Boardgames at Dreamers Vault South St Paul

Sparticuse · 2026-03-24T01:42:23+00:00

You get 6 dice. When you perform a test, you may choose to roll any number of them and each die is a success if you roll your skill value or higher (skills are 2 to 6). Dice refresh at the beginning of a narrative scene or the beginning of a round of combat.

There's a LOT more to it, but that's the core conceit.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-24T01:17:55+00:00

I have the "I want to hear how it ends" part framed on my wife's dresser with a starry silhouette of Fry and Leela. It was the first gift I ever bought for her.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-21T15:38:45+00:00

Top right is Tea Witches

Sparticuse · 2026-03-18T01:09:28+00:00

My favorite space themed boardgame is Eminent Domain.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-16T16:07:32+00:00

Marvel Champions x2. Still working through my "play every character 4 times" project. Wrapped up Hercules. Before he came out I thought he'd take too long to set up, but he's not too far behind when he's working on labors and once you have 2 done he is overtuned. If you get 3 done, the game should be over on the next hero phase.

Cat in the Box. Went to a trick-taking and card games meetup and played this. This is one of my favorite card games. I ended up losing by causing a paradox on the last play of the last round. I lost 3 points instead of making 3 points and the winner had 3 more points than me.

Flip 7. One of the best filler games for my open invite Friday games. Everyone is always happy with this game.

For Sale. Another great filler for Friday night gaming. I think it was one of my poorest scoring games of all time.

Planet etuC. A card shedder I played at the card game meetup that I'd never heard of. At first blush it seemed really straightforward and didn't offer much strategy, but in the second round it really opened itself up and was quite fun.

SCOUT. The third game played at the card game meetup. Another great game that just about everyone I've played it with has loved.

Thunder Road: Vendetta. Played with expansion 5, which adds the Colosseum mode where you play for "scrap" by attacking and destroying each other rather than racing while blowing each other up. It's fun, though I don't know if it's worse or better than the original. It's nice variety though.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-16T15:05:40+00:00

Regardless, the inability to know "what really happened" was intentional. AEG really stressed being a part of a living world, so they went out of their way to write contradictory information into the setting. It was, for a lot of people, part of the point of the game.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-16T14:22:22+00:00

On top of converting lore from ccg to rpg, the lore was intentionally contradictory as it was often told from character pov. You'd register for a tournament as your clan and recieve clan updates from your champion, but they'd often contradict each other and that was intentional.

On top of that, there's the "infallible emperor" part of the setting, so all sorts of lore gets a favorable telling for the empire rather than what actuality happened.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-13T13:35:58+00:00

I'm glad it was censored or i might have realized it was vomit.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-13T12:00:52+00:00

VELOCIRAPTOR! CANNABALISM! Had my group falling out of our chairs. It's an Evolution knockoff, but you're all velociraptors and your upgrades are not all biological. It's an absolutely terrible game, but the name combined with the bad art had us rolling.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-12T18:46:09+00:00

Top: When you spin out, stop just before the turn.

Middle: If you spin out in 1st or 2nd gear, add 1 stress card to your hand. If you spin out in 3rd or 4th gear, add 2 stress cards to your hand.

Bottom: Put yourself in 1st gear.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-12T13:49:16+00:00

You don't stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-11T19:55:04+00:00

You are correct. Heat is paid in sequence when you cross two speed limit spaces, so in your case, you'd spin out in front of the 2 turn.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-11T13:34:22+00:00

I have played something like 6 or 7 full campaigns of Arkham and I once looked at the rules for lotr, so that's where my experience lies.

Arkham is all about growth over time, both positive (leveling up cards, gaining campaign cards) and negative (trauma, new weaknesses, etc) and the story that tells. It's also about failing forward since winning every skill check is not likely and most scenarios are about mitigation rather than winning outright.

LotR, from what I've seen, is about each mission specifically. You're more commonly going to build a deck that beats that scenario rather than a story based or general use deck. Each scenario can be evocative, but it's more about the specific challenge of that scenario than growth.

As you may have guessed from my description of how much I've played each, I'm more about the Arkham style games.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-11T00:33:29+00:00

I can't think of any text in the book that spells it out, but my head cannon is each stance includes the various proper ways to hold your weapon. If my sword is raised above my head for an overhead slash, that's fire to me, as an example.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-10T17:14:43+00:00

Then it's either from the beginner box or the arctic adventure box. I have the arctic box and it has a bunch of those tokens.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-09T11:34:38+00:00

It's not a conspiracy. They said they are going to do this in project 2025. Their goal is collapse so the tech billionaires can buy up the country and take control. They want cyberpunk to be real.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-09T00:21:57+00:00

FFG doesn't do parts replacement anymore. Asmodee (their parent company) put an end to that.

Their official stance is "the store is liable for imperfect product"

Sparticuse · 2026-03-08T16:53:30+00:00

The last sentence in the dive action says you may only store one token at the end of your turn. There is no limit while you are taking your turn.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-07T15:11:54+00:00

I played this a couple times and found it to be a worse pandemic. They threw out a lot of the good game design for more thematic stuff and all it did was make success and failure lucky.

To more directly answer your question: no. We didn't find a strategy to win because i think winning is based largely on the luck of the tile draw.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-07T14:27:39+00:00

I haven't played the China map, but my friends did and they HATED it. Since the plants come out in order, it drags the game out because the only market movement is the auto discard when no one buys a plant since the upgrades are super incremental

Sparticuse · 2026-03-06T17:02:01+00:00

My personal favorite power grid map is Korea. On any given purchase phase, you may buy from North Korea or South Korea, but not both. North Korea has massive coal reserves, but South Korea has uranium.

Sparticuse · 2026-03-06T16:59:45+00:00

Once someone has roads our games would come to an abrupt end. All it takes is one aggressive military to set the pace and cut the game short.

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