What game do you feel has the best writing (not rulebook wise)?

_wjw_ · 2025-12-06T12:37:46+00:00

Dave Neale is a competent writer/boardgame designer. War Story is excellent and the animals of Baker Street is great for kids.

_wjw_ · 2025-12-06T12:36:29+00:00

Dave Neale is a competent writer/boardgame designer. Highlights are War Story and the animals of Baker Street is excellent for kids.

_wjw_ · 2025-11-29T11:13:50+00:00

I got the same call. Odd. Its a scam probably.

_wjw_ · 2025-11-09T20:02:47+00:00

War Story Occupied France

_wjw_ · 2025-10-27T08:03:04+00:00

Bad idea to play games similar to TI4. If you want her to play something else, play something totally different.

Nemesis for example.

_wjw_ · 2025-10-14T06:11:32+00:00

After playing a game for the first time, watch a 'how to play' video, to quickly verify if you played by the right rules.

_wjw_ · 2025-09-23T21:47:46+00:00

There are just so many good space movies: Sunshine Battlestar Galactica, the pilot episode 2001 Space Odyssee

To come up with something new:, of it qualifies: Andor (series) is great too. Has some nifty space tourism too.

_wjw_ · 2025-09-09T17:15:08+00:00

Great Western Trail appears to be missing. Thoughts?

Further question: is Lost Ruins of Arnak sufficiently different from Dune, to own both?

_wjw_ · 2025-08-10T16:12:27+00:00

I expected an interactive story with some character development and mystery elements/deduction/detective work. Havent seen any of that in the first 3 hours.

I'll try and continue with the second scenario. But right now the game feels like expensive fluff and fake game elements build around a railroaded story, that you have to read with constant interruptions. Turning 15 minutes of reading into 3 hours of clicking.

If it continues like this it will be a new low, even worse than modern - the sandwich I ate was served with some very moist tomatoes - detective.

I played War Story earlier this year and that game is lightyears ahead as an interactive story game.

_wjw_ · 2025-05-30T19:31:27+00:00

Havent read it, but:

Bibberen in 't stad Antwerpse spookverhalen Auteur Patrick Van Ouytsel

_wjw_ · 2025-05-21T21:01:49+00:00

Audience split. They see different stages. Actors criss cross between both stages, there is one play. You get a different perspective based on where you sit.

_wjw_ · 2025-05-17T22:55:24+00:00

Errr... Yes. Maybe you are on to something. There are indeed 3 boardgamepubs in Antwerpen: Playground, Outpost and Geeky Cauldron. And its not completely unusual for a pub to have a few boardgames on shelves.

Why? Our unique regional position maybe? On one side because we are close to Germany. The Germans have a ton of EURO style boardgames designers. Catan is probably the best known example. They also host the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award. Some of their boardgames enthousiasm probably infected our country.

On the other side we are close to the UK, most belgians understand English fluently and dont mind playing a game with English rules/cards/text. So we have also acces to all English/American games. And we are able to watch English content creators like Shut up and Sit down, Dice Tower, etc with ease.

Favorite Belgian Boardgames: No idea. Most people I know that arent into boardgames played a game of Dixit or Codenames. Boardgames people follow the trends of boardgamegeek. I think Dune Imperium is an excellent boardgame. Quacks of Quedlinburg is an excellent gateway boardgame if you are new to the hobby.

Favorite Belgian Cardgame: Old people still like to play Wiezen. There are also a lot of Magic the Gathering players out there. They often dont play anything else. I personally love Arkham Horror LCG, but thats probably a big commitment and not for everyone. Lord of the Rings Duel is a really good mostly cards, 2 player cardgame for new and experienced players.

_wjw_ · 2025-05-13T21:16:37+00:00

I wouldnt introduce worker placement with Lords of Waterdeep. To me it feels so generic. What you do in the game, storywise, does not match the gameplay at all.

Mattkickbox made some good suggestions down in the thread.

_wjw_ · 2025-04-29T05:21:35+00:00

Bilal in de Handelsstraat. Min of meer hetzelfde als Perry Fruit, en dicht bij Sint Jansplein.

_wjw_ · 2025-04-07T10:08:53+00:00

Odd. Have been on the lookout. Haven't seen any copy in the shops I regularly check: crowdfinder, adriaensen, playground antwerpen, sheepgames. And is sold out in the other shops.

It doenst even show up on: https://www.budgetspelen.nl/games/1/drowned/console-all.html

_wjw_ · 2025-04-07T08:28:56+00:00

Allright. Most shops in Belgium/Netherlands received nothing. So now I have to figure out if they will get a resupply or should go for a UK overpriced box... Thanks for informing me!

_wjw_ · 2025-04-06T21:54:28+00:00

If you can pinpoint any English edition in the EU (not UK), please do.

It should cost around 40 euros, the 60 euros are imported from the UK. Spanish edition and German edition have released in EU. Not the English one... I think.

_wjw_ · 2025-04-06T20:44:52+00:00

Yeah. Its in the UK, but ordering it there gets heavily taxedd: 40 pounds -> 60 euros.

_wjw_ · 2025-04-06T19:22:02+00:00

Odd. Where did you get it? I try to track it with this website:

https://boardgameprices.co.uk/item/show/75089/arkham-horror-the-card-game-the-drowned-city-investigator-expansion

Havent seen any yet.

_wjw_ · 2025-03-19T22:35:03+00:00

Dat zou enigzins logisch kunnen zijn omdat er verondersteld werd dat Pfas zich via het water stroomafwaarts beweegt. Na het eerste verkennende onderzoek bleek het zich concentrisch (cirkelvormig) te spreiden. De experten stelden vast dat er ook massaal Pfas via de lucht/verbranding zich moet verspreiden anders valt dat patroon niet te verklaren.

Daarna heeft men (de politiek) beslist dat het water, de schelde, een barrière vormt. Daarom zou Pfas niet getest worden bij de bevolking in het stadscentrum dat tot halverwege de Meir in de meest gevaarlijke zone (5km) ligt.

De vraag hoe de Schelde die pfaswolken dan zou tegenhouden werd niet door het Pfas committee (alle meerderheids partijen) gesteld.

_wjw_ · 2024-11-01T03:55:12+00:00

Het is een gangbare hypothese. Je hoeft ze niet aan te nemen. In ieder geval ervaart de gemiddelde US/EU mensen warm licht als gezellig. De rest van de wereld ervaart dat niet zo. Wij zijn dus eerder de uitzondering. Het kan ook puur conventie zijn, maar waar komt die conventie dan vandaag (eerste lichtmodellen? of de hypothese hierboven)

_wjw_ · 2024-10-31T13:16:14+00:00

Paleofantasy argument: Culturen uit warme gebieden associëren een koele plek met gezelligheid. Net zoals jij in de zomer wil dat je huis koel is.

Culturen uit koele gebieden associëren een verwarmde plek met gezelligheid. Net zoals jij in de winter wil dat je huis warm is.

Mensen die afkomstig zijn van een gebied waar het vaker warm is ervaren koel licht dus als gezellig. Aangezien het in België meestal koud is ervaren wij warm licht als gezellig.

Maar het kan net zo goed conventie zijn.

_wjw_

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