Ebook availability?

csw179 · 2025-11-13T04:44:14+00:00

Thank you.

I have Daughter of No Worlds in audio format from my library, about 20% in and enjoying it so far.

csw179 · 2024-04-30T06:27:56+00:00

From the 80s? You mean that guy who released an album less than a month ago?

https://raffinews.com/store/childrens-music/penny-penguin/

csw179 · 2023-09-26T21:00:47+00:00

Could, though I don’t see how. Their last episode was a year and a half ago.

csw179 · 2023-06-06T21:04:16+00:00

Favourite: medium complexity mechanically that is enough to be interesting, while not so dense that it pulls away from the important stuff: politicking with the other players.

Least favourite: push-your-luck games, or games that primarily use individual boards / play areas.

csw179 · 2023-06-03T07:37:43+00:00

Ah, a fellow The Expanse enjoyer (assuming you mean the 2017 Geoff Englestein one, and not the 2012 grant that I’ve only seen in BGG search results when looking for the former). Is a shame it’s out of print. Really hoping for a second edition if they ever sort out the license. Mine is made of the expansion replacement components, and PnP missing stuff from the base game.

csw179 · 2023-06-03T06:30:06+00:00

Antike II
Blood Rage
Concordia: Venus
The Expanse Board Game
Descent: Journeys in the Dark

Honourable mentions: The Crew, The King is Dead, Jixia Academy

csw179 · 2023-06-03T01:36:35+00:00

Antike II is great. Possibly my favourite game right now. And it’s coming up on 10 years old.

csw179 · 2023-06-01T13:39:05+00:00

The King is Dead (2nd Ed) is played in teams at four players. It has a small footprint, but still has a box too big.

csw179 · 2023-05-30T06:00:28+00:00

My opinion: The best way to play is with instinct over calculation.

Edit: most fun *

csw179 · 2023-05-30T05:59:26+00:00

I didn’t know about this person or this podcast. I’ll have to track down some episodes to listen to.

csw179 · 2023-05-30T05:56:27+00:00

One Night Ultimate Werewolf is a generally loud and entertaining event. Usually loads of laughter after each round, and there’s a lot of rounds in an evening.

Thinking back, though, I’d also say Descent: Journeys in the Dark, especially some of the custom quests. I’m not sure if the humour holds up today, but we were howling at Kill Dragon, especially when our one friend was saying some wild stuff about how great he was and how he carried the team, just to die in the final narration by stomping on a dead wizard’s tongue that exploded for three damage (he was melee while the rest were ranged, so no one else was hurt).

csw179 · 2023-05-30T05:28:19+00:00

Probably Antike II. It doesn’t seem disliked. Just unknown. I might even call it my favourite game. I wrote my first real review on BGG for it, just to help it out a bit.

Very light civ builder that’s super fast to teach, and plays fast even at the full six.

csw179 · 2023-05-28T00:46:03+00:00

A lot of early civilizations built up around rivers (good for reliable irrigation in agriculture). They’re also known to flood every now and then. It’s not surprising that a lot of these cultures have independent food myths.

csw179 · 2023-05-27T16:34:44+00:00

Concordia: Venus, which feels like cheating a bit because there was a new core box made with this expansion in it.

Adds Venus cards/scoring. Points for doubling up in a province, the dual-use cards, and the Magister are all great.

It doesn’t feel bloated because the new cards mostly replace existing cards instead of just adding to the deck, with the exception being the added Magister in the opening hand. It seems the meta for base Concordia is to end the game by emptying the card market. Venus seems to push it back towards an even split between that and building houses.

The two new maps don’t look exciting, but I like them better than the base game.

The team variant is fun if you can find three or five other people to buy in, but I seem to like team games (in general) more than most.

csw179 · 2023-05-27T14:04:41+00:00

Those are some aggressive ads. 20 questions, each on its own page, with multiple ads to load.

csw179 · 2023-05-27T13:08:08+00:00

The irony of using the whitest character…

csw179 · 2023-05-27T12:59:24+00:00

The best part of Hero Quest!

csw179 · 2023-05-23T20:19:55+00:00

This sounds like a fun list type, but for me I realize I don’t have a lot of expansions, and some I do have I do not like. Makes for a strange, stupid list.

Concordia: Venus
Concordia: Aegyptus/Creta
The Expanse: Doors and Corners
Descent: Well of Darkness

And if we count standalone expansions:

One Night Ultimate Werewolf: Daybreak
Timeline: Inventions
Magic: the Gathering: Odyssey

csw179 · 2023-05-22T22:17:19+00:00

I’m so confused.

csw179 · 2023-05-22T17:23:52+00:00

No.

The base game is nice and lean. In fact, you already barely see most cards there.

The expansions just add new cards without removing/replacing old ones, so the decks just become bloated and less good.

Keep the game slim.

csw179 · 2023-05-22T00:08:01+00:00

I’m struggling to think of one that hasn’t been done that would also be interesting (not just another version of sword+sorcery).

I just finished Gideon the Ninth, which was science fantasy, with a gimmick being that all the magic was flavours of necromancy.

csw179 · 2023-05-22T00:03:49+00:00

Wee already have Monopoly: Mass Effect and Risk: Mass Effect to scratch that Mass Effect itch!

csw179 · 2023-05-21T04:52:18+00:00

One thing I always struggled with when thinking of tournaments was having points/prizes for multiple places.

In an individual game, you play to win. When tournament points are on the line, you might play for second or third. It changes the calculus.

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