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The most play Frag got in my group was when we home-ruled it into the Rick and Morty Combat Simulator.

?????
how is that different?

You add a new stat - 'Morty'. For every point in 'Morty', you get a baseline Morty with a pistol. Every player controls someone elses Morty, and your Rick is invulnerable as long as your Morty(s) are alive.

so, nobody is killable so long as thier morty is on the field?

and nobody knows who has which morty?

>and nobody knows who has which morty?

Control of your Morty was randomised on your turn. We had a gal get a good run and control a few consecutive Morty's and popped them one after the other in a nice line.

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You are adorable like tiny baby, but show some promise.

Not bad for a small collection, once you set fire to CaH and Munchkin. And TTR. And Catan.

>Eighteen (18) munchkin expansions.
Justify this nonsense.

>Munchkin
>wait, more Munchkin!!!!

how is new angeles?
I am curious if it is
1. thematic
2. easy-ish to teach and understand rules.

I like it quite a bit, it's quite thematic and fairly easy to teach. Mechanically feels more like a Battlestar Galactica sequel than I was expecting, and play length can fluctuate wildly depending on how aggressive everyone is with negotiation. But yeah, it's quite solid, recommend.

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Different guy, but I also give it a recommend. Someone on Veeky Forums explained it very well in that a mistake is thinking that this is a cooperative game. The game may start cooperative but by the end it invariably turns into "I either run this ship now or by god I will pilot it into the rocks". I've had players do alright up until the deciding moments of the game, then hold the board state hostage in return for more power.

I'm sort of rambling, but the whole focus of the game is outdicking the other players while still putting them in a position where they want to/have to help you.

Accurate. The free trading of victory points is a little mad and a little brilliant, and absolutely lets players in the rear hold the game hostage if they're clever. Very rarely doesn't end on a knife edge.

what is your beef with Ticket to Ride or Catan?

I don't find TTR very compelling, especially the basic version. Turns are very rarely interesting, just hoping RNG hands you the cards you want and no one takes the routes you want. Player interaction is limited to blocking and even that is more often than not accidental outside of very high level play. At no point while playing it am I excited about what might happen next.

Catan will invalidate entire turns based on RNG and has zero mitigation elements for it. I'm perfectly willing to put up with random elements in games when implemented well, I fit the stereotype of an ameritrash gamer pretty well, but Catan? No. It doesn't justify it's use of a dice to dick you over with theme or drama or tension or any other redeeming quality.

Pretty much all of this is of course subjective, I don't begrudge other people enjoying stuff I don't.

I can explain. It's like a pokemon thing. Gotta have them all. Be in a LFGS and see a new expantion. Hey, I don't got that one yet!

Then I eventually realised that I never play the damn game, especially with every expansion.

I stopped buying that shit and started buying xwing instead

consider, in either game. the RNG factors are evenly distributed. with your actions as likely to block someone else's as someone else's are likely to block yours from time to time.

in Catan you mitigate by placing settlements such that they cover a broad range of numbers. I like my Catan to be EXTRA random, my group always shuffled all of the pieces, including the numbers and the coastlines.

and in TTR you mitigate by having alternate planned routes. play for the priority target but keep a weather eye on routs and carriage counts and opponent hand-sizes. cause usually if you cannot get the elegant long-legged rout you can brute-force your way round that to the goal.

and you sort of do begrudge it a little if you want to see the sets burn...

Just because I want to see the sets burn, or would burn them if I owned them, doesn't mean I think user is wrong in some objective universal sense.

Given sufficient sample size of games, all players will have been equally dicked by RNG is certainly an accurate statement, but it doesn't do anything to improve the amount of fun I'd get out of each game in that sample. There's no shortage of things I'd rather have taking space on my shelves.

>Given sufficient sample size of games, all players will have been equally dicked by RNG is certainly an accurate statement,
and yet, given a sample size of several hundred recorded games for both Catan and Ticket amongst my gaming group I consistently win both. more amusingly in 90% of recorded games she participated in another player achieved the longest road/longest rail bonuses.

to me it makes the games more interesting when you simply expect the RNG to give you the dick and plan the most cutthroat path to victory in spite of it.

so here it boils down to different strokes for different folks

Why do so many of you guys have Cards Against Humanity?

Battlemasters, fuck yeah!

My introduction to war games.

cause it's a good fast "getting to know people" sort of game. it breaks the ice before the higher order games other activities when you have new participants.

that and, so long as everyone is still vertical, nobody is ever too drunk to play it.

as a game it's simple to the point of being boring, BUT as a social tool it is quite useful.

>no Candy Land
where's the exit

>quiver mat.
Muh nigga

Also nice collection. Basically mine with a little deviation.

Actually not a quiver mat, those were way too rich for my blood, and they didn't make a size that divided down to cover a 4'x8' table well. But I totally ripped off their pattern idea, so thanks!