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[Board Games:] friendship is nearly as strong as an analog RNG, it turns out
Jedoc
In the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
In the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
You know how you would never think about murdering your friends and family? Until you start playing a board game and that dick Graham just gives all of his wheat to his wife for no rational reason?
Let's talk about that. Board games, card games, those weird games where you had to locate a specific timestamp on a VHS tape, all of it.
Mostly we're probably going to talk about Solarquest, because that is the queen of board games, and nothing else has come close to touching its magnificence. Look at this shit:
Anyway, I guess talk about lesser board games as well as Monopoly In Space With Lasers, if you must.
Let's talk about that. Board games, card games, those weird games where you had to locate a specific timestamp on a VHS tape, all of it.
Mostly we're probably going to talk about Solarquest, because that is the queen of board games, and nothing else has come close to touching its magnificence. Look at this shit:
Anyway, I guess talk about lesser board games as well as Monopoly In Space With Lasers, if you must.
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Thanks to the miracle of the coolstuffinc ding & dent area, we spent average of 22 bucks per.
Savings standouts include Tyrants of the Underdark for 25 bucks. Mansions of Madness 2e for 40 and Archipelago and Merchants and Marauders for 30 and 20!!!
Couple expansions have already been rolled into other boxes. In case there's concern that I can't actually count.
Steam - Talon Valdez :Blizz - Talonious#1860 : Xbox Live & LoL - Talonious Monk @TaloniousMonk Hail Satan
Yes.
I've maybe put in a good 60 hours over the last couple weeks helping my friends renovate a dive bar in order to turn it into a craft beer, boardgame and e-sports bar. I spent an 8 hour day just punching components, putting them in baggies, and sleeving cards the other day.
This week will be a much appreciated change of pace... helping taste test the food and the drinks.
I was doing this just because I've been friends with the owners since the 4th grade, but, apparently they are going to give me a huge free drink/food tab when the bar opens.
and the expansion that lets one player act as a Nemesis, working against the others with their own set of goals that run counter to the group, is prety great too
It's essentially an assumed cost of operation, having to replace components and entire games. You do what you can, sleeve cards, seal boards, etc, but, people are going to lose, steal, or damage stuff.
Now, keep in mind that the stuff that gets the heaviest use is always going to be things like Jenga, Monopoly, etc. Stuff where you don't REALLY care that much if it get scuffed, damaged, or loses a piece or two.
Stuff like, say, Eclipse which I bagged up the other game is going to get brought out by folks once in a blue moon and those folks are more likely to take care of the game to some degree.
Specifications
Age: High School Students
Game Time: Around an hour to an hour and a half per session.
Options for more players is better
Things they have liked in the past:
Pandemic: Legacy (Despite only being four player, we ended up having a good number of extras watching)
Mysterium
7 Wonders
Roll for The Galaxy
Codenames
Steam - Talon Valdez :Blizz - Talonious#1860 : Xbox Live & LoL - Talonious Monk @TaloniousMonk Hail Satan
Games about unabashed capitalism that are better than monopoly:
I'm trying to think of others
Steam - Talon Valdez :Blizz - Talonious#1860 : Xbox Live & LoL - Talonious Monk @TaloniousMonk Hail Satan
The entire 18xx series.
Food Chain Magnate.
Others I am sure.
they look like some heavy ass euros
1830 is probably the best entry point.
And yeah, they are definitely heavy affairs, not for everyone, but, from a design perspective they are pretty darn great.
For some reason, at my library's teen board game nights Crappy Birthday is always the most popular game by a wide margin. We've also had good success with Zombie Dice and King of Tokyo.
I got the Back to the Future version of that.
I didn't know they were doing licensed versions of the game!
Catan
- For name recognition if nothing else
Splendor
- Always ends up being a quiet game because people get so into figuring out their next move.
Mystic Vale
- Fun deck building game with interesting mechanics
Takenoko
- Fun, cute game of strategy and board building.
Tsuro
- Strategy and competition. It's like cardboard Tron.
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.
liek
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The movement mechanic is what makes it more bearable than Monopoly! It makes it less likely that you'll end up with two people each owning half the board and randomly hoping that they can bleed the other player dry while everyone else has moved on to something more fun!
This and Abyss are the two most beautiful games my friend has. This is one of my favorite images from any board game I've ever seen:
all the fantasy flight Warhammer 40k stuff is really pretty
shame it's all out of print now, I would have liked to have gotten a copy of Forgotten Stars
but they're listening to every word I say
It's a pretty fun game! I was able to suss out some bugs and provide some feedback he seemed to like. Basically, look for "unamed card game" at a retailer near you soon!
Carcassonne is great with expansions and without. The different ones add some interesting new mechanics, but don't overpower the original game. It feels very modular in that way, you can mix and match them depending on the type of game you want to play.
Rounds are short and you can mix and match for variety. And no one has to sit out while they're dead.
Seconding one night. I also have terrible memories of a mafia game with around 20 people where I was the first kill and no I'm not bitter.....
But one night is great, instantly everyone is lying and conniving, or even being honest! It really sets up a nice system where unless you go for Max chaos roles, everyone has some, but not enough info about what is going on, and may even be in doubt if they know who THEY are anymore which is great. Some of my finest cons have been pulled in one night.
If you do have large groups, two rooms and a boom is also excellent, though longer. Again no real player elim.
evolution and codenames are both very good
A thing I love most about evolution is how if you play with the same group, and they are Keen on winning, (some people go themed or just goof and that's cool too) the strategies keep evolving a lot like a predator prey population dynamic. Last turn Bob won with all those little shitty creatures, so obv I get a mid game carnivore this game to chomp him, but next game everyone is rocking shells and my meat eater strat starves! Early players generally flood the food supply and long neck cooperators clean up, but they are lame when the food gets low. Just, such a good teaching tool of selection advantage /fitness being about context.
I finally got Coup last week and that's a ton of fun for the same reason
My favorite hidden identity party game is Mascarade, which is an absolute delight