Board Games!

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it gets less fun every time I play it

I think part of the problem is that to actually be enjoyable and have interesting setups you need like 20+ people

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the best times I've had playing 2rooms were when I was just fucking around for most of the game

not sure that's a good sign

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Does anybody have any suggestions for a board/card game for about 3-6 players? Looking for playtime of less than an hour. We've been playing BANG! a lot recently, and I'm looking for something new. I'm probably going to purchase Small World at some point, fyi.

Cosmic Encounter (that's pushing right up to an hour but great game), Machi Koro (3-5), Sushi Go, Wombat Rescue (3-5), Tokaido, 7 Wonders, Shadow Hunters (5-6)

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I've been using a setup variation that you shuffle all of the cards together and draw until you have ten piles of unique cards as the buy pool (duplicates are put in a pile together). every time a pile is exhausted you draw until you have a card that isn't in the pool. it really improved the game for me.

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I bought Seasons, Storm the Castle, Dead Last, and Veritas last week. Anyone have any experience with those?

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Seasons is a ton of fun. Lots of people call it MTG and... It's not. But it's great time. Remember, fire is not red.

I played Seasons once, but didn't feel like I had a very good grasp on what was going on until the game had ended. I really liked that the "victory point" was a currency instead of just an abstract thing.

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hype

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I am so fucking hype for the new version holy shit

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it do

it do

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MEIN PODCAST

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Reck is gay hitler confirmed

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munchkin is good as a social experience, imo

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Pandemic Legacy is really more fun with more people because it's a living game. You get to tear up cards and mark on the board and put stickers on characters, etc. Each playthrough is different. I can imagine it being fun for two, but then you'd each control two characters during the game and that's kinda meh.

gamma and I started a game of Legacy with just us and it is AWESOME so far

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I played Trump: the Game this week for Drunk Dice

it was pretty much what you would expect

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you might want to check out Trump the Game as it will be the new national passtime after praising glorious orange leader

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We rocked the ass and balls of that game.

Spoiler:

To be fair though, Quarantiner and Medic is a deadly combo. We gave the medic (whose name was Dick Sledge) the cure from a distance upgrade after our first game and he basically was able to hold down the fort in an entire hemisphere for the remainder. Everything got a lot harder when Yoleesha turned traitor. YOLEESHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Also, on Drunk Dice this week, Gamma and I discuss Catacombs. http://www.drunkdice.com/2016/11/22/flick-to-victory/

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played Mystic Vale today a few times and fucking loved it

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GammaPod 2016 has concluded for the year with several sessions of Mansions of Madness, Arkham Horror the card game, and Mystic Vale

the conclusion: shit's good yo

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I'd have to buy that separately, right?

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Gamma and I have played a lot of Arkham horror peripherals this week

Good shit

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I posed this question to LLD, but I wanted more of a sound off because one of the games she mentioned immediately jumped toward the top of our list.

So me and my girlfriend have recently been getting into games, the ones we currently own are Machi koro, Patchwork, Jaipur, Pandemic, and Munchkin. We've played a number of the mainstream party games as well and stuff like parcheesi and monopoly, obv. Also, I've played MtG but not really interested in teaching her that. But the question is, what games should we look into/add to that would give us even more variety to what we have and open us up to more themes/mechanics? LLD suggested a hidden movement game and it appealed to us and it's definitely on the list.

The requirements would be: 4-5 players max but probably best played with 2-3 people and preferably not to much more complicated than pandemic(anything rated above a 3.25 on board game geek for complexity is probably going to be a hard sell).

Mystic Vale works well with two/three players

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Reck only played it once don't listen to him we didn't have time convert him

join usssssssssssssssssss

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Spoiler: put this on ur head

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Catacombs is my tough sell list for a number of reasons. Long set up/rules phase that would be mostly my responsibility, complex looking enough to turn her off, no penguins, out of print(copies on amazon are 150), no weeble wooble penguins, also games like ice cool and coconuts appeal to me precisely because I can turn my brain all the way off for 30 minutes to an hour to smack some penguins around. Catacombs is not that. I am interested, I do think it's cool, there are just a lot of obstacles.

Catacombsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

it's worth the price if you play it more than a few times

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there's also a learning curve

it's one of those games where it's not fun if you're not good at it, so it took me a few games to really enjoy it

plus 1v1 or 1v2 gives you a lot more reps with the discs than 1v4 so there's that as well

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wait, that stuff isn't in the rules?

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yeah, idk. it's supposed to be similar to Blood Rage, but like..Blood Rage is 60..so idk brother.

I've got a copy of blood rage sitting unplayed right now. Planning on getting to that this weekend. Is it good?

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I got suckered into the dreaded "first play through of catacombs where no one read the rulebook" tonight. It was an objectively bad gaming experience. I am somewhat excited for the less dreaded 2nd and 3rd playthroughs but whatever.

Maybe read the rules this time...? I can see how people could not like it, but it's not an "objectively bad" game. My first playthrough was pretty frustrating, but we were mistaken about a few key rules (like how stuns work) and when I played it with the actual rules it was a lot of fun

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catacombs suuuuuuuuuuucks

I did not enjoy Catacombs

ftfy

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How exactly DO stuns works because we couldn't find it.

that character takes no actions on the next hero turn. character can still take damage. can't be stunned again until after the character takes their next turn.

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I think you meant to say you eat poop

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A friend of mine just got Settlers of Catan and hes bring it over in a few weeks for a few of us to play. Any tips or tricks? Is it a complicated game? DO I need to read the rules ahead of time?

don't take it too seriously

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Gloomhaven is real fuckin good

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https://goo.gl/bfe2AE

No surprises here

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Machi Koro just seems bad. I played it once and it was so unexciting and just blah on every level. No deep strategy, no real interesting decisions, the boring kind of luck that you have no control over, and just nothing exciting about it.

accurate, it's okay if you want to familiarize someone with drafting and/or economy building but there are better options that are just as simple

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it's not my fault that you can't enjoy things that aren't necessarily great games

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Guys, I finished pandemic legacy

Yoleeshaaaaaaaaaa

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Cosmic Encounter is great

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not with that attitude

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it looks like what you need is a cooperative thematic game with shifting alliances

what about Yahtzee

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the joke was that those are all of the things he said he specifically didn't want

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getting hyped for NEW CATACOMBS

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finally got the new Catacombs and it looks so fucking good

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I also finally got my copy of Kingdom Death 1.5 and holy fuck it's enormous.

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I also finally got my copy of Kingdom Death 1.5 and holy fuck it's enormous.

literally half of the 224 page hardcover instruction book is full page illustrations

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dude it's SO GOOD

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got Mysterium for Christmas. Game is super fun.

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It really makes Dixie obsolete for me. Also kinda makes codenames obsolete for me

I think Codenames is better for a casual party-game type audience

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we still weren't finished after 9

oh god why

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Through the ages was SO GOOD

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replacing a peace token with a scorched earth token from a territory card wasn't actually supposed to happen

didn't we look that up and you actually could raid a peace token?

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no reck did raid my peace and that's why I came in 2nd instead of 1st

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because reck was being a salty bitch

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ah yes

a lot of things happened there at the end

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UT and I just got back from a board game run.

Purchases include:

Battle for Rokugan
Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization
Agents of SMERSH

SMERSH is super fun. It's less of a game and more of an excuse to get drunk, but it's hilarious none the less. A fixed version of Arabian Nights that doesn't suck.

it's so fucking good

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So stoked to play Root

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Betrayal Legacy is real good

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two rooms and a boom only really works well with like 20+ people IMO and that's a big fucking issue

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How do I brainwash my wife

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Kingdomino is a GREAT game