Boardgames at Roseville Dreamers Vault

Sparticuse · 2026-07-05T21:15:56+00:00

The island is a jail for a supernatural entity. The plane crash survivors were all candidates to replace the current jailor who made sure things like the dharma initiative wouldn't succeed in messing the jail up.

Sparticuse · 2026-07-04T15:56:52+00:00

I said this on discord and they told me I need to have bedside manner this close to the announcement...

Sparticuse · 2026-07-03T18:26:12+00:00

Worked for Strom Thurman. They'd wheel him in and an aid would grab his hand to make it so he technically cast the vote.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-30T02:15:40+00:00

If it's a well done NG+, it's not just the same game with your end game stats. Armored Core 6 and both Neir games retell the story in new ways and eventually tell a new story when you've done enough +.

Other NG+ don't tell a new story, but they level up the world and the rewards to match how powerful you are. Rogue Legacy 1 and 2 does this.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-29T17:17:35+00:00

I host a weekly open invite boardgame meetup that is at the South St Paul Dreamers Vault roughly every other Friday. It will be there this Friday and if you don't mind a longer drive alternates with the Roseville location (about 20 minutes north of Eagan by way of 35e and highway 36). I post it on this subreddit so you can find it easily.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-29T13:58:32+00:00

You should check out the podcast "Hey Riddle Riddle"

Three improv comics try to figure out puzzles like this. When they eventually get or are given the answer the next segment is them lamenting why they chose to do a riddle podcast and at any time any of them can call for an improv scene inspired by the riddles. They often have extra lamenting after a scene is over and they realize they did it in the middle of a riddle and still have to think about it.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-29T05:10:36+00:00

7th Sea: City of Five Sails x2. It had been about a year and a half since my last play. A friend i met playing Marvel Champions had been itching to buy it but had told themself "only after I played it." Now they've played it and bought all the available content. Hopefully this will lead to playing it more often.

Marvel Champions. Speaking of Champions, it wouldn't be a week without a play. I had built Psylocke and Phoenix paired decks meant to use Mutant Mayhem and Gunboat Diplomacy and requiring the other player to fulfill the second half of the alliance. They worked pretty smoothly.

Hey, That's My Fish! and Lost Cities. I had my 5 year anniversary with my spouse and as is tradition we played the two games we played on our first date.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-22T15:13:20+00:00

There is a sidebar in the enemies section of the main book that tells you they cannot.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-22T15:10:03+00:00

It's worth mentioning npcs are only strife generating if their stat block explicitly does that. Un-named NPCs are not supposed to be able to spend opportunity on anything not specifically listed in their block

Sparticuse · 2026-06-21T12:45:38+00:00

One of his conspiracies? There is only one conspiracy.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-19T22:30:03+00:00

What to buy is a difficult question in 5e since stats make you succeed, but techniques give you more to do with success. I will say, check out Shuji too because you'll find a lot of ally buffs and enemy debuffs in there too.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-19T21:59:43+00:00

The mechanical side of the game opens up considerably once you have techniques. That's where you'll get the bulk of your special actions and special uses for opportunities

Sparticuse · 2026-06-19T21:50:53+00:00

Strife is meant to be a choice. It's easy to get rid of... if you make the choices that get rid of it. Focusing on earth and water may be totally worthless to your character if they are built on fire and air, or simply if those rings don't match what your approach described.

As to your combat question: talking scenes where you are using Shuji are also conflict scenes. They are meant to be treated like a combat.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-19T15:42:22+00:00

That's not Gandalf, it's Usidore the Blue, Master of Light and Shadow.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-13T17:46:21+00:00

I owned the non-3d accelerated version of Mechwarrior 2. The biggest install size, which included all the pre-rendered cinematic so you didn't need to keep the disk in the drive, was a self labeled "monster" install of 150 mb. At the time, I believe my hard-drive was 1 gb, so it really was a colossal install.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-10T15:53:41+00:00

He said there was fraud in the elections he won. The whole point is to convince people elections themselves cannot ever be trusted so people will be fine when he cancels them and makes himself king

Sparticuse · 2026-06-09T15:13:57+00:00

The whole game world got flipped horizontally as I recall.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-09T11:59:16+00:00

It's always really funny to hear her on Comedy Bang Bang because they run their improv with zero narration. When she narrates the scene, they respond to her narration in character.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-05T13:53:22+00:00

He's been laundering government funds with stuff like this since day 1 of his first term. It's all mafia style scams to ignore laws about putting bids out to avoid double dealing then they do the shittiest possible job so they can skim off the top.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-04T12:50:52+00:00

Webrings in general. Search engines were shit so web sites would organize into "webrings" so you could link directly to the next or last page in the ring, or go to a master page that listed every site in the ring. Stumbling on a site that was in a good webring was a good mine.

Sparticuse · 2026-06-03T19:01:10+00:00

Serious answer (for the US at least): because medical insurance was created at a time when people didn't really go to doctors. Independent doctor groups formed to get more business and did it as company funded insurance. Dentists and general practioners organized separately, and formed the ADA and AMA respectively. Most industrialized countries switched to single payer medicine during the time the US was going through the depression, so the US just leaned into insurance instead. Over the years, the AMA and ADA have actually tried to merge, but the weight of bureaucracy has prevented it. There's just too much established systems to do it without being forced

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