host one and invite the games.In post 3548, vonflare wrote:I'm sure someone will bring it to a scum meet someday
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Agree with Vi, but if Vi and I are 2/X we can maybe make it not so long?In post 3549, chamber wrote:
I hate myself enough to consider doing this depending on when.In post 3547, Vi wrote:
I have TTop, and have played Argent with it.In post 3546, Lady Lambdadelta wrote:Argent is so fun.
People who have TTS can play it online if they want? Cpuld setup an MS game night for Argent.
Playing the game with five people or with more than two new players would likely stretch the definition of game "night" fwiw.
I think 4 or 5 is the sweet spot thoYes my Lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers.
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This works because it would leave us with 1 or 2 new players at most?In post 3552, chamber wrote:I've played the game a couple of times, though its been years.Yes my Lord, but questions are dangerous, for they have answers.
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If you need more recruits, I'd be in with the understanding my schedule is a bit harder.In post 3551, Lady Lambdadelta wrote:
Agree with Vi, but if Vi and I are 2/X we can maybe make it not so long?In post 3549, chamber wrote:
I hate myself enough to consider doing this depending on when.In post 3547, Vi wrote:
I have TTop, and have played Argent with it.In post 3546, Lady Lambdadelta wrote:Argent is so fun.
People who have TTS can play it online if they want? Cpuld setup an MS game night for Argent.
Playing the game with five people or with more than two new players would likely stretch the definition of game "night" fwiw.
I think 4 or 5 is the sweet spot thoShowThe scum had the misfortune of Titus being absurdly accurate on day one.Really quite impressed by that.~Drixx
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Here's an excuse. Despite the hilarious nonsense that went on at Titus meet aka Titus's Tavern, it was one of the best two days of my life.In post 3550, Equinox wrote:
host one and invite the games.In post 3548, vonflare wrote:I'm sure someone will bring it to a scum meet someday
give me the excuse, dammit.ShowThe scum had the misfortune of Titus being absurdly accurate on day one.Really quite impressed by that.~Drixx
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In post 3549, chamber wrote:
I hate myself enough to consider doing this depending on when.In post 3547, Vi wrote:
I have TTop, and have played Argent with it.In post 3546, Lady Lambdadelta wrote:Argent is so fun.
People who have TTS can play it online if they want? Cpuld setup an MS game night for Argent.
Playing the game with five people or with more than two new players would likely stretch the definition of game "night" fwiw.Sometimes a sandwich is just a sandwich.- AcRv
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I picked up Hail Hydra out of curiousity a while ago and have only had enough friends around that wanted to play it twice. It's somewhere between Avalon/The Resistance and Secret Hitler in terms of gameplay, but feels incredibly skewed in favour of the Hydra agents from what we've played. Has anybody else played it enough to give more insight into how a meta has evolved that gives the heroes a higher win rate? Not sure I can recommend based on the games I have played but I'm keen to explore it more so I can be wrong in my assessment."Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc., 1989- Vi
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Surprise board game day with surprise board game. None of us have ever played this before. I tried to roll too hard with paleotech and wound up getting more or less beaten into a corner while A swept the 2, 3, 4, and 5 achievements. I prolonged the game by getting my people to more or less exclusively concentrate on shooting rockets at the others so they couldn't score anything else. Just as I laid down my bluetech and started developing a technocratic revolution, V repeatedly goaded A into nuclear war until it happened, which made us look at the ash piles that were our works and despair mightily. V then stole my last working computer and I had to deal with rebuilding my empire with refrigerators, which was not a good place to be in as the millennium dawned.
It's an intriguing game. I'm not sure if it will hold up once I learn how to play it (i.e. learn which relevant decisions the player actually makes) but I hope it does. There's an element of bash-the-winner (or at least don't-let-the-winner-get-winnier), but the game escalates (both in power and absurdity) in such a way that it's hard to stay on top for very long. Plus I think everything my group plays is full aggro so that's not a problem for us.Everything you say and do matters. People will respond in ways you may never see. May those responses be what you intend.- hasdgfas
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I played it once. Was a Hydra agent and won. It was a cute social deduction game but I didn't feel the need to play again.In post 3557, AcRv wrote:I picked up Hail Hydra out of curiousity a while ago and have only had enough friends around that wanted to play it twice. It's somewhere between Avalon/The Resistance and Secret Hitler in terms of gameplay, but feels incredibly skewed in favour of the Hydra agents from what we've played. Has anybody else played it enough to give more insight into how a meta has evolved that gives the heroes a higher win rate? Not sure I can recommend based on the games I have played but I'm keen to explore it more so I can be wrong in my assessment.jdodge1019: hasjghsalghsakljghs is from vermont
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That was our assessment too, but part of me wants to play it enough to see if there's any unique quirk to it but I really don't think there is one I think the bad guys just winIn post 3559, hasdgfas wrote:I played it once. Was a Hydra agent and won. It was a cute social deduction game but I didn't feel the need to play again."Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc., 1989- Vi
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Innovation - Vi (6, me) vs. Equinox (3)
Still a very silly game. E didn't appreciate it until the discovery of hordes of pirates to raid my score pile. I got like three of the early extra achievement cards and used two of them, which made it feel kind of idk.
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Influence scarcity + Staff B. hito drew Most Marks as their first voter and proceeded to call Equinox out for having drawn it. This was almost certainly the saddest Round 5 I've ever played considering Library was locked, Training Fields were locked, Council Chamber was locked, Vault was locked, and Atelier had been wiped off the map. There's only so much to be done with Infirmary, Golem Lab, and Adventuring (even if it was the cool Adventuring side).Everything you say and do matters. People will respond in ways you may never see. May those responses be what you intend.- Equinox
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wow i am sorry i gave off the impression that i don't enjoy games unless i'm winning?In post 3562, Vi wrote:E didn't appreciate it until the discovery of hordes of pirates to raid my score pile.- animorpherv1
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maybe i should clarify: i was trying to understand the game and didn't quite grasp the win condition until i drew that pirate card when the scoring mechanism clicked because of how that card worked, so i deeply resent the implication that i didn't "appreciate" the game until i could fuck someone over.- Plum
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not sure if this counts, but anyone here played Cultist simulator? While nottechnicallya board game, it certainly can feel like one at times, and it has a lot of borrowed elements from, like, worker placement gamesTHIS POST IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.- Vi
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Innovation is a game that's sort of like a plastic baseball bat getting passed around and you can hit everyone else with it. It's hard to see why anyone would play this kind of game until you get a chance with the bat.In post 3563, Equinox wrote:
wow i am sorry i gave off the impression that i don't enjoy games unless i'm winning?In post 3562, Vi wrote:E didn't appreciate it until the discovery of hordes of pirates to raid my score pile.
...is what I want to say, but I understand how you came to the conclusion you did and I'm mortified. I apologize deeply.Everything you say and do matters. People will respond in ways you may never see. May those responses be what you intend.- Plum
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Have played it and enjoyed it. It is very system-y and in that respect has a lot in common with board games and is obviously laid out as if it were a solitaire card game on a table ... but I'd make a dedicated thread to discuss it because it is different enough from a board game and more in common with other single-player video games to warrant it.In post 3567, vonflare wrote:not sure if this counts, but anyone here played Cultist simulator? While nottechnicallya board game, it certainly can feel like one at times, and it has a lot of borrowed elements from, like, worker placement games- Vi
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Argent: The Consortium - Riflam (4, me) vs. Burman (3) vs. Byron (2) vs. Exhufern (2) vs. Lavanina (1)
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I've never played a five-player game before. It was more or less as I was expecting - there's so much time in between your turns and so few uncontested votes that you basically have to roll as hard as you can on a few votes you're willing to commit to and hope no one notices until it's too late (or just deviously outplay them). I got more or less shut down during the first half of the game (thanks Summer Break), and pretty much only got into it again because I pulled as many Supporters as I could. Like my votes were Supporters, Nat.Magic, Technomancy, and Collection - so, basically trying to take the entire Supporter pile and pull it into my play area, with a few spells to load down in the right colors. Most Mana and Most Intelligence were both in the game, and by the end the supply ran out of Intelligence tokens(!) and also all the 5-mana pieces (the winner had like 29 and the runner-up had like 27).
It was a valid game because I used Bend Time at least once. It's just not me if I can't find a way to do four things in one turn.
Despite being intended as a newbie-friendly scenario by the dev, Summer Break does not make the game any easier or shorter. It is a cute twist on things though.Everything you say and do matters. People will respond in ways you may never see. May those responses be what you intend.- Vi
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Positive Feedback: The Game. Going first suuuuucks when you have less money than everyone else and then lose half of it immediately. Should probably see if I can find something better than the blinds provided for hiding money so people don't have to politely pretend not to notice how poor I am. Having no money in this game means having no power. I'm willing to bet this game is better with fewer players...
Still, I got to play a game where "Extortion" is an action you can take, and really that's what I came for.Everything you say and do matters. People will respond in ways you may never see. May those responses be what you intend.- popsofctown
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I'm jealous that Vi lives a life where they are playing board games multiple times a week while I play board games multiple times a year"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
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