boardgames!

[Shippou-Sensei]

not managed a playthrough yet

early reviews are positive from what i have seen.

 

[Who PhD]

PREPARE TO DICE!

 

[tommers]

Anybody using tabletop simulator? I got it last night in an attempt to play Gloomhaven. It works well but you need voice chat, which I have only just discovered.

It might still be on offer 50% off. It's quite impressive and there are loads of mods covering most games.

 

[Who PhD]

Anybody using tabletop simulator? I got it last night in an attempt to play Gloomhaven. It works well but you need voice chat, which I have only just discovered.

It might still be on offer 50% off. It's quite impressive and there are loads of mods covering most games.

that sounds awesome!

 

[tommers]

that sounds awesome!

It is pretty good. Its just a framework that lets you put whatever you want into it. It won't apply any rules or anything so you need to either know the game already or have a rule book (most are available on boardgamegeek). But there are loads of games available.

If you get it let me know.

 

[Who PhD]

It is pretty good. Its just a framework that lets you put whatever you want into it. It won't apply any rules or anything so you need to either know the game already or have a rule book (most are available on boardgamegeek). But there are loads of games available.

If you get it let me know.

I had a look on Steam. It sounds great, but it's £15 so I don't think I can afford it right now. Maybe it'll be in their summer sale.

 

[tommers]

I had a look on Steam. It sounds great, but it's £15 so I don't think I can afford it right now. Maybe it'll be in their summer sale.

Yeah, it was half price until about 5pm

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Is that any good?

Yeah it but suffers from the same problem Magic the Gathering has; you can't really enjoy the game unless you are prepared to spend a fair amount and regularly.


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[Kid_Eternity]

Anybody using tabletop simulator? I got it last night in an attempt to play Gloomhaven. It works well but you need voice chat, which I have only just discovered.

It might still be on offer 50% off. It's quite impressive and there are loads of mods covering most games.

Can you play on a Mac?


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[Kid_Eternity]

This is SO much fun! If you want a great, fast game for you and your partner I can highly recommend this!


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[tommers]

Can you play on a Mac?


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Apparently yes Tabletop Simulator - Wikipedia

Whether that means you can play people on PC, I don't know.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Apparently yes Tabletop Simulator - Wikipedia

Whether that means you can play people on PC, I don't know.

Ok cool.


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[Kid_Eternity]

New edition to the collection arrived today!


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[BigTom]

New edition to the collection arrived today!


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I went to a local boardgame club last week for the first time and played this, am just about to order it, thought it was really good. I also played Dominion which I didn't particularly like - the deck building mechanic is ace but the theme was meh, so I might look for a different deck builder or just break out my old vampire and netrunner CCGs idk. Third game I played was Dvonn (I think), one of the GIPF abstract games. Played a couple of games, they weren't long, 20minutes or so but it needs more than that to work out if there's a deep strategy or if it's quite shallow.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Some recent purchases!

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[tommers]

Near & far came a couple of days ago. Unpacked it but not played yet

 

[BigTom]

went back to the boardgame club this week and played:
codenames - not bad, not the kind of game I generally like as I'm non-neurotypical I find social type games don't often work but as word association it seemed fine, I was teamed with someone I'd never met, but of a similar age, and we won 2 and lost 1. Straightforward shortish game with some real thinking to it, I can see why its rated.

Forbidden Island - boiled down pandemic co-op, dull.

I thought I played a third game but i can't remember what so maybe I didn't.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

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I have that. Quite enjoyed it. However it may have been eclipsed in my heart by the discworld game which is very simular but with discworld themeing

Discworld: Ankh-Morpork

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I have that. Quite enjoyed it. However it may have been eclipsed in my heart by the discworld game which is very simular but with discworld themeing

Discworld: Ankh-Morpork

Ah I've never been interested in the Discworld games, they've always looked too much license not enough game to me...


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[Kid_Eternity]

New games! I'm up to 53 now!

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[Kid_Eternity]

Another day another Kickstarter game arrives! This is basically Zelda the Boardgame!


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[Kid_Eternity]

What's this!? More board games you say?[emoji848][emoji6][emoji41]

Btw I can heartedly recommend Adrenaline and Ethnos! The former is a great FPS style shoot and run and the latter is a mix of Blood Rage and Ticket to Ride


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[tommers]

How big is your house exactly?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

And have you retired early?

 

[belboid]

Just played Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu

It's great. Obviously it's basically pandemic, but with enough changes to make it a properly different game - it's not just pandemic with lovecraft references.

Oh, apparently we cheated a bit

 

[8ball]

This evening I played "Chtulhu Wars" with some mates from work.

I can just about manage "Ticket to Ride", so the rules were a bit dizzying, but the quality of the game is amazing and it was lots of fun.

 

[tommers]

Gloomhaven has landed.

Only 4 months late. It's the biggest game I have ever seen.

 

[cybershot]

Been playing Star Saga for the first time today, pretty good. Look forward to doing all the missions.

 

[belboid]

So what did we get for Christmas then?

I have Pandemic: Rising Tide (stopping Holland getting flooded) & Istanbul. The latter looked a bit too confusing for the state I was in last night. Finally noticing there was a set of rules in English as well as the German ones helped a bit.

 

[Idaho]

One night ultimate werewolf
Jaipur
The chameleon

Not played that last one yet.