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What's next up on your "Buy it!" list?
Anything you're backing on KS?
What are you getting to play (if anything...) lately?
Got a favorite game you love? Tell us what and why.
Trying to decide what my next board game is, or what expansion to get today. My LGS is having a sale today.
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Hallo Veeky Forums people,
I'm currently very upset with my so called "friends" because they don't want to keep playing the board games I want to play with them. The main reason for this may be their marihuana addiciton and the resulting lack of balls. They could not stick anything longer than 1-2 rounds.
I don't know what to do but to be angry anymore and I am asking you for advice, ideas, offensive words or even contemplation. The games are DnD Adventure Games, Descent first ed., Mage Knight Board Game, Terraforming Mars, 7 Wonders and Legends of Andor.
As you might be able to tell, I have tried a variety of games. But what does it take to stick with it for some time? For example, I wish for someone to play through all descent campaigns with. I doesn't matter if we ever play it again after that, but I want to finish it. I regularly think that those guys (my playgroup friends) are lazy, fearsome and weak for the most basic reasons like losing a game for once, experiencing hardships due to acutal difficulty of the game or craving drugs before playing. I can hardly respect their judgement after the first and only round, when they just learned the overall rules. I am close to visiting my friends for one last time, finally yelling at them, calling them the losers they actually are and destroy our friendship over all of this. Is this really worth it?
>mare nostrum is nice but usually euros with combat mechanics are kinda meh. People who fight kinda lose the game. and mare nostrum has 2 nations that one is very good at fighting and one very good at defending. this means that if the romans and up next to anyone but the greeks they are going to murder them and run with the game. in my opinion its not a very balanced game... like CITOW it rellies heavily on players being very careful and keeping the balance of the game. If you are selfish for 2 or 3 rounds the most violent one wins in both games. its an ok game.
>it is a personal opinion.
When you talk about game balance - that isn't an 'opinion'. That is a look at how the game mechanics work combined with win/loss ratios for different factions and can be verified as fact. (This is one of the complaints that people who play games competitively have about Terra Mystica - some races routinely lose even in the hands of a skilled player, and others routinely win even in the hands of a low skill player due to game mechanics.) In your CitOW example - you're talking about a player who either makes *bad choices* which costs them game (counter-intuitive to the point of the game - which is winning) or they're purposely playing 'King Maker' to intentionally allow someone else to win. Neither of which is a design flaw on the part of the game designer. And this issue isn't limited to Ameritrash games or conflict driven games.
I played 7 Wonders with a group of new players a couple months ago. I told everyone at the start of the first game how much of an advantage that science cards are worth when scoring (and everyone had player aids showing the cards and points scoring system.) Sure enough I look over later and one player has nearly 3 full sets of science cards and ended up scoring a run-away victory. After that, the players were a lot more mindful of what their neighbors were collecting and no more run-away science victories.
You're surprised that people who smoke a lot of pot aren't able to concentrate for long periods of time or plan, and don't enjoy logic and critical thinking? Wow. It's almost like drugs impair the ability to perform the very activities you're attempting to get them to perform...
You've already answered your own question. While stoned they aren't going to be worth a damn when it comes to playing the meatier games you like. Don't bother yelling at the stoners - it isn't going to make a difference to them. Go out and find non-stoners to game with if you want to enjoy the meatier games in your collection. End of story.
>What's next up on your "Buy it!" list?
I'm planning to pick up New Angeles soon, and I might rush to get Forbidden Stars before it disappears forever, but that's the end of my list for now.
>Anything you're backing on KS?
As a rule, no. Burned too many times. I don't KS.
>What are you getting to play (if anything...) lately?
I've had some fun games of Tragedy Looper and Cosmic Encounter. I snagged the expansions for Looper and I've got everything for Cosmic except for Alliance and Storm.
>Got a favorite game you love? Tell us what and why.
Tragedy Looper has become my new favorite. All the "wine in front of me" reasoning is great fun, and the Mastermind side of the game is really cool even if it is really really hard to do right. While so far I've only played the First Steps scenarios, I'm starting to think it's critical to turn Table Talk off as soon as your players have generally grasped the game. If the protagonists can confer about everything even outside of the Time Spiral, they'll steamroll you.
Anyone played DnD boardgames? I've been saving up for sometime now and I can buy one boardgame,I've been seeing a lot of nice reviews for Wrath of Ashardalon. I want a decent dungeon crawler / char creation type of game
Play stoner-friendly games then.
I like (and own) Wrath of Ashardalon. I prefer any of the D&D stuff over Descent 2nd Ed because the D&D stuff tends to be more true dungeon exploration rather than a racing game. And there is some character development. However it isn't a full blown RPG by any stretch of the imagination.
There's a dice based game that might be interesting:
boardgamegeek.com
But I haven't seen play through videos or tried it out myself yet.
>Char creation
All characters are pre-generated, get a very limited choice of abilities, level up only once during a game, which again, doesn't give a lot of choices for character development.