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So yeah, while we're waiting for another printing (I've heard July/August?) this is an easy way to try it out.
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Yeah, it's funny, I feel like my biggest opponent is my own hand of cards, my own lofty but impossible vision of what I can play, score, and prevent. Losses often create feelings like, "Why did I even TRY to do that?"
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Best part is they have a corner with two huge bookshelves of board games people can grab and play and last night my friend randomly decided to grab a game called Happy Salmon and it is really fun and hectic and we played on a table sandwiched between two others with people playing games but the game was awesome. A friend and I walked out with a version of the game so we can do a big 12 player game when we all hang out.
We've purchased a decent amount of games after playing them for free in the store.
What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? ~ Mario Novak
I never fear death or dyin', I only fear never trying.
But save a few for Lefty too
- DC Deck building: Forever Evil (I'm bad at this)
- Sushi Go
- Halli Galli (also terrible at this)
- Coup (I won, surprisingly)
- Sheriff of Nottingham (I'm also bad at this, esp gauging the responses of the others)
- Ra - I like this one, but a bit too cerebral with respect to the time it was played
- Tsuro - won this because the others were too gung ho, mwahahahah
- Incan Gold - this was an awesome filler / wind down game
Needless to say I need to play the games I'm bad at again to understand them better.
I also saw a for-playing copy of Glory to Rome... Isn't this a hard-to-find game? Maybe I should've tried it.
So often in a longer gaming session, there's one huge game that dominates the time, and often wears everybody out. I like long games too, but I appreciate a group that is willing to play a series of shorter punchy games. Looks like a blast!
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The game itself is a silly, delightful gem. It's not hard to teach, it gets good laughs, injury is an actual risk and there's something enthralling about that. Except it's a game that revolves around ringing a bell, rending it the most nerve-wracking game for severs and kitchen staff to be subjected to. Heh.
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That was Ra for us. People were starting to feel the mental exhaustion during the game since we were probably at the 60% point of the session when we started, and we had to learn it from scratch.
Yeah. We loved it, but at the same time there's a med/high risk of injury - we definitely got a few solid "Ows" when hands collided while reaching for the bell.
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As someone who enjoys Photosynthesis, I agree. Mean plants are mean.
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Yeah, that'll happen. If you don't move you can't put down tradeposts. If you don't put down tradeposts then you can't get income or access to improved city actions. If you don't get income or make use of improved city actions you won't move.
You might be tempted. There might be a route with just one city you have to hit and then you can double back onto another road. These are the whispers of devils. Double back? In the early game? That's like ten dollars more than taking a single step forward. Go forward, forward, forward. You can double back from Beijing, it's called "coming home" and by then you'll have income and improved city actions to help you.
There are games with multiple intricate interleaving strategies, where you can pick a path and follow it and things will generally work out. In The Voyages Of Marco Polo, you have to get money and you have to move.
Huh. Interesting point.
The first game where I slayed it was one in which I luckily derived income exclusively from contracts, giving me the notion that I didn't have to care about those pesky buildings. I'll have to pay more attention to city-based income. Thanks.
But save a few for Lefty too
Can't wait to start setting fire to components though
Legacy games are great. My group still has 3 or 4 games of Risk Legacy to do. We would be done by now but we can usually only manage one or two games before we hate each other now. The board is also a shit show because we keep doing horrible shit to it to spite each other and have basically set it up so the two secret factions can get easy wins.
It wouldn't be so bad if everyone was trying to win instead of two of us fighting each other while another friend offers to help someone win every game.
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-Subway busker was playing some jazz tune on a saxophone. As soon as he saw a crowd approaching with the PAX badges he changed to a Final Fantasy song, got a few bucks from them. Smart guy.
-Run the gauntlet of badge scalpers and beggars starting from half a mile out from the convention hall.
-It seemed like 1 in 20 girls were dressed as DVa.
-Best costume goes to the Roadhog, of which I only got 2 terrible pictures of
-VR technology is still a long way from being a viable game accessory.
-I've played 50-80 games of Through the Ages on the app. While I'm terrible at it, I do appreciate its design. I sat down for a tabletop game for the first time Saturday. NEVER AGAIN. Even after all those games, my brain was hurting trying to keep track of all those rules. Sentinels of the Multiverse has nothing on TtA when it comes to "mandatory app-ness". 3 freaking hours.
-Lesson learned: save all the boardgaming for the evening, because that's all that's open past 6.
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Maybe I hate crowds more than other people
Another game with that phenomenon, MrBody, is twilight struggle
I can play vs AI in like an eighth of the time an in person game takes
Also I think maybe aFaoS is better anyway
I just bought the core worlds expansions. I love that game and it's worth having my own copy of the expansions. I dunno what else to buy... my friend traded Gaia Project for Magic Maze and Tzolkin and both are pretty cool but one of our gamers is getting pretty intolerant of longer games and Tzolkin is boring him
*remains pointless and PAXless*
But someday!!!
I've had to stop going to Gen Con because of this. And it sucks because I loved going, but as it got busier each year then the last few years got WAY busier, it was just too frustrating to be worth it for me.
I made it to one day of Unplugged but I kept wanting to just shut down rather than engage w/ the crowds. I was getting over being sick, which didn't help.
I think it's much better in person, but you have to play the analog version a bunch to get up to speed with the book keeping aspects etc if you're just familiar with the app version. How many players did you play with? 3 hours isn't bad for your first in person game.
But save a few for Lefty too
I noticed that SUDS's husubando, Brass, has an app now too, but reviews say the tutorial is garbage.
Also played Dinosaur Island recently. As a fan of worker placements / action selection it ticks a lot of boxes for me. Haven't managed to win after a couple of plays, but my second score was definitely better than my first. The random Plot Twists/Objectives meant that both games played differently.
It's getting hard to figure out a solid strategy, and the HM are an added wrinkle we really didn't need.
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But yeah dwindling supplies is a nuisance.
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Also, you don't get Hollow Men until after the first Epidemic. We forgot this rule for one month, and it was a bit costly for us.
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