/tg/Station 13

Since the board game thread I started got wiped, I figured I'd start another thread for me to talk to myself in. Board games, wargames, TTRPG stuff goes here.

I'm driving back to my old stomping grounds of Akron this weekend for a Used Game Flea Market at one of my favorite stores. I look forward to this more than my birthday. I get paid Friday and a big chunk of it will be gone by noon on Sunday. GOTTA BUY MORE STUFF I'LL NEVER PLAY

Here's the stuff I picked up at the aforementioned flea market:



Not a huge haul, but three big-name games and a couple small ones for a little over the price a brand-new copy of Small World was a pretty good deal.

I played a game called Cosmic Encounters a few weeks back. Some kind of strategy/political/space game. It's fun, but I feel like you gotta be a bit of a sociopath to play it, playing mind games with fools, making promises you know you're going to break next turn, all that backstabbing. Yeah I'd play it again.

I've heard Cosmic Encounters is great, though I haven't played it or even really seen it played.

How do you like the card based / card only games? I have never really been much of a fan beyond actual card games like poker and euchre and stuff, i like to have a board and pieces and shit.

I'm a big fan of deck-building games, and the game I'm working on is actually completely card-based. One of my favorite games, Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards, is pretty much entirely card-based save for score-keeping pieces. It's hilarious, fast, and easy to teach.

How do you even manage to find people for table top gaems? If I ask someone, if he wants to do this kind of stuff, this person always tells, that he prefers bars, and tabletop is for children ;-;7

I mostly just play with my friends, but a lot of medium-sized cities will probably have at least one big gaming club that meets regularly. Try MeetUp.

M-M-M-MEGA NECRO

KINGDOM DEATH

HOLY SHIT

THIS GAME IS SO GODDAMN BRUTAL AND YET I STILL DIDN'T HATE MYSELF WHEN THE ENTIRE PARTY GOT EATEN BY A LION DUE TO SHITTY ROLLS

IT'S GOOD

Isn't that the game where Satan wears a dress made out of tongues and sandals and gauntlets made out of penises?

Maccus wrote:Isn't that the game where Satan wears a dress made out of tongues and sandals and gauntlets made out of penises?

Yes.

Also one of our players ripped the balls off a giant lion and then it went berserk and bit my head clean off.

Really wish there was a good way to play Necromunda online, i have never played the game but i feel like a /tg/ Necromunda league would be amazing. I was thinking maybe one of those programs that people use to play warhammer 40k online but Necromunda needs so much terrain and levels that i do not think it would work well

I would play in a legit blood bowl league where we actually had prizes for the league champ and everything.

I'd even go so far as to learn to play the tabletop version.

EndgamerAzari wrote:M-M-M-MEGA NECRO

KINGDOM DEATH

HOLY SHIT

THIS GAME IS SO GODDAMN BRUTAL AND YET I STILL DIDN'T HATE MYSELF WHEN THE ENTIRE PARTY GOT EATEN BY A LION DUE TO SHITTY ROLLS

IT'S GOOD

I want to play this

But at >$300+ for a set I'm not springing for it any time soon.

There's a mod of it for Tabletop Simulator: http://kdmtts.tumblr.com/post/130729566 ... -available

whats a good fun online card game that's not pay 2 win? preferably skill/strategy based but im open to anything. cards against humanity isnt really a card game per se, i've heard somewhat good things about mafia but idk if thats one ither

teach me sensei

I've heard good things about Hearthstone

Hearthstone is all the degeneracy of Magic the Gathering combined with the unrelenting malaise of a free-to-play game.

If you want to play a card-game online go learn to play Netrunner and play it on OCTGN. If you're down I'll even figure out how to get that shit working and play it with you. I could use the practice, and it's totally fuckin' free.

The last boardgame I played that really made me stop and say "Wow I am enjoying the shit out of this!" was Roll for the Galaxy. Worker-placement game with fun dice mechanics. The last game I played that I thought "Wow this should be a lot better!" was Vikings, a resource-management that was way too fucking random and a hot mess. Somewhere after that I played March of the Ants and it was like a game I couldn't decide if it was just not good or maybe it was actually me not totally getting it.

My friends keep pushing Takenoko on me and I'm just not liking it at all. It's made by a French guy who can't stop making weirdly Asian influenced board games and it makes me giggle. The thought of a French weeaboo is funny to me. He also made Tokaido, Hanabi, and Samurai Spirit. MON DIEU ZIS ANIMES ET KAWAII AS FUCK

French weeaboos are also known as ouiaboos

but hey, the French are not half bad at making faux anime:

Last game that I played and really loved was called haunt at the house on the hill. Players explore a spoopy haunted house, and you build the house from tiles as you explore it. Eventually an event will trigger "the haunt" and the haunt is a different scenario based on what triggers it and what room it is triggered in, so there is something insane like 50 scenarios. Anyways once the haunt is triggered bad stuff starts to happen, and usually one or more players become antagonists and have to stop their friends from beating the ghost or whatever, usually by killing them. Really fun game

Betrayal at the House on the Hill is a Halloween standby for my group of friends. It's not a party until somebody gets beaten to death by a toddler or something equally bizarre.

Thats what it was called. First time we played everyone got shrekt by werewolves, second time i was the really speedy guy and it was some asshole ghost who played the fiddle, I had a holy symbol so i kinda just sprinted around styling on him till he died. 9/10 would play repeatedly.

I really just love games where you build the dungeon with tiles. Not sure who is familiar with the webcomic Order of the Stick but they have a boardgame that is like a dungeon crawler built in a similar way and it is awesome

In Betrayal, you know how there are some rooms where, if you end your turn in them, you get a stat boost? Well, the first edition of the game didn't have the explicit statement that you could only benefit from that once. I was the traitor--some cannibal serial killer or something--and I got my ass kicked because one of the players was camping the larder, which gives you +1 strength or might or whatever it's called. I got torn in half by a 500 lbs. 9-year-old girl.

Jesus, that is more terrifying than a serial killer

EndgamerAzari wrote:a 500 lbs. 9-year-old girl.

(watch arakawa under the bridge)

Ahahahaha Jesus Christ

Betrayal at House on the Hill is a classic. There are a few different editions of it released over the years.

I was working on a sort of hybrid game between Betrayal and SS13 for a while before life happened and I moved on to other shit.

I did it. I actually fucking did it.
My playtest of Illegal Aliens, my quick, in-between-bigger games card game, is able to be played online! I know it's not much, but it feels like an accomplishment.

Is tabletop simulator worth getting? It looks fun

My friend's kickstarter didn't make it. It sucks because he's a really nice dude and pretty smart when it comes to board games.

Working on our show together is weird, because we both are at opposites ends of the spectrum. I judge things a lot based on how much fun they are, how colorful and imaginative the pieces, parts, and mechanics are.
He's very into the mechanics and math and how the systems evoke a setting. The meta.

What makes it weird is that our systems for evaluating games are about as different as could be but we often agree on things when the other half of the panel doesn't. Our overall taste in stuff is often pretty similar.

ANYWAY

Played more netrunner tonight with my bro's. The more I play it the more and more I love it. All the interactions inside of a deck and between decks are just so cool. There is so much awesome "WOW I DIDNT KNOW THIS COULD WORK OFF OF THAT" type stuff happening all the time in that game. Each matchup is so unique. There's so much variety here. It's incredibly rare for you to just shut someone right out. I thought I had all my shit locked down as the Corp during one game but in the end it all hinged on a single decision I made. I had two agendas in hand, one 3 point and one 2 point. I only needed 2 points to win, my opponent needed 3. I decided that the 3 point agenda would be safer on the board even though my HQ was locked up tight by ICE I knew he couldn't penetrate. I just had a hunch, so I installed the 3 pointer in a safe remote that the runner hadn't checked yet (and I hadn't rezzed any ICE on yet). My opponent had already hit me with three Blackmail that game so I was pretty sure he couldn't just bypass all the shit for an easy steal. I advanced it to 2 (needed 5 to score it) and passed.

I had fuckin' called it. My opponent played an event to throw a Bad Publicity at me, which triggered a resource he had causing him to access a random card in HQ. He pulled the two point agenda, putting him at 6.
On my turn I advanced the agenda to 5 and scored it for the win.

Watched some other bro's play Mysterium, it looked pretty awesome. Played Kingdom Death Monster last night with Azari, that was pretty cool.

Wyzack wrote:Is tabletop simulator worth getting? It looks fun

It's basically a specialized physics simulator. It takes some getting used to, but it provides a very flexible medium for board and card games.

The Game of Thrones LCG just got reissued and I'm tempted to pick it up.

Anyone have any experience with it?

Who twilight imperium here?

TechnoAlchemist wrote:Who twilight imperium here?

AYYY Nekro Virus here

Yeah have that senate meeting this will be great

Yeah we'll send a delegate

No it's not just a giant nuclear bomb we drew a smiley face on

Always wanted to play it, but my friends are intimidated by the gigantic fucking box and huge pricetag

Endless Space is a pretty good facsimile of a lot of the same concepts executed in a much more playable manner. My whole group of friends who I used to play with have since migrated to playing a big game of Endless Space whenever the bug bites.

Twilight Imperium is a really good game in and of itself, but the problem with it is that it takes fucking all day to play when you've got a full table of people and you're playing with all the stuff. And inevitably, people are going to become upset when you start backstabbing eachother and invading eachother late-game. Nobody likes watching something they spent the last 6 hours build up get invaded by their one neighbor, then their other neighbor turns around and backstabs them for the rest of their stuff because their defenses are down.

It's a great game that turns out to be no-fun to play for a lot of people. By the time the game is over everyone is fucking exhausted and at least one person is upset about something.

Honestly it's a lot like SS13. It sounds great on paper and the beginning is usually pretty good but it quickly spirals into everyone being mad at eachother over a game and very few people get the "spirit" of the game.

Necro

Because this happened in Shadowrun I was running

XSI (GM): Well
XSI (GM): You only need one success
XSI (GM): So
Tyrian: roll it
XSI (GM): The chance of failing that is about as high as being hit by a random asteroid
The Slamurai: rolling 10d6>5 (3+1+1+1+1+1+3+2+1+1) = 0 Successes
The Slamurai: I
XSI (GM): ..Roll it, if you crit glitch, the asteroid happ-

At some point, rocks will fall

XSI wrote:Necro

Because this happened in Shadowrun I was running

XSI (GM): Well
XSI (GM): You only need one success
XSI (GM): So
Tyrian: roll it
XSI (GM): The chance of failing that is about as high as being hit by a random asteroid
The Slamurai: rolling 10d6>5 (3+1+1+1+1+1+3+2+1+1) = 0 Successes
The Slamurai: I
XSI (GM): ..Roll it, if you crit glitch, the asteroid happ-

At some point, rocks will fall

That poor bastard, what happened afterwards?

http://www.shadowrun.com/forums/discuss ... rowed-time

Link may be related
An ingame news article reported an asteroid on collision course with the planet in a few months

I got a story.

So the setting we're in is a heavily modified version of 5e, and is themed after Dark Souls. We're fighting a boss, a giant sorcerer chick, and have her down to about 1/4th health. She's been throwing spells out like a motherfucker, but at low health she throws a curve ball-- a self AOE spell that reduces everyone's speed to only one square per turn, two if you dash. She ran away before casting, so suddenly I, the barbarian, can't get up in her face and wreck her shit. So, I tell the caster guy that was a little closer than me to get on his hands and knees so I can jump off of him and smack the boss in her face. GM tells us to roll. We get over twenties.

I jump through the air, hurricane spin, and crit the boss.

There was that one time on Bay I headshot a nazi officer while one of our brutes tossed a stick of dynamite at him that ended up being caught by our diplomancer; the nazi shrugged it off until I helped our medic pin a hand grenade to his forehead with a bow and arrow.

He ended up losing a hand and eye and running away at a SPEEDY GONZALES pace because our GM didn't want to lose his final boss.

I just picked up Clocwork Dominion to play with some friends- it's steampunk with Fullmetal Alchemist and Warhammer Fantasy swirled in. It's fun!

Also, I accidentally made a dragon.


See- Clockwork Dominion has rules for Experimental Biology, IE, taking a living creature such as an adorable puppy (or, in this case, a hunting hound) and performing highly invasive xenotransplantion surgeries until you have a creature that's basically unrecognizable.

So I wanted a creature for combat. First thing I did was give some nice, thick armor, and make it smart (actually quite easy- making it talk is hard, or at least involves finding a human mouth-and-vocal-chords donor, though). It needed to be fairly large to support all the armor, so I did that. I figured "Hm, flying's pretty cheap, I guess I'll give it that ability", and "Hang on, if I teach it magic, it can help out with my sorcerous rituals." Perfect! Wait, shit, it's heavily armored, flying, has a deadly bite, is intelligent and knows magic. Whoops, I made a dragon.

I play Twilight Imperium + expansions with friends every month or so.

It's tons of great fun and we play over the weekend borrowing one of my company's meeting rooms so the setting is extra cool.

The people I play with are absolutely vicious players. We exchange phone numbers so we can discreetly message each other during the game, and I love how at the end of every round when we take a brief break some people leave the room together for secret meetings, only for one of them to backstab the others later on.

Naalu are my current favourite race to play as. They're such dicks with their racial techs and instant retreats and I have a huge hardon for fighter deathballs.

Things that consistently ruin games:
-the oddjob race of twilight imperium aka the spy race that can skip turns
-the Public Execution political card that is guaranteed to ruin someone's day and cause massive amount of drama

We can only play this game once a month because it does exhaust everyone by the end of the day. But we're always eager to play more once we've had a break. We' ve played this so much that some cards like Mecatol Rex's planet card has fuzzy edges from wear and tear.

I also really enjoy some of the micro games like love letter, coup, and resistance

If only tgstation games didn't fall apart so quickly due to players or GMs flaking hard

The last three games I was in were great (Star Wars Sagas and Pokémon Tabletop United), but the GM shut them down because reasons. I might run one of my own soon-ish; d20 expanded Microlite (so it's really just trimmed-down 5e), but the hard part is thinking of some good quests to start the party off.

I got Dead of Winter for Christmas and picked up Doomtown Reloaded this weekend.

Never played either of 'em, but heard nothing but good things, and that's the only reason I need.

Dead of winter is fun, it's hard as shit (one in twelve chance of instant death anytime you travel) has a ton of characters, and is cooperative with some battlestar galactica style betrayal stuff. I like it

who zombiecide here

Maccus wrote:who zombiecide here

Another one in the "own but have never played" column.

Maccus wrote:who zombiecide here

My friends played it, they seemed to have liked it but they only played it once. So maybe they didn't like it too much.


Playing the FFG Star Wars RPG with some friends. I play an assassin droid masquerading as a protocol droid (WOAH SO ORIGINAL!). In character the other players only see me as some useless chef droid that can't even cook; out of character they know I can end any of them an in instant.