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fart simpson posted:im paying settlers of catan next week with some friends for the first time in ten years i dropped that one like a fat beat at a warehouse rave years ago, but the best advice i can give you on that one: get everyone to agree to a time limit on the trade phase before you begin. nothing kills that game faster than some sad sack going around and around the table for ten minutes every turn because they have five wood but really need a sheep.
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i want to play agricola but it's too intimidating for new players
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Chris Knight posted:I almost bought an expensive board game because I played it once a couple years ago and never got too in depth with it and it seemed like fun, then remembered a) COVID, and b) I probably don't have enough friends nearby to play it properly which game
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Jan 15, 2021 02:49
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my commander (magic cards) playgroup has been getting it done over webcam for awhile now. we're all parents so we don't play until after kiddos' bedtimes and schedule like two weeks in advance lol there's a site that we use which tracks everything and can even id cards on camera and stuff, it's super useful. so good in fact that the startup who was developing it got bought out by wizards of the coast
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Jan 15, 2021 02:53
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:my commander (magic cards) playgroup has been getting it done over webcam for awhile now. we're all parents so we don't play until after kiddos' bedtimes and schedule like two weeks in advance lol lmao if your children stay asleep. smdh.
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Jan 15, 2021 02:55
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oh yeah the one that just had her first bday has been reliably waking up around 1:30-2am lately, we've gotta sleep train her all over again not my problem tho because i cannot lactate
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Jan 15, 2021 02:58
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our littlest turned into a biter around his first birthday so night nursing is a no go. bummer too.
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Jan 15, 2021 03:05
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:i want to play agricola but it's too intimidating for new players I actually just bought the 2-player version on a whim for me and my wife. The instructions made it seem not too hateful, is it worse than I'm thinking?
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Jan 15, 2021 03:12
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Midjack posted:i dropped that one like a fat beat at a warehouse rave years ago, but the best advice i can give you on that one: get everyone to agree to a time limit on the trade phase before you begin. nothing kills that game faster than some sad sack going around and around the table for ten minutes every turn because they have five wood but really need a sheep. what if i want to be the sad sack
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Jan 15, 2021 03:14
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i played carcassone with the same group of people a month ago and it was fun
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Jan 15, 2021 03:15
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fart simpson posted:what if i want to be the sad sack more like ball sack
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Jan 15, 2021 03:22
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shoeberto posted:I actually just bought the 2-player version on a whim for me and my wife. The instructions made it seem not too hateful, is it worse than I'm thinking? just hit youtube and let some overly enthusiastic beardo teach you the game
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Jan 15, 2021 03:31
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shoeberto posted:I actually just bought the 2-player version on a whim for me and my wife. The instructions made it seem not too hateful, is it worse than I'm thinking? regular agricola is fine if yall like that kind of game. all creatures great and small isn't gonna. overwhelm anybody
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Jan 15, 2021 03:38
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echinopsis posted:I was under the impression that a lot of degrees like law or medicine or even american pharmacy are postgrad degrees only .. Yes, in the US generally all those things are now graduate professional programs They used to have undergraduate pharmacists but now that’s pretty much similar to becoming a physician, much to the chagrin of some physicians who love to lord over pharmacists I think there are some states that will let anyone sit the bar though? JD or no, but I might be wrong on that
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Jan 15, 2021 03:50
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fart simpson posted:what if i want to be the sad sack you would be a terrible person in that case but if that’s how your group works then knock yourself out i guess. Chris Knight posted:scythe. turns out there's a computer version on steam! neat game. shame about 100% of the art being plagiarized.
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Jan 15, 2021 04:05
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It was really funny seeing the cards and then going "hey isn't that dude the antagonist/frenemy from the Captain America movies?"
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Jan 15, 2021 04:33
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anyone played the steam version? i've been pretty interested ever since i saw it while christmas shopping for my brother a couple of years ago
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Jan 15, 2021 04:37
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Chris Knight posted:scythe. turns out there's a computer version on steam! my friend bought that one, i remember it being super expensive and not that deep in reality
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Jan 15, 2021 08:20
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I just learned the local pub has a cursed TV set in the basement. The owner has given it to two punters and they've both died. He wouldn't give it to me.
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Jan 15, 2021 10:16
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agricola isn’t like insanely complicated a game, it’s just that it can be hard to sell it to new players like “hey ive got this cool game to play, we’re all going to be a subsistence farmer in 19th century germany”
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Jan 15, 2021 11:40
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i used to play diplomacy and squad leader with my board game friends back in college. wish i had people to play with again but those need a pretty special group of people imo
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Jan 15, 2021 12:27
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fart simpson posted:i used to play diplomacy and squad leader with my board game friends back in college. wish i had people to play with again but those need a pretty special group of people imo One of my wife's grad school friends did a Diplomacy party, including requiring costumes, and it was amazing. I sucked at it though and was taken out first. Still had a lot of fun. jesus WEP posted:agricola isn’t like insanely complicated a game, it’s just that it can be hard to sell it to new players like “hey ive got this cool game to play, we’re all going to be a subsistence farmer in 19th century germany” tbh I plan to just give my wife a summary of "Stardew Valley but a board game"
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jesus WEP posted:agricola isn’t like insanely complicated a game, it’s just that it can be hard to sell it to new players like “hey ive got this cool game to play, we’re all going to be a subsistence farmer in 19th century germany” what do you mean that sounds fun as hell. i got the intro version of gloom haven a while back but my wife and i have not yet played it. eventually we’ll get in-lazy im sure.
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Jan 15, 2021 15:56
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gloomhaven: jaws of the lion is cool and regular gloomhaven would be vastly improved by just being a book of maps instead of tiles. we've been playing wingspan which is pretty easy to learn and really well-produced, though maybe lacking in depth and player interaction. i picked up root on ios and that seems cool
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Jan 15, 2021 16:25
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based on glowing reviews i picked up the new dune:imperium game last week and am currently working my way through the rulebook curious to see how it compares to the great 1970s dune boardgame
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Jan 15, 2021 16:37
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yeah i want to get jaws of the lion but its not in stock anywhere in the uk or ireland as far as i can see
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Jan 15, 2021 16:51
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Our European History teacher in high school loved Diplomacy, had the whole class play a huge game and it actually counted a bit towards your grade. Fuckin' trounced everybody, betraying one gullible close friend after another 
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i went into my cubicle for the first time since March because my power went out at home. it was loving weird i ate like 5 bags of chips from the vending machine then went home after 2 hours
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Jan 15, 2021 19:18
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Scud Hansen posted:i went into my cubicle for the first time since March because my power went out at home. sounds like a normal day at the office to me
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fart simpson posted:i played carcassone with the same group of people a month ago and it was fun I love this game a lot, we actually played last night. it’s quite fun even with just two players.
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im so tired of the boardgame-industrial complex i see a wall of boardgames at somebodys house in the beforetimes at a party and I’m resigned that there goes the rest of the night ; at least if somebody has a fuckin funko shrine im not going to spend an hour loving with an elaborate set of rules and a million pieces six people passing an extremely verbose manual for half an hour to start, then an hour in you find out the thing u didn’t understand in the rules means u did it all wrong, you moron
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Jan 15, 2021 22:14
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i've never cared for board games really, or even card games much for the above reason. i don't want to learn a bunch of poo poo to move a tophat around a spiral into a train engine once.
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PokeJoe posted:i've never cared for board games really, or even card games much for the above reason. i don't want to learn a bunch of poo poo to move a tophat around a spiral into a train engine once. so you're more into larping then
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i like simple board games and card games and stuff. stuff where you have maybe like a board, some tokens, some cards, and a piece. done. the ones with 1000 pieces, all different, eight different things to do on every turn and a rulebook the size of a dictionary strike me as like the atomic hot sauce / hop monster IPAs of the board game world. whoever came up with it realized that making the rules a little more complex adds some value so therefore MORE RULES AND LITTLE PAPER BITS means MORE FUN
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Jan 15, 2021 22:26
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that's why ticket to ride is so good
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i like empire builder bc you get to use crayons
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i think if there's a game board that's been knocked off the table more than monopoly, it's risk. 6 hours of moving little pawns around a map while one rear end in a top hat squats in australia, woohoo
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Roosevelt posted:i think if there's a game board that's been knocked off the table more than monopoly, it's risk. 6 hours of moving little pawns around a map while one rear end in a top hat squats in australia, woohoo the southern hemisphere is key to risk victory
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i also enjoyed axis & allies back when i was in middle school but i think these days it would be difficult to find someone who wanted to play as the nazis. e: actually no it wouldn't be difficult at all. you just really wouldn't want to play with that person
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