TheRPGSite

Other Games, Development, & Campaigns => Other Games => Topic started by: Voros on August 22, 2017, 01:47:33 AM

Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on August 22, 2017, 01:47:33 AM
Surprised there isn't already a thread for this. I reckon some will view the massive recent popularity of board games as some kind of negative and even evil drain on RPGs.

I think they actually are part of the small revival in D&D and RPGs that we are currently experiencing.

And because I don't care for endless semantic debates we're going to include card games here as well.

The wife and I have been playing Thunder and Lightning recently. It is a nicely designed two player card game that is easy to grasp but has some strategic depth so I suspect it will stand up well to repeated games. And the assets are damn pretty and good quality. Plus I dig the Norse theme.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1354[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1355[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1356[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1357[/ATTACH]
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on August 22, 2017, 04:16:52 AM
About my favorite is Tigris and Euphrates.  Its a cool 3 or 4 player tile laying game.  Its well designed.  You can win with or without starting direct conflict.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on August 22, 2017, 04:25:44 AM
I've heard good things about that game. Never been able to get into any tile laying games. Can't get into the theme of growing wheat. But I'm sure there are some good ones out there. Any with a more unusual theme than growing potatoes or what-have-you?
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on August 22, 2017, 05:56:34 AM
This one isn't growing wheat.  Its growing a civilization.  There are also coups and invasions.  

I also really have been liking Evolution.  Its an engine building card laying game.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on August 22, 2017, 06:27:50 AM
Cool, Reiner Knizia usually makes awesome games.

Is Evolution actually about evolution or is it a different game to this one? (https://www.northstargames.com/products/evolution)
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on August 22, 2017, 01:47:07 PM
Its the one you linked.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Dumarest on August 25, 2017, 04:11:11 PM
"The Lion Guard: Protect the Pride Lands" is popular at my house.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1373[/ATTACH]

My daughter goes for the "Hatchimals: The Eggventure Game."

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1374[/ATTACH]

And my son likes "Star Wars Clue."

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1375[/ATTACH]
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Dumarest on August 25, 2017, 04:16:34 PM
As for me, I'm trying to get someone willing to play "Louis XIV."

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1376[/ATTACH]

Or "The Castles of Burgundy."

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1377[/ATTACH]
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on August 25, 2017, 07:11:42 PM
Castles of burgundy is a big one in our circle.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Dumarest on August 25, 2017, 07:26:39 PM
I'm a bit of a sucker for Renaissance France-set games.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on August 25, 2017, 10:41:58 PM
Quote from: Headless;985989
Its the one you linked.

Looks fun. Like the art.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on August 25, 2017, 10:43:10 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;986638
As for me, I'm trying to get someone willing to play "Louis XIV."

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1376[/ATTACH]

Or "The Castles of Burgundy."

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1377[/ATTACH]

Which do you prefer? I also dig France as a setting.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Dumarest on August 27, 2017, 11:42:34 PM
Quote from: Voros;986706
Which do you prefer? I also dig France as a setting.

l can't answer as I haven't been able to play Louis XIV  yet.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on August 28, 2017, 08:14:12 AM
Carcassonne?  

I also quite like Caverna.  Its Agricola rebuilt as Dwarf Fortress.

Also 7 wonders.  Its a great game.  You get a hand of 7 cards play one and pass the others.  You do that through 3 ages alternating directions of passing.  It can play 3-7 players and is great with any number.  There are 7 different types of cards, which means several different paths to victory.  Best of all since everyone plays at the same time its a nice quick game with any number of players.  

The theam is the ancient world for those that are intetested in theme.  Its a great game and very well designed.  Anyone that wants to design games should try it, just to see what they have done.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: danskmacabre on August 28, 2017, 08:45:07 PM
I got the Arkham Horror Card Game (https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/arkham-horror-the-card-game/) a few months ago.
It's nice in that it supports single player as well as Multiplayer.
Basically a story based card game.   Good fun. :)
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on August 28, 2017, 11:45:12 PM
I've heard very good things about the Arkham Card Game but I'm not sure my wife will tolerate yet another Cthulhu themed game.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Ras Algethi on August 29, 2017, 10:23:01 PM
Playing the shit out of Zombicide Black Plague. It's great as the GF really enjoys playing it too.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on August 29, 2017, 11:38:34 PM
That looks great with cool minis but will take a while to save up for.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Thornhammer on August 29, 2017, 11:40:46 PM
Let's see...uh, three that are In Process.

Preparing to embark is Star Explorer.  It's Star Trek with the serial numbers filed off - fly a ship through space, explore four planets, get random missions you need to solve using the crew on your ship.  Wanted to do it slightly bigger than "paper map and chit" scale, so I bought a big damned space cloth with 2" hexes on it and will be using Star Trek Attack Wing ships and foam balls as planets.  Also have a bunch of colored pawns to represent the various landing teams (I'm making each "team" into one person and giving them all names).  I'm just about ready to go with this one.  

On approach vector alpha is This War of Mine.  Was iffy and on the fence, decided to take the plunge.  

On approach vector bravo is Tiny Epic Quest.  Was sort of ehhhhh until I saw the little greeblies that came with it.  "Shield.  Sword.  Bomb.  Boomerang.  Flute.  A fairy...holy shit, this is The Legend of Zelda..."  Plus, couldn't pass up a copy at twenty-five bucks.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Biscuitician on August 30, 2017, 05:06:34 AM
Board games have gotten too expensive
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Ras Algethi on August 30, 2017, 12:32:17 PM
Quote from: Voros;987823
That looks great with cool minis but will take a while to save up for.

I hear that. I unfortunately saw their kickstarter for Zombicide: Green Horde (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/zombicide-green-horde?ref=user_menu). So I spent more. ;p
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on August 31, 2017, 04:23:32 AM
Quote from: Biscuitician;987881
Board games have gotten too expensive

They are dirt cheek if you actually play them.  Average 60 bucks a game just use a round number.  4 peope per game, game lasts an hour.  $15 for the first hour.  Play it twice, $7.50.  Play a 3rd time $5 an hour.  Decide you don't like it.  Sell it second hand for 20 bones.  Or go to a math trade and get a new game for free.

Good games are cheeper then books.  And books are cheep.
http://orwell.ru/library/articles/cigar/english/e_cigar
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Spinachcat on September 01, 2017, 03:25:01 AM
Most of my boardgame play has been prototypes, as my boardgame meetup is for designers.

Rise of Tribes has been my favorite so far.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1497[/ATTACH]

Here's the KS campaign.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/admagic/rise-of-tribes


Quote from: Biscuitician;987881
Board games have gotten too expensive

The Kickstarters are getting crazy. I've been dropping $100 to $150 on boardgames based on my assumption/hope I will get enough play out of them over time to justify the ROI.
But its all about the gazillion minis.

Fortunately, there is a number of excellent card games in the $20 range.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Dumarest on September 01, 2017, 12:12:43 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;988365
Rise of Tribes has been my favorite so far.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]1497[/ATTACH]

That looks cool. I don't have money to Kickstart anyone's project but I'd be interested if it's ever for sale.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Darrin Kelley on September 01, 2017, 05:29:56 PM
I bought a copy of V Wars: Blood and Fire. I got it for a huge discount.

The box was damaged when I got it. But none of the contents were.

It is by one of the newer designers of Risk. But it has an interesting twist to it. Units can switch sides at a moment's notice. So you have to be very careful as you gain territory.

The main driver behind V Wars is a an airborne virus that changes people into vampires. And the goal is to get a worldwide win condition with either side. Depending on how much territory is controlled.

I thought it sounded like a blast for a game to play at a convention.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Ulairi on September 05, 2017, 11:31:56 AM
I picked up my old copies of Hero's Quest and Dragon Strike from my folks house a few weeks ago. My gaming group is going to do a few board game sessions until we get DFRPG delivered and run through those two.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Ras Algethi on September 05, 2017, 11:43:08 PM
Just picked up Terraforming Mars. Played one at the local game shop.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on September 07, 2017, 01:41:29 PM
How was it?  A few of my friends played at a game cafe an hour away.  They liked it.  We don't have time to play the games we already have.  (Selveral hundred over multiple peoples collections)  So I am gerenally opposed to new games.  But they liked it and half my players no it now, so there is a decent chance someone will get it.  (I seem to be the only one opposed to new games on primciple)

What did you think?
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Ras Algethi on September 07, 2017, 03:06:04 PM
Quote from: Headless;990020
How was it?  A few of my friends played at a game cafe an hour away.  They liked it.  We don't have time to play the games we already have.  (Selveral hundred over multiple peoples collections)  So I am gerenally opposed to new games.  But they liked it and half my players no it now, so there is a decent chance someone will get it.  (I seem to be the only one opposed to new games on primciple)

What did you think?

I enjoyed it. Building strategy with some backstabbing.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Dumarest on September 07, 2017, 11:38:35 PM
Speaking of boardgames, does anyone know any good ones for the Thirty Years' War or other Renaissance-period stuff, particularly France during the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV?
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: nightlamp on September 09, 2017, 12:12:49 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;990294
Speaking of boardgames, does anyone know any good ones for the Thirty Years' War or other Renaissance-period stuff, particularly France during the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV?

It's a little before the TYW period, but how about Virgin Queen (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41066/virgin-queen)?
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: nightlamp on September 09, 2017, 12:15:29 PM
I recently picked up the Escape from Colditz: 75th Anniversary Edition (https://www.amazon.com/Osprey-OSP8935-Escape-Colditz-Anniversary/dp/1472818938) but haven't had a chance to play it yet.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Dumarest on September 09, 2017, 12:51:06 PM
Quote from: nightlamp;990901
It's a little before the TYW period, but how about Virgin Queen (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41066/virgin-queen)?

Looks cool, thanks.

Hmm...420 minutes to play? :eek:

Might have to check it out and see if that's really how long it takes.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Dumarest on September 10, 2017, 09:59:27 PM
Has anyone played Conquest of Paradise, wherein each player controls a Polynesian tribe colonizing islands in the South Seas?
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Biscuitician on September 14, 2017, 03:04:58 AM
Warhammer Quest, FFG's late-timetable WFRP board/card game is really good.

The rules however are piss poorly written.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on September 16, 2017, 09:21:10 AM
Hanabi.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]1627[/ATTACH]

Its a great game.  Very simple.  Short.  Easy to learn.  Very well designed.  

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98778/hanabi

It's a co-operative game which normally I don't like.  I find most of them end up with one person playing and everyone else just moving their pieces.  I also find most of them take the form of; go somewhere, do something.  Which I find dull.  

Hanabi is a card game.  Everyone holds their cards facing away from them.  On your turn you either play a card, discard, or give a clue.  If you play a card out of order you get closer to blowing up.  If you discard a card you need you can't get beyondvthat point.  

The only clues you can give are number or color.  If you tell someone that "this card is blue" for example you have to point at every blue card.  Same for number.  

I think it has a lot to teach about information theory.  The only thing you can tell someone is "play or discard" but you have to use information about number and color to tell them that.  I mean you can try to tell people other things but it just won't get through.  Your servery limited vocabulary means, the meaning of the words you use flips.  Sometimes telling some one, " this is a 1" means play it, sometimes it means discard it.  They have to know which it is, and you have to know that they know.  

Information decays.  You could have told me "this is a 1" three turns ago, but do I remember?  

Any way.  Fun quick simple and small game.  Every collection should have it.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on September 16, 2017, 06:33:54 PM
See Hanabi in every decently stocked boardgame store. Thanks for the recommendation. There is a Geisha themed card game that looks awesome I saw on Dice Tower a while ago hopefully I can scoop it before it goes totally out of print as the theme is very niche.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on September 16, 2017, 06:39:59 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;990294
Speaking of boardgames, does anyone know any good ones for the Thirty Years' War or other Renaissance-period stuff, particularly France during the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV?

Know you're a big Dumas fan so this game should be right up your alley. (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/78954/mousquetaires-du-roy) Looks to still be available on Amazon for a semi-reasonable pirce too.

And Royal Palace (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38992/royal-palace) is exactly about playing in the court of Louis XV (close enough?).
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Dumarest on September 16, 2017, 10:37:30 PM
Quote from: Voros;992985
Know you're a big Dumas fan so this game should be right up your alley. (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/78954/mousquetaires-du-roy) Looks to still be available on Amazon for a semi-reasonable pirce too.

And Royal Palace (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38992/royal-palace) is exactly about playing in the court of Louis XV (close enough?).

Ooh, wow, never heard of those. I want! I want! That musketeer one I'd fight up my alley! And the Royal Palace one looks pretty neat, too. I'll have to look that up to get some reviews and an idea of what it plays like. I thank you but my budget does not! :p
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on September 17, 2017, 09:05:32 AM
On the palace intrigue front love letter is a nice quick game.  Your are trying to smuggle a love letter to the princess.  If you do she will speak well of you at breakfast.

Coup is a great game.  Its like love letter squared.  I'm really impressed they managed to pack so much game play; strategy, bluffing, deduction, resource management.  Into such a short little game.  

You can fit coup, love letter and hanabi into a sandwhich sized tupperware.   And everyone should.

Coup
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Ras Algethi on September 17, 2017, 09:11:43 AM
Quote from: Headless;993165
On the palace intrigue front love letter is a nice quick game.  Your are trying to smuggle a love letter to the princess.  If you do she will speak well of you at breakfast.

Coup is a great game.  Its like love letter squared.  I'm really impressed they managed to pack so much game play; strategy, bluffing, deduction, resource management.  Into such a short little game.  

You can fit coup, love letter and hanabi into a sandwhich sized tupperware.   And everyone should.

Coup

Those are both good games. I don't have the actual Love Letter game but instead have the Archer version (same game-play).
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: danskmacabre on September 21, 2017, 09:48:03 PM
Quote from: Voros;987486
I've heard very good things about the Arkham Card Game but I'm not sure my wife will tolerate yet another Cthulhu themed game.


It IS kind of expensive really, given the replayability isn't THAT great. But then the expansions scenarios are pretty cheap I suppose.
If you DO want to play with 2-4 people, then you need to buy ANOTHER core game set to ensure ALL the various cards are available to people so they can play different characters.

So yeah, it's a bit of a luxury purchase really.
I also got a divider plastic box thing to keep the cards sorted and separated properly and plastic ziplock bags for the various counters etc, it speeds up setting up by a LOT if you do this.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on September 22, 2017, 12:56:02 PM
Have I mentioned Caverna yet?  We played last night.  Its essentially dwarf fortress the board game.  Which I think is rediculas and awesome.  Its by the guy who did Agricola, so you you could call it Agricola 2 with dwarfs.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on September 22, 2017, 11:25:14 PM
Can you buy it in stores? I tried to find it but it seemed to be KS only.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on September 25, 2017, 11:36:56 AM
Yes.  Its been in stores for a while.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Ras Algethi on September 25, 2017, 11:52:46 AM
Quote from: Voros;995032
Can you buy it in stores? I tried to find it but it seemed to be KS only.

I'd suggest Google's shopping feature (https://www.google.com/search?q=Caverna&source=lnms&tbm=shop&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo0L_H2MDWAhVF5SYKHc78Dw0Q_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=949#spd=15548588745745692293) but we know how you hate Google links. :cool:
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on September 27, 2017, 02:33:10 AM
Last I looked it wasn't available. Thanks.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Biscuitician on September 27, 2017, 02:55:23 AM
Quote from: danskmacabre;994732
It IS kind of expensive really, given the replayability isn't THAT great. But then the expansions scenarios are pretty cheap I suppose.
If you DO want to play with 2-4 people, then you need to buy ANOTHER core game set to ensure ALL the various cards are available to people so they can play different characters.

So yeah, it's a bit of a luxury purchase really.
I also got a divider plastic box thing to keep the cards sorted and separated properly and plastic ziplock bags for the various counters etc, it speeds up setting up by a LOT if you do this.

Not much replayability? Why so?
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Graewulf on October 04, 2017, 03:21:05 PM
I've been into board games quite a bit over the years, but these are a couple of my favorites and they can be played solo, if needs be, but not as fun of course.

Roll Player. A game about rolling up a fantasy RPG character. You pick a race, get a class, background, and alignment card, then roll dice and place them in your attributes (which give actions to change dice around). You buy gear, skills and traits from a market, and try to make the best character you can. Lots of fun and has a 'puzzley' feel to it. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/169426/roll-player

Runebound 3rd edition. This is the closest thing I've found to an RPG, in a board game. You pick a scenario for the overall game (plot things, side quests, and bad guy). Pick and adventurer and go off all around the board/map, fighting monsters, completing quests and/or social encounters to gain gear and powers. Strengthen yourself up enough and you may be tough enough to engage and take down the bad guy. It's not a cooperative game (though that would be great) and there is a time limit. Combat is done with tokens/pogs. I wasn't sure if I'd like that, but I do and I think it works well. It makes combat a little more interactive than just rolling dice. It will take probably 3-4+ hours to play, but it's worth it. It's also rather difficult, I've found. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/181530/runebound-third-edition
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: danskmacabre on October 05, 2017, 09:04:48 PM
Quote from: Biscuitician;996178
Not much replayability? Why so?

Well, the way I see it is:
The main boxed set is a fixed story you follow.
Sure, there's lots of cards and different encounters can happen along the way, but it's essentially the same storyline.
So in order to keep playing the game and keep it fresh, you need to buy expansions, whether it's a full boxed set expansion such as the "Dunwich Horror" or minor (and cheaper) expansions that are smaller storylines.

I did actually replay the boxed set a few times, but the enjoyment of it went down pretty fast for me.
On top of that, if you want to play with someone else (it supports up  to 4 players) , you need to buy an ADDITIONAL main boxed game, due to the way the decks are configured.
That's a BIG investment for something that doesn't even add more storyline.

Upon reflection, I don't think it's really worth it.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Herne's Son on November 28, 2017, 08:29:08 PM
I just picked up the full-range of "Run, Fight, or Die!" and it looks like a blast.

Sadly, it seems to be arriving in least-useful to most-useful boxes. The big Mutant token figure and the Zombie Horde Expansion boxes showed up today. Still waiting on the core set and other stuff... Read the core rules as a PDF though, and it looks like its going to be a ton of fun.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on November 30, 2017, 02:20:34 AM
Picked up the Dreamwell card game for half off and Unearth, both on a Black Friday sale.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: spon on December 07, 2017, 03:33:32 PM
I've been playing a lot of Terraforming Mars - I love it. Just enough interaction to allow you to affect others, but most turns it's best to just carry on with your own plans. And replay value is so far fantastic - I've not seen a "perfect" strategy yet.

I love SW:Rebellion - although I'm no good at it! But it really does feel like you're playing the films (or a reasonable facsimile of them). And turning Chewie (or Leia!) to the dark side is always fun :-)

Eclipse is a terrific game too - great for multiplayer shenanigans, and the individual rules fit together so well. The rules encourage a bit of fighting early on - but not too much (diminishing returns kick in), and you are usually better off improving your tech or building monoliths than trying to conquer another player's territory. You'll leave yourself weak and out of position for a counter-stroke by a third player. I'm really looking forward to the 2nd edition - even if it doesn't really need one.

I do play non-sci-fi games too, but I seem to have been concentrating on these 3 recently
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Voros on December 09, 2017, 02:03:57 PM
Sound cool spon. Heard a lot about Terraforming Mars but SW: Rebellion appeals more to me and I'm not even that much of a SW fan!
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Spinachcat on December 14, 2017, 08:39:37 PM
ESCHATON
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/206299/eschaton

You play a demon worshiping death cult bringing forth the Apocalypse!
But the Demon Lord will only save his most successful cult, everyone else perishes in flames.
The rules are a combo of Dominion (deck builder) and Risk (war for territory).
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Omega on December 26, 2017, 09:07:53 AM
Police Precinct as it was inexplicably on sale for just 20$ on amazon for no known reason. Even the designer was mystified as its a 70$ game.

Playtesting a few games for contests and picked up the PNP version of Unbroken, a sort of fantasy exploration/survival board game, as the publisher released a full PNP version as it nears its release date. Also released a Tabletop Simulator mod. Also nabbed the PNP redesign of the old magazine train game 1800 that the designer released. Also playtesting a new RPG that uses elements of Dungeon World and Mythic called Ironsworn. Its set up for traditional GMed play, small group GM-less play or even solo play and comes with a simple oracle system to emulate a GM.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Wooster on December 29, 2017, 07:06:50 PM
I've been playing a lot of Scythe, Pandemic, 7 Wonders: Duel and Jaipur.

I enjoy 7 Wonders so much I've gotten two couples this game as Christmas presents :)
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on December 30, 2017, 10:48:10 AM
7 wonders is a very well desgined game.  Its one of the only games I know that is even playable with 5 or more players and it handles 7 no problem.  

Playing sythe the for the first time today. Looking forward too it.  

Played terraforming Mars, I like it.  

I really like evolution.  

As always Tirgirs and Euphrates is a great game.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Wooster on December 30, 2017, 11:24:57 AM
You've played with five to seven people? For six people, were there just two teams of three? And each team make a decision on moving their civilization forward?

Enjoy Scythe! Are you starting it blind, or do you have some previous knowledge?
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Headless on December 31, 2017, 04:56:26 PM
7 wonders was a 3 - 7 player game before they made 7 Wonders duel.  It plays different but similar.

Never played sythe before.  The guy who taught me is a huge fan.  He went to a con in Ohio (?) and played secret Hitler with the creator.  

There were 3 of us, we played three games.  It was quit good.  I really like how quick and simple the turns are.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Ras Algethi on February 17, 2018, 02:47:52 PM
[ATTACH=CONFIG]2238[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]2239[/ATTACH]
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: 3rik on February 17, 2018, 04:54:55 PM
Oo what game is that?


We received a number of boardgames through Kickstarter during the past few months:

And I picked up The Lost Expedition and Massive Darkness.

I funded the 2nd printing of Folklore: The Affliction on Kickstarter.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Ras Algethi on February 17, 2018, 11:23:33 PM
ZOMBICIDE Black Plague!
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: danskmacabre on February 18, 2018, 07:46:49 PM
Currently into :
Legendary: Big trouble in little China boardgame (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200171/legendary-big-trouble-little-china)

Played it a few times now.
I want to play it at least one more time against Ching Li and then after that mix it up with other Legendary games for some mixed themes.
Maybe the Alien Legendary game.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: JongWK on March 03, 2018, 12:48:58 PM
Kanagawa (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200147/kanagawa) is great mix of interesting rules, quick play and stylish design.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]2263[/ATTACH]
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: 3rik on March 03, 2018, 06:01:57 PM
Quote from: Ras Algethi;1025938
ZOMBICIDE Black Plague!

Looks neat. I read Massive Darkness has a very similar set of rules, only slightly streamlined.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: spon on July 21, 2018, 02:32:46 PM
Necro!

Just "invested" in 3 new games for my Birthday:
Lords of Hellas (Looks gorgeous and I've heard good things about this one)
Big Trouble in Little China (One of my favourite films, figures are gorgeous although it is a co-operative game)
Cry Havoc (Picked it up a while ago but never actually played it - hopefully going to give it a few plays soon)

Hoping that they don't all suck! I'll let you know how they play.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Kiero on August 28, 2018, 08:38:34 PM
Trying to get a copy of Talisman 3rd edition. I had that as a kid and it was awesome, 4th edition (FFG) is crap by comparison.

They go for ridiculous prices on ebay, I just want something I can play with my kids, I don't want to collect the damned thing!
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Kiero on September 17, 2018, 06:28:24 PM
Talking of ridiculous prices in eBay, what are people smoking? Why do they think I'd pay many times the original price for something pre-owned? Some guy wants £85 for an expansion that was £25 back in the day. Seems to think £80 is a reasonable discount on that asking price.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Graewulf on September 18, 2018, 03:09:54 PM
Quote from: Kiero;1056538
Talking of ridiculous prices in eBay, what are people smoking? Why do they think I'd pay many times the original price for something pre-owned? Some guy wants £85 for an expansion that was £25 back in the day. Seems to think £80 is a reasonable discount on that asking price.

If something is out of print, prices will always be higher, and in some cases much higher, depending on how good the game/expansion was and/or how rare it was. It's just the way it goes.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Omega on October 02, 2018, 07:28:57 AM
Quote from: Graewulf;1056669
If something is out of print, prices will always be higher, and in some cases much higher, depending on how good the game/expansion was and/or how rare it was. It's just the way it goes.

Actually theres no correlation usualy. People just assume that "discontinued = jack up the ebay price x10!"

We've seen people put up games still in stores for 10 to 20 times the sale price.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Omega on October 02, 2018, 07:30:51 AM
Just recently picked up 2nd ed Betrayal at House on the Hill. And one of my players really liked the retheme version, Betrayal at Baldurs Gate. So I may pick that up too.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: danskmacabre on October 03, 2018, 06:12:36 PM
I got the Dragonfire  (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/226501/dragonfire) boardgame recently.
I was thinking about getting it for a while.  It was on sale, so I weakened and got it.

It's a DnD 5e style boardgamegame/Card game.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: oggsmash on October 08, 2018, 02:41:37 PM
Quote from: 3rik;1027809
Looks neat. I read Massive Darkness has a very similar set of rules, only slightly streamlined.


  Massive darkness is closer to Descent, at least with combat resolution, but a bit more streamlined.  I have both games, and I like both.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Omega on October 13, 2018, 03:30:08 PM
Just picked up Betrayal at Baldurs Gate and the Tomb of Annihilation module from the local FLGS and both look great. If can find it may nab the ToA board game too.

Saw the 2nd ed Mansions of Madness board game there. 100$ for a board game that can not be played without an APP? Fuck no!
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Motorskills on October 13, 2018, 08:00:28 PM
My Endeavor 2nd edition Kickstarter just arrived, impressively weighty.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: 3rik on October 14, 2018, 02:38:32 PM
All the Kickstarter stuff for Folklore: The Affliction arrived a few weeks ago in a huge box. Looks fun.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Omega on October 21, 2018, 05:13:37 AM
Nabbed Dunwich Horror and King in Yellow expansions for Arkham Horror. Both out of print now as FFG prepares to screw up royally with its new 3rd ed AH game.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: 3rik on October 21, 2018, 05:05:50 PM
Quote from: Omega;1061240
Nabbed Dunwich Horror and King in Yellow expansions for Arkham Horror. Both out of print now as FFG prepares to screw up royally with its new 3rd ed AH game.

Yeah I saw that. Jesus Christ.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Omega on October 29, 2018, 09:47:47 AM
Not as badly as the new Monsterpocalypse though as its hit the shelves. We knew this was not going to go well then they announced it was changing to a "hobby game"... ugh... 50$ for 1 monster, 5 units, a paper map and some cardstock buildings? Actual buildings costing 15-25 each? Monsters averaging 25 each?  And thats per player. And you have to assemble and paint the minis now.

Doing the math. To get the equivalent of a two player starter from the original youd have to drop around 400$, compared to the 50$ the original cost which included assembled and painted minis, buildings, and so on.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Omega on November 12, 2018, 07:35:36 PM
Oh this is hilarious.

Hasbro's new Monopoly is out.

Monopoly for Millenials. Which takes a-lot of jabs at millenials. According to one source thats because they arent buying games. So someone at Hasbro apparently decided "Who cares what they think!" Pretty funny if its true.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Spinachcat on November 13, 2018, 03:31:15 AM
My RISE OF TRIBES arrived from Kicstarter a bit ago, finally broke it out. Mucho funno!
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/202583/rise-tribes

Quote from: danskmacabre;1026037
Currently into :
Legendary: Big trouble in little China boardgame (https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/200171/legendary-big-trouble-little-china)

Is it true you can play as the Pork Chop Express?
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: danskmacabre on November 14, 2018, 05:57:15 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1064330
My RISE OF TRIBES arrived from Kicstarter a bit ago, finally broke it out. Mucho funno!
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/202583/rise-tribes


Is it true you can play as the Pork Chop Express?

Yep, that's on of the playables when you build decks.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: danskmacabre on November 14, 2018, 06:44:16 PM
I've bought a few boardgames over the last few months.

Star Realms, a Deck builing game in a Scifi setting.
https://www.starrealms.com/
Multiplayer competitive only. The rules are pretty simple and a game lasts about 30 minutes. so a good game to break the ice.

Hero Realms.  Made by the same people who made Star realms.
https://www.herorealms.com/
Same sort of mechanics with a Fantasy theme.
There's add on boxes to introduce Solo and cooporative play on top of the core Competitive Multiplayer.

DragonFire
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/226501/dragonfire
Another card based game with a Fantasy setting and you run a character where its progression is saved in between sessions as you play via adding stickers and stuff that add abilities as you level up.
Actually quite fun... Sort of a Card based boardgame with RPG elements.

Middle Earth the Wizards.
This is a REALLY old card game based in Middle Earth and you explore areas going on adventures.
It's a competitve game I believe.
It was made by I.C.E. (Iron Crown enterprises) many years ago and I used to play it wayback, but lost the cards in one of my moves.
It's out of print now, but you can pick up cards online and it;s not that expensive.
I got an entire box of several 100 cards to play with on Ebay.
I haven't had a chance to download the rules and play the game yet, but I have some great memories of this game from years ago.


So far Dragonfire, Star Realms and Hero Realms have been a hit at boardgames meet ups I goto. I always seem to be able to get people to play those.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Stegosaurus on March 16, 2019, 03:26:32 PM
Quote from: Biscuitician;987881
Board games have gotten too expensive


I agree. I've noticed that even the classic board games are expensive. The cheaper versions of classic board games are usually poorly made or have cardboard instead of miniatures to save on production. I'm going to buy Dungeon! next month because it's cheap and it's been on my bucket list for a couple of years now. I was disappointed to see that instead of WotC upgrading the pieces to miniatures, the characters are all cardboard tokens. That said, it's cheap and the board itself looks great.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Darrin Kelley on March 23, 2019, 03:55:15 PM
Coming in my next order from my online comic book store is: Red Sonja Hyrkanias Legacy Board Game.

I ordered it just over a year ago. And it is finally arriving within the next couple of weeks.

From what I gather. It was a Kickstarter project. But I never heard of the Kickstarter until the game itself was advertised in Diamond's Previews. But I'm a fan of the character. And the game sounded fun. So I sent for it.

So once I have it in hand. I will come back and tell you all what I think of it.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Darrin Kelley on April 18, 2019, 09:10:38 PM
Red Sonja Hyrkania's Legacy showed up. And it was everything I hoped it would be. Just a good quality game that delivered on the promises made by the company who made it,

All of the pieces are cardboard. But that's not a negative to me. The game is fully functional. Which is the important thing to me.

For a kickstarter originated game. This is really the sort of product I wanted to see. One handled with total professionalism.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: 3rik on April 19, 2019, 05:04:04 PM
The core game + KS stretch goals for Hellboy: The Board Game arrived last week.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: GameDaddy on July 24, 2019, 07:19:10 PM
Fallout is my newest buy. For the 25mm Minis! Plus Modiphus has built a clunky RPG on top of the boardgame rules. I have this homebrewed d10/precentiles RPG rules set from the Internet that looks to be simply splendid.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Spinachcat on July 24, 2019, 11:23:30 PM
Finally got to play FANTASY REALMS and its now in our regular rotation.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/223040/fantasy-realms

It's a card game where you try to score points using card combos. Even though there is a limited number of cards, the potential for innumerable combos is notable so no two games feel the same. As your starting 7 cards is random and the game only lasts 20 minutes, you have to build your strategy off your starting cards, not some predetermined "best combo" strategy.

I highly recommend it if you're looking for a fast group game, aka the kind of game you play waiting for THAT DUDE who is always late to your regular RPG session. It also has a scoring app so you can skip the mind-boggling trauma of adding up numbers!
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: kennystone on June 17, 2020, 04:04:18 AM
Thank you for the theme! During the quarantine, board games became very relevant...
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: hedgehobbit on June 25, 2020, 07:59:55 PM
Quote from: GameDaddy;1096874
Fallout is my newest buy. For the 25mm Minis! Plus Modiphus has built a clunky RPG on top of the boardgame rules. I have this homebrewed d10/precentiles RPG rules set from the Internet that looks to be simply splendid.
I looked this over but the minis are huge. 35mm maybe. It won't work with any of my existing post-apoc terrain. I just don't have the space for yet another scale of terrain to store.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: kennystone on June 29, 2020, 03:50:46 AM
Depending on how popular Monopoly is, it seems to me that many generations will be happy to play it. And what's interesting is that no mobile version can replace the desktop version...
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: oggsmash on June 30, 2020, 06:32:11 PM
Quote from: hedgehobbit;1136343
I looked this over but the minis are huge. 35mm maybe. It won't work with any of my existing post-apoc terrain. I just don't have the space for yet another scale of terrain to store.

  I think they are 32mm when I checked my minis from the set that are human sized.  But I could be wrong.  32mm is a good deal bigger than 25mm, but I am more used to the "heroic scale" 25mm and they are not too far off 32 mm.
Title: Boardgames - What Did You Buy and/or What are You Playing?
Post by: Darrin Kelley on July 04, 2020, 01:48:40 PM
Red Sonja Hyrkania's Legacy Deluxe Expansion Set.

The company that put this out released this. Which came with all of the extra Kickstarter exclusives as an expansion set. So anyone buying this doesn't miss out on any aspect of the game.

The set includes extra game board pieces, two more game scenarios, an expansion of the decks of cards, tokens for a new creature type menace the players, two more villain tokens, two new scenarios. And a whopping 14 new characters for players to choose from to play. Which includes the character tokens too, Which brings the total characters to choose from up to 20.

This is a beast of an expansion. Definitely much more than I was expecting out of it.

Each character has a different ability that reflects on play. So each character approaches the game differently. Which makes the game different, depending on what characters are chosen by the players, and what of the available scenarios are chosen to play.

Do I feel I got my money's worth with this game and expansion? Yes. Absolutely.