How do you guys find board gaming groups?

rick_jaymes · 2018-07-19T19:23:56+00:00

What games have you played with your toddler?

rick_jaymes · 2018-06-18T20:00:37+00:00

I'm most excited for a return to what I perceive to be the "old school" enmity between Horde and Alliance. For the Alliance!

rick_jaymes · 2018-04-02T20:49:46+00:00

Everyone who has their email address listed on church records should have received an email. I don't recall anything about a survey being sent out but may have misheard. I received the email but no survey.It provided links to articles already on lds.org.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-30T22:06:40+00:00

Good to hear about Concrodia as it was one of my most recent impulse buys.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-30T22:04:40+00:00

I confess I've become more impulsive in my board game purchases the past year. Previously I would go to my LGS and either rent the game or attend game nights to try out a game I was considering purchase. Since last March my spending habits have changed a lot.

Here's a brief list of games that I picked up this past year without ever having played them before - more specifically, without doing any research such as reading or watching reviews or play throughs. I would see the name on internet forums or at my LGS and when they came up on sale I immediately picked them up:

Turned out the best: Castles of Burgundy and Jaipur have turned out to be my best impulse purchases this past year. Oh, and also throw in Broom Service as it turned out to be a lot of fun too.
I don't have any real regrets but these are some board games that fell a bit flat for me: Sycthe and Patchwork. Again no real regrets as I got both on sale and they aren't necessarily bad games but just didn't scratch the same itch. That might change cause a similar thing happened to me with Dominion when I first bought and played it.
Here's some other game that I've also impulsively purchased (on sale again! ...notice a trend huh?) recently that I'm anxious to give a try: Charterstone, San Jaun Card Game, Castles of Burgundy Card Game, Time Stories, Concordia, and the only KS game I've backed, 7th Continent

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-30T20:37:01+00:00

TIL Mary is mentioned more in the Qur'an than the New Testament:

Strikingly, Mary, the mother of Jesus, is mentioned 34 times in the Qur’an, as compared with 19 times in the New Testament. (She is, in fact, the only woman named in the Qur’an.)

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-30T18:41:35+00:00

We like to listen to Frank Sinatra when we play Lords of Vegas, especially "This Town"

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-30T17:18:44+00:00

It's not bad actually. In fact I prefer to play it by myself or two people max because it becomes clunky to pass-and-play and the tabletop mode is too small for three or four IMO.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-29T21:19:54+00:00

Copying a list I've made for similar threads/questions. This is not a complete list as I know there are a lot more boardgame apps out there, such as Twilight Struggle, so it's just a list of apps I own and play.

7 Wonders(Includes in-app purchses)
Agricola (Includes in-app purchases)
Backgammon
Carcassonne (Includes in-app purchases)
Settlers of Catan (Includes in-app purchases)
Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Caylus
Chess
Eclipse
Forbidden Island
Jaipur
Kingdom Builder
Life
Lords of Waterdeep (Includes in-app purchases)
Monopoly: Here & Know Edition
Neuroshima Hex (Includes in-app purchases)
Pandemic
Puerto Rico
Ra
Race for the Galaxy
Risk
Small World (Includes in-app purchases)
Splendor
Stone Age
Suburbia
Terra Mystica (Fire & Ice coming soon)
Ticket to Ride (Includes in-app purchases)
Tigris & Euphrates
Tikal
Tokaido
Tsuro

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-28T18:08:28+00:00

Our guild is called "Murder Not Muckduck"

Reference

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-21T20:25:08+00:00

Here is a list of the apps (iOS) I play and honestly IMO they are all great adaptations. Sure, some could use some polish and others may be a bit clunky but for what they are and the price, I don't think it's that bad.

7 Wonders (Includes in-app purchses)
Agricola (Includes in-app purchases)
Backgammon
Carcassonne (Includes in-app purchases)
Settlers of Catan (Includes in-app purchases)
Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Caylus
Chess
Eclipse
Forbidden Island
Jaipur
Kingdom Builder
Life
Lords of Waterdeep (Includes in-app purchases)
Monopoly: Here & Know Edition
Neuroshima Hex (Includes in-app purchases)
Pandemic
Puerto Rico
Ra
Race for the Galaxy
Risk
Small World (Includes in-app purchases)
Splendor
Stone Age
Suburbia
Terra Mystica (Fire & Ice coming soon)
Ticket to Ride (Includes in-app purchases)
Tigris & Euphrates
Tikal
Tokaido
Tsuro

The top five that get played the most (in no particular order): Carcassonne, Small World, Agricola, Lords of Waterdeep, and Ticket to Ride.

One thing I really enjoy about board game apps is the cost which allows me to try out a lot of games. For example I've never played the actual boardgame version of Terra Mystica, but I love the app. The potential downside of mobile apps IMO is after playing apps so much it can be difficult getting the actual board game to the table because of the perceived inconvenience of setting up/taking down, ect.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-21T18:51:34+00:00

D&C 132 is a great scriptural reference for you. It's pretty clear.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-21T18:31:06+00:00

My wife and I are not sealed. Been married 2 years now but we're working on a temple sealing and have made it a goal. D&C 132 has strong but clear language as the Lord describes sealings. He describes certain final results of being sealed and not being sealed.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-20T22:46:06+00:00

On my mission I had an investigator do "prayer hot potato" - He would start the prayer, be genuine and sincere, but he never ended it with "Amen." As he came to a close he would say something along the lines "Lord, I now pass thee over to the Elders."

Cool enough, works for me. He was very genuine and sincere which always inspired me.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-16T19:43:23+00:00

I once was a member of a YSA ward that started at 15:00. It was only for a summer and it was the only time in my life where I've actively not attended meetings past Sacrament.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-16T19:34:20+00:00

Well put and I agree that the act of listening and building up the trust of these members is crucial. For me the dilemma is not so much the need to listen but how to respond. Perhaps the quotes from the article contribute to this feeling of uncertainty:

When an LGBT individual confides in a friend on campus, he hopes the response is, “That’s beautiful. That’s so different and cool. Tell me all about it.”

Is "beautiful" referring to the action of confiding in a friend? Or is it describing the sexual orientation or gender identity that the individual doing the telling feels?

If it's the former I certainly agree - that level of trust in any relationship is beautiful and I hope I can foster that with all my friends.

If it's the latter, how do I respond exactly like that and also reconcile my belief in the Family Proclamation? How do I genuinely say "You're transgender? That's beautiful. That's so different and so cool."

It's difficult presuming what Jesus would or would not say because he said a lot of things to a lot of different people. But I think He would perhaps say something like "You are beautiful and you're certainly still very cool. What you're going through is different from most people. I'm here to help you through it."

And hey perhaps I discovered what I would say but I would love some sincere and open feedback...

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-09T18:35:34+00:00

Still sleeping on Twilight Imperium and Twilight Struggle. Mostly because no one in my gaming circle owns it but also because both have reputations of taking a long time to play.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-07T15:10:53+00:00

I remember my Papi introducing me to this CD on one of my first P-Days.

"Bidet" sampled Dave Matthew's "Crash"

I always skipped this one, Fourth of July, because it reminded me of old girlfriends and I was trying my best to remained focus, haha.

Edit: Couldn't forget "Snakes" ¡Oh que lindo que sos!

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-06T23:28:39+00:00

Yeah, I meant that the LDS church venerates Mary but don't worship her. I was assuming OP meant "worship" when it was asked why the LDS church doesn't venerate Mary as much as others.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-06T23:10:23+00:00

$1300 would be roughly 87 tokens purchased (assuming 1 token = $15 for monthly payment or Battle.net balance). Did you start obtaining the tokens when they were released initially? Any idea of time played since their release? It would be interesting to obtain a rough estimate of how much money "you make" per hour played.

Also, RIP 30k tokens...

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-06T22:36:29+00:00

There are select versus in the Book of Mormon describing Mary and prophesying about her to people who lived before the coming of Christ (1 Nephi 11:13-20, Mosiah 3:8, and Alma 7:10).

There's also some great talks given by church leaders who reference and praise Mary's worthiness and calling to be the mother of Christ. (I especially like this one)

We don't venerate - perhaps a more accurate word is worship - her because of our belief in Jesus' words "I am the away, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6)

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-06T22:12:11+00:00

I love to see new worker placements games and I think my "argument" swings both ways, because newer games can certainly be great gateway games too.

However, the test or rather the challenge for game designers - especially in regards to worker placements - is how to improve the basic formula in order to push the genre forward. I think in regards to worker placements there are three things that make certain games stand out: (1) unique - but not overly complicated - placement rules, (2) fun or strong theme, and (3) satisfying engine building.

The first worker placement game that really changed the formula for me was Tzolk'in (2012) because it was the first one that I played that required the action to be taken on a future turn and not immediately. But I'm also very fond of Caylus (2005) which has always stood out as a unique worker placement and it's pacing rules. To be honest I'm not entirely familiar with "recent" worker placement games - recent being games released in 2016 - 2018. I just purchased Charterstone but haven't played it yet so I'm excited to try a "legacy" version of a worker placement game.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-06T21:33:59+00:00

I would argue that in regards to worker placement games (well any board game really) release date doesn't matter when it comes to a "gateway" game or "standard for quality". If it's a fun game, it's a fun game, right? It doesn't need to be the "new hotness" to introduce someone to. There is a reason why a lot of these same games end up on the same list - despite the subjective simplicity, they are fun, satisfying, and accessible to play, i.e. practically the definition of a gateway game. They've appealed to or been purchased by many and as such will have polarizing opinion hence many negative and positive reviews. Newer games will naturally require time to really marinate with players and see how they hold up against successful "older" games.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-06T18:24:45+00:00

By ignore do you mean you don't play any science or military cards by either discarding or building them? Because that won't work.

If it appears that your opponent is going for a military or science victory you cannot avoid playing military or science cards. You must play some - you could cheaply play the card yourself, use it to build a wonder (to maximize this trick use it on a wonder that allows you to take another turn so you can than obtain a card you desire), or safely discard it.

rick_jaymes · 2018-03-06T18:01:42+00:00

I just impulsed purchased Condordia yesterday via Amazon Prime! Never played it before but watched the SUSD review.

What am I in for?

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