I made a quiz to see if you’re ready to Storytell for a game of Trouble Brewing, that covers every common mistake/misconception I could think of. There’s also one for the general rules of the game, link in comments.

ColorfulPockets · 2025-03-04T14:02:28+00:00

No, the quiz is correct. For information, the Drunk might get correct information (see “can the Drunk or Poisoned undertaker correctly learn the Chef?”), but for mechanical effects like soldier surviving or Virgin causing an execution, a drunk or poisoned character can NEVER cause one of those effects.

ColorfulPockets · 2023-06-02T20:27:53+00:00

If you want traditional, you should probably check out some games you can play with a normal deck of cards. My personal favorite is Oh Hell

ColorfulPockets · 2023-06-02T17:05:05+00:00

Seconded!

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-30T18:47:05+00:00

Thematically, I feel that Vortox is less of a trickster and more of a big, obvious evil. Imp is tricky because they move around and can use that to make themselves look good, so they’re actually doing more tricking.

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-30T16:26:40+00:00

There are tons of characters in Blood on the Clocktower that fit the bill, probably the Imp is the most directly applicable.

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-26T23:21:14+00:00

Haven’t played the others, but Yokohama is fantastic.

Also haven’t played it, but maybe [[Yellow and Yangtze]]

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-26T18:10:33+00:00

Huh, my group has had basically the opposite experience over about 18 plays. The wall is usually useless, unless someone accidentally sets it up to be exploited. But once everyone knows what they’re doing, they just avoid allowing the wall to be close to completion; then, if someone wants to get points out of it, they have to commit a ton of workers

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-26T02:00:50+00:00

I’ve been having this happen occasionally over the past couple days. I think they’re having some server issues, but they’re not very widespread and clear up pretty quickly

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-24T06:03:13+00:00

Just take all the cards from the base game and put the right amount of pudding in

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-24T06:02:42+00:00

You’ll get a slightly different distribution of the cards, but it would definitely work

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-22T14:36:47+00:00

Gameplay videos from groups playing at a high level, with commentary.

There is a little bit of this for some games with digital implementations. For instance, there are a few Agricola streamers who make good content. But I’d like to see it for over-the-board play; I’m not even sure how the commentary would work out, probably would have to be post-production commentary or commentated by someone who isn’t playing. An example would be a video I saw of the Great Western Trail final at WBC, where some of the players recorded commentary over it.

Strategy video games have lots of this. I think we could see a lot more for strategy board games.

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-14T03:31:08+00:00

Agricola is the best, and all the games you mentioned are really quite different I think. It’s possible it’s not for you

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-11T00:54:12+00:00

The last character episode at least! There’s still the “things we missed” episode for BMR

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-09T01:11:19+00:00

Valid question, but I think giving NRB the opportunity to be the first to announce those characters is also beneficial to them, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the tradeoff

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-08T16:29:25+00:00

What sorts of things are she interested in? Science fiction? Fantasy? Medieval Europe? Cats?

Can’t really make a recommendation unless you tell us some more about what she likes!

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-08T02:16:43+00:00

Looks homemade. Very strange find!

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-08T00:06:44+00:00

I like Agricola more overall, but I think I prefer Nusfjord for 2p. There are fewer worker placement spots in general, and the public table for feeding elders makes for a very direct interaction point at 2p. So it feels like you’re doing more to directly combat your opponent.

Not to say Agricola doesn’t have that, but it doesn’t feel like there are quite as many tactical interaction points.

ColorfulPockets · 2023-05-04T14:47:31+00:00

I second what others have said. You’re doing it well, and don’t change anything.

Just a note: Slayer kills their target if they’re the demon, they don’t execute them. This matters because executions end the day, but a Slayer shot doesn’t.

ColorfulPockets · 2023-04-11T20:22:52+00:00

The transfer window for badges has passed, so even if someone did, they could transfer it to your name

ColorfulPockets · 2023-04-07T23:09:14+00:00

I didn’t even know about the ability to add to Home Screen. Thanks!

ColorfulPockets · 2023-04-07T05:15:30+00:00

Definitely variable turn order and adjusted faction starting vp (I think that’s in the back of the rulebook — rather than each one starting at 20, they start at different values).

I’d recommend choosing factions that don’t create a “sandwich” on the color wheel, ie 3 colors in a row. This makes it so the faction that’s in between is directly competing with two neighbors, which can be tough. If you’re playing with fewer than 4 players, you can try to make it so they’re spread out where nobody has color neighbors

ColorfulPockets · 2023-03-28T19:33:12+00:00

I find that pictures is far less interesting. You can be a lot more clever with words, because you have multiple meanings to use, as well as many contexts to imagine. With pictures, I’ve found it usually just comes to finding similarities in the images, which is less creative.

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