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Very much agreed. A couple months back it would have been the token “I looked at BGG and the #1 board game there looks pretty D&D like so here we are” recommendation.

I’m happy it’s there because it is a very good game - but also highly likely to leave the article’s target audience frustrated and confused.

That’s the actually good Catan version though.

Is it also bland and old-fashioned yet still somehow popular?

Tell me you are a psychopath without telling me you are a psychopath.

From “don’t be evil” to “you know, what’s so bad about being evil anyway?”

So, Gloomhaven and Betrayal at the House on the Hill (D&D edition). It baffles me that they didn’t mention the actual D&D board games and instead listed two TTRPG systems plus the trashy campaign module for one of them.

Then again, people who are into D&D often really only are into D&D and not willing to branch out very far so that tracks.
Kind of surprised at Gloomhaven being suggested because it has a dungeon crawl theme over a good Euro hand-management engine and most D&Ders are probably scratching their heads at that.

The Isofarian Guard is amazing if you happen to be up for a story-heavy campaign game to play either solo or with another person. I got the first printing and am exstatic, that they only charge 39€ for the new content and previous backers get all of the updated materials bundled in for free. That is exactly how you turn me into a loyal customer.

On the other hand, Board Game Tycoon decided that everything outside of the US no longer exists, so I can’t even buy the Everdell-related stuff I’d like because it simply isn’t available in the EU at all. That is how you spit into a (formerly loyal) customer’s face.

The ones that don’t fit inside a Kallax cube - you should hear my guttural growl when the smaller side is exactly 1 centimeter larger than the cube width - then it goes on top of one of the Kallaxes.

Thankfully it’s not too many games that don’t fit and I have four Kalaxes (ranging from 3x4 to 5x5) to put stuff on top of.
Still, I wish game designers and publishers tried to respect those standard measurements whenever possible.

There was another Twitler who tried to create an everything Reich.

I really like Dorfromantik as a super relaxed solo game for when I need to calm down after work. Hopefully they’ll do an expansion with more unlockables at some point.

On the whole though, everything covered by SdJ is way too light for me which is why I’ve rarely paid any attention to its nominees and awards.

No, never been. I just looked whether there are any in the wider region but looks like only bigger cities have any, so an hour by car minimum.
I don’t even have any LGS though, so a BGC would have positively surprised me.

I think I would like to visit a really nice one at some point just to try the experience. On the whole I prefer to play my own games - and to buy the games I prefer to play, needless to say - but going to a café with a nice small group and seeing what games they have could be neat.

I’ve enjoyed both On Mars and Weather Machine more than Lisboa although the latter is always lauded as Lacerda’s masterpiece. I really dig the complexity of his designs although it makes the games harder to explain to players who prefer lighter fare.

Backerkit was lovingly hugged to death for a couple minutes after campaign launch. I think it took me like ten minutes to finalize my pledge.

I’m curious what the campaign will be like. Cephalofair don’t do crowdfunding exclusives, stretch goals or any of that FOMO bait stuff usually. So with all of the content reveals front loader it looks like it’s going to be a pretty tame campaign with only a handful live play videos along the way.

Apple is a litigation company disguised as hardware sales. Steve “thermonuclear war” Jobs saw to this.

From what many people say the Oceania extension appears to ameliorate some of the weaker points.

But for me, I’m not going to force myself playing a game I didn’t have fun with again and again when I have literally so many other games I do enjoy playing.

It’s more than fine if people do enjoy it but I’m not among that crowd.

Awaken Realms has good writing and very insteresting conceptual worlds, I like that very much about them. Their game mechanics could often do with “a little less” however in order to enable a good flow and fun gameplay loop. Still among my favorites though, warts and all.

And man oh man, AT:O has such a ridiculous amount of content and a ridiculous level of quality out already. With wave 2 of the original campaign fulfilling later this year and Twelve Sins of Heracles in 2025 - but in my opinion, Aeon Trespass truly is a lifestyle game in the best possible way.

I’m very much looking forward to playing The Isofarian Guard! I snagged one of the remaining copies and it’ll hopefully be here before to long.

Didn’t hear about it being such a tough challenge though, makes it sound even more interesting :)

It’s a game in the Scythe setting, exactly. I got the Ironclad edition with metal mech minis and I’m looking forward to getting those in my fingers.

The gameplay is pretty different though. I think only the scoring is based on the achievement stars from Scythe but that’s about it :)

Exactly, it’s my “make them presentable” procedure, really. I’ll never brag about how well they look but they definitely have more presence than plain grey.

And I agree, not all board games have high quality minis unfortunately. But I’ve rarely encountered any that didn’t look better with a primer / base layer, some wash and/or dry brush.

Plus I really enjoy differentiating them a bit by picking hues for the ink and highlights that match the character class or monster type etc. But that is really as far as I’m selling to go nowadays. :)

It used to be Relay for me as well. Other apps had neat features I wish Relay had gotten as well, but I couldn’t get away from its neat UI and UX even though I tried pretty much every third-party reddit app there was.

I’m certainly sad to leave a handful of my favorite communities behind but Reddit overall can burn down for all I care. Even before the API BS and Huffmann lying through his teeth the Reddit experience had gotten more and more annoying aside from the coziest of subreddits.

Time to move on and perhaps some of the app devs try their hand at a sleek threadiverse app with all of the QoL goodies.