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Board Game and Gaming Accessory Suggestions
susan
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Hello Forumers!
Here's the pleasant but perplexing situation: Through a strange set of circumstances, I have recently come into possession of $100 worth of Gift Certificates to a fine local business known as Comic Book Ink, your basic FLGS/Comic/Boardgame/Nerd Haven. And I... am drawing a total blank on what to purchase. My comic book supplies are fine, my RPG Library is full, so I'm leaning towards expanding my lackluster Board Game and Gaming Accessory Supplies. And so, your advice is needed. What I am looking for fall into these categories:
-Board Games
-Tabletop and RPG Accessories
-Other
What would you buy, and advise a friend to buy? The manager swears he can special order pretty much anything, so go absolutely crazy here. Thanks!
Here's the pleasant but perplexing situation: Through a strange set of circumstances, I have recently come into possession of $100 worth of Gift Certificates to a fine local business known as Comic Book Ink, your basic FLGS/Comic/Boardgame/Nerd Haven. And I... am drawing a total blank on what to purchase. My comic book supplies are fine, my RPG Library is full, so I'm leaning towards expanding my lackluster Board Game and Gaming Accessory Supplies. And so, your advice is needed. What I am looking for fall into these categories:
-Board Games
-Tabletop and RPG Accessories
-Other
What would you buy, and advise a friend to buy? The manager swears he can special order pretty much anything, so go absolutely crazy here. Thanks!
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2011 PAX Warmachine/Hordes Champion
2011 PAX Warmachine/Hordes Champion
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Check out this thread.
But in addition to the general Boardgame thread that Ryadic linked, you could check out this gift guide on BoardGameGeek and see if any of those whet your fancy.
http://thehouseofcards.com/retail/millebornes.html
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Seriously? No, that's not the best use of $100 for board games, when she could get Chaos in the Old World, Puerto Rico, and Race for the Galaxy for that. If she already had a solid collection of standard games in various genres, maybe, but she said it is lackluster.
I wouldn't suggest getting both Puerto Rico and Race for the Galaxy at the same time. They are both very similar in their mechanics. If you're looking for variety I would definitely go for something else.
Personally I like Race for the Galaxy more than PR, but PR is the more popular game. I'd say go with your preference of card game or board.
1) Buy Space Hulk,
2) Sell Space Hulk,
3) Buy more games.
Really, it's all win-win if the chance to get it arises.
It was requested for me to be more specific with what I have/what I'm looking for, so I'll list out the games I have in my collection currently:
...and that's pretty much it. Like I said, lackluster. As for the audience, I'm looking for both Party Games for Adults (4+ people with a few drinks in them) and more nerd-targeted strategy or conquest or adventure games.
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Chaos in the Old World is a great area control/strategy game for 4 players, using the Warhammer gods of Chaos. Dungeon Twister is good times for 2p strategy, like a wizards chess. Arkham Horror is a cooperative game that has you attempting to stop on of the Great Old Ones coming into the world, for 1-6 players (with less than three, each player controls multiple characters).
If any of those sound interesting, I can find some links or give more information about them.
Middle Earth Quest, World of Warcraft: The Board Game (NOT, I repeat, NOT the adventure game!), Fury of Dracula, Battlestar Galactica and Prophecy are all of the adventure games that make my own desert island list. You can check out Scott Nicholson's review of Prophecy on YouTube (I'd link to it, but Shockwave is being a motherfucker right now and won't run without crashing my browser.
As long as you start with at least 3-4 players and make sure not to dogpile on one person (it's a better strategy to whittle everyone down more subtly and then start knocking ones out within minutes of eachother, anyway), I have found it to be a repeatedly fun game.
I just need to get my group to take the time away from all the long strategy games for it again.
Just as planned!
I also picked up Pandemic and it was lots of fun (but it doesn't seem to have a ton of replay value?)
It has as much replay value as any solitaire or co-operative puzzle. Why would you say it doesn't? You can tune the difficulty level if you're winning too easily, or pick up the expansion for new roles/special actions/modes of play.
Basically, after we won our first few games, it seemed like we could never lose. We haven't tried with all the epidemic cards though ... I guess we need to give that a shot.
There's also no 'Arkham Horror Factor' in Pandemic, where some games you just flat out get massacred due to bad draws and bad rolls, so there's a trade-off in what adding layers of randomness will do for a game.