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respect the egg strategy
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Jan 27, 2021 19:48
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Trash Ops posted:respect the egg strategy
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Jan 27, 2021 21:15
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bringing an entire carton of fresh eggs to smash onto the board when my opponent tries the kookaburra laugh loop strat again
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Jan 28, 2021 00:36
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did board game night wth my dudes, we wanted a lighter night so we played bohnanza (lost by two points) and fantastic factories (won by two points). we were talking about playing twilight imperium over the weekend and i really friggin hope that comes through.
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Jan 28, 2021 04:40
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Fungah! posted:did board game night wth my dudes, we wanted a lighter night so we played bohnanza (lost by two points) and fantastic factories (won by two points). we were talking about playing twilight imperium over the weekend and i really friggin hope that comes through. Out of all the big experience 4x games I've played I recommend Forbidden Stars the most. Out of print now but you can get it on tabletop sim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSHz2-Xg3eM It has the big game experience of expanding tech level and building armies across a wide galactic map but repackages the experience as a very cuthroat and fast paced capture the flag fight in a bar-room where no alliance can be relied on and the goal is just to spread to specific strategic points and hold them for 1 turn, which really changes the focus of strategy and means even somebody you thought was knocked out can sneak their way to victory without being the strongest player. has a real fun combination dice and cards subgame for combat resolution too.
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Jan 28, 2021 05:34
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Wow! herculon posted:I impulse bought Wingspan. Played around a bit last night and looking forward to gathering some birds. Good call!
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Jan 29, 2021 12:03
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the bird game sounds like its loving awesome, ive gotta make a new boardgame crew
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Jan 29, 2021 12:46
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the imp zone tabletop RPG and Cool Bird thread
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Jan 29, 2021 14:34
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best decision I ever made was kicking light elves / dark elves to the curb, and replacing them with harpies and offbrand dunmer
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Jan 29, 2021 15:32
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I played Viticulture a couple of months back at my boardgame-crazed friends place. It's an awesome game where you build a winery, choose specific grapes and make wine to sell. Really fun and strategic.
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Jan 30, 2021 18:34
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Mordekai posted:I played Viticulture a couple of months back at my boardgame-crazed friends place. It's an awesome game where you build a winery, choose specific grapes and make wine to sell. Really fun and strategic. does yennifer move in if you win?
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Jan 30, 2021 18:54
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ok I'm going to talk a lot about In Nomine and why it's wicked jank that deserves a better system and company running it, here's some music that makes this fun to write https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWL8RogROr8 so we're going back to 1997 when D&D's power as the #1 Satan Kill murder game was waning, and you had much stronger freaks standing up, especially in the form of White Wolf which was mostly played by fat dudes in trench coats who gulped down air like they were trying to eat it. amazing poo poo with vampires and werewolves and LOTS of rape. now Steve Jackson Games was around and still doing GURPS, mostly failing at it because Steve Jackson is a scientologist rear end who surrounds himself with engineers and PhD graybeards who love sucking each other off. they see WW and think they need to get in on that poo poo, they need an edgy, dark, modern-day secret-war game but all the cool supernatural beings were already rolling in mountains of WW blow and weren't going to party with graybeards. Instead, they looked at a French RPG called In Nomine Satanis / Magna Veritas, which was a vicious satire about Catholicism with a mostly comedic setting with angels and demons being rock stars and politicians. Steve Crackerjacks gets the lightbulb and gets the rights, and then makes a conceptually cool American take on the idea to use as their White Wolf challenger only they managed it like blockheads and it turned into a disaster despite its very strong premise. So the idea is that In Nomine takes place in modern times. By default (this is a VERY flexible campaign setting by ground-up design) God and Lucifer are real, religion is real, there are angels and demons and they can't wait to gently caress with you. angels are supposed to be good/selfless, demons are supposed to be bad/selfish. they get chosen to go to earth and fight in a cold war while humans are unaware of all this. there's a really huge musical motif awkwardly fingerpainted all over the setting. angels and demons have races, called Choirs and Bands. they each get an innate power and a drawback, called resonance and dissonance. there are angels like the Seraph, who is a giant snake with wings and they resonate to detect the truth, and they become dissonant if they every lie. demons are just bad/reverse versions of angels. if a Seraph lies too much they Fall from Grace and become a Balseraph, who can make people believe whatever they say, but become dissonant if someone calls them out on their bullshit. angels and demons have to serve under a superboss called an Archangel or Demon Prince. they each have a 'Word' which is a concept they embody that gives powers and rules to the ones serving them. there's like Gabriel, the Ofanite Archangel of Fire, Blandine, Cherub Archangel of Dreams, Kobal, Impudite Demon Prince of Dark Humor, Beelzebub, Djinn Demon Prince of Corruption, etc etc etc. So a Seraph of Fire gets a special power for serving Gabriel, but also a special restriction based on Fire. it's a really enjoyable game premise, since you have to balance your dissonance, your Archangel's demands, their politics with the rest of Heaven and Hell, staying hidden alongside humanity, fighting demons, making deals and allies, and abusing your broken abilities as much as possible to make the GM scream and break your fingers with a hardcover. same on the demon side of playing. the biggest problem comes from the wildly incoherent tone throughout the books (because the people writing it were insane egomaniacs who hated each other), and the lovely mechanics. you roll 2d6 + 1d6. the 2d6 is your decision dice, where you have to roll-under to succeed. The 1d6 is the Check Digit dice, which determines the degree of success for the roll you made. So if I have Skill 7, I roll the 2d6 and gotta get a 7 or less to succeed, and then compare the Check Digit of 1-6 to see how good I succeeded/failed. this design is incredibly flawed and the game is pretty much unplayable because of it but I played it for years anyways because I'm an addict there's a bunch more mechanics (Forces, Essence, Songs, Roles) and setting info and other stuff (like playing as humans which is bad because humans are weak as hell, or ethereals who are the dreams / old gods of humanity who got genocided by Heaven, or playing as angel/demon-human hybrids who get murdered by both sides on sight) but I've covered the basics also the art in the books was true puke, outside of the art done by Ramon Perez who did incredible stuff that actually stuck to the designs written in the book, instead of lovely drawings of humans with feather/leather wings and 200 layers of photoshop filters here is some Perez stuff     here are examples of the majority of the art in all the books         thanks that's In Nomine the RPG © 1997 Steve Jackson Games
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Jan 30, 2021 19:27
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I dunno man, I think maybe your pitch is more interesting without the history lesson and the attempts at color like "nerds in basements gulping air" or w/e, that's too many words to describe a Steve jackson rpg
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Jan 30, 2021 19:36
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like any time your game review is like "We were all recovering from the fresh shock of 9/11, and Playstation 2 owners stared with bated breath, listening to the tinkling piano as Tidus told us his story," it's like... why? it's not a college essay, y'know?
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Jan 30, 2021 19:41
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I asked my daughter if she'd want to play D&D and she said "yeah but we'll need to get helmets first!” whatever game she's imagining is probably better
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Jan 30, 2021 19:43
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Bicyclops posted:I dunno man, I think maybe your pitch is more interesting without the history lesson and the attempts at color like "nerds in basements gulping air" or w/e, that's too many words to describe a Steve jackson rpg I'm sorry, I should give context as to why I am being mean, it's because I was actually on the same mailing list and chatrooms as a lot of the people writing for or editing In Nomine back in the 2000s, and it was a lot of really strange people who loved the game but wrecked its potential with politics and hangups The heavy trenchcoat dude playing white wolf is someone who was actually in my highschool
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Jan 30, 2021 19:43
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Bicyclops posted:like any time your game review is like "We were all recovering from the fresh shock of 9/11, and Playstation 2 owners stared with bated breath, listening to the tinkling piano as Tidus told us his story," it's like... why? it's not a college essay, y'know? yeah I have a habit of writing like that I need to work on, I felt it was obscure enough an RPG that history would help give context
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Jan 30, 2021 19:45
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P-Mack posted:I asked my daughter if she'd want to play D&D and she said "yeah but we'll need to get helmets first!” lol
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Jan 30, 2021 20:57
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P-Mack posted:I asked my daughter if she'd want to play D&D and she said "yeah but we'll need to get helmets first!” lol
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Jan 30, 2021 21:05
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P-Mack posted:I asked my daughter if she'd want to play D&D and she said "yeah but we'll need to get helmets first!”
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Jan 30, 2021 21:08
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ah, thanks for this
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Jan 30, 2021 23:28
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P-Mack posted:I asked my daughter if she'd want to play D&D and she said "yeah but we'll need to get helmets first!” lol
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Jan 31, 2021 00:02
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Lmfao. Nice posts lads.
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Jan 31, 2021 01:46
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The art comparison made me bust out laughing when the first of the second section was the chainsaw guy.
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Feb 1, 2021 00:24
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i want to play LANCER which is a really well regarded tactical game...
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Feb 5, 2021 14:14
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Plutonis posted:i want to play LANCER which is a really well regarded tactical game... lancer is quite good op. i recommend it
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Feb 5, 2021 15:20
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Plutonis posted:i want to play LANCER which is a really well regarded tactical game... lancer is very cool, probably the best tactical game since 4e
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Feb 5, 2021 16:19
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Plutonis posted:i want to play LANCER which is a really well regarded tactical game... That one battle we did for imp D&d was epic and we should do it again. The TTS set up seems good
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Feb 5, 2021 16:25
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i wish i could get my group on that mech bullshit. i want to play lancer so goddamn bad.
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Feb 5, 2021 16:43
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yeah I've never gotten to play it but from reading the book lancer fuckin rips
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Feb 5, 2021 19:08
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in lancer there's a shotgun for your mech that's so big that it damages units next to it when you eject shells by reloading, that's all you need to know really
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Feb 5, 2021 19:37
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Yeah, I'm sold.
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Feb 5, 2021 20:32
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Just realized tts is on Mac lol. Down to play something...
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Feb 5, 2021 20:50
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frankenfreak posted:Yeah, I'm sold. now you just need to find a group to play with!!
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Feb 5, 2021 20:55
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AverySpecialfriend posted:Just realized tts is on Mac lol. Down to play something... im in
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Feb 6, 2021 14:01
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I played wingspan last night 
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AverySpecialfriend posted:I played wingspan last night
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