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I played Claustraphobia yesterday too, after the Resistance games yesterday. Definitely one I want to pick up. I like how all these games are using these dice mechanics nowadays. Claustraphobia is basically a 1 vs 1 scenario based dungeon crawl. But you roll dice, and then choose how to assign them each turn. For heroes, that determines what stats your heroes will have for that turn (rolling high or low isn't always good, depending on what you actually want to do). While the Demon player generally tries to get different dice combinations to give abilities to their minions, with specific values to activate certain special abilities. Quite awesome. Especially with the painted minis.
And played and got my copy of 7 Wonders today. Hand-delivered by the store owners (since they were coming to the game night too). Now I just need the sleeves. (Damn you Mayday Games, hurry up!)
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I greatly appreciate your kind offer and truly awesome Christmas spirit! I went to my FLGS (Actually, the place is pretty creepy, do we have an acronym for that?) for the second time this week and they had one copy on the shelf so I grabbed it. I can't give that store too much grief though, they've finally started carrying more than just Warhammer stuff. I even saw a copy of Lifeboats, which I thought was out-of-print, but I didn't pick it up because I like having friends.
In our last few games, New Caprica has been an incredibly tense situation.
But yeah. For your first game just don't play with Pegasus at all.
No kidding. I'm willing to play it a couple of times sleeveless, but not much more than that. I got to teach it to my neighbor yesterday and he's intrigued.
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If anyone has any other suggestions out there, please toss them in.
Requirements 1.) Interesting theme. We both enjoy more off the wall things. She has been so turned off by a few themes that they were traded almost instantly. Age of Empires, BattleLore, Attack!, Steam and a few others were tossed off the shelf because even if they were well-themed, the themes weren't that interesting.
2.) 2 hour or less play time. We pretty much stop having fun at the 140 minute mark and if the game isn't about to wrap up, it usually wont see a lot of table time. BSG fell to this.
3.)Rules light. I would define this as the number of times you have to look in the rulebook on your third play. While I certainly don't want a game with a ton of rules because it makes the first couple games boooring as hell, if a game can be easy to play on round 3 without constant looking-up-rules, it will probably work.
Besides Claustrophobia I'd see if she is interested in Last Night on Earth or Invasion from Outer Space. Both use the same game mechanics with only slight differences between them (though the themes are quite different). You either play Zombies vs. Townspeople or Aliens vs. Circus Folks. If you end up getting both they come with rules so you can mix the games in different combinations as well.
I also don't think LNoE works that well as a two player game. An organized hero team is pretty much instant lose for the zombies. Like a real horror movie, the excitement comes when the group splits up and starts doing stupid things like "You guys go ahead, I'm going to go into the hospital to find a first aid kit!"
It's about an hour playing time. Rules are about as simple as I described it. For heroes, roll dice, assign them to characters, which determines what stats they have. There's only 3 stats, movement, combat, and defense. A die value that gives you high defense might give you a really low combat, and vice versa, and better movement will probably give you lower defense and combat. Each hero has a few abilities affecting movement except the Redeemer who usually has special powers he can use on certain die numbers, like choosing what tile comes up, or increasing combat powers to one character.
Combat is rolling your dice equal to your combat score and each die that's >= defense is a hit. Demon fodder minions just die in one hit. Their special demons are stronger but limited in number. Hero characters are more interesting. Each time they're wounded, one die choice is marked off. If they are assigned that die value in the future, they can't do anything. If a hero dies, that's one less die you get to roll. So as time progresses, the hero will get weaker and weaker.
Demon dice combinations are like one odd or one even, all evens, all odds, put dice equal to 7, 9, 11 or 12+, save a die for next turn, or put die that are 3+ to draw cards, get more threat points (for summoning minions), give your minions +movement or reroll dice or prevent hero movement, etc, deal one point of damage to any character.
There are about 5 or 6 different card types per side, so not too much memorizing there. These are things like a tougher minion, moving a character around, forcing a hero character to attack another, etc. I know hero cards have things like cancel a demon card or healing.
Demon spawning rules are pretty simple too. Can't contain a hero character, and must have an exit from the tile to an empty area (no tiles). Each side can only have 3 figures per tile. Some of the demon dice numbers will break that rule, e.g. letting you spawn directly into a tile containing hero characters, etc.
The scenario I played was heroes had to get through at least 10 rooms to get out of the dungeon. If they get 1 out, it's a draw. 2 out and they win.
There's one that's a preset map where the heroes need to get in the middle to kill a high health demon that can't move.
That's almost all of the rules actually, each tile can also have some special effects, like wide/narrow areas (1 or 5 figures in the tile), giving the demon more threat, giving the heroes a card, and so on. It really is quite simple and pretty well balanced, at least in the scenario I played. You will definitely read the rulebook on your third play, if only for the scenario setup though. As far as the actual gameplay mechanics, probably not after the first or second play.
Another game with an interesting theme/mechanism would be Catacombs. Dungeon crawl via flicking pieces.
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What about Dungeon Twister? Fairly straightforward rules for two teams of adventurers competing to escape a trapped dungeon (and/or kill the other team). BGG lists the playing time as 60 minutes, which sounds right to me. Expansions give further item and character choices and dungeon features, but are certainly not needed for the game to work well.
For something completely different, 1960: The Making of a President puts you in a battle for votes instead of direct physical confrontation. Takes about 90 minutes, has tons of theme (all the cards are events from the campaign) and is a lighter interpretation of the system from the very well-regarded wargame Twilight Struggle.
I have a Crokinole board so I am probably good on flicking games.
I actually just traded away dungeon twister and am trying to work out a trade for Dungeon Twister 2. I know they're basically the same thing. We both enjoyed dungeon twister the few times we played it, but neither of us ever requested that it hit the table. My thoughts on it were the mechanics were fun, but I didn't like the little cards or cardboard figures. DT2 addresses both of those issues so I am willing to try it out.
I've thought about 1960, but that seems like something that would fall into the same category as Age Of Empires. Great mechanics, but hard to get excited about. What are some of the mechanics that add tension to the game?
After this, I will never go back to Thunderstone. I still love Dominion for it's simplicity and card variety, but Resident Evil manages to combine the best aspects of both almost effortlessly.
And Wok Star continues to be hilarious.
Rabble is broken.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
The Yomi interface is much, much better than the interface for Puzzle Strike. I'm leaning toward purchasing the physical version of PS when it's rereleased, but maybe I'll go cheap and grab the print-and-play instead.
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I've never played prosperity, but Rabble doesn't seem really broken... at least, unless someone has stacked their deck with gardens or something similar. Otherwise...you could end up with maybe 1 more VP card in your hand, and your deck gets cycled a bit (not a bad thing, in general).
I guess you could have a bunch of curse cards from a witch or something?
Anyway, please elaborate if you would- thanks!
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I've had Fresco on my wishlist for a long time but have never pulled the trigger. What did you think of it, especially compared to other worker placement games you may have played?
I really wish I knew how great this game was at BGG.CON, since the publisher was there and running a bunch of games all weekend.
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Goons - Goons are broken, Rabble's nothing special. Goon's are crazy++ good. They are what allowed me to get to triple figures.
Okay, they probably aren't broken but I would but them even if they didn't have the +1 buy and I can't immediately think of any sets with Goons in where I wouldn't buy Goons if I had the chance.
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Bah! It's nothing like Leonardo DaVinci! Sure, there's action/role-selection...but even that is done differently in Fresco.
Hey fucking read me: Must use before 12/16, not usable online, and you need a to be a free Reward Member. Yes, most Borders have board game area. For example, mine has Small World, Forbidden Island and BSG. Your milage may vary, but it doesn't hurt to look.
Try to limit the game to 3 plays max at a time. There was one night we played the game at least 20 times. Started around 6 and we didn't stop until 4 in the morning. We didn't realize how late it was until around 1.
This man speaks the truth. When every game lasts 1-5 minutes (on my phone) you can play too much too quickly.
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This seems like the kind of game my group will love to play as a change of pace.
Added to my wishlist. I'd love to have this as an alternate to the sometimes ubiquitous response to "Hey lets play a game" answered by "Oh lets play Jenga!" Groan. This looks way more interesting.
Does drunk rules Jenga count as something we can discuss here?
(Drunk rules Jenga: Each player writes an order on a jenga piece. Orders usually involve risque removal of clothing, performance activities, or general drinking. Toppling the jenga tower usually results in alcohol poisoning. Co-ed company recommended.)
Seriously, though, does anyone use Jenga for anything else?
They make wonderful blocks for children to play with.
Pixi, you might want to hold off on getting betrayal unless you really want it. The current edition has a major problem with warping (well, most people do. mine only has one warped tile). The company said they were reprinting the cardboard on new material so it wont warp, but i havent heard anything else about it since signing up to get replacements.
Bausack- white wood pieces and red colored "more difficult" pieces, about 75 in a set.
Sac Noir- black wood and red pieces, and even more red pieces than bausack. about 98 pieces in a set.
Nightfall. (New deck-building game, except it sounds to be more focused on player interaction than "multi player solitaire".)
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