[Gorefest]

Second season of Pandemic Legacy is out! That is my Christmas sorted.

[Nicodimas]

Gorefest, on 09 November 2017 - 12:29 AM, said:

Second season of Pandemic Legacy is out! That is my Christmas sorted.

I bought the first season that should keep me busy with my non-nerdy friends .. I’m pretty sure they will like it.

[Morgoth]

I have two massive strategy games waiting from Kickstarter. Rising Sun and Gods War. Gods War was supposed to arrive in august, but has been pushed back to q1 2018, which means it will arrive around the same time as Rising Sun. It's a shame, I had hoped to have one for christmas.

[Maark Abbott]

Well, my D&D group are doing a birthday session for me next week. I have no idea what this will entail, just that it's a campaign built around my Dwarf Brewmaster Cleric, Angrym Saltbeard. I smell shenanigans.

[Gorefest]

Nicodimas, on 09 November 2017 - 05:13 AM, said:

Gorefest, on 09 November 2017 - 12:29 AM, said:

Second season of Pandemic Legacy is out! That is my Christmas sorted.

I bought the first season that should keep me busy with my non-nerdy friends .. I'm pretty sure they will like it.

Just make sure that you choose people who can stick with it, because it is not the type of game that you can just switch players halfway through. The outcome of each round has an effect on future games and player characters, so really you'll need the same team of players throughout to get the full experience. Other than that, best cooperative game EVER. Hands down. Possibly best game ever, period.

And I'm not just saying that from a fanboy perspective. BoardGameGeek seems to agree.

This post has been edited by Gorefest: 09 November 2017 - 03:27 PM

[Salt-Man Z]

Yeah, we played Pandemic Legacy Season 1 twice through (two copies) over the past two years, four players (with a fifth swapping in on occasion.) Great game. I assume either my wife or I will be getting Season Two for Christmas.

And speaking of "limited # of plays" games, has anyone played anything from the Exit: The Game series? It's basically like one of those real-life escape rooms, but in card game form. (So you can only play it once, since you already know the puzzles, and may also have to destroy some of the components.) We just played The Pharaoh's Tomb over the weekend with 5, and it was fantastic.

[Gorefest]

Yeah, we played exit: the secret lab and another one. If you like those, also try “Unlock! Escape adventures”. Very similar concept, but instead of physically cutting up the box contents it uses a downloadable app which you use to enter codes and check solutions. So after you have played it yourself you can actually let other people have a go as well.

[Maark Abbott]

Our poor DM arranged a one-off story session for us last week. I say 'our poor DM' because it was a huge build-up to a boss fight with a Night Hag, which came immediately after we had been made to fight amongst ourselves (one character died but I had some rez mushroom so brought him back).

And what happens? Our assassin gets up behind her, blows an Essence of Ether into her face, we use the 8 hours of her being knocked out to short rest, and then group one-shot her. Owies.

We also may be starting Tomb of Annihilation soon.

[Nicodimas]

Pandemic: Season one is brilliant keeps my one group of friends totally engaged they texted me when they get to play. A minor miracle as this is more of the people that just like to go out to bars to drink.

On the flip side I rediscovered twillight imperium , I thought this was the game I played years ago a handful of time. I mean it was literally my whole Sunday and I missed the walking dead for the first time in ages.. but wow this is one hell of a fun game for eating away a whole day.

[Morgoth]

You would love Twilight Struggle i think.

[Gorefest]

Nicodimas, on 22 November 2017 - 04:31 AM, said:

Pandemic: Season one is brilliant keeps my one group of friends totally engaged they texted me when they get to play. A minor miracle as this is more of the people that just like to go out to bars to drink.

This post has been edited by Gorefest: 22 November 2017 - 11:11 AM

[Tapper]

Morgoth, on 09 November 2017 - 08:03 AM, said:

I have two massive strategy games waiting from Kickstarter. Rising Sun and Gods War. Gods War was supposed to arrive in august, but has been pushed back to q1 2018, which means it will arrive around the same time as Rising Sun. It's a shame, I had hoped to have one for christmas.

God's War was the Sandy Petersen 'Glorantha' game, right?
I was looking at it, in the end decided not to jump on because it a) would probably never get played from start to finish (which is a shame) it seems best with 4-6 players and we never get to that number.
We started playing Gloomhaven (2nd edition). So far, it's a blast, although every game there's a few rules I noticed we got wrong. Still, the main mechanics are surprisingly easy, versatile and cool.

[Morgoth]

Tapper, on 24 November 2017 - 11:09 AM, said:

Morgoth, on 09 November 2017 - 08:03 AM, said:

I have two massive strategy games waiting from Kickstarter. Rising Sun and Gods War. Gods War was supposed to arrive in august, but has been pushed back to q1 2018, which means it will arrive around the same time as Rising Sun. It's a shame, I had hoped to have one for christmas.

God's War was the Sandy Petersen 'Glorantha' game, right?
I was looking at it, in the end decided not to jump on because it a) would probably never get played from start to finish (which is a shame) it seems best with 4-6 players and we never get to that number.
We started playing Gloomhaven (2nd edition). So far, it's a blast, although every game there's a few rules I noticed we got wrong. Still, the main mechanics are surprisingly easy, versatile and cool.

Gloomhaven sounds really cool. Alas I try to keep to two kickstarters at a time.

[Gorefest]

Gloomhaven is on the list. Good to hear the positive feedback. Is it very RPG or is it more casual? I do like quest-style/storyline games, but I'm not big on massive artistic DM input to come up with the adventure settings and events, or lots of 'interpretation/consensus' when applying the game rules.

[Imperial Historian]

Describing gloomhaven as an RPG is a bit misleading. It has rpg trappings, levelling up your character, an ongoing story line, magic and you fight demons but the actual gameplay is essentially a deck management game. There is virtually no interpretation or story building aspect in the core game, though you could easily add it. it's a great game though as tapper said the number of rules is daunting.

[Nicodimas]

Imperial Historian, on 25 November 2017 - 11:01 AM, said:

Describing gloomhaven as an RPG is a bit misleading. It has rpg trappings, levelling up your character, an ongoing story line, magic and you fight demons but the actual gameplay is essentially a deck management game. There is virtually no interpretation or story building aspect in the core game, though you could easily add it. it's a great game though as tapper said the number of rules is daunting.

I have been hearing gloomhaven is akin to diablo ? I have it on order so expect it wayyy later this year.

I played terraforming mars and warhammer: shadespire a bunch this weekend. Next week hopefully will be pandemic and blood rage.

Terraforming mars was done with some alchohol involved so naturally took ages to come to agreement of said exact rules.

[Cause]

Darnit, I hesistated thinking that a black Friday special that lasted till sunday would still be around on cyber Monday. It wasn't. So I lost out on ticket to ride at half off

[Gorefest]

Which version of Ticket to Ride?

[Cause]

Gorefest, on 27 November 2017 - 09:46 AM, said:

Which version of Ticket to Ride?

eUROPE

[Gorefest]

Cool, that's the best one in my opinion. It has the addition of the tunnels and the ferries, which was lacking in the original US version and which makes for more diverse gameplay..