Board Games

Reminder that you should know your crowd, and it's easier to make gamers into friends than friends into gamers :)

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Clockwise from top left: Azul, Fire Tower, Across the Desert, Everdell

BOSTON — After five brutal hours of incessant, imaginative bitching, the well-documented hater of “fruity-ass board games,” Sam Daniels, secured victory with an unexpected capture of a seventh stronghold in the waning moments of an all-night Game of Thrones board game session, according to sources pretty goddamned familiar with the situation.

“Oh shit, I won? Bend the knee, motherfuckers!” exclaimed Daniels, who mere moments before had claimed seppuku with the game’s cardboard Valyrian Steel Blade would be preferable to even one more second of “Getting constantly pounded like one of Littlefinger’s prostitutes in this rigged board game.”

Although Daniels reportedly arrived at his best friend Jeff Sanchez’ house in high spirits, it didn’t take long for his mood to sour.

“He attacked my capital on the second turn and, of course, he wasn’t able to take it, so he accused me of cheating and demanded to see the rule book,” said Sanchez, who had all of his pieces knocked onto the floor by Daniels’ fits of rage on three separate occasions. “I mean who the hell attacks Lannisport with just two footmen?”

As Daniels went around the table thrusting his crotch against the losing players’ character cards, exasperated sources speculated that Daniels may have directly benefited from his frequent, borderline-misogynistic outbursts.

“I found myself weighing trying to win by attacking Sam’s defenseless fleet or to just harvest more power tokens and avoid being referred to as that ‘backstabbing Greyjoy harlot’ for the next two hours,” said Katie Williams who reportedly asked off work so she could have a chill evening for once.

“He kept screaming about how biased the game was against House Tyrell and that everybody was conspiring against him, and all I could think was how if this were the Applebee’s I work at, I could have had him thrown out by now,” she told reporters while Daniels pranced around the room yelling to anyone within earshot about his gifted abilities at the very boardgames he had been disparaging all night.

“‘I’m in last place, stop trying to fuck me!’ he screamed all game. Until he wasn’t.”

As of press time, Daniels seemed fairly open to giving the game he’d earlier likened to “drowning in Direwolf shit,” another chance. “Next weekend? Same time, same place?” Daniels asked his silent, frustrated companions.

“It definitely took a little getting used to, but in the end I think we had a lot of fun, right guys?” he added.

Credit to u/jbauer777 and his gaming group for their extreme dedication.

I've had a few memorable moments at the table this year (like a Pandemic Legacy moment where an epidemic caused a city that had been empty of cubes a moment ago to chain-outbreak half a continent), but I think my best memories are of making new friends and introducing beginners to the hobby while chilling with the gang.

Recently, my gaming group and I have gone crazy about Dune Imperium Uprising. We've been doing 10+ games of it a week for the last few weeks. Anybody else ever had a similar story to share? Did you get tired of the game eventually, or even sick of it?

A small group came into my game shop today and picked up a copy of Monster Hunter. It was a slow Saturday and no one showed up to play Magic so I joined them in a game.

It took a while to get all of the rules figured out. If you have ever played the video games it really felt like we were playing an analog version.

You get a character sheet and gain crafting materials as you track the monster. We found the Great Jagras very quickly and the started taking it down right away.

After you complete your hunt you get more crafting materials and head to HQ to begin upgrading your gear.

3 of the 4 of us have played the video games, I have played the least. The person who has never played enjoyed it as much as the rest of us. I have been asked to order the expansion and other core box for them.

I blasted ahead with 19 points in the first two chapters, which lead to everyone ganging up on me. Managed to squeek out a second place finish though.

We played with the Legends, Through the Seasons, Corrin Evertail, and Extra Extra! mini expansions. I haven't played with the bigger expansions very much, but these little modules definitely make the base game a lot more interesting without adding too much more complexity.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14072409

Just ran across this in the newcommunities discussion. Figured I'd jump start a thread for people to chime in on.

• What have you been playing lately?
• Anything you're looking forward to?
• What do you wish you could play, but never have the time or players?

My Root box is quite big, because it's the french edition so it includes the Root automatons, and the first expansion (Lizards and Otters).

I think the smallest box i have is Complots which is a french version of Coup, with squared cards, it fits in one hand.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/15823917

For many people, learning the rules of any unfamiliar board game can feel as alien as learning a brand new language. Yet few games make that experience quite as literal as City of Six Moons. Its rulebook arrives written in a mysterious series of symbols that players must translate before they can play the game itself – and may never know if they’ve got everything right.

I generally like traditional card games, trick taking games and ladder-climbing games. Some favourites include Tichu, Ninety-nine and Haggis. Recently I have had a lot of fun playing a new ladder-climbing game for 2 players called Crisps. I have mainly played online on Board Game Arena. Ladder-climbing games is generally not very suited to two players, with some exception, and Crisps is one of them.

The object of the game is to empty the hand, but every time one player passes the winning player chooses between a face-up card and a face-down card, giving the opponent the other. Thus, the hand gradually fills up and must be planned for. The combinations in the game strikes a nice balance between strictness and flexibility.

Would whole-heartedly recommend it.

BGG link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/415108/crisps