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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: March 24, 2018, 07:52:21 AM »

Bell

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Tabletop Games - The Game Room / Gloomhaven

« on: March 23, 2018, 10:09:29 AM »

I've been playing a great deal of Gloomhaven over the last few months. If you don't know what it is, you can get some details about it here.


My top level summary of it is that it is a tactical combat board game for 1* to 4 players where you have a persistent world, so your all of your actions, especially which scenario to play has a knock on effect to everything else.


Rough list of reasons I think it's great:

• There are absolutely loads of classes. The game starts with 6 or so available - the rest are all in sealed boxes and must be unlocked. You get given a life goal and once you achieve it you unlock a class, and you must retire your character. This means things keep getting changed up - starting with the obvious fact that you have a new character so abilities, equipment and tactics need to be adapted, which has a knock on effect to the whole party make up and tactics
• Similar to the above there are loads of other various sealed boxes, envelopes, stickers and logs, so there is a continued sense of wanting to discover what the game has to offer
• The abilities are represented by cards, and to use the abilities you must "spend" 2 every turn, then once spent you get all but one back. This means towards the end of scenarios you are in danger of having used up all of your cards and becoming exhausted. Essentially this makes for a very interesting set of tactical decisions since your cards are your resource
• The story itself is well written and intriguing - embellished by some lovely card artwork
• There is a good range of enemies, and the tactics for each room often need to be thought about very carefully

Things I don't like so much

• We aren't playing this massively frequently meaning sometimes I have forgotten what happened previously in the different  story arcs, so have difficulty making an informed choice about which scenario to choose next
• Set up takes ages

We have a regular kernel of 2/3 players. One thing I like (that may be particular to our situation) is that there is a free slot that we can frequently fill with a guest adventurer which means we can see how various group make ups can shift the tactics we need to employ.


So has anyone else played this or interested in giving it a go? If so, any favourite classes / items / ability combos?


* There are a number of solo scenarios and I am aware that there are some people that play through these, and do the group ones in a pretend group but I personally would find that much less fun

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Star Trek / Re: The Orville

« on: March 23, 2018, 08:51:15 AM »

Yes please!


I love the orville. It took a little while to get in to because they obviously don't have quite the same budget as Star Trek productions usually enjoy, but the Seth McFarlane style comedic spin is great.

Also agree about the TNG rehash stories, also some just are a bit weak and based on a "wouldn't it be funny if..." style premise. Like the one about Bortus laying an egg for example.

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Star Trek / Re: New Star Trek Series Announced For 2017

« on: March 23, 2018, 08:48:46 AM »

I wasn't a big fan of these as continuations of any star trek canon. They really lacked any character progression, and the "ending" was a complete joke.


That being said I did enjoy the high production value some of the episodes had and essentially just started to watch them just as episodes of generic space action.

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: March 23, 2018, 08:39:50 AM »

Black

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Computer Game Development - The Indie Alley / Re: Epicinium - strategy wargame with environmental mechanics

« on: March 23, 2018, 08:38:54 AM »

Look forward to checking out the amendments. I never noticed being afflicted by frost bite, does it require a certain number of exposed turns to proc?


New website is looking good. I'll try and join for for a playtest sometime. I'm often doing something then but next time I'm not 

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: March 22, 2018, 01:41:31 PM »

Jacuzzi

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: March 22, 2018, 09:11:27 AM »

Guard

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: March 21, 2018, 11:38:06 AM »

Pig

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: March 21, 2018, 06:04:54 AM »

Buttock


 

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Guess Who Will Post Next... II!

« on: March 20, 2018, 03:26:35 PM »

Nein


Caradílis *2

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Writing, Poems, AARs, and Stories - The Storyteller's Hall / Re: Fantasy book recommendations please!

« on: March 20, 2018, 09:01:27 AM »

I had seen the night angel trilogy but have not had a chance to read yet. I imagine since I liked way of shadows et al I will like that one too.


Lots more to add to the list. Thanks all Don't suppose anyone has read way of kings by Brian Sanderson? It rates quite highly on the goodreads website's fantasy section but I'm not sure about it


Oh by the way if anyone else is here browsing for suggestions I can also heartily recommend Legend by David Gemmell. It's quite the hammer

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Word Association

« on: March 20, 2018, 08:48:31 AM »

Opportunity

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Forum Games - The Beer Cellar! / Re: Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer

« on: March 19, 2018, 05:37:29 PM »

Chocolate was first accidentally created by the incans. It was then known as chocl'ot and believed to be the droppings of the great god choxlotl. They used it as a tincture to calm the elderly when they became excessively unruly.


You cannot saw the sea with a seesaw, that is ludicrous. So my question is: What CAN you saw with a seesaw?

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Bigosaur / Re: Son of a Witch: Castle Crashers meets Isaac

« on: March 19, 2018, 01:22:05 PM »

shepherd staff looks like a chuckle. I Like the epic music you used too


looks great!