EMarkM
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Post by EMarkM on May 8, 2023 7:28:18 GMT
Long-time (i.e. since the 80s) DM and player here. Although I've never played online, or remotely in any way. I too hear good things about Roll20. There's a couple of subreddits related to this too - Looking For Game and Looking For Game Europe both still exist, as far as I know. The very best of luck to you – let us know how you get on.  |
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Post by mikeck on May 10, 2023 23:31:28 GMT
My copy of DIE arrived last week, only had a chance to open the rulebook yesterday, it's beautiful and looks like a great role-playing game, only problem is I don't have a group to play it with...
At the time of the Kickstarter I thought I'd have found a group to play it with by now (I've moved away from the last group of mates I played with), but alas. Happy to have contributed though, and will try and find some players nearby.
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Post by magicpanda on Jul 17, 2023 9:53:01 GMT
Heroquest on sale for £55 at kapowtoys.co.uk
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Post by LFace on Jul 17, 2023 16:23:09 GMT
Had a long overdue session with a couple of mates at the weekend. First we played Scythe which took me a while to figure out what the bloody hell I was doing but really enjoyed it in the end... Came last mind but still good fun.
Second game was Brass Birmingham which again took me a while to figure out what the bloody hell I was doing. But a pivotal stroke of genius (it wasn't blind luck... Honest.... Cough) gave me a crazy number of victory and income points. Finished in 2nd place at the end. Very good game.
I don't play tabletop games that often - probably been a year or so since I last played one whereas my two mates are members of a gaming club they go to every week so the fact I beat one of them at Brass was a real victory for me.
Highly recommend those two games
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Jul 17, 2023 17:22:45 GMT
Got to give a shoutout to Tyrants of the Underdark, which we’ve played three times this last week. The reprint is literally the full package: it has an enormous amount of replayability because of how the minion deck is built, it works well at all player counts, it draws people into a shared experience because of the central board (otherwise it’s just Star Realms really) and it seems to be very well balanced.
Plus it’s obscenely cheap. Should be in everyone’s collection.
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Post by 😎 on Jul 21, 2023 3:45:20 GMT
I see the new Shadows of Brimstone is finally shipping, only 5 years after the kickstarter ended. Could be a new record
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Post by 😎 on Jul 21, 2023 3:57:14 GMT
Also shoutout to Vampire The Masquerade Chapters for having the dual honor of the best gm-less TTRPG in a box core, with the worst QA I’ve ever seen in a game. The errata is a living document that’s already absolutely massive, and it’s not just simple rule clarifications or typos, entire scenario setup steps are missing or wrong - about half the game is literally unplayable without referring to the errata, and it’s an absolute mystery how they weren’t caught in playtesting. Here’s just a small example:
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Post by 😎 on Jul 27, 2023 15:07:30 GMT
Kickstarter delivery shenanigans aside, Darkest Dungeon The Board Game is rather nice, but oh me oh my are some of the components just waaaay too dark. The segments for stress tracking are small dark grey boxes on a black background, and unless you’re under a very bright light they’re basically invisible from table height. The text on the cards is also extremely small at times, which is very awkward for a game that pretty much demands at least a 6ftx3ft footprint.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Aug 8, 2023 15:21:09 GMT
I’m moving house on Friday, so am currently trying to pack up my hobby room and game collection.
This is making me seriously reassess my life choices.
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Post by 😎 on Aug 10, 2023 17:24:45 GMT
Ploughing through Arkham Horror at the moment and I’ve built such an insane deck for Jim Culver it feels like cheating.  True Magick lets you cast a spell from hand. Deny Existence doesn’t require an exhaust or a charge, and as it’s an event it triggers on literally every enemy attack or treachery. To all intents and purposes, Jim is immortal and pulling 6+ on every skill test, including attacking from range. I can gather up enemies and kite them around, with AOO actually healing Jim should he pull a damaging weakness or something. Edit: ah, wait. Slightly neutered as I realized True Magick only applies to Assets. But still an insane build. |
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Aug 15, 2023 17:54:01 GMT
Also shoutout to Vampire The Masquerade Chapters for having the dual honor of the best gm-less TTRPG in a box core, with the worst QA I’ve ever seen in a game. Having not learnt a single lesson from my house move over the weekend, based on the first part of that sentence and hand-waving away the rest, I’ve just ordered a copy of this as treat to myself because VtM in a box sounds cool as fuck. |
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Post by 😎 on Aug 18, 2023 1:01:30 GMT
Been looking forward to this since it was announced.  |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Aug 19, 2023 16:23:10 GMT
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Aug 31, 2023 14:37:44 GMT
Recommendation for Curious Cargo - neat little two player tile laying game you can take to the pub. Only £25 on ebay too.
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Post by Phattso on Aug 31, 2023 15:12:44 GMT
Oooh, looks interesting and was actually planning a trip to the Ork's Nest this week to see if inspiration struck for a dinky 2 player game.
In return, and I'm sure I'm late to the party, I can say that Next Station: Tokyo is fantastic.
Plays well at two and three so far. Love how it comes with a few extra bits in the box for "advanced" mode so you can learn the basics and then layer in additional objectives and complexity. Plays really quickly. Lots of opportunity to fuck yourself over. When lady luck shines you feel like you've won the lottery. Really fun game, and not very spendy at under twenty squids.
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Post by Phattso on Aug 31, 2023 18:08:19 GMT
Recommendation for Curious Cargo - neat little two player tile laying game you can take to the pub. Only £25 on ebay too. I've now watched the SU&SD review. I have questions. Is it as brain-melting as they make out? What we've enjoyed about our usual 2-player boxes is easy setup, and quick turns. Things like Jaipur and the afore-mentioned Next Station: Tokyo. What's the real world playtime? Ish? Please and thankyou. |
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Aug 31, 2023 22:51:22 GMT
It’s intriguing, there are a lot of decisions and I think it’s going to change as we adapt our playstyles and learn new tricks. Quite a lot of it is planning and trying to keep your options open, or building towards multiple things at once. We found stealing goods to be the best way to win at the moment, but that’s a high risk approach - if your opponent gets too many goods past you before everything’s in place then you’re stuck playing catch-up, and maybe losing.
It’s much more complicated than the likes of Jaipur, but easy enough to learn - figuring out cog exchange rates and remembering everything you can do in a turn were the only problems we had. Lots of replayability too with the different factory maps, although we haven’t tried them yet.
Plays in about an hour, but I think we’ll get faster.
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Post by Phattso on Oct 1, 2023 16:12:22 GMT
Curious Cargo is in The Stack but we haven't gotten to it yet. Could be coming out of its cellophane this week all going well. Just wrapped up Charterstone. It was... OK. To much faff landing randomly in people's turns that bring the game to a grinding halt and often (especially late on) the stuff you get out of the boxes ain't all that interesting. Glad to have played it, and parts of the base game are decent, but it's a massively random experience and we went several hours where the luck of the draw meant the games didn't play out in interesting ways. The skeptic in me thinks this is a play to make people buy the recharge pack and go again, but absolutely fuck that noise. Aaaanyways. Having played a bunch of the better Legacy games, and feeling that we were running out, along comes Ticket To Ride Legacy. Released in early November. Pre-order placed. Early reviews are solid enough, fingers crossed they're not all shills. |
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Post by chuchurkt on Oct 4, 2023 18:23:31 GMT
Another thumbs up for 'Curious Cargo' . Thinky little game. The other 2 player of choice here is 'Oranienburger Kanal' from Uwe Rosenburg. Really basic looking but a superb game.
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Post by 😎 on Oct 9, 2023 0:20:47 GMT
Wife is off traveling for work and I had nothing to do so went on an epic boardgame rampage this weekend.
Got through at least one play each of:
Viticulture EE
Viticulture World
Vinhos (went on a wine theme apparently)
Weather Machine
On Mars (then a Lacerda theme)
A wee bit of Zombicide
A wee bit of Arkham Horror 2E
Expeditions
And now debating what to round the weekend out with. Maybe a cheeky Uwe Rosenberg.
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Post by 😎 on Oct 12, 2023 20:53:41 GMT
Most ill matched delivery partners ever arrived today. The gigantic 28lb Kingdom Death Monster expansion/sequel, and the new Buttonshy wallet game.  |
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Post by rhaegyr on Oct 19, 2023 9:55:27 GMT
Doing a full HEAT tournament tomorrow with five friends, been looking forward to it for ages!
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Post by chuchurkt on Oct 21, 2023 20:27:18 GMT
I had 'Evacuation' delivered yesterday from Milan-Spiel. Played a solo game time to get the rules straight. And, bloody hell... it's a tough game. Totally feels like a Vlad Suchy game.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Oct 21, 2023 21:24:21 GMT
Not heard of that before, but looks quite interesting.
Really like Underwater Cities by Suchy, so might keep an eye out for that.
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Post by 😎 on Oct 21, 2023 22:24:58 GMT
This fucker took a 3 hour setup on the first game.  Soooo so good though. Compiles nearly everything great from GMT into one package. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Oct 24, 2023 10:46:22 GMT
The Lords of Vegas reprint and expansions I backed likely to be fulfilled in 2024 now. Boo. was hoping to have it before my gaming groups annual "Novocon" (basically renting a holiday flat for a weekend and playing games).
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Post by rhaegyr on Oct 31, 2023 11:12:43 GMT
Twilight Imperium next week for our yearly game - love it, look forward to it for months!
Anyone have any experience with the Prophecy of Kings expansion? Tempted to do an 8-Player game next year.
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Post by 😎 on Nov 24, 2023 15:12:50 GMT
For anyone who’s been eyeing KDM, the Black Friday has the biggest savings yet. Core set is practically half price. Also seems the KDM Simulator (which is really rather good) is now properly available, if anyone wanted to try it out cheaper.
Core+Core Expansions+Gambler’s chest for $999 sounds expensive but that’s a huuuuuuuge discount.
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Nov 24, 2023 18:47:47 GMT
A THOUSAND DOLLARS for a board game?
Get to fuck.
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Post by ryder35 on Nov 24, 2023 20:03:47 GMT
Bought the digital version. Already have the main bos and a few expansions but will be interesting to see how the digital version works
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