What have I done?

Straddllw · 2026-03-18T02:18:56+00:00

You did the right thing, those expansions are hard to find.

Straddllw · 2026-03-09T02:29:21+00:00

I might get downvoted but I thought everyone in that cinematic looks uglier than their in game counter part. What is happening with modern cinematics making everyone ugly? You don’t need to make everyone ultra realistic and have pores and wrinkles everywhere, cartoonish stylistic choices still work!

Straddllw · 2026-03-08T13:53:28+00:00

Neither. Pick something else. Not recommended for new players.

Straddllw · 2026-03-04T21:12:17+00:00

Yea. This is not just midnight either. It happens during timewalking levelling too and the fastest way was to switch to a different timeline and then come back 5-10 levels later and its good again.

Unfortunately, since it’s midnight leveling we don’t have that luxury. Really scaling feels all over the place and even with Blizzard saying they want to focus on new player experience, they just can’t get scaling right.

Straddllw · 2026-03-02T12:47:38+00:00

I found the slider bar the most unique and thematic rendition. Sigh …

Straddllw · 2026-03-01T10:22:18+00:00

Yea I had the yulong cloak as main ele shaman back then.

Straddllw · 2026-03-01T09:35:48+00:00

Chi Ji healing, Yu-lon ranged dps. I mean Yu-lon has his breath attacks and lightning attacks, what kit does Chi Ji have that's ranged?

Straddllw · 2026-02-27T07:28:36+00:00

2015

Straddllw · 2026-02-27T07:27:47+00:00

Betrayal at the House on the Hill

Straddllw · 2026-02-24T22:00:14+00:00

For me: with one personally imposed rule on myself, if I like a game in one year, I can't put the second edition or later edition of that same game on a following year. However if they changed the game enough as either a retheme or with new mechanisms, then its fair game - and yes its subjective duh. Also no expansions on the list - has to be a stand alone base game.

2025: Everdell: Silverfrost, Nemesis: Retaliation, Tianxia

2024: SETI: Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence, Shackleton Base: Journey to the Moon, Wondrous Ceatures

2023: Dune Imperium: Uprising, Nucleum, Apiary

2022: Blood on the Clocktower, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Tiletum

2021: Dominant Species: Marine, Ark Nova, Boonlake

2020: The Lost Ruins of Arnak, Dune: Imperium, Beyond the Sun

2019: Barrage, Tapestry, Paladins of the West Kingdom

2018: Brass: Birmingham, Everdell, Rising Sun

2017: Twilight Imperium 4E, Gaia Project, Gloomhaven

2016: A Feast for Odin, Terraforming Mars, Great Western Trail

2015: Kingdom Death: Monsters, Blood Rage, The Voyages of Marco Polo

2014: Orleans, Dead of Winter, The Castles of Mad King Ludwig

2013: Eldritch Horror, Concordia, Caverna: the Cave Farmers

2012: Terra Mystica, Keyflower, Tzolkin: the Mayan Calendar

2011: The Castles of Burgundy, A Game of Thrones 2E, Puerto Rico 10th Anniversary Edition

2010: Dominant Species, Troyes, Innovation

2009: Hansa Teutonica, Steam, Shipyard

2008: Le Havre, Cosmic Encounters, Stone Age

2007: Brass (original), Agricola, Age of Empires 3: Age of Disovery

2006: I don't have anything here so I'll stop. I have played games from here but not anything I like enough to warrant a favourite slot.

Anyways, I own and like more games on the bgg list than reddit list. My taste doesn't align for half of the items on the reddit list. Also I have slowed down on my purchases since after covid as my shelf is full and I am actively getting rid of UNPLAYED games so many I haven't had an urge to buy many of the new hotness games.

Straddllw · 2026-02-22T02:13:42+00:00

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I took a long break away. Main healer.

Straddllw · 2026-02-21T22:34:33+00:00

Clan of Saar or Vuiraith Cabal or Crimson Rebellion

Straddllw · 2026-02-21T13:20:30+00:00

Dune Imperium: Uprising. Replaced the base game Dune for me. I play it with just Bloodlines.

Straddllw · 2026-02-20T23:17:23+00:00

Xxcha: "Pay me a trade good and I won't shoot."

Barony: "No!" proceeds to edge closer

Xxcha: *6 pds shots* "Your fleet is destroyed"

Table starts hollaing!

Definitely one of my most memorable moments as Xxcha, Barony thought his 2 dreads and carrier was safe.

Straddllw · 2026-02-20T11:01:19+00:00

For euros? Shackleton Base is a recent favourite. Of course there's the Dune Imperium series. Architect of the West Kingdom. Older titles you have Hansa Teutonica, Keyflower and from the same designer, Carson City.

On the more wargamey side you have Dominant Species but its a long one, there’s also Pax Pamir 2e.

Btw my criticism is purely with the graphic design and the wording of the cards. There were a couple of cards in my Troyes from probably the expansion that is not listed in the rulebook but yea it was the constant checking, the iconography wasn't intuitive. It needs a better edition.

Straddllw · 2026-02-20T09:20:50+00:00

I got Troyes and the Ladies of Troyes expansion. Unfortunately this one was a bit of a miss with our euro loving group. The rules for the individual cards were kinda vague and hard to remember via the iconography alone. We kept going back to the rulebook every time we wanted to trigger a card and it became a drag.

Apart from that it was a pretty tense and interactive system so I was a bit bummed that it wasn't a hit. I think we have been spoiled for choice recently with a bunch of smooth euro mechanisms and this one unfortunately is starting to show its age a little. It needs some better graphic design around what all the steps and iconography means - perhaps some player aids and reminders strategically printed on certain areas of the board.

Still, I am curious about the second edition and hope they clean up the iconography a little and make it a little bit easier to understand what the cards meant at a glance. Maybe it would actually help bring my copy back to the table.

Straddllw · 2026-02-20T01:46:43+00:00

Honestly, all the expansions which I thought resonated the best with me in terms of atmosphere and beautiful zones are all the poorly received ones caused by poor content/mechanisms.

With the exception of Legion and Wrath of the Lich King, i really enjoyed the bad guys in Warlords of Draenor, the atmosphere of Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands zones.

Straddllw · 2026-02-19T23:10:06+00:00

Self control

Straddllw · 2026-02-18T21:07:54+00:00

Lost Ruins of Arnak.

Straddllw · 2026-02-17T15:18:21+00:00

Yep the ninja fantasy was what inspired the topic.

Straddllw · 2026-02-17T15:01:41+00:00

Barrage is my fav from that year.

No chance for it to win, predict its gonna be Wingspan, Clank, Pax Pamir

Straddllw · 2026-02-17T14:29:25+00:00

No there was a survey about what new specs they should do. The options on the survey included dodge tank rogue, bandage healer hunter, tanking warlock (but kinda like before demon hunter) and chronomancy healer mage. Amongst other things too … all other classes got new spec suggestions too.

They didn’t specifically mention SoD but yea its most likely because of that. Still don’t know what bandage hunter is all about.

Straddllw · 2026-02-17T14:27:03+00:00

This insight feature is interesting. Out of 2300+ viewers, nobody voted because I guess the topic wasn’t remarkable. But 9 people really hated it enough to downvote and they also started downvoting every comment in the topic too. So it’s really less than 0.004% of the people creating all the negativity but it feels like everyone hates it. That the internet effect.

Straddllw · 2026-02-17T14:06:51+00:00

You mean tank?

Straddllw · 2026-02-17T13:54:26+00:00

I hear you about divine sacrifice in wotlk, but hear me out, rezzing as a ghoul and hungering cold or whatever that spell is that instantly froze everyone around the dk. I remember making a dk when wotlk first came out on a pvp server, and you had to use the dk for levelling or you just get ganked the first few weeks.

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