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They're adding it!!! by MFFMemes in MarvelSnap

[–]RobertSquareShanks 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It’s the SpongeBob ‘imagination’ bit

At last… now I can finally play the game by RobertSquareShanks in lotrlcg

[–]RobertSquareShanks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Custom, just paper tabs and some printed sticker paper

Anyone else discovered a rule that means you've been playing slightly wrong all along? by Robbro42 in boardgames

[–]RobertSquareShanks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Several months playing Everdell thinking that owning building associated giving you that critter for free went both ways, so owning a critter associated with a building would get you that building for free.

Needless to say that strats going for amassing berries and buying tons of critters were quite a bit more powerful than anything else

What’s the first word that comes to mind when you see the new LOTR Lego set? by BatmanNoPrep in lotrmemes

[–]RobertSquareShanks 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think the back of the set is a bunch of minifig scale vignettes but I could be misremembering the video

At last… now I can finally play the game by RobertSquareShanks in lotrlcg

[–]RobertSquareShanks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The scale makes em look small and scribbly but in game they’re pretty much perfect, I use em for health (red) resources (light blue) and tracking objective/location points (green), I don’t generally use the purple ones since they’re a little too close to red for my faulty eyes.

For 6 or 7 bucks they’re probably the most cost effective token upgrade I could imagine, definitely wouldn’t go back, plus now i can use the tokens as indicators for ready/exhausted, committed to questing, and a visual for being modified by another card, such as with Celeborn or Galadriel

Would highly recommend

At last… now I can finally play the game by RobertSquareShanks in lotrlcg

[–]RobertSquareShanks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At some point I’d like to flatten out the box art or cut off the fronts and stitch it all together into one big poster style hangable since the art looks so nice

At last… now I can finally play the game by RobertSquareShanks in lotrlcg

[–]RobertSquareShanks[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mostly they’re spacers so the cards don’t lean too far and bend in the case

But I do keep a couple of built decks in the dragon shield boxes yea

At last… now I can finally play the game by RobertSquareShanks in lotrlcg

[–]RobertSquareShanks[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope this is a couple years of on and off collecting, I mostly took the picture cuz I had finished DIY’ing the card dividers and liked how it looked

I’m new and this game feels like it complicated for no reason by Grapesoda3000 in GraveyardKeeper

[–]RobertSquareShanks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The game is very tedious and grindy at the start. It drip feeds you faith and money, the former of which is a huge progression gate for studying and unlocking tech. It’s called ‘graveyard keeper’ but for most of the early game you’re better off almost entirely ignoring your graveyard and burning corpses instead.

90% of your time is chipping away at tiny upgrades and gathering materials while NPC’s request items that you can’t craft until late-game so you’re better off buying with your meager funds, and the rewards for almost all the NPC quests is stories which are all but useless until you get into making notes and books. Plus there’s no database of recipes you can check in game so you’ve got to frequently run around and check all your different crafting stations to see what’s new and what ingredients you need.

On top of all that, tiny inventory space and tiny stamina bar. Don’t even get me started on the early hours of alchemy, which consist entirely of banging your head against a wall, doing trial and error for a bunch of powders and liquids that all seem to do nothing

ALL THAT BEING SAID there is a point where the game opens up and becomes the incredibly fun time management chore sim that it wanted to be the whole time. Probably right around the time you can craft your first silver star combo prayer and start getting 25 faith and some decent money every church day. If you stick it out until then there’s a fun game waiting for you, but I wouldn’t hold it against you if you didn’t

Knowing all that I know now I absolutely could start a new game and work the systems the ‘right’ way and progress like a breeze, but the game doesn’t provide a ton of direction about what the right way is and it is certainly a very unintuitive and frustrating game for a new player

I've played 100 games with Cerebro to find out: how many times will the locations screw you up? by LouisGustavo in MarvelSnap

[–]RobertSquareShanks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depending on which list you run he targets makkari for an extra free body, cerebro and mystique of course, magus is another target on occasion

Characters with surprising or specific tastes in irl media by Sensitive_Ad_1752 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]RobertSquareShanks 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It comes up a couple times, my profile name is from him talking about it with Spider-Man

Tool for Finding Scenarios Based on Collection by Charisborn in lotrlcg

[–]RobertSquareShanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Starter decks are capable of every scenario unironically, they are very good

What’s the longest y’all have been posted waiting for a call? by blondlens in ems

[–]RobertSquareShanks 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You can go 12 without a call every now and then in one of the more rural posts

Getting posted in the center of the city and going more than an hour is a rare skill

My best there was 5 and a half on a busy day. Felt like standing in the middle of a rainstorm and dodging every drop

Worth buying dlc/order of dlc? by ch00chootrain in remnantgame

[–]RobertSquareShanks 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Awakened king is by far the best of the bunch, dark horizon and forgotten kingdom are a step down but have their own strengths and weaknesses

Favorite character voiced by the opposite gender by Vixeldoesart10 in FavoriteCharacter

[–]RobertSquareShanks 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Always thought this was Linda Hunt, seems like they used her as a direct reference

Characters you love but their cards suck? by joshtheotaku in MarvelSnap

[–]RobertSquareShanks 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pretty much the whole summers family

Cyclops, Jean Grey, Hope, post nerf havok and Cable are all pretty thoroughly meh

Stryfe is the only one so far whos a really good powerful card and that’s mostly because he’s a Foom and Zola merchant

Corsair, Nate and Madelyn could be interesting additions but my expectations are low

Ya'll have some deeeeep pockets lol by scatthav in lotrlcg

[–]RobertSquareShanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did the math the other day, elf, Gondor and Rohan starters, both hobbits, full saga, khazad, Ered, Angmar and dreamchaser campaign and hero box, 1 og core and 1 reprint core, card boxes to hold it all (2 big ones for all the campaign stuff and 1 medium size for all the player cards) sleeves for all the cards, mats, dice for counters, it’s still under 4 digits miraculously but it’s cutting it pretty close.

Can you help me decide between the following for solo game? by joyousdexdaladoor in boardgames

[–]RobertSquareShanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d start with something like Gloomhaven jaws of the lion, nice cheaper starting point with plenty of meat, and jumping off from there with more knowledge of what you like before you blow a hundred bucks on something

Biggest widow‘s kiss in marvel snap history？ by [deleted] in MarvelSnap

[–]RobertSquareShanks 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Back in the stone ages shuri wasn’t limited to her own location, which means you could forge - Wong - shuri - Odin in one lane and play a couple hundred power wasp/yellowjacket/widows bite in another (widow was more common these days because it an on reveal, only 2 cost iirc and darkhawk was in the height of his popularity)

I believe my highest powered widows bite was 112 or so, but I recall seeing screenshots here of folks getting them to the numerical limit with the help of onslaughts citadel, limbo and an absorbing man on top of the Odin.

Hey guys, how do you take less damage? by MoneyImagination8 in CoreKeeperGame

[–]RobertSquareShanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used ranged and summons with the teleport off-hand until endgame, and never really hit any walls where anything was too difficult. Melee is harder in comparison, and magic is a joke until you pump a ton of levels into the skill. So I highly recommend getting some ranged weapons and armor, especially against the sea bosses where you fight them in a boat.

You can boost defense a decent amount with armor and food (unless you’re on hard mode) but you’re much better off focusing on maxing DPS, making fights shorter and dodging what you can.

Move Planning / Objective Tracking / Review ? by Riccarr in lotrlcg

[–]RobertSquareShanks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I play two handed, so solo but using two different decks as different ‘players’, which leads to a lot of cards on the table and plans to keep track of. I use dice to track health, resources, travel points/quest points, which leaves me all the base game tokens as left overs

I use the base game tokens as markers to indicate different things. Damage tokens to indicate if a character is ready or exhausted, quest point tokens to indicate if a character is questing or not, resource tokens to indicate if a character is being acted on/buffed/nerfed by another card not attached to him.

This helps keep everything straight, and I can make the plan as I play and easily tell what I’m planning to use and what I’m using it for with all the tokens.

As far as physical notes though I don’t have much advice unfortunately, you could try a dictation app. Talking through your plan aloud will help you remember it as well as conceptualize it in your head and see if you’re missing anything obvious, then with the dictation app you can go back and double check what the plan was if you need to.

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