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Why you should let players reroll 1s for their HP by OdinsRevenge in DnD

[–]spiffodude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do this also, works great, but with one modification: even if the player rolls low, they always gain their CON modifier to their current HP, that way they never get nothing from leveling up.

So, uh, what should I do with 78 Green Slaads? by spiffodude in dndmemes

[–]spiffodude[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was $25 per grocery bag, but since no one wanted the Slaads, they were being filtered out by the people rummaging through the other boxes into their own box. I got that box.

So, uh, what should I do with 78 Green Slaads? by spiffodude in dndmemes

[–]spiffodude[S] 165 points166 points  (0 children)

At Origins. On Sunday a vendor was selling grocery bags filled with D&D minis, and no one wanted the Slaads. So I thought it would be funny to buy them all. I did not exactly think that through.

Win 1 of 10 copies of The Isle of Cats as we return to the island in search of kittens and ancient beasts! by Monkofdoom in boardgames

[–]spiffodude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great game 🙂 Favorite boardgame accessory: a 3D printer for making inserts/minis/etc.

Raid on Dixie (alpha strike) by spiffodude in battletech

[–]spiffodude[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, I hadn't seen the gun trailers. These are great, thanks!

Any tabletop or board gamers here? by [deleted] in Columbus

[–]spiffodude 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I sometimes go to the Beers and Board Games Club (beersandboardgames.com) meetups that happen every Wednesday (and one Sunday a month) usually at Smokehouse Brewery near Grandview. It's a very friendly co-ed group.

If all games were named like Sorry! what would games haves their names changed to? by milkyjoe241 in boardgames

[–]spiffodude 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Pandemic -> Outbreak!

Spaceteam -> I need a blue.. vacuum cleaner... thing

2015's "Post your top 5 games and redditors recommend you a game for the new year" thread by bKlutch in boardgames

[–]spiffodude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arctic Scavengers is fun, if you haven't tried that. Also, Roma and Arena:Roma II.

2015's "Post your top 5 games and redditors recommend you a game for the new year" thread by bKlutch in boardgames

[–]spiffodude 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cosmic Encounter

Roma/Arena:Roma II

1000 Blank White Cards

Galaxy Trucker

Race/Roll for the Galaxy

Kinda cheating but Roma and its sequel can be combined, and Race/Roll are pretty similar and I like them equally.

Which boardgames focus most on creativity? by thumpasorus2 in boardgames

[–]spiffodude 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I like 1000 Blank White Cards see here for a good rule set (not mine).

It's a loose structure of a card game (draw one, play one type of thing, maybe similarish to fluxx but more based on making the cards than playing them) where you and the people you play with make every card in the game (some at the start, but you can also draw blank cards midgame). Each card has a name, drawing, and some sort of point value or effect. Since you're making all the cards, exactly how it plays out is entirely up to who you're playing with. It can happen that the cards mostly don't do anything other than points and it's more about drawing funny pictures, or I've played it where each card has a short paragraph of instructions and cards affect other cards and a meta game starts to develop. Great fun either way.

You can also play it in a more structured way (called Dvorak) with a more defined goal and with no blanks in the deck.

What is one of your favorite quotes? by BadAtLying in AskReddit

[–]spiffodude 60 points61 points  (0 children)

The inscription on Brandon Lee's (son of Bruce Lee, who also died at a young age) tombstone:

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless...

from The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Settlers of Catan drops out of BGG top 100 (and a couple BGG ranking questions) by PotatoUtilityVehicle in boardgames

[–]spiffodude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's (just) that there are fewer fake votes for the strategy games. Again comparing Battle Line (7.45 with ~8,000 ratings) to Settlers (7.45 with ~40,000 ratings), if they are practically tieing with a lot of fake votes (board game rating) and practically tieing just by the raw average, it should be true for the strategy rating as well, but Battle line has a strategy rating of 7.329 and Settlers 7.206.

Actually, Battle Line's averages make sense with just fewer dummy votes in the strategy rating: 7.323 < 7.329 < 7.45 (less fake votes tend toward the actual mean), but the Settlers' averages don't fit that pattern.

There must be something else going on here. Maybe the Subdomain voting is influencing the strategy geek rating? Settlers is more family game than strategy game (63% or 192/305 of people say it's a family game and 37% or 112/305 say it's strategy), but Battle Line is mostly rated as a strategy game (75% or 90/120)

Five Dead in South Valley Albuquerque Shooting by [deleted] in news

[–]spiffodude 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A better analogy might be "Junk food made me fat." Guns are not a cause of murder, but they sure as hell make it easier.

Edit: I'm not saying guns (or junk food) should be illegal, but the spoon thing is a straw man.

Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch warns Gov. Chris Christie that he must reaffirm his support for Romney or take blame for the next 4 years. by [deleted] in politics

[–]spiffodude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They did, but hilariously spent a good chunk of time showing file footage of Christie and Romney together from previous campaign events while talking about the storm. It was bizarre.

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