Cute animals editionDominant Species theme song:https://youtu.be/9erLsEHAZRI?si=3pNlD69SraCv_rL6Previously on bgg: >>96824195This general encompasses all board game genres - Eurogames, Ameritrash, Ameritreasure, Fillers, Party, Abstracts, Wargames, and especially the game that one anon is autistic about at this very moment.TQs:- What is your most immersive game?- Who's your board game waifu?- Favorite faction gimmick?
>>96847947>1War of the Ring. There's really nothing else that quite evokes such vivid imagery in my head when playing it. I can imagine the movies and the books exactly, think of how they would change during decisions, and such.I think Acquire also does a very good job of stock buying. Not as a simulation, but the business mind it gets you in to.>2Riverfolk company otter babe, my beloved.>3I'm just going to name off several. The Hydoran Progress in Eclipse getting extra research and starting advanced science. Riverfolk company's payment system. Spacing Guild's movement all over Arrakis in Dune. Cosmic encounter has too many good ones, I like Masochist, Will, and Virus a lot. Ret-Talus in summoner wars 2 just killing everything, including his own units without giving a shit.
>>96847947>- What is your most immersive game?That feels like a loaded question, but I'm going to say Wandering Towers.It's the only game I own where players consistently pay attention during other players' turns. >- Who's your board game waifu?I'm too proud own games like Tanto Cuore so I can't give this question a genuine answer.>- Favorite faction gimmick?The Spacing Guild choosing their spot in turn order.
>>96847947Thanks for continuing the cooking, OP. Might you pepper the pastebin back on top?>- What is your most immersive game?Either Pax Pamir or Stationfall. I am attentive to what everyone is doing and the shenanigans are delightful.>- Who's your board game waifu?uh...that one is actually tough.Kehrolyn Ross from Battlecon?Silts of the Sand Goblins? (both 1E and 2E)The stunning cutie on Pax Rens Zionist State? I cannot resist going reformist victory when she flops onto that market row...Hagane from Sakura Arms? (there have now been 8 additional fighters released in Japan that we will never get west side Brad you cunt reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)fuck it, I'm going with my OG LCG saviour, Hammer Knight>- Favorite faction gimmick?Definitely the Circuit rule from the Storm Goblins and all the spatial silliness it unlocks.
>>96848045War of the ring is spectacular.
>>96847947>What is your most immersive game?The Night Cage>Who's your board game waifu?Rose Blanchette(Bullet Star)>Favorite faction gimmick?I don't think I actually play a lot of games that have faction gimmicks(it's either totally equal or minor things like the Germans being better at building trenches in The Lamps are Going Out). To not reuse Bullet, I guess the Wolf School in Witcher:OW? It enables the core gimmicks of stacking attack cards to get longer combos and rewards you for it.
>>96848047>regi gaslighting>>96848543>>Who's your board game waifu?>Rose Blanchette(Bullet Star)My melanin enriched cousin>>96847947>What is your most immersive game?Pax RenI love seeing how we make europe either a stable and wealthy region or an absolute mess of failed states plunging into any given conflict every Sunday. And really feeling the sting of our gameplay consequences making one shots a pain or our empires fragile houses of cards.
>>96847947>- What is your most immersive game?Chaos in the Old World.>- Who's your board game waifu?I'm not a faggot.>- Favorite faction gimmick?Space Hulk Death Angel blue team ability to shuffle genestealers back into blips on move.
>>96847947TQs:>What is your most immersive game?Definitely have to agree with the other anon on Pax Ren, nothing hits quite the same as funding a holy Jihad across Europe as your opponents desperately try to hold you back.I would also say Nemesis. I set up a really nice atmosphere with special lighting and music that just really makes it shine. Everyone is suspicious of each other and each encounter with an intruder is dreadful. Awesome times.>Who's your board game waifu?Pic related. Love the wild attitude and overall charm of Rie. She has Crazy 88 vibes. Also, the cloud chick from Oath, well idk, she's the exact opposite. She seems wise and down to earth (oddly enough), a type to settle down with.>Favorite faction gimmick?Definitely the Hacan in TI4. Their whole gimmick is just being traders, but I have never enjoyed playing a faction as much as I enjoy them. I'm the player everyone likes to treat as the table threat and I receive less friendliness. The Hacan make it so everyone have to deal with the devil.
I got Gaia Project in shrink for 30 burgerbucks :D
>>96848824>the cloud chickthas a manthas a beard
>>96847947>What is your most immersive game?War of the Ring, or pretty much every reason >>96848045 said. John Company is very close though.>Who's your board game waifu?I love my definitely not Miku wife in my definitely not 2hu board game!>Favorite faction gimmick?Bene Gesserit predictions, all the flying Skyspear Avians can do, and (this is a weird one) the first and second echelon activation for the Soviets in The Third World War (though a sequence of play mechanic rather than a gimmick).
>>96848906My waifu will blow your waifu to smithereens (In 3 shuffles)
>>96848877Really? Everyone I've ever played with has said it's a chick. Well, I've got some things I must confront now.
Rolled 2, 2 = 4 (2d6)>>96847947>What is your most immersive game?Space Alert easily.>Who's your board game waifu?Princess General Flammaria from Heart of Crown. She might not have the best ability, but still would.>Favorite faction gimmick?The Order of Montesa in Crusaders: Thy Will Be Done. They get an extra knight unit out of the gate, permanently have +1 to travel, and start with the average amount of action tokens despite how powerful the prior two abilities are.You're able to come out of the gate strong and fast with them, dominating the board early if you play right. I like to muster up a huge army and build out to a level 4 farm to cash in VP per knight and troop unit for big money.
>>96846646No? People don't seem to understand what combat is in general. It can be deterministic or random, but at the end of the day it's about your dudes killing other people's dudes. In Uprising, you're not killing anything. You're making a bid using a resource ("""troops""") and all bids are cleared after the auction ("""combat""") is over. There is no actual combat between the troops or even between the players.
>>96848940It is a woman.The eyes.Thr "beard" doesn't go on her face at all. It's a fluffy coat.I refuse to stand for thr faggots that fell for the inorganic tranny raid of "that's a man"
>>96849111>People don't seem to understand what combat is in generalMaybe because you seem to have an arbitrarily strict definition of it. Just to be clear, does annoy you that Dunc calls it combat or do you just not like it?To be clear, I agree that it doesn't really feel like combat. OG DUNC combat does, though, and that one's an auction with extra steps
>>96848824Wait, THIS is the cloud you were very verbal about wanting to fuck?Pretty disappointing, ngl
>>96848428>Might you pepper the pastebin back on top?Consider it done>SiltsBased taste
>>96847947Dominant Species slaps
>>96849111Would you consider it "combat" if the winning army stayed on the board after the conflict?
>>96849324>OG DUNCno anon, the OG is DUNE, dunc as a meme is too new to be anywhere near the OG.
>>96849324Not really, if anything I think my conception can include combat that's really abstracted. Take something like Churchill. The combat is abstracted away so much that it's just a tile that moves forward and doesn't directly kill any enemy cubes. But there's at least a spatial control aspect to it. In Uprising, it is straight up simply an auction where you buy randomly drawn rewards.To be clear, I actually don't mind the system and think the game would be entirely too dull without it, I just don't like the pretense that it's a combat system when it isn't. It's just a veneer.>OG DUNC combat does, though, and that one's an auction with extra stepsYou mean the GF9 one? Explain.>>96849402Yeah, some kind of resolution that treats troops as troops would go a long way. Like keeping as many troops as the difference between the first and second player. I'm not saying it should be that way, it would probably just fuck up the balance of the game. And it would still not make much sense as it's 4 players fighting simultaneously. It would have to be reworked from the ground up honestly.
Finally a good stealth game. Just not 150 euros good.
>>96849473is MGS the boardgame not a good stealth game? or is it not a stealth game because you can kill guards?
>>96847947>What is your most immersive game?Terrorscape. First time I am legit afraid in a horror game.>Who's your board game waifu?Lots of Sakura Arms love here. But my favorite is still D'Janette from Exceed Seventh Cross. It's a shame there's no other game featuring this artist.>Favorite faction gimmick?Not exactly a faction, but Minato from Exceed Seventh Cross (again) basically has a special card area, sealed cards on top of deck, hand, gauge and discard, that he can interact with as the game progresses and you unlock transforms. Makes some fun resource management.
>>96849424If you think about it in the sense of mercenaries, it makes sense. No one's loyalty lasts forever
>>96847947what kinda tqs are these>1probably pax ren, none of the games I own are immersive>2none>3i dont play enough asymmetric games but I guess I like Sobek in Ankh, placing the sea tile just right where several regions split up and joining many battles with just the god>>96848863I don't think that was such a good deal but as long as you actually play it that's fine
>>96850083It could make sense if Dune had substantial use of mercenaries, but I don't remember a single time mercenaries were used in battle in the books. Really, you should not be looking for lore explanations for anything that happens in the game, like I said the theme works against it.>loyaltyThere's no political intrigue in the game either.
>>96850098Feel free to give suggestions on tqs if you'd like. I can only ask "what's your favorite deckbuilder" so many times
>>96849424>>96849423My bad, I mean the GF9 2019 reprint. Not DUNC indeed
>>96850329Dune 2019 has a fully fledged combat system which involves area control, army strengths, sizes, and limits, leaders and treachery cards as well as faction powers that interact with all of that. Troop commitment being decided by a hidden auction type mechanic doesn't make it an auction with extra steps. Unless you're one of memesters calling everything an auction.
I wonder if I could design a single player chess game, by having the black pieces choose a piece motion by using a deck of movements, and then having the game be more about removing the black pieces under a time limit.
>>96849388Dominant Species is great. Haven't tried the ocean one though. What is the game above DS in picture?
>>96850809That's been done by every Chess video game ever made bro.
>>96850809You could. As a personal challenge, great idea. As a commercial one, not so good imo.
Time to PnP Wiz War!
>>96851124Yippie!!
how do you define quality in board games, and define if a game is better than another?
>>96851228there are no objective parameters for thatit depends on your personal preferences but also on that of the players in your group, because buying games and then leave them in your shelf, never to be played, defeats their purpose
>>96851228If I don't like it, it's shit. If I like it, it's good.
>>96850809No. Chess is all about positioning and you're not gonna handle anything past turn 2 with cards.
>>96851228Agreeing with the other Anon.A quality game is first and foremost a game I get to play, and a game I want to play.For example I am sure that big heavy games are good for many people, but I just don't have the space, time and partners to play them.
>>96851228I listen for my inner joy after playing. No joy? Game goes to ebay.
>>96851544King, and correct
>>96851228They hook you up to a brain scan and monitor how much dopamine and serotonin is stimulated while you're taking your turn
>>96847947>What is your most immersive game?I once played Captain Sonar with a deep sea soundtrack, it was pretty immersive.>Who's your board game waifu?Jenna from Board Game Garden. Her collection is of questionable taste, but I've got a thing for bangs.>- Favorite faction gimmick?Atreides faction in Dune gets to take notes in a notebook.
>>96851228Taste is entirely subjective but I think a broader concept of “quality” can be discussed. Does a game accomplish its design goals? Does it work as intended?
>>96851228>>96851920Just read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
Another question, I am trying to design an abstract board game, but I wonder, how many mechanics do I need, how do I know this has too much mechanics and need to be simpler, or this game has too few, need more?
>>96852227Seven.
>>96851228One way is by objectively grade-able metrics like game length, game flow, readability/accessibility, art direction, component quality, theme coherence, rule book coherence. Given two games that share similar rule sets, a quality game is the one that enhances that experience by virtue of the above metrics.
guys, can I code my board game in godot, instead of it just being on paper?would you play it that way?
>>96851124Which edition are you PnP'ing? Care to share the files?>>96851544I too kneel for the king.>>96851889>Jenna from Board Game GardenBased. I used to have a slight crush for Kaja Sadowski from Starlit Citadel back in the day. Tragically since then she went danger hair colored military cut butch.
>>96852419No, but programming your game is a good way to play test without having to wrangle people for play test sessions. Use machine learning to teach bots how to play your game. Run hundreds of simulations, see which strategies they abuse to get 1st place, and tweak your balance accordingly.
>>96852497Dang she's cute too, that buzz cut absolutely destroyed her but seems like that was the goal.
>>96852573board games can be easily coded using a min/max algo for the AI.
Bumping with my question from the last thread. >>96846340
>>96852227Playtest it until you hate it. And then playtest some more. Then get others to playtest it.
>>96852711from what I've designed so far, my enjoyment is bigger and I get into the zone faster when is about juggling between 3 simple mechanics at the same time.
>>96852419make a Tabletop Simulator mod with zero scripting and i'll think about it
>>96852607>Dang she's cute too, that buzz cut absolutely destroyed herSometimes you have to make sacrifices to attract other women
>>96852227abstract games shouldnt take more than 5 minutes to learn, otherwise you end up with stinky poopoo like T&E or Tash-Kalar
>>96853468two things wrong with your post1) you imply that Tigris and Euphrates takes more than 5 minutes to learn, that's incorrect. 2) you explicitly state that Tigris and Euphrates is, quote, "stinky poopoo" when it's actually quite goodplease delete your post and correct these mistakes before reposting
>>96851228Game should be fun, not tiresome.Game should bring joy, not sadness.Game should strengthen relationships, not ruin it.Game should create good and precious memories, not bad ones.Game can take your time, but shouldn't let you with a feeling of wasted time.Game should respect your money and space, be convenient to keep and handle.
>>96853468they hated him for he spoke the truth
>>96851228I feel like there are more levels to this. The obvious visceral answer of if I like it I consider it good. But there's games I think aren't good designs but still work and are fun, and there's games I don't like that I consider well designed.If surface level laugh-out-loud fun was all that mattered, we'd be playing partygames nonstop. There's a more cerebral kind of fun to be had with boardgames that challenge you, let you explore, do cool thematic things and so on. Maybe one thing is fun, the other is a form of satisfaction?It's an interesting topic
tag team is funyomi is cooler when your decisions compound on each other round after round
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Good board games to turn into drinking games? Taking a few to an anime con and the frontrunner right now is Wiz War. Take a shot when you take damage, take a shot when your spell gets counter, etc. Any other silly but not shallow games that might work well for this nonsense?
can you design something like a kinda tetris boardgame by having something like a 100 total movements timer that gets reset by doing a line like tetris, which resets the board, clears the board, but makes the timer to like takes 2 turns instead of 1 until you reach maybe level 100 and lose?
>>96855138Spirit island, just take a shot instead of marking the envelope
>>96855151I mean, yes, you can, obviously. I don't know if it'd be a good game, but there is definitely a design space for a tetris puzzle game if it doesn't already exist
>>96855155>a-at least the gameplay is good"No!" The gameplay is dreadful; the game was terrible. As I played, I noticed that every time a minor power was played, the player did it for the symbols instead of an interesting effect.I began marking on the back of an envelope every time a card was played for symbols only. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Reuss' mind is so governed by bland effects and thinly veiled set collection that he has no other style of gameplay. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Spirit Island by the same Kenneth Johnson. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these manchildren are playing Spirit Island at 31 or 32, then when they get older they will go on to play Phase 10." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you play "Spirit Island" you are, in fact, trained to play Phase 10.
Heart of Crown or Valley of the Kings?
>got some HexPlore It games>Have a good time playing them>See there are some campaign supplements for the first two games>Neat>Look into them>First game book is almost 600 pages of two column text blocks >Second game book is almost 800 pages of the same layout>Average playtime is 60 hours of first game and 80 for the second>Might encounter a fifth of the content in a playthrough>MFW
>>96855641Valley of the Undead King
>>96855681woah this looks autistic
>>96855742Adventure board game. Basically tearing ass across a world map gearing up and boosting stats by completing side quests so you can fight the Undead King. He isn't sitting around with a thumb up his cocyx though and will be going to cities causing a zombie apocalypse event when he arrives. All the cities fall? You lose. >When does he start his bone march?Varies by a dice roll. You roll a six sided die and compare it to number of rounds passed. If it matches or rolls under, he starts walking. So he might hit the board fast as fuck.>DiceUsed for overland travel. You move then roll three dice representing hunting, searching, and navigation. You roll at or under to succeed. Fail hunting? Eat rations. No rations? You start starving. Already starving? You just die. Fail searching? Nothing. Succeed searching? Find a gold. Succeed navigation? Nothing. Fail navigation? You roll a six sided die and move in the direction listed one space because you are lost.Starving to death is a bigger problem than enemy encounters, honestly and it makes autists seethe.
>>96855681>Stonema(ie)r
>>96855902are you implying something anti-Semitic?
>>96855902They aren't associated with it all.
>>96855887sounds like a bunch of random bullshit tbqhwyfamalam
>>96855962Then you don't like adventure games, anon. That's fine. It's outright trounced Mage Knight for my adventure game staple.
>>96855887I love games where I have to roll to not die!
I'm looking to reduce my collection size from 68 to 60, ultimately down to 50 in due time. For now, I need to cull my small boxed games from 18 to 10.The ones on the left are the ones I'm considering keeping (7 Yokai is Yokai Septet), while the ones on the right are to be culled. There have been some difficult choices, but I'm not really not sure what I could rotate out from the left side for some of the right side games.
>>96856045As best I can recall, Bohnanza is a box of air. Make a smaller box for the cards. Or throw the cards in a photo keeper if that's too much work.
When has rule of cool saved a board game?
>>96855887I was superficially interested but this sounds terrible tbqh
>>96856045I ran a game of High Society with (non-gamer) friends at church and we had a riotously good time. That's the only game I recognize from your cull pile.
>>96856045Why would you base a cull on number of games and not something sensible like space they take up?
>>96855991i just like my adventures regimented and predictable, none of this>it might be faceroll easy and it might be brutal due to a dice roll xd
>>96856045>Getting rid of Schotten TottenShame
>>96856695cullposters need to be beheaded desu. if you don't know what you need to cull, your collection doesn't need culling. stupid ass clout chasing over how close they are to board game nirvana
>>96856892>if you don't know what you need to cull, your collection doesn't need cullingLmao
>>96856892>board game nirvanaAlways sounded like a meme to me, all it means is that you've decided to never experience anything new anymore, and this coming from someone who never ever went above 25 owned games at any given time (quite a bit of buying and selling and trading, at a gain most of the time)>>96856978He's not entirely wrong though
>>96857029>He's not entirely wrong thoughI gave it some thought and I think you are correct. I came with the intuition there is a rough objective limit of how many games one should have, but after a bit of consideration I noticed I've fallen into the old trap of everyone with far more games than me is an excessive consooomer/collector that never plays his games, everyone with far fewer games doesn't have a good collection or is a minimalist faggot.I still think there is no reason a person needs to own a literal wall of games but there's surely enough people who look at my ~110 game collection the same way.
>>96857117I do think 110 is excessuve, but surely a sizable portion of that is smallbox and filler gamesI'm about as stingy as a jew and whenever I spend money there's always a bit of regret even if it's a game I enjoy so I never hold on too manyEven now at 21 of them there are a few i really want to get rid of, but also a couple here and there that I'd like to get my hands on. Though I'd also have to make sure they get played or I'd be unable to justify getting them (to myself)
Any good videos going over the new content in Twilight Imperium Thunders Edge? Its hard to filter through the *youtuber voice* ones.Honestly, if you have any good youtube channel recommendations for non hyperactive or patronising playthroughs would be appreciated.
>>96856527I don't recognize Fuji Flush, Hit!, or AbluxXen.Incan Treasure is a chinese knock off of Incan Gold. It is mostly notable for being in a smaller box.Fishing is a trick taker where the tricks you win become your draw deck for upcoming hands. If you're a loser you draw cards from the main deck, which is stratified to give better cards later into the game.I have not played Rebel Princess but people have tried to get me to play it. I think it's also a trick taker.Schotten Totten is the original lane battler. If you own any newer lane battler you probably don't need it.
>>96857369>Incan Treasure*Inca Treasure
The things I put up with just to save on 6€ delivery. Are these good picks to play almost exclusively at 2 players?
>>96856796Battle Line is a more kino theme.
>>96857941Summoner wars is exquisite
>>96858135Here's to waiting until 2026 for my delivery ;_;
>>96857941Is that fantasywelt germanon? Do NOT order from them and especially don't give companies interest free loans
>>96858168Why not from them?
>>96858202I've only ordered twice so I might've gotten unlucky but they are suprisingly scammy for a relatively big online retailer. Their restock dates are essentially lies. I once kept checking it because it seemed so implausible (restock in october when the next reprint was due to be shipped in june of the following year) and lo and behold, the changed it like 3 times everytime said date came. It's a borderline scam to get interestfree loans if you ask me, there is no real reason to do otherwise. Plus they keep trying to get bad ratings (as in, everything below 4/5) deleted from the usual sites. Happened to me too, luckily I had screenshot everything because of my paranoia. No idea if they had given me my money back at all if I hadn't done it within 2 months.Might seem like nothing more than a minor annoyance but I assume that is merely the tip of the iceberg
>>96857376*Incel Treasure
>>96858335Kek
