/bgg/ Board Games GeneralPrevious thread: >>97938367Pastebin:https://pastebin.com/h8Tz2ze8*NEWISH* survey results:https://pastebin.com/scAkFdTv>you can pick 3 famous people (dead or alive) for board game night. who are your picks and what are you playing?>what's gonna be your next board game related purchase?>what have you been playing this week and what are you playing this weekend?
>>97980464>>you can pick 3 famous people (dead or alive) for board game night. who are your picks and what are you playing?jconrobert redfordtoshiro mifuneklask 4
>>97980464>you can pick 3 famous peoplesteev his wife and the guy who used WASD for controls. we're playing stab a motherfucker.>what's gonna be your next board game related purchase?I've been keeping my eye out for Space Base.>what have you been playing this week and what are you playing this weekend?today I played abalone, skip-bo, kings gold and mille bournes. I don't know why my family can't be into real games but at least it wasn't uno for once.>>97980486>robert redfordyou could have had Jeremiah Johnson and yet you chose the actor
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>>97980464>you can pick 3 famous people (dead or alive) for board game night. who are your picks and what are you playing?Churchill, FDR, Stalin>what's gonna be your next board game related purchase?I've been thinking of getting a set of poker chips to use in place of paper money slips>what have you been playing this week and what are you playing this weekend?It's a busy week so mostly little solo games like The Last Lighthouse and Mint Works
>>97980464Gorbachev just so I can say >Mr Gorbachev tear down this wall while playing the card in twilight struggle.I'm going to buy pax ren coinsPax ren and targi. This weekend idk
>>97981137Presumably you'll just let them play Churchill and not participate yourself
>>97980464>you can pick 3 famous people (dead or alive) for board game night. who are your picks and what are you playing?zoe quinn, alex jones and filthy frank, we play cockroach poker>what's gonna be your next board game related purchase?help me decide anons, what do i break my streak with on the holiday season?>what have you been playing this week and what are you playing this weekend?for both: piña coladice, can't stop, cubitos, coloretto, shards of infinity, dale of merchants, not alone and war of whispers
Is Tom's requirement for making a new expansion to always add some cracked out mode?
>>97982641To be honest if he just kept the original mechanisms and added more cards he’d just end up diluting the main deck which is very fine tuned. RftG is perfect as it is.
>>97980502Stop sucking tripcunt and namecunt cocks anon
>>97980464>>you can pick 3 famous people (dead or alive) for board game night. who are your picks and what are you playing?H.G. Wells, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee. Fire in the Lake.>what's gonna be your next board game related purchase?Wife wants to play Orapa Mine, so probably that.>what have you been playing this week and what are you playing this weekend?Played some Tzolkin this week, this weekend I won't have time, need to get some stuff done around the house and garden.
>>97980464>>you can pick 3 famous people (dead or alive) for board game night. who are your picks and what are you playing?Robin Williams, Todd McFarlane, and Sherman. We are playing Pax Pamir.
>>97982640>what do i break my streak withcome join us in the Racket Dice waiting roomit'll never bill, so you can scratch the consuming itch without actually breaking your streak
>>97983374>it'll never billbut what if it does? i'd be squandering all the effort so far, and handing control over my challenge to someone elsealthough i must admit the game looks interesting, i'm still joining the waiting room
>>97980464>>you can pick 3 famous people (dead or alive) for board game night. who are your picks and what are you playing?KasumiAyaneTinaWe'd play Twister>>what's gonna be your next board game related purchase?Antiquity reprint in 2027>>what have you been playing this week and what are you playing this weekend?InnovationInnovation and Troyes
>>97982860Rftg is the most overrated game on bggIf it came out today no one would give a shit
>>97983713It's a good game it just looks like total ass because the art and graphic design are ancient. I'm surprised there hasn't been a modern makeover yet.
>>97983713That’s because it’s old enough to drink alcohol in non-retarded countries. It’s now drowned in the sea of its less successful copycats but after two decades of iterating on the idea, if you want pure engine building nothing still comes close to it.
>>97983713Naaah, it'd be less popular, but still very loved. Possibly even more popular initially because games have gotten more complex and RftG is very much a midweight game nowadays compared to when it came out. Art is shit though, so maybe it'd not make it out of niche status
Anyone here play Small World? Ive played it several times and it has high replayablity due to random race/class combos adding a lot of variety.
>>97983606>but what if it does?I mean if Calkins got tired of waiting and bankrolled the rest of the 500 and personally flew all the shit home from China on his private jet, it still wouldn't bill this year.
>>97980350I played my friend's prototype about 20 times. I don't know how to tell him I think his game sucks/spoiler]I also played Heat again after not playing in very long, I enjoy the game greatly but I always feel bad about the 2 guys that are behind by 1 corner and dom't seem to be able to ever catch up once they made a mistake.
>>97983792Funny, the artwork is the only thing I think is fine, but the UI is terrible
>>97984168I've never played it, mainly because I think the name is dumb
>>97984324What makes the prototype bad?I can't play heat...or slow paced car racing games in general. Play the canal era in brass, or go around this race track 1 time, when IRL it would only take a minute. Quest for el dorado neatly works around this because you can imagine the quest taking days or even weeks.
>>97984168Was one of my first exposures to modern boardgaming. I distinctly remember my sides going in orbit around "Bivouacing Elves". The name just sent me.Bought it later, was on constant rotation with my first game group. Then our exposure and tastes grew and it didnt hit the same anymore. May have been one of the first games I ever purged.Still not a bad game for kids or people new to the hobby that are not conflict averse peacenicks.
>>97984168Played it 3 player with a couple many years ago.The girl outright threatned her partner with the couch if he attacked her so the it devolved into a shitty 2vs1 session.They're naturally not together anymore.
>>97984401>What makes the prototype bad?"It's like Catan, but (...)" is the main problem. It's clear he hasn't played many different games but he's very happy about the entire process but I think this will not go anywhere.
I'm sad, should I pull the trigger on high frontier and some of the expansions?
>>97984894Yes
>>97984894No, because you'll never actually play it.Or worse, play it once and completely fall out of love with it as the potential fun you imagined crumbles under the weight of somewhat tedious gameplay, long downtimes and the general simulation over gameplay approach that sounds so appealing until you actually play the game. I suppose it might be played solo, the thought hadn't crossed my mind up until now.
>>97985138>long downtimesI won't be playing it with others. Not a relevant factor.
>>97980350I played at least one other game in April but I forget what it was.
>>97985306you like robots, don't you anon.you want to Clank them, don't you anon
>>97984894No, it’s autismo fuel and not in a good way. If you want the good space autism, try Leaving Earth
>>97984618>CatanOofPlay some more games with the poor sob.
>>97984894No, the expansions are ass. However, the base game with the quick start variant is very enjoyable.
I like going on BGG and playing people's prototypes and contest games. 1 in 10,000 get a publisher, rest are forgotten by history because they don't have mass market appeal.
>Mini leftover sleeves from Mushroom Sort are too small for VIVO
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>>97985724I warned you they were some weird Japanese size.
>>97985306Castles of Burgundy the card game is pretty ass, it just removes all of the decent parts of the game.Some good games in there, how tf do you play so much?What's Claim It!?
>>97986171>how tf do you play so much?Game nights every Friday. Game days most Saturdays. Games with family. And some digital play, mostly on Tabletop Simulator.>What's Claim It!?It's a push your luck dice game that's somewhat similar to Can't Stop. The object of the game is to claim the largest cluster of tiles on the map.
I am again glad to report that civolution is still going strong, one of the most underappreciated games of the last 5 years if you ask me
>civolution>derappreciatedHigh level shitpost
>>97986685I don't see it mentioned anywhere since a few months post-release, what are you talking about?
>>97986732>no one talks about MY game!
>>97986924No idea what your grudge is anon. Not really up for a shitposting battle atm
>>97984894It's a question you can only answer yourself anon. I pulled the trigger and dont regret it. I dont often get to play it now because 1.5 year old and another bun in the oven, but every time I see it on the shelf I want to play that fucker and I hear: >https://youtu.be/OYBC-r3Nj0U?si=aJAFPSmrTIlfl2NBPlaying in my head (I have the series from Bios: Genesis which contributes to that feeling.)Your plan to play it solo makes sense imo. I dont have someone I could table with. Maybe my brother but he'd probably be a bit lost. Maybe my kids one day!
>>97985630Largely disagree. I find modules 1 and 2 to be really good, pretty much mandatory along with module 0 for me. 3 I haven't played but seems a bit too convoluted. 4 I like the contracts and the new spaceborn colonists, but not the isotope monetisation, isobank or the whole exodus spaceship thing. I am indifferent on the promotions now requiring augmented colonists. Not done modules 5 or 6
What's /bgg/'s board game h-index? Mine is 11, so I own 11 games which I've played at least 11 times each
>>9798778529. Trying to get to 30, need to play some more Pax Ren or HansaT
>>97986677>>97986732It was all anyone talked about for a hot minute then people bought it, got played for 3 months then went MIA. I see lots of copies on FB and have seen it marked down online. I haven't played every Feld but I think it's easily the worst of them I have played. I don't think you can make a game that's supposed to be high strategy with lots of planning and have a dice roll mechanic limiting what you can do. Plus it was too long (our game of 4 was almost 4 hours) and ended up being a VP mill at the end of the game based on population. Ended up with some scripted starts that everyone has to take (the tech that gets you additional dice adjustments). Just didn't see the fun in it at all - if it was like 60-90 minutes, I might be humored to play it but never at 3-4 hours.
What do you do with your rulebooks? Do you:>store them on top of the box because that's where they were when you opened it?>store them on the bottom of the box because it's the flattest surface and you only rarely need them anyway?>throw them out because who needs that shit ever?
>>97988481I store them wherever they won't get banged up. Usually that's the top of the box above the game board. For games without main boards or a board assembled from interlocks, I often keep the rulebook at the bottom of the box. I can think of at least two games I own where I kept the sprues and use them as a buffer to protect the rulebook.
>>97988481I put them on top but below larger flat components so they help with pressing in and keeping things tidy and unmoved
>>97988481I cut them up and glue the most relevant paragraphs under the box cover.Rules passages like: "the person who last climbed a mountain goes first" and full page spreads of play examples that are brain dead obvious from a glimpse at rules text get tossed in the bin.
>>97988600>the person who last climbed a mountain goes firstMad because you're not the person who last sacrificed something.
>>9798778510 on BG stats, would go up to 15ish with all the unlogged games
>>97988638This is the stupid take of someone who never goes outside or does anything. All of these come from "youngest goes first" in shitty parker brothers tier games and all are equally fucking stupid. I'm the youngest, the last one to go camping, the last to climb a mountain, the last to garden and nothing will every change any of those in my group. my millenial apartment dwelling buds are never going to get a chance to garden for example and while I was up on pikes peak last month for someone who lived in the mudflats of Indiana mountains are a two day drive either way. They're all just fucking stupid you might as well put "last to be in a wheelchair", none of the insipidfirst player conditions will every change and it's neither creative nor difficult to make them up especially when game components can easily be used for the same purpose- but that requires some actual thought.inb4 "well they just put them in as a joke anon lighten up" retards
>>97987785I own more than 122 games few of which I've never played, most are 10+ with some around the 40-50. I don't log shit so I don't really know. I also don't care because I own a fuckton of games and play a fuckton of games so I don't need some h-index to tell me how much I FUCK.
>>97988857Incredible, you can track the froth level of anons mouth as he typed by the incremental deterioration of his writing quality.Touch some grass, dude.
>>97988481Top, basically no exceptions
>>97988857You keep getting mad at these first player rules when even I as an autismo find it easy to ignore them entirely and just use the bg stats shuffler
>>9798778516, after 1158 games. I still think h-index is a bad metric to judge repeated plays, though. If I was a fan of tricktakers or erred more on the light game side, the number would be significantly higher. But who really cares
>>97988600SETI is guilty of both of those lol
>>97988857But do you have the best beard in your group?were you the last to visit a castle?last to order fast food?I think you need to expand your horizons. There's more good games out there with excellent rules and you shouldn't limit yourself like this.
>>97988891>you can track the froth leveloh god my sides
Anyone played Obsession? Thoughts?
>>97989157yes on the first two actually. I have a full biker beard and have been to pic related two years ago. fast food is the only one so far that would even fluctuate and that would probably be the guy who gets something on his way to my house.
My wife keeps owning me in Star Realms so much holy shit. Out of all games we have she somehow chose to completely obliterate me in this one every day. She can't even subtract 7 from 23 without calculator so why? What am I doing wrong?
>>9798778530, and got some ones I'm happy to boost up very soon
>>97989653Mad respect to those numbers of Bullet, Pax, Root, and the Splotter titles.Not jealous, not jealous at all!
>>97989701I AM jealous about your counts of Sakura Arms, Twilight Struggle and Mottainai. My copies have just like, 9 plays each and I'm dying to play more. I have the AEG version of Sakura and I'd like to get the new boxes but if this little one is already gathering dust, will feel even worse with the larger boxes lol
>>97989622Wives/gfs are going to have games they simply always manage to win no matter what happens, it's just the way of life
>>97989622you're playing a game where the market wags the dog. if you play the app and apply the exact same strat every time you'll either crush them or die without shit. so she is simply getting better market flops than you. it's rng and luck. enjoy it especially if she can't beat you in anything else that requires two brain cells.
What the fuck? I just found out that you're only allowed to build one route per turn in Ticket To Ride, while I'm used to being able to build as many routes as possible. That way, you can hoard cards and push your luck, but there's not the same incentive to take huge risks and wait if only one route is built per turn.>inb4 ticket to ride sucksYeah it sucks, but TTR Europe is tolerable if you gotta play something with normies
>>97990240It's still correct to hoard cards and play big routes to get better points per action.>>inb4 ticket to ride sucks >Yeah it sucks, butCopenhagen.
>>97989007Use ChwaziOrI just play a short game with no turns to determine first player, like One-finger gunslinger, Set or Swish.
>>97989622>playing Star RealmsFound your problem.
>>97989564America has no castles, that's just some heap of shit some "eccentric" faggot built.
>>97990314Mad you don't have your own local castle?
>>97990350I live about 15 minutes away from the longest castle in the world.
>>97989201Looks neat, would try it.
>>97990370Sounds like penis envy.
>>97990408Nah, that's in France, and it's only the third longest.
2026, I am forgotten...
>>97990515game is too shallow for there to be anything worth talking about
>>97990530Onitama catching strays.
>>97990556>>97990530>>97990515I like both of these but yes there's nothing to talk about. Which are your favorite Onitama cards?
>>97990515I enjoy it but for me it falls into a similar bucket as chess in that I have to use 100% of my brain, so it isn't very weekday evenings friendly
>>97989201Great experience, not a great game. It's heavy on rules, light strategy. It boils down to hand management, mostly. It is a great time though because it seems to attract people that like the theme but never played anything more difficult than Catan and good board game players that like to in-directly beat the shit out of said players. Everyone has fun in the end and it's extremely easy to get to the table. Must own if you have a board game group that's a little more advanced, healthy mix of men and women, and are social.None of the expansions are worth owning and make the game worse in my opinion by just adding bloat again without any real strategy perks. Base box is more than enough and playing with more than 4 makes the game drag way too long.
Gencon even catalog dropped today, I've been out of the loop on new and upcoming stuff. Any suggestions for things to keep an eye on? I know I'm looking to try out Old King's Crown if I can
>>97990573Frog, I guess?
>>97990515I can only find the Halloween version and I'm not buying that shit.
>>97982640Just seek help man. You legit have an addiction and no impulse control.
>>97990642That's a very concise review. I will order it right now. Thank you!>>97990642>None of the expansions are worth owning and make the game worse in my opinion by just adding bloat again without any real strategy perks. Base box is more than enough and playing with more than 4 makes the game drag way too long.In this day and age, I almost view this is a pro; I hate it when, considering the prices of board games, there are expansions that are paramount to the experience, so just buying the base game isn't enough.
Golf! What if Tiger Woods driving on Xanax was the dragon attack hazard.
>>97991235I'd squint at it curiously on the lgs loaner rack and then move on
Bought at the board game flea market today:>Wandering Towers with two mini-expansions ($35)>Ticket to Ride: New York ($5)>Mountain Goats ($2.50)Thriftbros, we're feasting
>>97990755Honestly, the only reason I bother going to gencon anymore is to gawk at the fattiesAnd then ask them back to my hotel room for a free willy experience
>>97990755nothing of relevance has been exhibited at gencon since... I don't know, maybe 2009?
>>97991380>living in or around Indiana
Kids are starting to get old enough for board games, any recs for decent games suitable for 5 yo's that isn't slop like Candyland or Shits and Ladders?
>>97989653>not one but two My Little Pony themed game>one played 33 times and the other 31Anon please tell me that those plays were with your kids.
>>97991796Peaceable Kingdom makes some decent games.Orchard by Haba is a favorite.Sleeping QueensGet a good set of memory tiles.pick up some wood double row card holders from etsy (you can /diy/ them but the etsy ones are stupid nice considering you'll be using them for years)Disney princess oversize cards for old maid and go fishNemo go fishCandyland is fine if you stack the deck, peanut in the first quarter, licorice in the last, keep them from stupid gains or losses and it's a good way to get them to understand taking turns even if there is no agency.Don't be afraid to make your own rules, so if they get attached to like Hatchimals (they did) introduce two dice and a reroll to make shit go faster.Clue Jr. and Scrabble Jr. are decentMy first stone ageMy first carcassoneare both good.Kings Gold (push your luck dice)King of Tokyo with no cards, green cubes buy extra rolls with the green diceidk it's rougher than I thought, I've played some hard games with sharp kids and when your own are not interested in anything but uno tier it's rough, I mean they'll play century spice road but they don't LIKE it and I can't even get them to try upwords much less something like paperback.
>>97990556Do you play base game only or with any of the expansions?
The only reason to ever play Candyland is to teach kids how to follow instructions, and you can houserule a draw 2 pick 1 to get them into decision making, but there are better games that cover both aspects. If your kid can read and follow instructions, don't underestimate them by making them by making them play fucking candyland.
>>97991796In my experience a 5y olds level of skill/concentration varies wildly so there's no objectively best games of course. Also I dislike most kids games because they are either purely luck driven or something an adult has to play at a deliberately low power level to not stompt the kids. What I can do with my 5 year old adhd daughter is:>Los Mampfosbasically advanced memory feat. El grande wheel. Suprisingly good game, haptically pleasing but far better with more than 2 players. Kids are drawn in by the theme of donkeys taking shits and stay because their memory skills are usually better than adults'.>Grosse kleine EdelsteineA wolfgang warsch game, probably the best kids game I know. It tests a skill children and adults are apparently similarly good at (estimating shape sizes) and is a pretty unique experience that doesn't become boring at the second play. How it didn't get the kinderspiel is beyond me. Far better than the somewhat similar topp die torte by ww>animal upon animalBest stacking game. Also suprisingly well designed considering it's a box of wooden animals and a die. Basically never has kids lose interest because it's lightning fast and takes like 5 minutes.>Jenga makerWeird one because we don't play it according to the rules. Should be a 2clv2 team game with one partner describing what should build to the (blinded) partner. I found it works amazingly well to just take the fuckhuge pile of possible forms and build them as fast as possible. Also marvel at how the unnamed dude in charge of designing the like 140 cards didn't just phone it in but really gave it his best shot, amazing what you can build from the 2x8 rough shapes.>Carcassonne/Carc kidsSelf-explanatory, choose according to what you think your kids can manage. Farmer rules are usually too big of an ask. I rarely get it out as it usually degenerates into building a nice looking map within 4 minutes.I suppose if your kid has a bigger attentiom span you could go for abstracts?
>>97992549Nta but speaking of abstracts I wonder how kids fare with hive. You see kids play chess all the time but hive seems more approachable for larval homo s..
>>97991376I have never seen any worthwhile games at flea markets/boot sales/charity shops/thrift stores. Feels bad man.
>>97989622Gf recently beat me in Twilight Struggle as the USA. I just had insanely unlucky card draws twice in a row in mid-war. Although not all can be attributed to it, she learned that she has to throw wrenches into my plays from time to time instead of just working towards goals, still felt weird not being able to just solidify my victory in the early/mid war like I usually do.>>97989201Great game, the most tedious part being how annoying the setup/disassembly for how simple this game is. Fun to play though and while not being all that "toxic" you still have a few of ways of messing with you opponents, something I prefer over your average low-interplayer-interaction games which feel like solitaire-games half the time that just have you compare numbers by the end.
>>97991796thank me later
>>97992017>there are better gamesname nine>If your kid can readnigga this takes SO MUCH LONGER than you'd think. some of your compatriots on /bgg/ can't even fucking read still.>>97992630you see kids play chess because you can play at level the horsey goes like this. the same kids can't fathom checkers or abalone apart from pushing the pieces around, it's just more impressive when they're moving bishops I guess.
>>97985625Qrd?I thought Catan & Root were supposed to be beginner friendly?I'm hoping my order of the 1st root base game comes today but for some reason the vagabond pack came first only had couple of tokens in it? It's for more players to be on the board I guess?
