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Lord_Woock
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posted July 19, 2016 11:19 PM

This thing?
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posted July 19, 2016 11:42 PM

Well, it's not the second, and upon checking, it's not quite the first either. I'm confused. Anyway, it was really bad, some sort of proto-CCG
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posted July 20, 2016 08:08 AM

There's a link inside the entry to this. And it seems the latter is the inferior version that was replaced by what Woock posted.
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posted July 29, 2016 04:19 PM
Edited by OmegaDestroyer at 16:19, 29 Jul 2016.

For the Game of Thrones' fans out there who wish it could play like Cosmic Encounter, here you go: Games of Thrones: The Iron Throne.
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posted August 07, 2016 10:03 PM

So about two years ago, as I dropped by a local game store (most likely to trade some Magic cards), I saw that they had this weird, old-looking thing on offer. It was a single copy of Earthquake, a small card game published by Wizards of the Coast in 1998. It was cheap, so I picked it up - can't hurt surely, right?

It's been the absolute hardest game to bring to the table that I ever owned. We get together to play something, I suggest Earthquake, people see the 90s generic fantasy look and the "from the designers of Magic: the Gathering" thing in the corner and, well, they ask for something else.

Today I finally played it. The other players were hesitant at first, but willing to try a new thing. They appeared to have mixed feelings about it throughout the rules explanation and the first few turns, but quickly warmed to the experience, and wanted to play some more. After four games, we were finally ready to try something else.

Hurrah for ugly duckling stories, right?
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posted August 09, 2016 04:51 PM

GenCon 2016 haul:


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posted August 09, 2016 06:53 PM

That's about as large as my whole collection
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posted August 09, 2016 09:35 PM

How did you haul all of those around?

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posted August 09, 2016 09:52 PM

It was over a course of a few days.  The car trip home was a bit cramped between the four of us though.
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posted August 15, 2016 12:59 PM

Guys any feedback on Blood Rage? Is it good with 2 players? Is it really fast/replayable/easy-to-play? I generally don't want to put money in board games anymore, because the ones I have are already gaining dust and nothing more (hard to find time and motivation to play them recently), but this one got me really interested. Seems like the last chance to 'bite' the subject of board games in my house  

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posted August 15, 2016 01:21 PM

Blood Rage was crazy popular last year.  I have not tried it nor have any desire to purchase it, but people absolutely loved it.  From what I understand, you definitely want to buy it for more than two players.
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posted August 17, 2016 11:31 AM

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posted August 20, 2016 06:10 PM
Edited by Lord_Woock at 15:03, 28 Aug 2016.

So random thought here. I've been (very slowly) working on a small card game of my own, a set collection and risk-management game where you spend turns accumulating points to eventually improve your odds of success when you make an attempt for a card (but you can't wait forever, because if someone else goes for that card before you, you lose the points you stashed away). The actual attempt mechanic is super simple, with you rolling a number of dice dependent on however many points you had and then picked your result from those. But as I was going to sleep last night, I thought about replacing this mechanic with a full on programmed movement board game. On one hand it feels right for the game, but on the other such a radical expansion of the concept doesn't seem reasonable. Game design is hard.

EDIT: So I played Eldritch Horror last night. I had a bad experience with Arkham Horror, but heard this was more streamlined and a lot shorter, so why not give it a go. I failed exactly one roll all game and the whole thing generally felt pretty straight-forward. I was puzzled by how one of the other players managed to get two of his characters killed and generally everyone except me was very much uncertain and apprehensive about the game's outcome. We ended up winning with a few more turns to spare. Were we just super lucky or is this game not that super difficult?

Also I got a general vibe that the game was not really about saving the world from an unspeakable evil, but rather about a bunch of schizos pursuing a shared delusion.
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posted September 09, 2016 01:06 PM

My favorite game is Summoner wars. Highly recommended for anyone that likes 1v1 tactical fantasy games.
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posted September 09, 2016 02:15 PM

@Lord Woock

Edlritch Horror can be very luck dependent at times.  I have played games where the investigators completely steam-rolled the ancient one and games where I was devoured on the first mythos event.  The last game I played, on average, I suffered from 5 negative conditions at any given time.  By the time I was finally able to use the blight condition to my advantage (due to an artifact giving me +2 to all skills when blighted), I was devoured upon Hastur waking up (any investigator suffering from blight gets eaten when he awakens).

@Pollo2002

I have Summoner Wars but have only gotten it played once.  I played against my wife and it was one-sided enough she never wanted to play it again.  For two-player fantasy, I prefer Battlelore 2nd edition.
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posted September 09, 2016 03:52 PM

The only game where we steam-rolled the Ancient One was our first try against Azatoth who is fairly easy. There were a couple when got snowed, but most games were very close and could've ended either way. Our most memorable game was against Cthulhu. After he woke up, two of us died leaving only one man standing. By some crazy coincidence he had a combo of artifacts that basically made him immune to Cthulhu's power of driving him insane (one artifact reduced any mental damage to one and the other helped to regain sanity in some way I can't remember). He went on to fight him with a literal heap of clues, used up all of them on re-rolls and managed to get the needed number of hits on the last re-roll. Oh, and that was on the last turn before we would've lost on account of running out of Mythos cards.

There is, however, another thing about the game that I must admit. We usually cheat. Not on purpose. We just tend to forget some little rule that changes the game slightly but significantly in our favor. And we find out about it a day later when we re-read the rules.
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posted September 09, 2016 07:00 PM

I make plenty of rule errors.  That's the problem when you have a large collection and only play certain games so often; you tend to forget.
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posted September 09, 2016 11:36 PM
Edited by Lord_Woock at 21:30, 14 Oct 2016.

Lord_Woock said:
So random thought here. I've been (very slowly) working on a small card game of my own, a set collection and risk-management game where you spend turns accumulating points to eventually improve your odds of success when you make an attempt for a card (but you can't wait forever, because if someone else goes for that card before you, you lose the points you stashed away). The actual attempt mechanic is super simple, with you rolling a number of dice dependent on however many points you had and then picked your result from those. But as I was going to sleep last night, I thought about replacing this mechanic with a full on programmed movement board game. On one hand it feels right for the game, but on the other such a radical expansion of the concept doesn't seem reasonable. Game design is hard.

So follow-up on that one in case anyone is at all interested, I decided on a solution (significantly less radical than expanding into a board game) and will be playtesting it for the first time this sunday - pretty excited about that. I'm also adding a new feature to give players some control over what cards are available, but the current execution has the potential for an uncertain outcome when too many players opt for the relevant action simultaneously. For now I am intentionally leaving this bug in though, to see how much of an issue it really is.

EDIT: Playtest day came and went, the bug came up as expected, but my playtesters came up with a cool fix, along with some other tweaks. Game design is fun, guys, you should try it!

EDIT2: Yo guys, any of you got Tabletop Simulator and would be interested in playing my game? I need to get some more games in before I can safely say it's in a good state, and all my local friends are either permanently busy or not actually interested in gaming.
Oh, and the game is about murdering people, so if you're easily offended, you'll probably want to pass on this one.
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posted October 14, 2016 09:34 PM

I'll be happy to try it. It'll take a couple of days to get the PC with the Tabletop Simulator. I'll try it on Tuesday-Wednesday.
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posted October 14, 2016 10:01 PM
Edited by Lord_Woock at 22:01, 14 Oct 2016.

Sure, just ping me on steam chat when you're there, my name there is Wahooney.

Meanwhile, I'll have to make English versions of the cards and translate the rules
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