Game night check in. Short night, Startups and the Rotten Tomatoes Card Game were the only new to me games. Startups was a fucking delight and is maybe one of the only times I've seen a game play significantly under the playtime on the box. Our games ended within 10 minutes at 5 players, awesome looking game. RT Card Game was fine? Not a lot to it, but I like trying to flex my inane movie knowledge. Coup and Splendor are still reliable as ever.
Just managed to get a copy of World Wonders, hopefully it lives up to the hype I've given it in my head.
Got so annoyed yesterday when GameNerdz actually had something on my wishlist as their Deal of the Day (Small World of Warcraft), I always try to check their store when it gets posted at 12 but I didn't check until it was 12:13 and it was already sold out. Cool place to get boardgames though
for those interested in Wyrmspan (like me), here's a video from Jamey Stegmaier himself talking about the comparisons between this and the original:
gonna meet up for a game of Root tonight. For as much as I love the game, I pretty much never get it to the table. Asymmetrical wargames are time consuming, and I still only know how to play less than half of the factions, even though I've owned the base game and two expansions for over 3 years lol
Took some pics of the collection after I finally cleared off shelf space. The only games completely obscured from what I can't tell are two Cartographers games and That's So Clever/Clever 4 Ever. https://photos.app.goo.gl/i4MveBVjY6uKChTB8
I’ve never played but always heard good things! I was watching a video of just setup which was like 30 minutes ace holy shit are there a ton of pieces and rules
I haven't played in quite awhile but trying to teach a group of 7 players, 6 of which were new to the game, Scythe is probably my biggest boardgame horror story. A headache inducing near 3 hours of telling each player what they could do on each turn. This probably could have been mitigated by me being a better teacher but I've always sucked ass at teaching games
Honestly most of my stuff still in shrink has probably not been played in general. I think Tyrants of The Underdark (straight banger), Lost Ruins of Arnak (Loved my one play on BGA) and Fallout (probably one of the most disappointing games I've played though I heard the co-op expansion makes it better). I have played the first, like, two missions of Pandemic Legacy Season 1 when it first came out with a splinter group from my old boardgame group but the vibes were off so I'm eager to give it a shot again. Everdell is a game I backed on KS but then moved a few months after acquiring it so I didn't have anyone to play it with until recently after getting back into the hobby. Main goal is to get at least half of these unopened games to the table this year.
I started hosting a biweekly game night with my coworkers in Sundays last summer, but since they are all newer players I usually keep the games pretty light. I've also started to go weekly to a boardgame bar with a friend or two on Saturdays and that's been a nice atmosphere, I usually try to buy a game or two just to support them, which is easier than the other local stores I've frequented before because the prices are actually competitive with what I can buy online.
I’m hoping to meet up with a group on Monday for some games. I feel like I haven’t played much in a week or two.
Only had time to fit in a game of Dominion and Lost Ruins of Arnak; Arnak only took 75 minutes with a group of 3 which was a nice surprise. Picked up the Stonemaier version of Libertalia to support the Boardgame bar as well.
Oh hey, this thread exists I have Recently ordered Lucidity and Tokaido on Mercari but they haven't been shipped yet
Tokaido is a lovely little game, I should pick up a copy some time, I've only ever played it digitally.