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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Rabble rabble rabble
What about kitlers?
So guess I am ready to work whenever.
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Those are separate books. She did write America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom with Michael Ian Black.
Shush, [chat]ders.
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Off the top of my head the bad traits that boardgames should balance against their good ones include:
Game length
Complexity / learning difficulty
Player downtime (ie: time spent waiting for your next turn or action or decision)
Random outcome
That is not to say that any of these kill a game there just must be good aspects to make up for the problems. Such good things include:
Interesting choices
Promoting positive social interaction
Interesting theme
The physical medium of the game (good art, high quality pieces etc...)
Suspense or other emotional engagement with the outcome
The games that I was picking on as "bad" aren't bad because they are "casual" (cause Munchkin isn't all that casual for one thing) but because they have an abundance of negative traits without much in the way of good ones to balance it out.
Games with a lot of randomness (often called "ameritrash" for historical reasons) in particular are often difficult to review well because that very randomness means that sometimes they can be a lot of fun while other times, purely by chance not by any choices of the players, they are terrible experiences. Arkham Horror in particular has this problem.
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well who died and made you fire queen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I'm not familiar with the venue but that sounds delightful and is definitely about the same trajectory I had with liking LDR.
At first I was like, yes, dis my shit, and then I was like, ooh so played out, but then
Lana-chan
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That's dedication to a stupid prank.
that is an interesting business model.
He does so much work so fast that I am like, err, here, maybe combine my ~10% contribution to what you have already finished.
Much shame and stress.
There's a very successful version of this called Snakes and Lattes in Toronto
Its such a local attraction they added a bar version called Snakes and Lagers
Losing that was crushing in the moment. It seems so trivial and yet . . .I feel like my day slash week is all fucked up and I'm disappointed.
Hmm
Hands down, pants down.
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how did he not get fired?
I don't remember you mentioning penis as often before your break from the forums. But maybe we posted in the same threads less back then.
They put this picture on their website.
Im sure that Gamer Cafe/Pub can be a successful thing, but I dont think these kids will crack it.
dominant strategies: This is when the design, usually accidentally, leads to there being a strategy (or a small number) that are far more likely to win than other options. The proper usage of a boardgame being "broken" is when there exists a dominant strategy.
useless options: When there are choices the player can take which are never better than other options they have available. This adds complexity to the game for no benefit.
These complaints seem somewhat mutually exclusive.
At least a little!
no they're mutually paired but the latter can be independent
dominant strategies means other, useless strategies
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
as long as you can offer me that, in some way, i can find a way into making it fun
if your game has a pretty clear optimal strategy at any given turn, and the only thing i need to do is protect against luck and the luck of my opponents, then that's pretty boring to me. we're just wasting time in a slightly less tedious fashion than staring at drywall
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(I assume you mean "a long board game")
yeah I find the sweet spot for a game to include both interesting choices ("depth") but not run too long is 90 minutes for a non-teaching game. There are very few games longer than 3 hours that I think are worth playing.
Off the top of my head those would be Dune (1979 edition), Roads & Boats, 1870, 1856.
nah
to be honest most of the people who go to a gamer cafe are not nerds at all they're like 'do you guys have risk omg i remember playing that in high school'
Last year at Pax East they had a panel on Gamer Bars. The panelists were entrepeneurs that had created those type of bars. Most of them had gone out of business before the panel.