And as mentioned before this is a game that really requires the right-minded people. I enjoy it quite a bit. But I haven't play it for years because frankly most of my friends just can't handle it. My roommate of 7 years would usually play the game with one strategy in mind. Find the closest pit, and waste all lives by running into it as quickly as possible.

I ran into something similar with Hive. It's very strategy oriented, like Chess but fun, and boy howdie did my wife not like this game. I'll have to find another person willing to play it.

Been more than two years since I played it, but can't recommend Twilight Imperium enough. It is like the love child of Risk and Settlers of Catan, who is way into politics.

Shawnacy said:

BANG! is one of those games where there are simple rules to playing it properly. Each role has it's own tactics that really need to be observed to give you a better chance at victory.
Sheriff: It's not your job to guess who is who. If anything you are doing your self a disservice by attacking someone at random. If you get your deputy killed (or even the renegade) you are increasing the odds for everyone else. What should you do? Sit back and relax. If you are playing with expansions, just stock up on blue and green cards. Prepare for war. Once the deputy(s) is(are) dead you know that everyone else is fair game. Just remember that the Renegade is on your side until you and he are the last man standing.
Deputy: You have the easiest role, because you know exactly who is who. You know everyone else besides the Sheriff is a target. Use this to your advantage by picking fights with people who can't defend themselves. Start with the person on your immediate right (skipping the Sheriff). If you draw blood, the others will likely go for the kill.
Renegade: Same as the Deputy, but you might want to sit back a bit and see who goes after who. You'll have to take chances more than the other roles, but your biggest challenge will be preparing yourself to go head to head against the sheriff. And if he's been stocking up, you better as well.
Bandit: Everyone wants to kill you. Even other bandits. But honestly they shouldn't. Bandits can take out a Sheriff in one turn if they work together. The longer the game goes on the worst your chances are that you'll be able to take down the Sheriff. Your best option is to attack within the first or the second round. And if you are directly to the Sheriff's left you better damn well be the first person to open fire. Yes it outs you right from the start, but if the other bandits are smart they will take the hint. They will each get a turn before the Sheriff has the chance to defend himself.


I love the expansion where there is a card that brings back all the eliminated players as ghosts for one round. They get a full hand of cards and can play as normal. Once the round ends they are dead again.

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Bang! is great. I have the Bang special edition Bullet, there are some character cards you really need to take out though; cause they can kind of break the game. Also, I've yet to be able to play it and not have to teach it at the same time. Still, one of my favourites. It is so satisfying to shout "MANCATO!" and slap a Missed card down when your opponent thinks they've put the nail in your coffin.

I was wrong, my wife tried Hive again (much to my surprise). This time she was more into it and liked it better, so hopefully it means we'll get more games of it in! A seriously fantastic 2 player strategy game which is simple to learn but complex to master.

Finally had a chance to play Power Grid the other day. I've been wanting to play it for a while, but it's not a preferred game amongst my friends. I do quite enjoy it, but I do admit that I wish there was more of a random element to it. Something like the dice roll for resources in Settlers of Catan, where tactical skill isn't going to be the only manner of winning.

If you like trivia games, Bezzerwizzer is really fun.

Shawnacy said:

Finally had a chance to play Power Grid the other day. I've been wanting to play it for a while, but it's not a preferred game amongst my friends. I do quite enjoy it, but I do admit that I wish there was more of a random element to it. Something like the dice roll for resources in Settlers of Catan, where tactical skill isn't going to be the only manner of winning.

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I dunno, I've played it often enough that I find te order in which power plants come up is plenty of randomness, and can already play a HUGE role in who wins, eventually.
I will say it's very different depending on the map you're playing. I still generally prefer the original, German map.

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I dunno, I've played it often enough that I find te order in which power plants come up is plenty of randomness, and can already play a HUGE role in who wins, eventually.
I will say it's very different depending on the map you're playing. I still generally prefer the original, German map.

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My wife actually enjoyed it. Which I certainly wasn't expecting. I think it helped that she won her first time.

I just popped in to say I wish I got to play Thunder Road more when I was a kid. I only got one opportunity, and since it was my first time, and against the kid who owned it, I got my ass beat hard.

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My wife actually enjoyed it. Which I certainly wasn't expecting. I think it helped that she won her first time.

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I love power grid because I can effectively plan out my entire move. "Okay I have $X I'm going to be spending $Y on fuel this turn I'd like to Spend $Z to expand so I can spend $A on my new powerplant."

Only bad move in the entire game is going green energy. Sure I'd love to be enviromentally responsible but they are just too much investment up front and fuel is just too cheap.

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I love power grid because I can effectively plan out my entire move. "Okay I have $X I'm going to be spending $Y on fuel this turn I'd like to Spend $Z to expand so I can spend $A on my new powerplant."

Only bad move in the entire game is going green energy. Sure I'd love to be enviromentally responsible but they are just too much investment up front and fuel is just too cheap.

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That REALLY depends on what map, what expansions, what variety, and against whom you're playing. Going green at the right time is an absolute killer, and the biggest smackdown I ever got was when my opponent went full-green after the first stage and had a bit of luck in the draw.

Played Chaostle with my girlfriend's friends tonight. It's like Dungeons and Dragons meets Sorry and is incredibly chaotic. I learned quickly not to try or expect to win, but to just ride the insanity to the end. Fucking hilarious game. Really had a lot of fun.

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That REALLY depends on what map, what expansions, what variety, and against whom you're playing. Going green at the right time is an absolute killer, and the biggest smackdown I ever got was when my opponent went full-green after the first stage and had a bit of luck in the draw.

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True and I'm not claiming I'm some sort of powergrid god having played less than a dozen times. There might be price points where green energy could be worthwhile. I've just always seen a bidding war on green energy where the players weren't able to then expand in a worthwhile way after getting their new eco-friendly plant at an increased price.

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True and I'm not claiming I'm some sort of powergrid god having played less than a dozen times. There might be price points where green energy could be worthwhile. I've just always seen a bidding war on green energy where the players weren't able to then expand in a worthwhile way after getting their new eco-friendly plant at an increased price.

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Convincing your opponents to overstretch themselves through a bidding war is always a good way of sabotaging their progress

Man, played another round of Chaostle, this time I was kicking all the ass because of some lucky fate dice rolls that powered up 2 of my characters into monstrous doomsday devices (Wealth is the shit). Then, as I was close to achieving massive victory after plowing through my opponents, we get the fate roll called Chaos that switches the directions our characters are supposed to go so my characters near the end were suddenly near the beginning. The person who was losing horribly was now one step from assaulting the castle itself and she managed so gloriously lucky rules and won the game two turns later.

Chaostle.

DO NOT EXPECT TO WIN.

I can see serious board gamers hating it because of the random (SO RANDOM) element, but I adore it. The game is hilarious. It has crazy highs and unbelievable lows.

Also, game sucks as a 2 player game and only gets better (and crazier) the more people you add.

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Convincing your opponents to overstretch themselves through a bidding war is always a good way of sabotaging their progress

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Heh my favorite part of the game. I think 75% of my bids are "Well I can't just let you have that powerplant at cost" bids.

Man I want to play Powergrid again. Most of my friends aren't into it cause it takes so long.

My friends and I play a lot of board games. Some of our frequent games are:

Battlestar Galactica: We generally play with six players. I love the series to bits and enjoy the hell out of the game. I've never won a game, but I still enjoy the holy hell out of it. I love the level of paranoia that seeps into our group.

Lords of Waterdeep: One of the newest games in our group and one we really enjoy.

Betrayal at House on the Hill: It's been talked about already, but it's a hell of a game that's easy to pick up. Our group experiences about 50/50 win/loss for survivors.

Marvel Legendary: A deck building game that we've recently started playing that's pretty fun. They just released an expansion for it. We randomly assign as much as we can, so sometimes it can be pretty challenging and other times it can be a breeze.

Catan: Classic board game and a good first step into the "geek" board games

Dominion: Been talked about. We don't play this as much, if at all, any more but I still think it's a great, easy game to pick up.

Roll Through the Ages: This is a quick to play, easy to pick up resource management game, but far simpler than many of them out there.

Love Letter: 16 cards and you're trying to get your love letter to the princess. Doesn't sound interesting right? The games we played of it might have been some of the most ruthless gaming we've done as a group. Accessible to lots of people.

Gloom: Card game. You start out with a family of misfits that you're trying to put negative modifiers on before you kill them while putting positive modifiers on your opponents' family and trying to kill them too. Each card has a title and we end up telling sordid, perverted stories based on the titles. One story involved one guy having an obsession with doing perverted things to little furry animals, finding a partner who was also into that, and then dying during an erotic session involving said animals. The cards just worked out. Lots of expansions, including a Cthulhu one.

Touch of Evil: Arkham Horror lite. Co-op vs. the board where you build up your characters, fight minions, and eventually a big bad. Apparently, the company pays the actors on the box to appear at cons dressed as their characters.

Arkham Horror: Great co-op game, but complicated. Ugh. Once you get the game down, it's a lot of fun. However, nothing is worse than spending two hours playing a game only to lose because the Old One is a beast.

Ninja Burger: Card game. One of those games where it's fun to screw your fellow players over at the last minute, but also one where one person gets ahead and the person in last place prolongs the game. Kind of frustrating if this happens when it's the last game of the night and it's 2am.

Chaos in the Old World: A Warhammer Fantasy based game that we've played a couple of times. At first, one of the gods seems overpowered, but once you get a feel for the game, each one has a distinctive strategy. We dig it, but don't play it much.

Cards Against Humanity: I haven't played it but the other guys have and they love it. Then again, we're a super perverted, messed up group of people, so it fits us like a glove. I did experience a very CAH moment in Apples to Apples where my brother-in-law played a card that said "Helen Keller" in response to a card that said "senseless". I laughed. He didn't win that round.

Those are the ones that come to mind as popping up most frequently.

Aurgh, been sucked into Android Netrunner. Good gravy, it's a fun game, but right now the runners seem to have a clear advantage over Corp. We'll see if that changes with the next expansion coming out soon.

Gloom! I know the game but I always keep forgetting the name. It's fun, though I have te feeling it'll wear thin after playing it a number of times....Haven't seen or played any expansions though.

Woot!

Apparently Wil Wheaton won the Catan tournament. The heavy set dude on the left is a guy who is part of the Milwaukee gaming club. Played some games with him about a month ago, real cool cat.

http://instagram.com/p/dDua8DOjf7/

My friend gave me a complete and near mint Hero Quest box.

I haven't set eyes on that game since I was in grade 6.

Did I mention I've been playing Android: Netrunner? Good gravy, this game is intense! No matter whether you are playing the Corporation or the Runner, you always think to yourself "Gah, if only I had X, I woulda won!".

Kinda nice to have a game I can play to feed my old CCG (LCG, all cards are released together without rarity disparity) for a fraction of the price.

Wolsung: The Boardgame -
Based on a German steampunk RPG of the same name, the board game gives you the title of a master inventor who is competing in the world's fair. Every turn you designate which of three combines your allotted workers are shipped off to, and on certain turns; one, two or all three of the combines produce a static number of materials. The number of workers you assigned to a combine determines your priority in selecting materials from what that combine produced that turn. Priority basically gives you the best pick of what is available in wood, iron, coal, glass and gold. Those materials can then be used to buy/create machines from the design office which cycle through very quickly. The machines require different materials in different combinations to create, and each one has a point score allotted to it. As the game goes on the designs become more complicated and require more materials but are worth more points as a result. Each player also has a secret objective card that tells them what the judges will be awarding extra points for, such as machines of a certain type, or designs from a particular country.
It feels like a rather ineffective substitute for Power Grid.
It's okay, but in the end I found I was a little annoyed by having to count up all the worker chips from 4 players as a combine was opened. I'm sure someone who can mentally keep track of the number of workers each player has put into a combine over a certain set of turns will be very good at this game. Gold also becomes very useless during the last half of the game, as it's only ever used in upgrading your workshops. But after you've upgraded everything it's only use is to be converted into other materials, which is done 2 >1.
I did not have as much fun with this one.

I played Terra Mystica for the first time Tuesday. Wound up winning so yay me! It's a resource management game, plenty of complexity. I enjoyed it.

FYI, the Ipad versions of Elder Signs and Forbidden Isle are pretty damn good. They allow for solo or pass and play/group play.

Lords of Waterdeep: I'm floored by how fun this game is and how it really challenges you to make the most of your moves. Even though it's based on D&D, I think anyone who enjoys a good resource management game will have a blast with this one. It's takes the concept of your typical D&D adventure, which usually would involve a warrior, rogue, wizard, priest, etc setting off on an adventure, and pulls outward a bit and puts you in control of the people who send the adventurers on their quests in the first place. Lords of Waterdeep challenges players by pitting them against each other in a race to take greater influence over the city of Waterdeep through the use of quest completion, troop management, building ownership, and intrigue.

I highly recommend that if you want to know more about this game you watch the Tabletop episode featuring it.

Yeah, I saw that on Tabletop a few weeks back. Looked pretty great.

Got notification the expansion for Eminent Domain is on the slow boat to the states, which means it will probably be early December when I get it. So excited for this expansion!

Also got notification A Study In Emerald has shipped, but who knows how long it will take as it's being sent on a slow boat from Europe. GAH! I so want to play these games.


I did get to play Manhattan Project, which is excellent with 3 players, though make sure the people you play with read the rules. I got screwed twice because the person playing it and another player couldn't properly read their cards or didn't know how Plutonium bombs worked. Still want to play it again and I think I'll curb stop 'em the next time we play.

Oooh, nice! That there is one pricey game, and if it wasn't well out of my acceptable price range I would have been interested in it.

Been playing a lot of Descent: Journeys in the Dark V2 lately. Very fun little dungeon crawler.

Descent is little?!? The game is HUGE!

I agree, great game

Ok, what I meant to post here (and not the other thread), I'll be playtesting a game for Plaid Hat. Really looking forward to trying it out and giving my feedback

I went through this thread trying to find a good game for my aunts and cousins to play with us, but I feel like everything they don't already have is too complicated. Not for the kids necessarily, but the adults . I just usually get them a board game for Christmas and it feels like nothing between boring and complex has come out this year. A lot of these look fun, but I just feel like older people who never played stuff like D&D would be lost. I got the kids into Munchkin at least.

I'd get Cards Against Humanity, but the kids are only 11. That'll have to be a friend circle game.

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I went through this thread trying to find a good game for my aunts and cousins to play with us, but I feel like everything they don't already have is too complicated. Not for the kids necessarily, but the adults . I just usually get them a board game for Christmas and it feels like nothing between boring and complex has come out this year. A lot of these look fun, but I just feel like older people who never played stuff like D&D would be lost. I got the kids into Munchkin at least.

I'd get Cards Against Humanity, but the kids are only 11. That'll have to be a friend circle game.

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I'd try Settlers of Catan. I've heard a lot of people use that as a "gateway drug" for board games. Its simple enough to be easy to pick up, but shows how board games can be more than just rolling dice and moving spaces.

Shawnacy said:

I'd try Settlers of Catan. I've heard a lot of people use that as a "gateway drug" for board games. Its simple enough to be easy to pick up, but shows how board games can be more than just rolling dice and moving spaces.

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Reading about it, it looks simpler than I realized, but with flexibility to become more complex if you want a more advanced game. I could probably convince them to give it a try by saying it's similar to Monopoly, but with less arguing. Thanks, man.

Zero Esc said:

I went through this thread trying to find a good game for my aunts and cousins to play with us, but I feel like everything they don't already have is too complicated. Not for the kids necessarily, but the adults . I just usually get them a board game for Christmas and it feels like nothing between boring and complex has come out this year. A lot of these look fun, but I just feel like older people who never played stuff like D&D would be lost. I got the kids into Munchkin at least.

I'd get Cards Against Humanity, but the kids are only 11. That'll have to be a friend circle game.

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For Sale, No Thanks, Wits and Wagers. All these are great party games for adults which kids can play too.

My parents are terrible at learning complex games, but love the shit out of Ticket to Ride.

That's a great one too.

Tsuro is very simple tile game no one ever gets mad when playing.

Zero Esc said:

Reading about it, it looks simpler than I realized, but with flexibility to become more complex if you want a more advanced game. I could probably convince them to give it a try by saying it's similar to Monopoly, but with less arguing. Thanks, man.

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As mentioned above, Ticket to Ride is also a good starter game.
We tried Settlers on my parents in law who don't typically play much in the way of board games. But they did get the hang of it very quickly.
The basic game is for 4 players only. You can pick up the 6-player expansion set that gives you more tiles/cards/pieces to even it out for two additional players.
There is a Tabletop episode for Settlers as well.

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Monopoly, but with less arguing.

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I hope your parents/aunts aren't real bargainers then, as Settlers can get quite lively

Shawnacy said:

As mentioned above, Ticket to Ride is also a good starter game.
We tried Settlers on my parents in law who don't typically play much in the way of board games. But they did get the hang of it very quickly.
The basic game is for 4 players only. You can pick up the 6-player expansion set that gives you more tiles/cards/pieces to even it out for two additional players.
There is a Tabletop episode for Settlers as well.

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Oh, I didn't know it was 4 players. 6 players is kind of the minimum for our familial situation. Not sure I want to grab the expansion for a Christmas present either when the full game is untested on them. I'll have to think about this.

Tsuro plays 8.

King of Tokyo is a great 2-6 player game, a push your luck dice rolling king of the hill game.

For Sale plays up to 6.

Wits and Wagers plays 3-7.

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Oh, I didn't know it was 4 players. 6 players is kind of the minimum for our familial situation. Not sure I want to grab the expansion for a Christmas present either when the full game is untested on them. I'll have to think about this.

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The expansion isn't too much more. Just make sure that you note which expansion you're getting. You want the 5-6 player expansion for the standard game.
There are other expansions like the Seafarers expansion. But that only only includes the pieces for the four player game. There is a 5-6 player expansion available for each traditional expansion.
Seems like kind of money sink, but at $16 bucks for the 5-6 player expansions they aren't that unaffordable.[DOUBLEPOST=1382757363,1382757124][/DOUBLEPOST]Tabletop just finished up their 2-part Betrayal At House On The Hill video. Ended typically how most sessions of that game do. TPK.

Betrayal is good, but woe is the person who goes into it and doesn't know to look up the rule book changes online. That book is a MESS.

Oh, and really? Almost all the games of Betrayal in my group ends with the party winning and the betrayer a broken heap of fail.

Krisken said:

Betrayal is good, but woe is the person who goes into it and doesn't know to look up the rule book changes online. That book is a MESS.

Oh, and really? Almost all the games of Betrayal in my group ends with the party winning and the betrayer a broken heap of fail.

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There are two versions of Betrayal. The first edition and the second edition, which has the fixed rules. The one with the fixed rules is this box (The Green one). Don't get the red one with the crazy people on it.

I finally won a game of Love Letter Such a fun little game, and I look forward to the re-theme which is supposedly samurai themed.

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I finally won a game of Love Letter Such a fun little game, and I look forward to the re-theme which is supposedly samurai themed.

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My girlfriend loves love letter. We always reduce the number of tokens you need to win since their suggested ones make the game grow a little long in the tooth but it is fun.

Just played my second game of Formula De. A great racing game that I'm apparently some kind of Savant at.

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My girlfriend loves love letter. We always reduce the number of tokens you need to win since their suggested ones make the game grow a little long in the tooth but it is fun.

Just played my second game of Formula De. A great racing game that I'm apparently some kind of Savant at.

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I found a re-theme on Boardgame Geek which is Adventure Time. I'm seriously thinking of printing those off and using those instead.

So my best friend since 2nd grade just launched the kickstarter for his game 2 rooms and a boom! Sit down and shut up, the boardgame division of Penny Arcade, called it game of the year material! Super excited!

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There are two versions of Betrayal. The first edition and the second edition, which has the fixed rules. The one with the fixed rules is this box (The Green one). Don't get the red one with the crazy people on it.

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What? Why not the red box! I think it's great to have the underground lake in the attic!

Yup, we have the green box version, but funnily the box is red. Wow, that was annoying being on the top floor last night and ending up in the basement!

Plaid Hat put out a podcast on the game I'm helping playtest, Dead of Winter.

http://www.plaidhatgames.com/podcast/112

Update: I ended up buying my family Dixit and Resistance for Christmas. The Tabletop video for Resistance was hilarious and I can already see it being a great time for the group. I'm glad you guys kept mentioning Tabletop; now I have a new show to watch that's both entertaining and informative.

Though for us we got Forbidden Island, and with some good thinking and a little luck, we won our first game. I don't expect things to go so well next time, but it was a lot of fun.

Forbidden Island is a lot of fun. I think Forbidden Desert is a little better, though. Both are great games.

Dixit is a blast and is great for introducing to non-gamers. You could get parents and grandparents to play that one.

Ok, got my 10th game in today for Plaid Hat's Dead of Winter board game just in time for the deadline. Trying to be careful not to say too much about it, but here is what the company has on it.

Crossroads is a new series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside.
Dead of Winter is the first game in this series, designed by Isaac Vega and Jon Gilmour. It puts 2-5 players together in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world where most of humanity are either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors with dozens of different characters in the game.
Dead of Winter is a meta-cooperativepsychological survival game. This means players are working together toward one common victory condition--but for each individual player to achieve victory, they must also complete their personal secret objective. This secret objective could relate to a psychological tick that's fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or worst of all: vengeance against the colony! Certain games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group's goal but don't get walked all over by a loudmouth who's only looking out for their own interests!
Click here to listen to the Plaid Hat Podcast episode 112 to hear the guys discuss the game at length.
Dead of Winter is an experience that can only be accomplished through the medium of tabletop games. It is a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony's morale up.
Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily- thematic, wildly-varying decisions, that often have them deciding between what is best for the colony and what is best for themselves.
Dead of Winter will be on pre-order soon. Customers who pre-order from PlaidHatGames.com will get $20 off the MSRP and will receive a free Kodiak Colby Survivor character along with Standee and Crossroads Card (pictured below).
Click here to sign up for our newsletter to be informed when Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game is available in the PlaidHatGames.com store. And keep coming to PlaidHatGames.com for more games and more info.

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That's pretty awesome. Let me know when it's up for pre-order.

Will do!

Hot damn, the NDA has been lifted and I can talk about Dead of Winter.

Ok, lets try to talk about this without giving away how I feel about the game...

Dead of Winter is a semi-cooperative game in which you and the other players control a team of characters in a colony who have a group objective (which must be achieved in order for the non-exiled players to win) as well as a secret objective which must be achieved in order for that player to win. Also, there is a small chance one of the players will be a traitor, actively working to make the game more difficult for the other players.

Through the game the players can go to locations outside of the colony to find weapons, food, medicine, gas, and tools to help keep the zombies at bay and fulfill a crisis which are flipped up each turn. Additionally, after each turn a player draws a a Crossroads card which will be played on the current player as soon as they fulfill the requirements on the card, ranging from having a specific character in their party to moving from to locations using the gas card.

Players ramp up suspicion by trying to satisfy the secret objectives, which can be as simple as holding food cards or gaining weapons. Resources run pretty tight through the game and a had full of cards can make other players very suspicious. If a player is exiled from the colony (forced out through a vote at any time, majority wins), they gain a new objective which needs to be fulfilled.

Oh, did I mention the exposure die? Whenever a player fights a zombie or moves to a new location, they must roll the exposure die. First roll has a 50% chance of nothing happening, but if you roll the other results you roll it again. You could take a wound, get frostbite, or even be zombiefied. If this happens, the next lowest influence character in that location is exposed and has to roll to see if they are killed.


My thoughts on the game- It was a blast! There is so much going on in this game and you always have to worry if someone drew that traitor card. There are tons of scenarios that I saw, and apparently there will be many more in the final product. Just thinking about the game makes me want to play it again, and that's saying something when you consider I got 10 plays in 6 game nights.

Krisken said:

Hot damn, the NDA has been lifted and I can talk about Dead of Winter.

Ok, lets try to talk about this without giving away how I feel about the game...

Dead of Winter is a semi-cooperative game in which you and the other players control a team of characters in a colony who have a group objective (which must be achieved in order for the non-exiled players to win) as well as a secret objective which must be achieved in order for that player to win. Also, there is a small chance one of the players will be a traitor, actively working to make the game more difficult for the other players.

Through the game the players can go to locations outside of the colony to find weapons, food, medicine, gas, and tools to help keep the zombies at bay and fulfill a crisis which are flipped up each turn. Additionally, after each turn a player draws a a Crossroads card which will be played on the current player as soon as they fulfill the requirements on the card, ranging from having a specific character in their party to moving from to locations using the gas card.

Players ramp up suspicion by trying to satisfy the secret objectives, which can be as simple as holding food cards or gaining weapons. Resources run pretty tight through the game and a had full of cards can make other players very suspicious. If a player is exiled from the colony (forced out through a vote at any time, majority wins), they gain a new objective which needs to be fulfilled.

Oh, did I mention the exposure die? Whenever a player fights a zombie or moves to a new location, they must roll the exposure die. First roll has a 50% chance of nothing happening, but if you roll the other results you roll it again. You could take a wound, get frostbite, or even be zombiefied. If this happens, the next lowest influence character in that location is exposed and has to roll to see if they are killed.


My thoughts on the game- It was a blast! There is so much going on in this game and you always have to worry if someone drew that traitor card. There are tons of scenarios that I saw, and apparently there will be many more in the final product. Just thinking about the game makes me want to play it again, and that's saying something when you consider I got 10 plays in 6 game nights.

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We'll you've sold me on this.

Let us know when it is available for pre-order. I'd like to give this to my brother.

Sure thing! I'll sign up to the Plaid Hat newsletter to make sure I can let you know as soon as possible.

I fixed some of the typing errors and added a little to a post on BGG forums. Got a thumbs up by one of the designers! I'm pretty over the moon right now

Krisken said:

I fixed some of the typing errors and added a little to a post on BGG forums. Got a thumbs up by one of the designers! I'm pretty over the moon right now

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Do you know if they are at BGGCon right now?

I thought on the last podcast one of the two designers was going to be there, but I don't remember which one. They just released a new podcast today but haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

A little off topic, but anyone familiar with Rory's Story Cubes? Wondering how well it would play for an 11-year-old.

Just got the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. Been reading the rules a little and can't wait to find the time to really dig in and play it. Plus, Cool Stuff Inc sent along a Gen-Con promo for the game, which is super cool!

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Just got the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. Been reading the rules a little and can't wait to find the time to really dig in and play it. Plus, Cool Stuff Inc sent along a Gen-Con promo for the game, which is super cool!

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You'll have to let us (me) know how it is. It seems really interesting, and I've heard good things about it.

metoo

Will do! Maybe I'll do a full write up when I have a couple games under my belt.

@MindDetective, @Shawnacy, just giving you a heads up the game is up for preorder here. Did I mention if you pre-order the game you get $20 off MSRP?

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@MindDetective, @Shawnacy, just giving you a heads up the game is up for preorder here. Did I mention if you pre-order the game you get $20 off MSRP?

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Oh, I already saw that...

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Oh, I already saw that...

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Awesome I just got the email from the company.

So for my birthday my friends got me Munchkin: Cthulhu and Munchkin: Bites, as well as the Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game Rise of the Runelords base set. With luck I might get to play the Pathfinder: Adventure Card Game with people as early as this Sunday.

btw, if you like Munchkin and Pathfinder, Munchkin: Pathfinder is pretty fun. Lots of goblins.

I've played a couple adventures and so far I like it, though it's tough to say as I've been playing it solo. I think it would be better with more people.

Picked up Lords of Waterdeep for the ipad/iphone. Love it.

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Picked up Lords of Waterdeep for the ipad/iphone. Love it.

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I really wish I could get this on the Kindle. Dammit!

I picked up some games yesterday. Love Letter, Bang! The Dice Game, and Rampage. I can't wait to play Rampage as it looks like a great dexterity game.

Had anyone played Quarriors? I am drawn to it because I love dice, but I'm wondering how it plays.

Dei said:

Had anyone played Quarriors? I am drawn to it because I love dice, but I'm wondering how it plays.

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Quarriors is ok for a while, as long as you don't mind the game being very luck dependent. You might be better off waiting a few months for the Marvel dice game being made. While it's going to have random add on packs where the dice have varying rarity, don't let that scare you off as they'll be 2 dice and a card for $1. Should be released in March.

Played Mansions of Madness with some friends last night. Had a pretty dreadful time playing it overall. Our games subtitle should have been 45 minutes per useful action. I spent the better part of an hour in the stunned state because the monster I was dealing with had a special attack that stunned you even on a successful strength test. Awful. The combat being decided by card draws might be the clumsiest and shittiest method for resolving combat in any boardgame I've ever played. The third time my character dropped his gun because I kept getting the dexterity test ranged attack card I just left it there forever and began fist fighting stuff. A truly inelegant way of dealing with it. It wouldn't be an issue if it weren't so combat heavy.

I was really disappointed. I'd heard it was difficult, what I didn't hear was it wasn't actually fun.

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Aww, that's disappointing.

I played Ultimate Werewolf on Saturday. The first game the moderator fouled up all to high hell, so the werewolves didn't stand a chance (he let the witch see who the werewolves were, and the witch systematically killed the werewolves off... FAIL!). The best part was as the second try started out a young kid in the group turns to his uncle sitting next to him and says "Can we lynch the moderator?" and only a couple of us heard it, throwing us into fits of laughter.

Also got a few games of Netrunner, Bang! The Dice Game (so much fun!), and King of Tokyo.

Anyone on BGG? Here's my own user page on the site http://boardgamegeek.com/user/Krisken I've just started keeping track of the games I've played and have included all the games I own.

Played A Study In Emerald today (the Martin Wallace game based on Neil Gaiman's short story). WOW. Just a fantastic game all around. Tons going on, and while the rules took an hour to explain to a group of four people, the game itself took an hour and a half to play.

Still have lots of questions, and I think we played it right all the way through with little errors here and there. Just a phenomenal game all around with tons of depth.

Wil Wheaton's Tabletop show did a play through of it. I want to get it myself because of that.

Picked and been playing Lords of Waterdeep. Really fun game.

King of Tokyo is a great game. Richard Garflield has shown multiple times he's more than just the creator of Magic the Gathering.

Been playing quite a bit of X-Wing lately, along with Marvel Legendary (deck building cooperative game) and Ascension (deck building game). It goes without saying that I really like deck builders.

Gryfter said:

Picked and been playing Lords of Waterdeep. Really fun game.

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I've been playing the app version a lot. But the board game is just more fun in general.

So, I picked up a copy of Munchkin recently and played it with my friends. Most of whom had never played it before (with me having only played it once). As should be no surprise to anyone, we had a great time.

We have also recently tried out the Fluxx Board Game. Which, is a bit of an odd duck, but still fun if you are a fan of card-based Fluxx.

General Specific said:

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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
I thought they already had a game like that.

--Patrick

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So, I picked up a copy of Munchkin recently and played it with my friends. Most of whom had never played it before (with me having only played it once). As should be no surprise to anyone, we had a great time.

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A group of friends who claimed to know how to play munchkin tried to get me to play it with them once and I hated it. Later, I looked up the actual rules and watched the tabletop episode featuring it and it looked like a blast.

I don't remember exactly how but they butchered the rules so badly that first time it made the game boring.

Played You Are The Maniac while in Atlanta. It's a competitive card game where you take on the role of a movie slasher and try to kill more points worth of victims than your opponents. It's pretty fun, but you really need to read the errata... I thought I had lost because I didn't realize that Football Players make ALL football player card worth one more and that it's not just a simply +1 for each you have. But once you understand the errata, everything is good.

Played Lords of Waterdeep last weekend for the first time with a group of five players and the expansion. Did pretty well, tying for first place. The theme is a little tacked on (collect color cubes to fulfill goals, place workers to perform actions to collect those cubes and goals), but overall it's a clever little game which was really easy to pick up on my first play through.

Otherwise want to play more Android: Netrunner again. Even downloaded OCTGN game platform and am waiting for friends to do the same so we can play on there when we can't meet up.

Dead of Winter will be out either July or August. You can see Colby Dauk (owner of Plaid Hat Games) talk to Eric Summerer (co host of The Dice Tower podcast) HERE.

You can also see how to play it from Watch It Played with Rodney Smith. They will be playing the game, so we'll get to see that as well.

Recently picked up Forbidden Desert and it is fun, but hard. We've only played one game and were a card away from winning.

Also, my friend picked up Mice & Mystics. Also hard and despite some rules mix ups, we managed to win the first game. The main problem we have is that we regularly have more people than some of the scenarios call for.

Concordia. This game is fantastically simple, each player having the same amount of turns. On your turn you can take three gems of different types, two gems of the same type if the stack isn't less than 4, or one gold gem and a card from the table goes into your hand.

With the gems you 'buy' cards on the table, which will allow you to buy more expensive cards and points on those cards. The first player to 15 points triggers the end of the game and all players play until they've had the same amount of turns as the player who reached 15.

We've pulled this one out at the last three game nights and I don't see it going away anytime soon. Simple enough for anyone to pick up but tons of depth.

Saw this in my email today

"
Colby Dauch has sent you a package‏"


Sweet, here comes Dead of Winter!

Krisken said:

Saw this in my email today

"
Colby Dauch has sent you a package‏"


Sweet, here comes Dead of Winter!

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Dammit! I want my message from Colby so I know my copy is on the way.

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Dammit! I want my message from Colby so I know my copy is on the way.

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I'll be honest, I was surprised the message came already. As a playtester I figured I'd be at the bottom of the heap for people getting their game.

Woot, got no e-mail but I got my copy of Dead of Winter dropped off today!! Can't wait to bring it to the gaming group this weekend.

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Woot, got no e-mail but I got my copy of Dead of Winter dropped off today!! Can't wait to bring it to the gaming group this weekend.

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Going to bring that baby over to L.A and christen it with us?

Hah, I truly wish! L.A. is very far from here, and I'm not much of a traveler (or, to be honest, a meet and greet kinda guy).

Hoping after my degree I'll have more time for traveling. Might be nice to have a job that has vacation days again

So, I didn't know where else to post this, but can you believe that THIS guy:



Was the last guest on Day[9]'s Spellslingers playing Magic: The Gathering

Finally had a group small enough to play Mice and Mystics. We set up the game and went over the rules and the information for the first chapter. It was enjoyable . We did end up spending over 3 hours to only get halfway through the first chapter, but we were getting the hang of it near the end once the rules were clear. We made a few mistakes that ended up making things easier for us, but we will remember for next time. Sadly the folks we played with don't live in the area. I'd like to make a campaign of our game so we may have to wait for them to come back down again before we can continue. The nice thing is the game makes it pretty easy to pick up where you left off. A quick snapshot of the board would probably do it, or even just remembering a few simple thoughts such as what equipment we were wearing.

I played the DC Deckbuilder game with the new expansion which turns it into a co-op experience. So far... I dunno. At one point we hit a snag and we just didn't stand a chance. I'm also wondering if two players isn't a good number for the game and should be played with more players if you want to take advantage of the new hero powers (which I found incredibly weak).

Jury is out on this one for me, but I'm hoping to get another playthrough yet and do an update at that time.

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Hey man, Josh Barnett is one of the smartest dudes in MMA. Also Magic, because he's a Rakdos man. It's too bad they only play the intro decks (or equivalents) in Spellslingers. I'd like to see them actually play good decks.

Stumbled upon a board game on amazon for firefly. Reviews are pretty good. Anyone try it?

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Stumbled upon a board game on amazon for firefly. Reviews are pretty good. Anyone try it?

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My housemate owns it, but she's out of the province for a couple weeks and hasn't played it yet. If you're not in a rush I can give it a shot and give a review once she's back.

I've heard mostly decent-but-not-great things about FF the board game.


Tried out Battles of Westeros for the first time. It's BattleLore (Memoir 44 etc) type game in the universe of ASoIaF (cue Jay saying it's a crappy universe and we should all read something else).
I quite like BattleLore games, but this one...I dunno. It's praised a lot for being amongst the very best of them, but I wonder how other people set this up. There's just -too- many things to keep tab on and account for. Having 3 units and 4 markers in one space is a bit much for my taste. Yes, in Memoir you had to remember a bit more and some of the mechanics weren't there, but it played a lot smoother. Here you're constantly wondering if you're not forgetting something. I dunno - maybe I'll know it al lby heart faster than I think and the set-up will go much faster, but still. I'm not 100% sold on it quite yet.

I heard you can solo play it.

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I heard you can solo play it.

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Pretty much anything that is cooperative and not competitive you can solo.
One of my favorite games I play on my own is Forbidden Island. I have the Ipad version so it's easy to set up and play.

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Pretty much anything that is cooperative and not competitive you can solo.
One of my favorite games I play on my own is Forbidden Island. I have the Ipad version so it's easy to set up and play.

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The iPad version of Elder Sign is also quite good and entirely playable as a solo game.

Gencon is great as the new games being announced is epic.

This one is like Descent only in Star Wars.

Fantasy Flight announces Star Wars: Imperial Assault.







WANT.

Oh that's very cool. That will be a must for me.
I'm not happy about it releasing next year though. That's a long wait.

Team Covenant takes a demo of Imperial Assault.

STOP MAKING ME WANT IT MORE!

But that's what I do!!! Loving the games being shown so far. FF Games is knocking this Gen Con out of the park.

We've been playing Zombicide after the Walking Dead on sundays.

http://zombicide.com/en/

It's a cooperative humans vs zombies game where there are various "missions" to play using a tiled city set, and the players have to work together against the zombies to reach their objectives. It's really fun, especially when you wade into a street full of walkers, mowing them down with the chainsaw

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Finally had a group small enough to play Mice and Mystics. We set up the game and went over the rules and the information for the first chapter. It was enjoyable . We did end up spending over 3 hours to only get halfway through the first chapter, but we were getting the hang of it near the end once the rules were clear. We made a few mistakes that ended up making things easier for us, but we will remember for next time. Sadly the folks we played with don't live in the area. I'd like to make a campaign of our game so we may have to wait for them to come back down again before we can continue. The nice thing is the game makes it pretty easy to pick up where you left off. A quick snapshot of the board would probably do it, or even just remembering a few simple thoughts such as what equipment we were wearing.

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Got this game for my birthday, and played tonight. Reminds me a lot of Zombicide, which everyone was already familiar with, so didn't take us long to get in the swing of things. Got through the Prologue chapter, and everyone agreed that it was a fun game.

Played Tammany Hall today. Things looked pretty dour for the first three rounds for me as I was trailing pretty badly but in the 4th (and final) round I pulled ahead due to not being contested because everyone was focused on the first place guy. So yay, I win!

I've noticed in games where people can gang up on each other I should spend the first 3/4 of the game at the back of the pack so I get ignored and then Kapow! sneak ahead and win. It almost always works and the key to it is saying "I have 1 point and everyone is at 10, there's no way I can catch up and get ahead!".

I think they are catching on though.

I also played Marvel Dice Masters, which is the new Magic only with dice. It's a good little game which plays super fast and booster packs come with 2 dice and 2 cards and only cost $1. Seriously, it's an awesome game.

It shipped, it finally shipped! Can't wait to get Star Wars Imperial Assault!

Tinwhistler said:

We've been playing Zombicide after the Walking Dead on sundays.

http://zombicide.com/en/

It's a cooperative humans vs zombies game where there are various "missions" to play using a tiled city set, and the players have to work together against the zombies to reach their objectives. It's really fun, especially when you wade into a street full of walkers, mowing them down with the chainsaw

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Hmmm... that looks suspiciously like Last Night on Earth, but that game is human players vs zombie players.

Krisken said:

It shipped, it finally shipped! Can't wait to get Star Wars Imperial Assault!

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--Patrick

Bowielee said:

Hmmm... that looks suspiciously like Last Night on Earth, but that game is human players vs zombie players.

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I own LNoE - the boards are quite different - they are more based on a center square and 4 L-shaped boards around it, but yes, it's humans vs zombies (and tons of fun!).

Comoooon .ca.

Stop suckkkkking

Last Night on Earth was ok, I thought. I felt Zombicide was more kinetic and involved a whole lot more action. If I'm playing a zombie game, though, I'm playing Dead of Winter from Plaid Hat Games.


Putting together the AT-ST, trimming all the flash from the model. These are serious models, not the typical plastic toys you'll find in most games. $65 was a freacking STEAL for this, and apparently FFG figured it out and upped the price a little. The detail is fantastic, and tackling these should not be done by a novice to miniatures.

I was just thinking, it might be neat to share our collections. Currently, I have...

Avengers Vs X-Men Dice Masters and Uncanny X-Men Dice Masters
Ghost Stories (Haven't played this yet)
Rune Age (Haven't played this yet)
Eminent Domain + Escalation expansion
Marvel Legendary deck building game and all expansions
Pathfinder Card Game
Dead of Winter
Small World and a few expansions
Ticket to Ride
Rampage (now called Terror in Meeple City)
Tsuro
King of Tokyo
Star Wars X-Wing
Power Grid Deluxe
Lords of Waterdeep
Elder Sign
Ruse
San Juan
Sentinels of the Multiverse
Forbidden Island
Love Letter
Hive
Bang the Dice Game
Cards Against Humanity
Eldritch Horror
Ascension
Summoner Wars
Fleet
Star Wars Imperial Assault
Citadels
Mr. Jack Pocket
Qwirkle

Writing it all out... I may have a problem.

Of...not enough board games?

Munchkin
Apples to Apples
Forbidden Island


Phew, that was easy.

My wife got Mansions of Madness for Christmas. After an hour of reading, a video, some more reading, putting pieces together, sorting cards, and a little more study, we were able to get a game started. Getting ready for it was pretty much what I did with my afternoon and evening.

And despite all that set-up work, it was a lot of fun! It's hard for just two people, since one has to play the antagonist of the game, thus the clock was really my wife's biggest opponent. She won though. We needed to look up rules now and then, but now that we have a stronger understanding of the game, it's not so rough to get going. We need to get more people for it though.

Er, add Splendor to my list above. My mother bought it for me for X-Mas. Really great game.

Cool Stuff Inc. has some excellent games on sale right now, and the discounts are nothing to sneeze at. You can't beat Among The Stars at $20. Caverna is $61. Hyperborea is $60. Merchants and Maruaders is $40. Star Trek Attack Wing expansions are almost all half off. Through The Ages is $37. All excellent games.

Wow... got several games for gifts.

Betrayal at Hill House
Pandemic
Forbidden Island
Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords

Time to get reading and get the game group together.

Gryfter said:

Wow... got several games for gifts.

Betrayal at Hill House
Pandemic
Forbidden Island
Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords

Time to get reading and get the game group together.

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Betrayal at Hill House (did they change it from Betrayal at House on Haunted Hill?) is the kind of game that destroys friendships. I love it so.

AshburnerX said:

Betrayal at Hill House (did they change it from Betrayal at House on Haunted Hill?) is the kind of game that destroys friendships. I love it so.

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The latter, my mistake

Wife was feeling down tonight (I can understand--going back to work after a break feels off) and instead of asking what she wanted to do like I usually do, I suggested we whip out Forbidden Island to end the weekend.

It was an example of how perfect this game is--we barely had to glance at the rules, even though it's been six months since we played. It all just snaps together right there in setup. And though I was convinced we were fucked, the cards went lucky for us and we won. Took about a half-hour and turned her mood around entirely.

Got a chance to try out Betrayal at Hill House this weekend and sadly I don't know how often it will be played. The guys in the group thought it was pretty fun but the women.... man, they just hated it. Bummed because I was into it so unless we get a few more players to unbalance the vote of which game to play, I don't think it will be chosen much.

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I was just thinking, it might be neat to share our collections. Currently, I have...

Avengers Vs X-Men Dice Masters and Uncanny X-Men Dice Masters
Ghost Stories (Haven't played this yet)
Rune Age (Haven't played this yet)
Eminent Domain + Escalation expansion
Marvel Legendary deck building game and all expansions
Pathfinder Card Game
Dead of Winter
Small World and a few expansions
Ticket to Ride
Rampage (now called Terror in Meeple City)
Tsuro
King of Tokyo
Star Wars X-Wing
Power Grid Deluxe
Lords of Waterdeep
Elder Sign
Ruse
San Juan
Sentinels of the Multiverse
Forbidden Island
Love Letter
Hive
Bang the Dice Game
Cards Against Humanity
Eldritch Horror
Ascension
Summoner Wars
Fleet
Star Wars Imperial Assault
Citadels
Mr. Jack Pocket
Qwirkle

Writing it all out... I may have a problem.

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piffle:

https://boardgamegeek.com/collectio...kranks=Board+Game+Rank&ff=1&subtype=boardgame

Anyone interested in getting the Pathfinder Beginner's Box might want to check out the sale at Think Geek. They have it for 50% off.

I played Love Letter for the first time last night.
It was my friend's home made re-theme. It's a very simple, very fun card game. I'm sure you've all played it before. If not, check it out even if the original version isn't Arrested Development themed.
We also tried to play X-Com, but we only just got past the tutorial before we needed to catch the last subway home.

Also, a few weeks back I played the mini version of Slap .45 that came with Cards Against Humanity's 10 Days or Whatever of Kwanzaa. I don't think the full size game has been released yet but I definitely recommend it to everyone. Another very simple, very fun game. You each get six gunfighters and a home base. You sit with your hands rested at your sides, hovering over your pretend gun holsters. Players take turns flipping a card from the deck. It will either be a gun, a horse, or a cannon.

• If it's a gun, players can either slap their home base, or try to slap the gun and point at someone else with pistol fingers. If they manage to do so before that person has slapped their base, that person has lost a gunfighter.
• If it's a horse, players need to slap someone (Anyone's) home base. If a player slaps the horse or slaps a home base someone's already slapped, they lose a gunfighter. If everyone safely slaps a homebase, the last one to do so loses a gunfighter.
• If it's a cannon, players can slap the cannon and point at another player with pistol fingers. It doesn't matter if that person is in cover, they lose a gunfighter.

It's crazy fast moving and insanity ensues. We also decided to draw our six gunfighters and cross them off to keep score. And that if you lost a gunfighter you had to finish your drink.

We should come up with a HalForums-themed board game. Like something along the lines of Snakes and Ladders (or Chutes 'n Ladders), except call it "Nurrs and Durrs". The ladders would be based on the positive ratings in forum and what-not, while the snakes/chutes would be the negative ones.

And, of course, one space would say "Agree with Charlie," and send you back to the start space...

"You find out what REALLY happened on Nick's prom night!
You are removed from the game."
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"You try to find out what's west of Acapulco.
Lose 5 turns."

The end space, of course, is a hot tub in Finland.

Played Star Wars Imperial Assault again today. Good christ in a bucket, the game is BRUTAL. Somehow the players managed to win the first game played by just running objectives and ignoring the Imperials shooting them to shreds. The second, however, was much tougher as we were required to remove all of our opponents from the field by the end of turn 7 (every game has a round timer like this). My character was dead by the end of turn 4. We almost pulled off a victory somehow by playing very defensive when we had to and finally charging in when we had whittled them down to 3 guys at the end. Very close game with one Imperial alive at the end of round 7.

Very cool game, but seriously causes some brain drain. The Imps have all the information and the Rebels get almost none. Half the time you're flying blind and the Imperials do a crap ton of damage.

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Sauna

MindDetective said:

Sauna

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Yeah, that.

Cheesy1 said:

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You are removed from the game."

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It should be a playstyle similar to Cards against Humanity, where you can combine cards: "Nick's Prom Night" + "Minotaur Penis" =

Recently picked up Alien Frontiers + the Factions expansion. Really fun worker placement game where you use dice as your ships(workers) with the values determining where you can play them on the board. Really fun game.

Got to play King of Tokyo + expansion while visiting family. For the most part, it's a great game and a lot of fun, but we hit a snag. For most of the games, people were playing it safe, amassing energy and powers and not wanting to take the first step into Tokyo. Usually I'd get in and get the ball rolling, but in the last game we played, I decided to wait for someone else to stake their claim.

Well ... that ended up being a slow game. What should've taken 30 to 40 minutes ended up taking two hours, and it's not a game that should go for two hours. It's also not a game to be played like Monopoly; to be fun, people have to be willing to get aggressive.

the first player to roll a claw automatically goes into Tokyo. Prevents people from amassing tons of energy and avoiding getting the game rolling.

Krisken said:

the first player to roll a claw automatically goes into Tokyo. Prevents people from amassing tons of energy and avoiding getting the game rolling.

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I didn't understand this from the rules. That would've made things work so much better. It's just if you're stuck with a claw after you're out of re-rolls, right?

Also, if you get stuck with claws later, do you have to attack or can you choose not to? I no longer have the rules on hand, but I'd like to know before I get the game for our house.

If you have claws you have to use them.

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Goddammit.

So much simpler ...

Zero Esc said:

I didn't understand this from the rules. That would've made things work so much better. It's just if you're stuck with a claw after you're out of re-rolls, right?

Also, if you get stuck with claws later, do you have to attack or can you choose not to? I no longer have the rules on hand, but I'd like to know before I get the game for our house.

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Yup, if you roll three times and you have a claw with no one in Tokyo, you go in.

You have to attack.

Krisken said:

I was just thinking, it might be neat to share our collections. Currently, I have...

*snip*

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OK, here goes...

Apples to Apples
Sour Apples to Apples
Ticket to Ride w/ 1910 expansion
Oh Gnome You Don't
Monopoly
Futurama Monopoly
Trivial Pursuit
Revolution!
Frag Gold Edition
Dominoes (Double 15)
Bananagrams
Yahtzee
Forbidden Desert
Gloom & Unfortunate Expeditions expansion
We Didn't Playtest This At All
Fluxx
Monty Python Fluxx
Mille Bornes
Uno
Skip Bo
TimeLine Inventions
TimeLine Diversity
Double Agent
Bang!
In a Pickle
Carcassonne
Kill Dr Lucky
Munchkin
Pathfinder Munchkin
Takenoko
Love Letter
Sheriff of Nottingham
Smash Up
The Resistance
Tsuro
Cads About Matrimony
Axis & Allies
Order of the Stick (missing pieces and I have not been able to get them from the manufacturer)
Dirty Minds
Star Wars Trivial Pursuit Saga Edition
Fact or Crap

My own collection is somewhat lacking because one of my friends who I most often play games with already owns basically every game.
Let's see....

• Cards Against Humanity
  Expansion 1
  Expansion 2
  Expansion 3
  Expansion 4
  Expansion 5
  Holiday 2012 Booster
  Holiday 2013 Booster
  Holiday 2014 Booster
  90s Booster
  (Expansion 6 and the Science Booster have been ordered but are not yet in my grasp)
• Zombies!!!
  Expansion 5: School's Out Forever
• Bang!
  High Noon Expansion
  Dodge City Expansion
  A Fistful of Cards Expansion
• Risk
• Star Wars Monopoly
• Futurama Monopoly
• Scene It?
• Disney Scene It?
• Last Night on Earth
• Slap .45 (Cards Against Humanity demo version)
• Heroquest

Apples 2 Apples
Forbidden Island
Munchkin
Pandemic
Mansions of Madness
- Forbidden Alchemy Expansion

My list will always be comically smaller than everyone else's.

Zero Esc said:

My list will always be comically smaller than everyone else's.

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Not so...

Settlers of Catan
Munchkin
Star Munchkin

I have not talked about Sheriff of Nottingham. Bought it last week and played w/ friends for the first time last friday. Riotously good fun and I also discovered that I am not a very good liar, except to my S.O. In her defense, she gets caught up in my dreamy eyes.

General Specific said:

I have not talked about Sheriff of Nottingham. Bought it last week and played w/ friends for the first time last friday. Riotously good fun and I also discovered that I am not a very good liar, except to my S.O. In her defense, she gets caught up in my dreamy eyes.

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Played a game of that last week. I lost terribly to the honest traders but smuggling is definitely more fun.

Especially if you try to play the lovable rogue who everybody knows is dirty but who is more than willing to offer damn good bribes.

We like playing Pathfinder so much that both kids now have their own sets of Chessex dice.

Played Apples To Apples for the first time tonight. My brother was reffing, and the word he picked was "Juicy." My hand had nothing good for it, so I went with my best argument.

"'Beethoven'? How is 'Beethoven' 'Juicy'?"
"Well, considering how well he was preserved, he might still be a little 'Juicy.'"

Got a few good dry heaves out of my brother on that explanation.

I have officially been indoctrinated into the players of Catan.

Bowielee said:

I have officially been indoctrinated into the players of Catan.

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Sheep for wood?

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

Sheep for wood?

--Patrick

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I'll give you three sheep and one grain, you use your sheep port to turn two of them into an ore so you can build a city next turn, and in return you give me two bales of cloth?

So, settle a debate. For setup, should you assign tiles randomly, or attempt to disperse them evenly?

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So, settle a debate. For setup, should you assign tiles randomly, or attempt to disperse them evenly?

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There is no official setup, if that is what you are asking. Personally, I use this: http://www.bettersettlers.com/Generate.html

We tend to distribute the field randomly, the numbers semi-randomly aka "random and then adjust a little bit to avoid clear problems/disasters" - having wood only on 2, 3 and 12, for example can lead to some pretty unfun games, so then you just switch one or two numbers around.
If playing with relatively new/inexperienced players the "base" spread from the manual can be easier/fairer to use.

This is wrong. This is just plain wrong.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/scrabble-dictionary-adds-newb-pwn-and-lolz/1100-6427544/

The iconic word board game Scrabble has added the word "newb" to its official dictionary along with some other Internet-speak terms most gamers will recognize.
Collins, which publishes the Official Scrabble Words dictionary, has added 6,500 words to the board game overall in its first update since 2011.
Some other words you may have seen during an in-game chat include:

• Pwn, meaning to dominate an opponent, is worth 8 points
• Thanx, which is only one letter shorter than "thanks," is worth 15 points
• LOLZ, "laughs at someone else’s or one’s own expense," according to Collins, is worth 13 points
• WAHH, to express wailing, is worth 10 points

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ThatNickGuy said:

This is wrong. This is just plain wrong.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/scrabble-dictionary-adds-newb-pwn-and-lolz/1100-6427544/

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And yet, they still haven't added KWYJIBO

Hah! They spelled "LULZ" wrong.

--Patrick

I ordered Small World, as my wife wants a game that's fun for both one on one and for a group ... and for some reason got one-day free shipping? Well, I'm not going to say no.

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I ordered Small World, as my wife wants a game that's fun for both one on one and for a group ... and for some reason got one-day free shipping? Well, I'm not going to say no.

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I really like Small World. It's very simple to play and the variety and replayability is high.

Small World is the go to game for my group of friends. I have all the race expansions.

Friends and I have been playing Epic Spell Wars a lot recently. Saw it on Tabletop a while back and wanted it, but one of my friends got it before I could. Lots of fun. Last game came down to me and another friend, both with 1 health left and he got me by playing an impatient card.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/112686/epic-spell-wars-battle-wizards-duel-mt-skullzfyre

I really... REALLY wish Epic Spell Wars had an Adventure Time version called WIZARD BATTLE.

Well one of the animators on Adventure Time did the art for this game, so it's kinda related already

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I really like Small World. It's very simple to play and the variety and replayability is high.

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We just tried it out tonight. At first I got a little daunted with some of the specialty rules for different races/abilities, but we took it one step at a time through wife's turn, then my turn, read a couple paragraphs, then I turned another page and realized those were all the major rules ... we already knew how to play.

Our only major hiccup was that the Tabletop episode made it seem like you just grab coins and then find out how much they're worth at the end. We corrected this midway through, but it was still weirdly presented in that episode.

Also, ghouls are not a good late game choice . Especially against elves.

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Small World is the go to game for my group of friends. I have all the race expansions.

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Is each one worth getting or are there duds?

There are two games which I will play ANY time anyone asks. A Study In Emerald (which I've posted in the thread previously), and Glory to Rome (my avatar currently).

I'm actually itching to play ASiE again, which is surprising since I played it last month. The game's balance relies heavily on the players and the cards are completely random. I could play this game 3 or 4 times a month and still not be sick of it.[DOUBLEPOST=1440822556,1440822444][/DOUBLEPOST]

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Generally all good, though I hear Underworld is very similar to the base game and you could really take your pick of which one you get. And really, they just add to the replayability.

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We just tried it out tonight. At first I got a little daunted with some of the specialty rules for different races/abilities, but we took it one step at a time through wife's turn, then my turn, read a couple paragraphs, then I turned another page and realized those were all the major rules ... we already knew how to play.

Our only major hiccup was that the Tabletop episode made it seem like you just grab coins and then find out how much they're worth at the end. We corrected this midway through, but it was still weirdly presented in that episode.

Also, ghouls are not a good late game choice . Especially against elves.



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I'd say the only one that I think absolutely everyone should get is Be Not Afraid. The rest are good, but not anything that you can't live without or you're super bored with the stock races/powers.

I bought a stack of less intensive games to quickly pass short periods of time with friends:

Bang! (Which I've played a lot of and enjoy every time I get to play it)
Roll for It
The Resistance

I've heard nothing but good things for both Roll for It and The Resistance.

Frank said:

I bought a stack of less intensive games to quickly pass short periods of time with friends:

Bang! (Which I've played a lot of and enjoy every time I get to play it)
Roll for It
The Resistance

I've heard nothing but good things for both Roll for It and The Resistance.

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Bang! is a great game, but I would have suggested Bang! The Dice Game. Same theme and you don't run into the long periods where you don't get what you need from the deck.

I really wanted the bullet case.

Frank said:

I really wanted the bullet case.

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Lol, I understand

Frank said:

I really wanted the bullet case.

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That's why I bought it. Don't like it though. The player elimination thing irks me.

That's the only downside. There are expansions that let eliminated players still participate.

Has anybody mentioned Citadels here yet. It's one of my faves. There's a bit of chance (in the cards you draw), and a good amount of strategy. With a nice bit of getting fucked over by your opponents.

Rrrrg, why are people so afraid to try anything new?

Dad and stepmom were here. We bought Dixit specifically to play with them. I start explaining the rules, which as those of you who've played it know, are pretty damn simple.

Dad cuts in "let's just play Apples to Apples."

It's the same shit with my mom and stepdad, same shit with friends. Apples to Apples is not the fucking ultimate of quick and easy board games. There other fun options; stop being so damn basic.

I kind of hate Dixit. It's ok, but playing it with my kids kind of ruined it for me because they are not very good at it.

Tell those scrubs to git gud.

Dei said:

I kind of hate Dixit. It's ok, but playing it with my kids kind of ruined it for me because they are not very good at it.

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I was using Dixit as an example, but it's anything, any possibility of another game, it devolves to just playing Apples to Apples. It's ridiculous.

Only my aunts and cousins were willing to try new things and discover they enjoyed them, but that might've been because we'd buy them as Christmas gifts and they felt obligated to give things a chance. Though thinking back on playing Dixit with them, the two kids never won. Hm.

On Tuesday I bought "Exploding Kittens: NSFW Edition" at my local Target and got to play it for the first time last night with my brother and his friends. It was pretty fun. The games don't last very long and the rules are simplistic, but it does get very intense when the draw deck gets near the end and the exploding kitten cards are more likely to come up.

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On Tuesday I bought "Exploding Kittens: NSFW Edition" at my local Target and got to play it for the first time last night with my brother and his friends. It was pretty fun. The games don't last very long and the rules are simplistic, but it does get very intense when the draw deck gets near the end and the exploding kitten cards are more likely to come up.

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Played it a couple times now, both with 2 players, 4, and 8-9 (and two decks, of course). Definitely plays differently with a different number of players. Not as much fun with 2, honestly.

I watched my wife and her friend play a round, decided to pass on it. Instead I convinced them to play Marvel Legendary. I think we all agreed it was the right choice.

Cheesy1 said:

On Tuesday I bought "Exploding Kittens: NSFW Edition" at my local Target and got to play it for the first time last night with my brother and his friends. It was pretty fun. The games don't last very long and the rules are simplistic, but it does get very intense when the draw deck gets near the end and the exploding kitten cards are more likely to come up.

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We found the regular version at Target on sunday and @dill616 and I played a few rounds it was pretty fun. Gonna try it out this weekend with a larger group of friends.

Also picked up Sushi Go at the same time and with even two people, that is a lot of fun. It has also been featured on an episode of Tabletop.

If you like Sushi Go, give Among the Stars a try. Card drafting and using those cards to build your space station.

A bit of a round-up for folks looking for something fun this season:
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiver...d-best-board-games-to-play-this-thanksgiving/

--Patrick

Played Skulls, Twilight Imperium (which I won), Pitch Car (which I won, and A Study in Emerald. Overall a great weekend of gaming! Hoping for some X-wing before we head back home.

Played Tokaido today, it was pretty fun. My husband got the old guy and hot springed his way to victory. Only my husband and my son got temple bonuses because they managed to block me and my daughter from them every time too. :/

I picked up King of New York, the sequel to King of Tokyo last week and spent some time playing with friends this weekend. It's a ton of fun, and the changes to the core mechanic swings the core mechanic more to strategy than lucky dice rolls. Of course, as always, you still need those too.

PatrThom said:

A bit of a round-up for folks looking for something fun this season:
http://arstechnica.com/the-multiver...d-best-board-games-to-play-this-thanksgiving/

--Patrick

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Ooh. I see some games there I want to pick up. Colt Express especially sounds fun.

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Ooh. I see some games there I want to pick up. Colt Express especially sounds fun.

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Colt Express is fun. It's a light programming game. Had a good time playing it but it doesn't hit the table much in our group (we have way too many games in our group).

Picked up Roll For It and Cash N Guns (2nd ed.) recently. We've played both and Cash N Guns is fun, but Roll For It is a lot more fun. It is so simple that it can be taught in just a few moments and then everyone at the table can immediately jump in with no worries that experienced players will dominate. It also comes in such a small package that you can quite literally have it with you all of the time. We went out to a nice sit-down pizza restaurant the other night and took this with us to play while waiting for our pizza and it worked perfectly (though rolling in the box lids is recommended).

Cash N Guns is fun, but takes some strategy. Our group when we played it last kinda devolved into rounds of revenge shooting people which would inevitably lead to one person getting a monumental lead over everyone else and then coasting to the finish.

Have read a great deal of hate for Exploding Kittens and I'm completely baffled by it. This is from someone who doesn't like the Oatmeal too. It's fun and incredibly easy to learn and teach to someone. It's great for a few quick games. It's perfect for what it is. It's like people equating it's Kickstarter success to how complex it should be.

"UHHHH, IT'S NOT WORTH 8 MILLION DOLLARS!!!"

You didn't pay 8 million, you paid 20.

400000 people paid 20.

It's not a 150 dollar tokeny, 2000 card, multistage strategy boardgame, it's a quick deck game that's fun and funny.

Yeah, you won't hear me claim it's a great awesome wonder game, but it's pretty much what I expected from it. It's not a "serious" enough game for many board game geeks, but it wasn't intended to be.

Not a bad game, just didn't pique my interest.

Just purchased Code Names and Forbidden Stars. Forbidden Stars has been on my radar for a while, but I finally bit the bullet and just said "what the hell".



I mean, LOOK a that! Can't wait for this to arrive.

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Not a bad game, just didn't pique my interest.

Just purchased Code Names and Forbidden Stars. Forbidden Stars has been on my radar for a while, but I finally bit the bullet and just said "what the hell".

I mean, LOOK a that! Can't wait for this to arrive.

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Played it a few times it is pretty awesome.

Frank said:

Have read a great deal of hate for Exploding Kittens and I'm completely baffled by it. This is from someone who doesn't like the Oatmeal too. It's fun and incredibly easy to learn and teach to someone. It's great for a few quick games. It's perfect for what it is. It's like people equating it's Kickstarter success to how complex it should be.

"UHHHH, IT'S NOT WORTH 8 MILLION DOLLARS!!!"

You didn't pay 8 million, you paid 20.

400000 people paid 20.

It's not a 150 dollar tokeny, 2000 card, multistage strategy boardgame, it's a quick deck game that's fun and funny.

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Hell, I paid $20 for individually wrapped emergency monocles. Exploding Kittens was worth what I paid for it. We've played it a few times when my step-son and his wife were visiting when he was on leave from the air force.

Must be like Christmas for me! I just got the games I ordered, plus a game I kickstarted, Eminent Domain Battlecruisers, has just arrived!

I've been given permission to start looking for a quality crokinole board for my birthday in November. So far I'm thinking Helsinki will be the way I go. Some of my favorites-

Walnut Burl playing surface is gorgeous on this one.



Really love the cherry ditch on this one-


The pattern on this one is gorgeous as well.



Going to be Very hard to choose. Have about $350 to $500 to spend.

Whenever I visit my parents I always have a board game night with my friend. One of the games he had this time was Tragedy Looper, and I think I'm in love. It's an anime time travel loop mystery game where you have to figure out a way to prevent bad things from happening within a certain amount of loops while one player tries to gleefully stop you. It feels almost feels like if Halforums Academy was a board game, but without the hentai part.[emoji14]

Interesting pseudonym.

--Patrick

Played Machi Koro with my daughter. Stole all her coins with restaurants and then got 30 coins from my fruit and vegetable shops and made her rage quit.

10/10

Ok, put in my order for the criminology board. Having the artist do one similar to the below image

Krisken said:

Ok, put in my order for the criminology board. Having the artist do one similar to the below image

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Autocorrect or change of idea about where to put your money?

Bubble181 said:

Autocorrect or change of idea about where to put your money?

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Wow, yeah, farking autocorrect.

Crokinole board I am ordering.

Who knows? Criminology by way of a Oujia board might have fun consequences.

That would be something, but no, it is a crokinole board. When I get it (probably months from now) I'll post a picture

Showed my mother in law the board above and she said "So, you're going to teach me how to play this game, right?"

That's a win in my book!

This is my board. I love it.

I couldn't be happier! I hope they are able to finish it quickly, I'm just so excited to try it out!

Anyone played Red Dragon Inn? Saw it at the game store the last time we were there and thought it looked interesting, but didn't know enough about it to pick it up. We bought Tokaido instead, which is a great game.

Red Dragon Inn is fun, I feel it get better the more characters/decks you have to choose from but the mechanics are sound and the cards are pretty funny. Tokaido was a good choice over it though.

Red dragon Inn is in tabletop simulator!

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Final image of the board-

“Board Game of the Year” winners announced

--Patrick

Good choices, though I would argue there wasn't a bad finalist in the bunch.

So Eric Lang just announced a new game with Cool Mini or Not he is working on that will have a kickstarter date in 2017. This game is a spiritual successor to Blood Rage and it doesn't disappoint so far-











Holy crap. I'm in awe of these sculpts. I want these SO BAD.

Not a board game, but I finally picked up Red Dragon Inn. Loving it.

Something reminded me of the Penny Arcade thing Thornwatch, and I thought "that was a few years ago, it must be out by now, I wonder if it's any good," so I went searching.

Not only has it not been released, the Kickstarter project to fund it was just started this month, so it won't even be locked in until October 5th (though it is now funded by quintuple or so its asking amount) with a release period of September 2017.

Zero Esc said:

Something reminded me of the Penny Arcade thing Thornwatch, and I thought "that was a few years ago, it must be out by now, I wonder if it's any good," so I went searching.

Not only has it not been released, the Kickstarter project to fund it was just started this month, so it won't even be locked in until October 5th (though it is now funded by quintuple or so its asking amount) with a release period of September 2017.

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They've been playtesting it behind closed doors at PAX events for awhile, I think. They wanted to make it work before bringing it to the people.

The buzz is it's pretty good too. So, you know, they are legitimately trying to make a good game.

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I'm in awe of these sculpts. I want these SO BAD.

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If I were the sort of person who enjoyed the painting of miniatures, I would need a new pair of pants and a nap.

--Patrick

Frank said:

The buzz is it's pretty good too. So, you know, they are legitimately trying to make a good game.

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I hope to try the print and play on Tabletop Simulator. I'll get back to y'all.

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If I were the sort of person who enjoyed the painting of miniatures, I would need a new pair of pants and a nap.

--Patrick

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Well, also being Eric Lange, I'm sure the game will be fantastic. I really like Blood Rage and hope it works just as well (but differently, of course).

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We pretty much played the classics at my house, but game night was a HUGE deal when we were kids and is probably one of the reasons that our family is as close as we are.

Favorites include: Trivial Persuit, Uno (yeah, it's a card game, but you included the monopoly one ), Yahtzee, Sorry, Mouse Trap, Boggle, Operation.

My favorite obscure game was I Vant to Bite Your Finger. I have to actually convince people that this game existed.

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I actually remember that game! heh, good times, good times.

Mysterium


Clue meets Dixit. It's fun. One player is a ghost, the others are psychics/mediums/whatever trying to unravel the murder, based purely on their visions. The ghost is only allowed to communicate through Dixit-style visual cards. Each psychic has to discover their own vision, resulting in [number of players] possible suspects/locations/weapons. The ghost then has to indicate which one's the Real Thing.

Played it three rimes, once as the ghost. It's fun/ridiculous to see how other people interpret the clues you give, and something hilarious, sometimes frustrating to see how bad it goes or what kind of mental leaps are made.

It's also a cooperative game, where everyone, including the ghost, wins or loses together.

I just got Space Hulk for $60 due to a local store being sold off. Hell of a deal considering Fantasy Flight and Games Workshop ended their partnership.

I bought a basketball game from a thrift store.

It has plastic flippers on either end, mini basketballs tied to strings and a hoop in the middle.

Bubble181 said:

Mysterium


Clue meets Dixit. It's fun. One player is a ghost, the others are psychics/mediums/whatever trying to unravel the murder, based purely on their visions. The ghost is only allowed to communicate through Dixit-style visual cards. Each psychic has to discover their own vision, resulting in [number of players] possible suspects/locations/weapons. The ghost then has to indicate which one's the Real Thing.

Played it three rimes, once as the ghost. It's fun/ridiculous to see how other people interpret the clues you give, and something hilarious, sometimes frustrating to see how bad it goes or what kind of mental leaps are made.

It's also a cooperative game, where everyone, including the ghost, wins or loses together.

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Shut up & Sit Down did a Let's Play of this game, complete with period costumes.

I still have my old Hero Quest games and this would be pretty sweet to get if it wasn't like 90 billion trillion dollars.

This guy does the best fucking videos.

Holy crap, Gloom looks great. I think I know what to get my aunts and cousins for Christmas.

Zero Esc said:

Holy crap, Gloom looks great. I think I know what to get my aunts and cousins for Christmas.

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It's fun, but...Well, you sort of have to make your own story up to keep it interesting. I've played it a few times and I did like it, but I had the feeling I'd tire of it fairly quickly if played too often. Might be mitigated by the expansions, haven't played any of them.

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It's fun, but...Well, you sort of have to make your own story up to keep it interesting. I've played it a few times and I did like it, but I had the feeling I'd tire of it fairly quickly if played too often. Might be mitigated by the expansions, haven't played any of them.

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I've enjoyed it, too, but yeah, it's not so fun when everyone's not in a creative mood.


. . . and I've rarely ever found a board game expansion that adds to the experience. Except for using a stack of extra city tiles in Carcassonne (without the rules of whatever expansion I got them from)

Gruebeard said:

I've enjoyed it, too, but yeah, it's not so fun when everyone's not in a creative mood.


. . . and I've rarely ever found a board game expansion that adds to the experience. Except for using a stack of extra city tiles in Carcassonne (without the rules of whatever expansion I got them from)

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Some of the Catan expansions are pretty much requisite. Some Carcassonne expansions work well (not all though). Dixit has useful expansions (but don't use too many at a time!). Jungle Speed's expansions certainly make the game better worse even more aggressive. Some of Agricola's expansions are apparently great fun, though I haven't really played with any of them.

Of those, I've only played Carcassonne and Catan. I didn't like Catan.

I know this is late, but I hadn't thought to check this thread in a while.

I bought Gloom a while back and I enjoy it a lot, but yeah expansions don't really make it better, just more confusing. And my friends were not as keen on it as I was, so it quickly fell out of favor and I stopped bringing it with me to our weekly game day.

One of my friends recently bought Boss Monster 2. It was our first introduction to that game series, so it took a bit for us to get rules down, but once we did, it is a lot of fun. All of the old-school game and general geek references are fun, too.

Early birthday gift from my gf
Bit more aggressive / competitive than the normal version... Will let you know if it's fun!

Played Potion Explosion with my kids. It was pretty fun.

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Jesus Christ, you look like my brother in law. I got fucken scared for a second.

And shit, Shawnacy, WTF happened to that guy. He limited his profile, when was the last time he logged in?

We and family played King of Tokyo yesterday. Normally this game ends up as a slog, which it's not supposed to be, and we could never figure out why.

Yesterday we played without the Evolution cards from the expansion pack because my aunts couldn't find them. I know they diversify the monsters, but holy shit, the game got so much better without having to worry about those stupid things. Suddenly hearts were only good for healing, so it was better to aim for points, energy, attack. No one had to worry about finnicky rules besides the cards purchased. We ended up playing three games in the time it normally takes us to play one. My wife was viscious--usually everyone plays for points, but this time she killed four of us in one game.

I think the evolution cards make sense in 1v1 games, but when it's a group it might be better to just leave them out if it's slowing things down. This was way more fun than the game had ever been.

I just picked up Star Wars Rebellion. I CANNOT wait to play this game. It seriously looks fantastic and the cat and mouse aspect is very well done here.

Here is a review by one of my favorite review sites-

Just a heads up to anyone who is interested, the Kickstarter for Rising Sun (the Eric Lang successor to Blood Rage) will be March 7th.

This is the teaser picture CMON put up at their site-

*weeaboo intensifies*

I don't even play board games and I want it.

I'll bet some people on this board want it just so they can paint it.

--Patrick

And Rising Sun is up at Kickstarter. Holy shit, this is intense. 1.07 Million in 3 hours and the stretch goals are absolutely absurd. The game is a flat $100 plus shipping as outlined in the description.









Just phenomenal.

New stretch goal unlocked. Dear god, I WANT the next one!!!



WOW.

Backed so hard.

Like, my erection at looking at those minis hard.

I really wish I hadn't opened this thread, that is too tempting

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Backed so hard.

Like, my erection at looking at those minis hard.

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...hard as cold-cast resin.

--Patrick

drifter said:

I really wish I hadn't opened this thread, that is too tempting

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What's really awesome is no matter what, the base cost doesn't change and all the stretch goals get added to the base game.

Stop it

Man, they're already 4 more stretch goals into it since I pledged.

This is feeling Reaper Bones good.

Goddamnit man I'm not made of stone

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Goddamnit man I'm not made of stone

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--Patrick

Time for an update since I haven't done so for far too long!

Stretch goals achieved since the Kitsune-

















And that is where we are at currently! What a truckload of stuff!

what a beutiful game. ive been cursing it the entire time weve run our own campaign for sucking up all the cash but. ill probably have to back it.

Sorry, I've been slacking!

Add on's available to purchase-

Metal Coins $20

Dynasty Invasion, 2 new clans, 7 monsters $50






And other items which have been unlocked to go with the base game-










That's where we are at for now! Oh, did I mention they gave the minis to a professional to paint?






Some of my favorites. Check out the rest at the update here.

Well, the Kickstarter finished. Here's what you get/got with the basic pledge by the end (all I went in for, if I like it I'll pick up the expansion at retail).

Hey! G frickin D! I'd set up a 'remind me' alert from KS because I couldn't spare the cash back when it came my attention. I never got that mail! Pah! Booohh!

Bubble181 said:

Hey! G frickin D! I'd set up a 'remind me' alert from KS because I couldn't spare the cash back when it came my attention. I never got that mail! Pah! Booohh!

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They still take late pledges.

Frank said:

They still take late pledges.

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I'll have to look into it tomorrow.

Saw Cyanide & Happiness' Joking Hazard at Target of all places, so I picked it up. My gaming group loves Cards Against Humanity enough to play it almost every week. This may be similar enough to provide some more fun while also giving those of us who are growing tired of CAH a bit of a reprieve.

It's actually better. The pictures really help tell the tale.

I don't know how people play CAH more than a couple of times.

Frank said:

I don't know how people play CAH more than a couple of times.

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I say the same thing about Monopoly.

--Patrick

Frank said:

I don't know how people play CAH more than a couple of times.

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Well, we have bought all of the expansions and all of the 3rd party Crabs Adjust Humidity in order to keep things a little more randomized, but yeah, main issue for me is that after seeing a card more than a handful of times, it gets stale. You can still get some enjoyment out of playing, but nowhere near the hilarity of a new card completely blind-siding you for the first time.

Played some of the older games in our collections today. Started off with Small World, played 2 rounds of No Thanks, th n finished with Kingsburg. A good day of gaming and it is al aye nice to revisit the classics.

Not technically a Board Game, but played Exploding Kittens with my wife this evening. Wow, quick game, but fun. NSFW version brought up some good laughs. Would play again. Boob wizards.

Gonna play some party games tonight with my wife and her friend. Probably Joking Hazard and a few other games.

Went to Tabletop Day at our local game store, it coincided with a Pokemon tournament and so the place was absolutely packed and we didn't stay for very long. Did play and subsequently purchase Splendor, which is a really fun game.

I love Splendor and hear they are coming out with an expansion

Got to play Pandemic Cthulhu and we were lucky enough to pull off a win and close the 4 gates. I think it's better than Pandemic since it has a lot of the same mechanics but shortens the game in a clever way. Very cool game.

Friends and I played Scythe. Interesting game. The person who was ze Germans won every game though. It's really easy with their victory points for winning battles they can do. Seems a teensy bit unbalanced.

Frank said:

Friends and I played Scythe. Interesting game. The person who was ze Germans won every game though. It's really easy with their victory points for winning battles they can do. Seems a teensy bit unbalanced.

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Huh, my first time playing I won with 'the Russians'. I'm surprised they didn't suffer in the popularity track (this is where the real victory points are, and if you max this the military player will have a hard time catching you).

Just picked up the Scythe DLC for Board Game Simulator. I dig it. Played the Chick with the Bear.

Just got secret Hitler and red dragon Inn in the mail. Can't wait to get together with friends (hopefully this weekend) to try it out!

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My wife and I played an oldie but a goodie, Mystery Rummy: Jack The Ripper.



I forgot how much fun this game is, and Mike Fitzgerald did a great job adding interesting elements to the classic Rummy game.

Also got to play Blood Rage (which I dominated). Great game which takes about 1 hour and is very interactive:



Glory to Rome. This is a card game where the cards have multiple uses, either as resources, actions, or buildings. Deciding what to play can be tough and watching what your neighbor is doing is essential to winning:



A Study In Emerald. This is one of my favorite games of all time:



And Tigres and Euphretes, a fun game which I am terrible at:




Rainy days are great for boardgaming!

My kids have been playing a lot of Dungeon! lately. We don't have to sit there with a rule book and manual after each turn because they don't understand how to figure out their dice or damage, etc. They can follow the rules themselves, figure out what damage the mobs they're fighting can do and how much damage they are doing to the mobs, and then add up their treasures for the final race to the end. We play with them sometimes, but it isn't necessary. It is fun though.

I haven't played that in YEARS. I don't even know if my father still has it.

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

I haven't played that in YEARS. I don't even know if my father still has it.

--Patrick

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This is a version that came out in 2012. From what I understand there have been some changes to the game. I never played the older version, so I have no idea.