The Thread Where We Are Board Game Geeks

I really like Race for the Galaxy but it's one of those games where I wish there were less cards. I don't play it often so I end up having to do a lot of reading during the game. Then again I play MTG which is far, far worse about that. I like Dominion's model of playing with a limited set of cards each game, it's a good way to make new cards but reduce the complexity of a given game.

I wish there were less different cards, I meant

The Resistance is a more fun Mafia. People don't die so no one is ever sitting around waiting for the next game. Also there's is more opportunity to learn people's identities through playing the game rather than blind accusation. It's a lot of fun with the right group.

anyone play saboteur? in the werewolf / mafia / resistance mould but with a totally different mechanic and goal

i played some netrunner tnite (still the best game ever) and then tried x-wing minis for the first time. it's a lot of fun (we played the starter - my rebel X-wing beat his 2x tie fighters). not sure if i'd actually buy sets myself but i did see this online and it looks like so much fun:

http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic1555520_md.jpg

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/10/07/the_guns_of_october_yom_kippur_war_games

what do ppl think about pathfinder card game? http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/10/10/great-start-pathfinder-adventure-card-game/

woke up in the middle of the night the other night with an incredible idea: carcassonne, but with pizza slices instead of city tiles.

balls and I long ago dubbed the two-piece, two-point city the ''pizza roll,'' called out as such to collect your points.

ha

you mean 4 point

Has anyone played Mansions of Madness?

i ordered that pathfinder lcg. i'll report back.

I've played Mansions of Madness, it's decent but I prefer Arkham Horror

Mansions of Madness is a bit too RPGish for my taste

s1ocki, I think that was a later rule change. The version I have explicitly states that they are only worth two points.

Some discussion here of 'football cities' http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/548805/2-points-or-4-for-a-two-tile-castle

huh!

well the OFFICIAL ios version scores 4

I score it as 4.

lets make I SCORE 4 buttons

composing a "Carcassone Football City" song in my head right now

http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/10/14/wham-come-awful-green-things-outer-space/

if anyone wants to learn how to play netrunner, u can play for free on octgn and i am happy to show anyone how. it continues to be the best game ever.

http://octgn.gamersjudgement.com/wordpress/anr/installation/

i just might have to

max how ws D&D

i've been addicted to innovation lately

Hell yes

Oh damn my friend got me that but I tried playing it once with 3 other people and we got frustrated

Avoid 4p games when first learning the rules if at all possible.

played the echoes expansion of innovation and did not like it-
also played a game of kulak (i think linked above) and it is really fun to actually play. lots of decision making - backstabbing - thematic de-subkulakization.

If you didn't like that expansion don't go for any of the others. Personally the escalating madness of Innovation + expansions makes me happy.

I've now owned the Settlers of Catan Explorers & Pirates expansion for 6 months and we haven't played anything but scenario 1 ;_;

i think the cards continue to be fun and interesting, but i miss the tighter mechanics of the core set - it almost makes it feel like a more casual game?

Been playing Cosmic Encounter a lot recently.

It's a silly and crazy imbalanced game but can be very fun.

This is pretty OTM. Like you can be building a tactic and reserving some kick arse attacks for a big push, then some bonkers card comes up which completely disrupts the status quo and you're back to square one. There's still skill involved, but it's more reacting to the situations that arise rather than trying to build a coherent strategy, which will almost inevitably end in frustration.

It's a good laugh though, and pretty easy for anyone to pick up. I like the slight pokerish/psycological element of selecting your encounter cards.

Also there's a fair amount of skill in just keeping track of what the various flares/artifacts in your hand can do!

Cozen did you ever get / play Death Angel? Was it any good? I loved the original Space Hulk when I was younger (that and Blood Bowl were the only GW games we ever properly played really), and having enjoyed Dominion I wondered if this might be good.

But anyway, had friends round last night for food and board games; played 1 each of Catan, Carcassonne, and Dominion. Found out that Matt, who runs marathons over mountains and is in one of my record clubs, used to play Pokemon for money at the local weirdo game shop when doing his MA. And clean up. Don't know if I'm impressed or not.

We played Love Letter at the weekend which was really quick and good fun.

I recently finished the two-player wargame It Never Snows, which took about eight weeks. It was actually physically exhausting bending over the table for hours on end moving the hundreds of tiny units. The board takes up the whole room:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hf7fRB4zHe0/UksK97WtMWI/AAAAAAAAATo/ioDqgeWiwdw/s1600/IMG_2006.JPG

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awesome board game collection! xp

Mordy otm, cat otm

Cozen did you ever get / play Death Angel? Was it any good?

I'm not Cozen but I have Death Angel. I like it best as a solo game, actually; one of those weird videogame like adventures that is actually really good fun. Quite hard, too, in the best way. But it is absolutely unlike Dominion in almost every way - much closer to something like Elder Sign - a single "campaign" with heroes who have lifepoints and fight individual monsters, etc.

My friend gave me Death Angel for a bday present this year but I haven't tried it yet; I'm not really into collaborative games, I like to fuck my friends over dammit.

I've asked this before, but is there anyone on here who has tried out Ascension?

that it never snows set-up is totally nuts

totally nuts

Can anyone suggest a good word/vocabulary game that isn't Scrabble?