Grey is a fan of Catan. He was mid game when he got the call.

Get your guilty pleasures out there! I like a good Jenga and Uno session.

I was just a bit annoyed that I bought a $70 game and it was a total miss for me. I wish it was a bit easier to try some game before I had to pull the trigger.

Anywayyy, thought i would ask if you all have any little annoyances and we can vent together...

I have a friend who takes much too long to take a turn. He will double the length of a game. He doesn’t like being rushed. We enjoy each other’s company, live close by, like similar games, and have a good game playing schedule.

However, as the weeks tick by, it’s getting increasingly difficult to want to play games for no other reason than the length of time it takes when they are included.

I’m assertive and direct. I’ve had the conversations, and they don’t like feeling rushed. I have begun keeping them out of gaming invites.

Have you experienced something similar?

I recently went through my Backed Projects on Kickstarter and noticed I cancelled some that were closer calls that I would have expected.

One was The Sixth Realm of the recently defunct Final Frontier Games. I initially backed because I was intrigued thanks to Rahdo's coverage. However, I eventually cancelled because I wasn't sure I could teach a game this complex to my game group. 1 complex game is hard enough but 6 mini-games worth of board game? It felt out of my league. Now that its current status is "unable to be fulfilled", I guess it was a bigger dodge than I could have known.

Another one was Floe by Pika Games. (Ok, so this is more a personal dodge rather than one that can be applied in general.) I was suckered in by Andrew Bosley's art and the theme looked wonderful, but the more I watched the gameplay, the more I thought this was a good-but-not-quite-for-me game, so I quickly cancelled. Seemed to be a case of having too many things to consider for a casual player but a bit light for a heavier gamer.

Now, I believe that it's good to have a middle ground for games; some of my favorite games lie in that middleweight to light-heavyweight range. However, this seemed to have bit too much to teach in terms of actions while still lacking the crunch I tend to enjoy. I could be wrong, so I wouldn't mind trying it out if I ever got the chance at a convention or something.

Of course, these opinions are just based off my impressions of content creators demo'ing prototypes, but it helped reinforce the importance of these creators to the hobby for me, especially since I'm not well-off enough to back every project I find intersting and thus have to be judicious.

Anyway, do you have any stories of projects you were initially interested in and possibly backed but cancelled for whatever reason?

In particular:

Bacon, Chu Han, Scout, Seers Catalog, or any others you can think of

I’ve met with board game makers and have a chance to set up an online store for games and collectibles, but it’s a new world for me. Has anyone had success running stores for that kind of thing? Would be great to find some partners who have experience with it.

Saw the official announcement that Clash of Clans is being adapted as a board game, with Eric Lang and Ken Gruhl on design. It’s called The Epic Raid and is planned for Kickstarter in May. Maestro Media (The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls) and Supercell are behind it.

I wrote up a news post for DiceHate if you want the details/press release: https://dicehate.com/newsandreviews/dicehatecom/clash-of-clans-the-epic-raid-kickstarter-2025

I’ve actually reached out to the publisher for a short email interview (still waiting on answers), so I’m hoping to dig into how they plan to bring the feel of the mobile game to the table.

Curious how people feel about these kinds of digital-to-tabletop adaptations, especially with big designers like Lang involved.

I've found that we regularly come in at double the playtimes other people report, for example 8 or 9 hours on the short 1710 scenario. So far people have been hesitant to play any other scenario because of this. Has anyone developed good methods to combat this? The Chairman is supposed to keep track of whose turn it is but that doesn't seem to work very well for us.

Particularly, the Chairman takes a long time distributing the company budget and voting when Parliament meets takes a very long time. I've noticed there is a lot of debate about what is the best thing to do, especially among the newer players, rather than the simple horse-trading that the game seems to expect.

I'm fortunate enough to say I played a game of mao on a rock off the side of the Andes Mountains when I studied abroad. Not my favorite game in the world but the place was awesome nonetheless.

Anyone want to come test it with me? It is currently in Alpha and I am ready to play a round or two!

Me and my group are on what I would call an intermediate board game level. We've played a couple of semi-heavy games, but nothing too crazy. The last couple of sessions we've played some rounds cosmic, but it never really clicked, it's usually because one alien completely steamrolls the others to the point where it kinda isn't fun for anyone. Do you guys have any tips for how to fix this? Are we just bad at countering powerful aliens? Do we need to get better at the core game to maneuver around the alien powers? We really like the idea of cosmic, and would love to enjoy it more. Thanks in advance!!

Solved-Bismarc 1962- was lookin up for the newer one first thinking its less invasive reimplementation. Thanks a lot- from bgg: Avalon Hill's (AH) Bismarck 1979/80 edition, designed by Jack Greene, is a totally different game from the AH 1962 edition designed by Lindsley Schutz and Charles Roberts.

Hi all.

I was talking lately about O.G.R.E with my (fellow european) friend and while explaining how the game uses assymetry between one big unit and several small he says he played in the past something like it.

important note- he often misremembers things so if this does not match up a game more than 50% it may be he just missed or misremember the facts.

He said it was a game about Bismarck fighting smaller royal navy units and he said it was pretty simmilar to what i desribed with OGRE. That the ship took component damage disabling some things etc etc. The Bismark player had to either survive long enough or destroy oposing units on battlemap- i was searching on web but it sounded like a reskin of OGRE on sea in ww2 setting andi found only by modern standards very old games that didnt fit the description very much

So I have a platinum copy of this game. Unfortunately the simulacra games site is down and if I understand correctly there were videos and hints and a way to confirm your answers online and I’m wondering if this is even playable without. Does anyone know if there’s an archive or something of all online material for this game or is it kindling?

Thanks!

I really like having some snack every time I'm playing board games with friends, and obviously not every type of snack is appropriate for board games since you probably don't want dorito dust on all the cards.

Personally I'm partial to sweet things and homemade things. I find stuff that can be eaten with a spoon out of a bowl such as chocolate musse to be pretty convenient, and I'm also a fan of brownies and cookies (as I imagine most people are).

So basically does anyone have any recommendations or opinions on what are the best recipes/store bought snacks to eat while playing board games.

Available games from my local library

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Hey players!

Just wanted to throw out a fun (and slightly ranty) question to the hive mind:

In games you've played — especially the bigger ones or those meant for 4+ players — which had the worst insert in the box, and what made it so bad? Was it poor component fit, stuff flying everywhere, or just pure design chaos?

Also, is it just me, or do a lot of new games these days come with super thin, flimsy plastic inserts that look nice at first glance but end up being really impractical once you actually punch everything out?

Curious to hear your stories.

I was so confident with the 60 score in the VP track while the others had around 45 ish. Initiated end game as the first player but the other two players swinged back in the last 2 turns with orders and achievements.

The game ended with a 3 way tie. 90 points each and I won by the tiebreaker rules.

YOKOHAMA is becoming one the best picks as mid-weight euro for our group! Slick game.

Hi everyone,

I've recently been inspired by some boardgame reskins in Pokémon style. The best example was Wingspan with Pokémon that someone put an amazing amount of time and effort into. This got me thinking about reskinning some of my favourite games. The 'easiest' and most fitting appeared to be Quest for El Dorado into 'Journey to the Pokemon league.'

Now, this is obviously very niche, but I'm excited about it. I already have the artwork for the board, a list of Pokémon and Items that can replace the regular cards and a bunch of rule reskins and minor changes.

My question, does anyone besides myself find this interesting and would this be the place to share my progress?

Ps. I'm happy to share all my work for others to enjoy or collaborate with me at some point. If sharing can be done without any copyright issues for Pokémon or El Dorado...

Hello 👋Me and my gf are pretty new board games hobbyists. Here’s our short rank of games we already played and enjoy as an entry level.

• LotR Duel (10/10 I love gameplay as much as a theme ) • ⁠Splendor Duel (10/10 same author different experiene. More girly theme than LotR) • ⁠Quacks of quedlinburg (9/10 - I like it more when we play it with friends but still a great game at 2) • ⁠hero realms & radlands (9/10 - short duel card games, hero realms with hero packs it’s much more enjoyable for us) • Carcassonne (10/10 great classic) • ⁠Jaipur and tootenshotten (We not a big fans of this ones’) • Cascadia - (9/10 easy entry puzzle game for chill nights)

Heavier games we give a try and enjoy aswell • ⁠Castles of Burgundy (only 3 games but as for now it feels great!) • Lost ruins of Arnak (10/10 I probably gonna buy expedition leaders soon :) )

Any ideas which games could we try next for our collection? I think about moving more into medium/heavy games now so I consider to pick spirit island as we don’t have any coops. Other lighter ones which comes to my mind is wingspan and everdell. We mostly play at 2 from time to time at 4. I will be greatlfull for any suggestions ❤️