The scoring is:
- if you get fewer tricks than you bid, you get zero
- otherwise, you get 10 times your bid
- if you took more tricks than you bid, you get one "bag" for each over (track these as single points)
- when you reach ten "bags", that's minus 100 points
Also, you go from one card upwards. This helps people learn the game while the scoring is low and it's relatively easy to work out how many tricks you will take, and leaves the exciting, high value rounds for the thrilling conclusion
It's the hardest to work out how many tricks you will take at the lowest numbers! You have 2 cards. The Jack of Hearts and Diamonds. Spades are trumps. It's a 3 player game You are leading. How many tricks will you take??????!????
WHO KNOWS. FUCK THIS GAME. FUCK THIS GAME RIGHT IN THE HEAD.
The scoring is:
- if you get fewer tricks than you bid, you get zero
- otherwise, you get 10 times your bid
- if you took more tricks than you bid, you get one "bag" for each over (track these as single points)
- when you reach ten "bags", that's minus 100 points
Also, you go from one card upwards. This helps people learn the game while the scoring is low and it's relatively easy to work out how many tricks you will take, and leaves the exciting, high value rounds for the thrilling conclusion
What happens when you correctly get 0 tricks? which is fairly common for lower number of cards.
I think I'm out of luck. On their website, they claim that by law they cannot assist with any damage claims that were not specifically noted on the bill of lading.
Don't give up. If you've documented and taken pictures they still may be able to hold the shipping company liable. Or if they're good they will stand by their product and make sure it gets corrected.
I found this and used similar when I had an issue with my kitchen cabinets. The truck driver was definitely not interested in waiting around while I opened every box, so I opened any that had external obvious issues, but later found some dings and got a replacement cabinet shipped.
"Concealed Loss or Damage
Concealed loss or damage is that which was not apparent at the time of delivery. Concealed damage should be reported to the carrier usually within 15 days of delivery.
These claims are considered and investigated as concealed loss or damage claims and will be handled based on their individual merits.
The National Motor Freight Classification, ITEM 300135 (see specific section below) states: “When damage to contents of a shipping container is discovered by the recipient, which could not have been determined at time of delivery, it must be reported by the recipient to the delivering carrier upon discovery and a request for inspection by the carrier’s representative made. Notice of loss or damage and a request for inspection may be given by telephone or in person, but in either event must be confirmed in writing by mail."
Yeah, the timing on this doesn't make any sense, unless they think they're worth much more than 3bil and can undervalue their purchase due to the pandemic struggles for board games right now. Figuring that once things bounce back they can potentially sell them off for more or gain the profit increase?
As a gamer, I'm already hesitant to buy Asmodee stuff at this point, because of all of their FFG stuff going on and customer service horror stories. Which is a shame.
Huh. A big store being owned outright by a particular publisher does not sound like a good thing for any other publisher (or customers).
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NipsHe/HimLuxuriating in existential crisis.Registered Userregular
Does Asmodee not have its own storefront/fulfillment organizations? The only reason the MM purchase makes sense to me is if Asmodee now feels like it needs to directly complete on the consumer market.
Which suuuuucks, because now we're down another good, large retailer and the remaining ones have to compete directly with Asmodee.
Ugh. What the fuck is up with today? Is it like Mergers & Acquisitions Day and noone told me?
The strangest thing about the Miniature Market story is that it’s not a recent development. There wasn’t even an announcement. There just happened to be a slide in the deck during the Embracer presentation with stuff they own and MM happened to be on there.
If you’re like me and bought from MM in 2021 there’s probably a 50/50 chance we bought from Asmodee.
I’m even old enough to remember when places like Fantasy Flight Games and Wizards of the Coast had their own stores. Or as they called them, “retail experiences.” I wonder if this will turn into the online equivalent of that? But instead of spinning up some off-the-shelf e-commerce site they decided to buy an established company, probably hoping they can milk their existing user base for a while.
Why build your own when you can buy someone else’s?
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I still remember getting my first AD&D 2nd ed splat books from Gamekeeper. Right near B Dalton
Cluck cluck, gibber gibber, my old man's a mushroom, etc.
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Asmodee being owned by Embracer is almost certainly better than it being owned by a private equity firm.
Asmodee being owned by Embracer is almost certainly better than it being owned by a private equity firm.
Except isn’t Embracer the group who was totally cool with their game studios doing interviews with 8chan, the hive of nazis and child porn enthusiasts?
I think Gamenerdz has been eating Miniature Market's lunch for a bit and smaller shops (Boardlandia) have been aggressively nipping as well.
Big monopoly anti-trust concerns though.
I'm always amused at Boardlandia's visible presence, because all they have is a single, very small store. It's not particularly packed with games. Actually, more than half the store is tabling for people to play games.
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KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
I had never heard of Embracer before, but Gearbox and THQ Nordiq both being owned by the same company/group seems fitting somehow.
Please, by all means, get all those shitty game devs under one umbrella.
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I think Gamenerdz has been eating Miniature Market's lunch for a bit and smaller shops (Boardlandia) have been aggressively nipping as well.
Big monopoly anti-trust concerns though.
I'm always amused at Boardlandia's visible presence, because all they have is a single, very small store. It's not particularly packed with games. Actually, more than half the store is tabling for people to play games.
Yeah, their retail presence in Wisconsin is a tiny strip mall storefront, with just a couple short aisles of product and a single employee at the counter. But at the same time they just bought land to build a whole new shipping and receiving warehouse for their online business.
There's a more established rival board game store in the area with four big locations and a huge community presence, but who sells everything for MSRP or above, and I can never understand why anyone goes there when Boardlandia is so much cheaper, more helpful, more willing to try to hunt down obscure titles to order for you, and much more aware of what's new and hot (when I asked about Gloomhaven at it's retail release, the employees at the rival store told me they had never heard of it, while Boardlandia had multiple pallets of it in their warehouse available for sale).
That’s surprised me sometimes. Like the lgs I worked at is definitely bigger than probably most retail stores minus like mox boarding house - including the big online retailers that have a physical space as well
But their website is just the generic crystal commerce store with a wix template homepage and they just don’t care about trying to invade that online world.
Our Company has send out Christmas presents to all employees: a box with boardgames (there were several boxes and you'd get one of those at random):
I got King of the Valley (not to be confused with Valley Of Kings) and Port of Europe.
Friend of mine got Throw the Burrito and Exploding Kittens.
A colleague got Ticket to Ride and Expansions.
I think Gamenerdz has been eating Miniature Market's lunch for a bit and smaller shops (Boardlandia) have been aggressively nipping as well.
Big monopoly anti-trust concerns though.
I'm always amused at Boardlandia's visible presence, because all they have is a single, very small store. It's not particularly packed with games. Actually, more than half the store is tabling for people to play games.
Yeah, their retail presence in Wisconsin is a tiny strip mall storefront, with just a couple short aisles of product and a single employee at the counter. But at the same time they just bought land to build a whole new shipping and receiving warehouse for their online business.
There's a more established rival board game store in the area with four big locations and a huge community presence, but who sells everything for MSRP or above, and I can never understand why anyone goes there when Boardlandia is so much cheaper, more helpful, more willing to try to hunt down obscure titles to order for you, and much more aware of what's new and hot (when I asked about Gloomhaven at it's retail release, the employees at the rival store told me they had never heard of it, while Boardlandia had multiple pallets of it in their warehouse available for sale).
Gnome Games? They are at MSRP, but they have a ton of in-store product and their people are super nice. Knowledgeable, social, they'll hold games for you or put you on a call list for certain products, and they're not creepy like the people at The Game Capital who I overheard talking about how you have to treat women like shit to reel them in. Gnome Games will often back Kickstarter products, too, though they charge higher for the exclusive content.
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What's the go-to for nice cases to hold a card game collection these days? Specifically, Marvel Champions has outgrown the core box.
Back in the day, there was a particular "artist case" that people always recommended, but I think it was a Hobby Lobby product, and I don't want to support that company
What's the go-to for nice cases to hold a card game collection these days? Specifically, Marvel Champions has outgrown the core box.
Back in the day, there was a particular "artist case" that people always recommended, but I think it was a Hobby Lobby product, and I don't want to support that company
I got a bigass BCW cardboard box and a stack of 25cent marvel comics and did a collage on the lid, personally
What's the go-to for nice cases to hold a card game collection these days? Specifically, Marvel Champions has outgrown the core box.
Back in the day, there was a particular "artist case" that people always recommended, but I think it was a Hobby Lobby product, and I don't want to support that company
I ended up getting this box from ETSY which is currently holding my Marvel Champions collection.
What's the go-to for nice cases to hold a card game collection these days? Specifically, Marvel Champions has outgrown the core box.
Back in the day, there was a particular "artist case" that people always recommended, but I think it was a Hobby Lobby product, and I don't want to support that company
I ended up getting this box from ETSY which is currently holding my Marvel Champions collection.
@Fry Look up Tesseract Games Infinity Box, I think you can get it DIY or pre-assembled. They have a website and an Etsy I think.
I don't have one, but a friend does and it's super sweet, but definitely more expensive than the hobby box.
the artist case was still a hot item when i've looked for Arkham solutions in the past but also yeah, not giving money to hobby lobby and will actively recommend that people REDACTED things from Hobby Lobby. A lot of custom etsy strains/etched/custom versions seem to be using that case.
I'm in the BCW boxes myself though. It's just easy and big. I don't take this game with me anywhere anyway and I had extras from downsizing magic to just a shoebox full of stuff
My wife and I snagged Call to Adventure last week and have been playing it pretty much constantly.
It's kinda sorta a storytelling/building ish mashup. Players begin by choosing Origin, Motivation, and Destiny cards, then play proceeds with revealing cards from different Acts. These cards are typically Traits or Challenges that add to your Story and give you stat points and such. Challenges require rolling runes associated with your stats, and the stats are the D&D Big Six, which is cool!
After a player has collected 3 Challenges or Traits, the next Act is revealed on their next turn, and the game goes through Act 3, getting progressively more difficult: for instance, Act 1 might see your character defeating a childhood rival, becoming studious, and sharing their first love, while Act 3 has them facing down demons and armies of undead. It gets intense!
Once Act 3 is complete, players reveal their Destinies, and you score points based on triumphs, tragedies, and usually the goals on your Destiny. Highest score wins, but I never feel bad losing because I've usually told a pretty good story in play.
There are optional rules for Co-op and solo play, as well as two expansions (one of which is Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives!) with a third in Kickstart.
Has anyone else played this game or looked into it? I'm obsessed. I love it. I'm definitely collecting the expansions and mats/sleeves/etc.
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I ordered Irish Gauge, and if it clicks I might pick up Iberian Gauge.
Irish Gauge is a nice train game because it's a lot less imposing than a lot of the genre. That the art is also quite nice is a real cherry on top. I actually got to play Mini Express recently as well, and it's also very good in all its own ways.
Both games really appealed to me in that while they still use shares, they played with them differently than the other train games I've played, and it just made for a smooth, pleasant experience where you're done in about an hour.
I wish they would sell the box art for the Iron Rails games as posters. I don't have much inclination to own all the games, but geez they're insanely well executed box arts ...
My wife and I snagged Call to Adventure last week and have been playing it pretty much constantly.
It's kinda sorta a storytelling/building ish mashup. Players begin by choosing Origin, Motivation, and Destiny cards, then play proceeds with revealing cards from different Acts. These cards are typically Traits or Challenges that add to your Story and give you stat points and such. Challenges require rolling runes associated with your stats, and the stats are the D&D Big Six, which is cool!
After a player has collected 3 Challenges or Traits, the next Act is revealed on their next turn, and the game goes through Act 3, getting progressively more difficult: for instance, Act 1 might see your character defeating a childhood rival, becoming studious, and sharing their first love, while Act 3 has them facing down demons and armies of undead. It gets intense!
Once Act 3 is complete, players reveal their Destinies, and you score points based on triumphs, tragedies, and usually the goals on your Destiny. Highest score wins, but I never feel bad losing because I've usually told a pretty good story in play.
There are optional rules for Co-op and solo play, as well as two expansions (one of which is Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives!) with a third in Kickstart.
Has anyone else played this game or looked into it? I'm obsessed. I love it. I'm definitely collecting the expansions and mats/sleeves/etc.
My friend and I exclusively play with the Kingkiller expansion. My only problem with the game are the Antihero cards that screw with other players' challenges; hitting those runes can be hard enough without active sabotage.
Also, this game is a great companion to Roll Player. One game determines your stats, the other flashes out your backstory.
My wife and I snagged Call to Adventure last week and have been playing it pretty much constantly.
It's kinda sorta a storytelling/building ish mashup. Players begin by choosing Origin, Motivation, and Destiny cards, then play proceeds with revealing cards from different Acts. These cards are typically Traits or Challenges that add to your Story and give you stat points and such. Challenges require rolling runes associated with your stats, and the stats are the D&D Big Six, which is cool!
After a player has collected 3 Challenges or Traits, the next Act is revealed on their next turn, and the game goes through Act 3, getting progressively more difficult: for instance, Act 1 might see your character defeating a childhood rival, becoming studious, and sharing their first love, while Act 3 has them facing down demons and armies of undead. It gets intense!
Once Act 3 is complete, players reveal their Destinies, and you score points based on triumphs, tragedies, and usually the goals on your Destiny. Highest score wins, but I never feel bad losing because I've usually told a pretty good story in play.
There are optional rules for Co-op and solo play, as well as two expansions (one of which is Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives!) with a third in Kickstart.
Has anyone else played this game or looked into it? I'm obsessed. I love it. I'm definitely collecting the expansions and mats/sleeves/etc.
It was a miss for me but I think it's pretty group-dependent. Got to lean in to the storytelling angle for it to really be enjoyable.
My wife and I snagged Call to Adventure last week and have been playing it pretty much constantly.
It's kinda sorta a storytelling/building ish mashup. Players begin by choosing Origin, Motivation, and Destiny cards, then play proceeds with revealing cards from different Acts. These cards are typically Traits or Challenges that add to your Story and give you stat points and such. Challenges require rolling runes associated with your stats, and the stats are the D&D Big Six, which is cool!
After a player has collected 3 Challenges or Traits, the next Act is revealed on their next turn, and the game goes through Act 3, getting progressively more difficult: for instance, Act 1 might see your character defeating a childhood rival, becoming studious, and sharing their first love, while Act 3 has them facing down demons and armies of undead. It gets intense!
Once Act 3 is complete, players reveal their Destinies, and you score points based on triumphs, tragedies, and usually the goals on your Destiny. Highest score wins, but I never feel bad losing because I've usually told a pretty good story in play.
There are optional rules for Co-op and solo play, as well as two expansions (one of which is Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives!) with a third in Kickstart.
Has anyone else played this game or looked into it? I'm obsessed. I love it. I'm definitely collecting the expansions and mats/sleeves/etc.
It was a miss for me but I think it's pretty group-dependent. Got to lean in to the storytelling angle for it to really be enjoyable.
Oh I 100% agree. We named our characters and narrate the story as we go. I can see more crunchy groups (not a bad thing BTW) not enjoying it.
In my quest for RTS games that feel like Euros, I have discovered Northgard, which fries my brain juggling resources like a heated game of Brass Birmingham. With Vikings.
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It's the hardest to work out how many tricks you will take at the lowest numbers! You have 2 cards. The Jack of Hearts and Diamonds. Spades are trumps. It's a 3 player game You are leading. How many tricks will you take??????!????
WHO KNOWS. FUCK THIS GAME. FUCK THIS GAME RIGHT IN THE HEAD.
Sorry. I think I just flashbacked there.
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.
What happens when you correctly get 0 tricks? which is fairly common for lower number of cards.
Don't give up. If you've documented and taken pictures they still may be able to hold the shipping company liable. Or if they're good they will stand by their product and make sure it gets corrected.
I found this and used similar when I had an issue with my kitchen cabinets. The truck driver was definitely not interested in waiting around while I opened every box, so I opened any that had external obvious issues, but later found some dings and got a replacement cabinet shipped.
Video Game Publisher Wants To Buy Board Game Giant Asmodee For Over $3 Billion [Kotaku]
Publisher in question is Embracer Group, which per the article consists of "a collection of companies like Gearbox, THQ Nordic and Deep Silver"
I think the thing that stands out to me about the report is that Asmodee is big, and Embracer (reportly) doesn't plan to change anything at Asmodee.
I keep trying to make sense of this, and all I can come up with is "Bigger company buys big company, gets bigger-er".
As a gamer, I'm already hesitant to buy Asmodee stuff at this point, because of all of their FFG stuff going on and customer service horror stories. Which is a shame.
Asmodee buying Miniature Market seems... not geeat?
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Which suuuuucks, because now we're down another good, large retailer and the remaining ones have to compete directly with Asmodee.
Ugh. What the fuck is up with today? Is it like Mergers & Acquisitions Day and noone told me?
but the asmodee buys miniature market just adds further questions!
Big monopoly anti-trust concerns though.
If you’re like me and bought from MM in 2021 there’s probably a 50/50 chance we bought from Asmodee.
I’m even old enough to remember when places like Fantasy Flight Games and Wizards of the Coast had their own stores. Or as they called them, “retail experiences.” I wonder if this will turn into the online equivalent of that? But instead of spinning up some off-the-shelf e-commerce site they decided to buy an established company, probably hoping they can milk their existing user base for a while.
Why build your own when you can buy someone else’s?
Except isn’t Embracer the group who was totally cool with their game studios doing interviews with 8chan, the hive of nazis and child porn enthusiasts?
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I'm always amused at Boardlandia's visible presence, because all they have is a single, very small store. It's not particularly packed with games. Actually, more than half the store is tabling for people to play games.
Please, by all means, get all those shitty game devs under one umbrella.
Yeah, their retail presence in Wisconsin is a tiny strip mall storefront, with just a couple short aisles of product and a single employee at the counter. But at the same time they just bought land to build a whole new shipping and receiving warehouse for their online business.
There's a more established rival board game store in the area with four big locations and a huge community presence, but who sells everything for MSRP or above, and I can never understand why anyone goes there when Boardlandia is so much cheaper, more helpful, more willing to try to hunt down obscure titles to order for you, and much more aware of what's new and hot (when I asked about Gloomhaven at it's retail release, the employees at the rival store told me they had never heard of it, while Boardlandia had multiple pallets of it in their warehouse available for sale).
But their website is just the generic crystal commerce store with a wix template homepage and they just don’t care about trying to invade that online world.
These Xeno dudes were fun. Art is growing on me.
My scoring however remains constant.
Finally, the power of Alexander Pfister on my phone.
EDIT - It has no AI or online multiplayer. Just the Automa deck and Pass & Play. I shit you not. Keep Pfister's work away from these devs.
I got King of the Valley (not to be confused with Valley Of Kings) and Port of Europe.
Friend of mine got Throw the Burrito and Exploding Kittens.
A colleague got Ticket to Ride and Expansions.
Gnome Games? They are at MSRP, but they have a ton of in-store product and their people are super nice. Knowledgeable, social, they'll hold games for you or put you on a call list for certain products, and they're not creepy like the people at The Game Capital who I overheard talking about how you have to treat women like shit to reel them in. Gnome Games will often back Kickstarter products, too, though they charge higher for the exclusive content.
Back in the day, there was a particular "artist case" that people always recommended, but I think it was a Hobby Lobby product, and I don't want to support that company
I got a bigass BCW cardboard box and a stack of 25cent marvel comics and did a collage on the lid, personally
I ended up getting this box from ETSY which is currently holding my Marvel Champions collection.
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@Fry Look up Tesseract Games Infinity Box, I think you can get it DIY or pre-assembled. They have a website and an Etsy I think.
I don't have one, but a friend does and it's super sweet, but definitely more expensive than the hobby box.
I'm in the BCW boxes myself though. It's just easy and big. I don't take this game with me anywhere anyway and I had extras from downsizing magic to just a shoebox full of stuff
It's kinda sorta a storytelling/building ish mashup. Players begin by choosing Origin, Motivation, and Destiny cards, then play proceeds with revealing cards from different Acts. These cards are typically Traits or Challenges that add to your Story and give you stat points and such. Challenges require rolling runes associated with your stats, and the stats are the D&D Big Six, which is cool!
After a player has collected 3 Challenges or Traits, the next Act is revealed on their next turn, and the game goes through Act 3, getting progressively more difficult: for instance, Act 1 might see your character defeating a childhood rival, becoming studious, and sharing their first love, while Act 3 has them facing down demons and armies of undead. It gets intense!
Once Act 3 is complete, players reveal their Destinies, and you score points based on triumphs, tragedies, and usually the goals on your Destiny. Highest score wins, but I never feel bad losing because I've usually told a pretty good story in play.
There are optional rules for Co-op and solo play, as well as two expansions (one of which is Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archives!) with a third in Kickstart.
Has anyone else played this game or looked into it? I'm obsessed. I love it. I'm definitely collecting the expansions and mats/sleeves/etc.
Both games really appealed to me in that while they still use shares, they played with them differently than the other train games I've played, and it just made for a smooth, pleasant experience where you're done in about an hour.
I wish they would sell the box art for the Iron Rails games as posters. I don't have much inclination to own all the games, but geez they're insanely well executed box arts ...
Perhaps I can interest you in my meager selection of pins?
My friend and I exclusively play with the Kingkiller expansion. My only problem with the game are the Antihero cards that screw with other players' challenges; hitting those runes can be hard enough without active sabotage.
Also, this game is a great companion to Roll Player. One game determines your stats, the other flashes out your backstory.
It was a miss for me but I think it's pretty group-dependent. Got to lean in to the storytelling angle for it to really be enjoyable.
Oh I 100% agree. We named our characters and narrate the story as we go. I can see more crunchy groups (not a bad thing BTW) not enjoying it.