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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Aug 20, 2023 20:25:29 GMT -5
Randomly found out that our branch library was hosting one-off D&D games for relative newcomers yesterday afternoon and decided to check it out with the kids. None of us had ever played, but they were familiar and curious because I used to listen to TAZ and still get the graphic novels as they're released. We kind of lucked out because the poor weather and construction near the library kept anyone else from showing up, so the library and gaming club volunteers were able to give the kids one-on-one attention on making characters and how to play the game. It also turned out that one of the volunteers running the game was the Spanish teacher they'd had up until this year! Very fun, will probably end up going to some of their future events as well. Fun Update: The kids and I have gone to I think 4 of these one-shot games at the library. Today I guess most of their usual volunteer DMs couldn’t show. They kind of remember us now and recognize that I’m one of the few parents that sticks around to play, so I got pressed into DM service. I think it went pretty well, even though I’m still learning the game myself!
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Sept 8, 2023 12:02:10 GMT -5
In two weeks, we are set to play the final scenario of the main campaign in Gloomhaven! Five years of this game!
Assuming we beat it on our first try, of course, we will then go on to play the "Forgotten Circles" expansion which is about 12 more scenarios. Sometime after that, we'll get to play another tabletop RPG again.
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Sept 29, 2023 9:51:29 GMT -5
In two weeks, we are set to play the final scenario of the main campaign in Gloomhaven! Five years of this game! Assuming we beat it on our first try, of course, we will then go on to play the "Forgotten Circles" expansion which is about 12 more scenarios. Sometime after that, we'll get to play another tabletop RPG again. We did it! Beat the final boss (who started out with 180+ hit points!) and completed the Gloomhaven campaign! The host posted in our board game night Facebook group the entire time, so we were able to go back and see when it started. Their first session was in January 2018. I joined, replacing someone who quit, in February 2019. We stopped playing for two years during COVID, but this was the group's 84th session. Averaging 4 hours per session, that's 336 hours to complete the main campaign. We had a lot of replays for failed scenarios and a ton of side scenarios as well. Quite an accomplishment!
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Post by haysoos on Dec 5, 2023 12:19:31 GMT -5
In two weeks, we are set to play the final scenario of the main campaign in Gloomhaven! Five years of this game! Assuming we beat it on our first try, of course, we will then go on to play the "Forgotten Circles" expansion which is about 12 more scenarios. Sometime after that, we'll get to play another tabletop RPG again. We did it! Beat the final boss (who started out with 180+ hit points!) and completed the Gloomhaven campaign! The host posted in our board game night Facebook group the entire time, so we were able to go back and see when it started. Their first session was in January 2018. I joined, replacing someone who quit, in February 2019. We stopped playing for two years during COVID, but this was the group's 84th session. Averaging 4 hours per session, that's 336 hours to complete the main campaign. We had a lot of replays for failed scenarios and a ton of side scenarios as well. Quite an accomplishment! We just started (and completed) the first scenario of Gloomhaven last Friday! Have to see if we can actually make to the final. This is largely the same group that I played a TTRPG campaign with for over ten years, and we never actually completed what would have been "Season 1".
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Dec 5, 2023 14:58:49 GMT -5
We did it! Beat the final boss (who started out with 180+ hit points!) and completed the Gloomhaven campaign! The host posted in our board game night Facebook group the entire time, so we were able to go back and see when it started. Their first session was in January 2018. I joined, replacing someone who quit, in February 2019. We stopped playing for two years during COVID, but this was the group's 84th session. Averaging 4 hours per session, that's 336 hours to complete the main campaign. We had a lot of replays for failed scenarios and a ton of side scenarios as well. Quite an accomplishment! We just started (and completed) the first scenario of Gloomhaven last Friday! Have to see if we can actually make to the final. This is largely the same group that I played a TTRPG campaign with for over ten years, and we never actually completed what would have been "Season 1". Best of luck! Once you get used to the game it's a lot of fun. Last week our group retired three out of four characters at the same time, so one of us can play the character required for the Forgotten Circles expansion.
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Post by LazBro on Dec 12, 2023 8:18:58 GMT -5
RoboRally - My six year old got this for his birthday last month, on my recommendation. This is a game I was introduced to as an adult and absolutely loved, but my gaming group kind of fell by the wayside as the complications of life mounted, so I hadn't played it in years. It's still great, though it'd be more fun if my boy could read and didn't require that someone play with him on a team. We'll get there.
In Robo Rally, you play robots racing in a factory. There are conveyor belts, gears, lasers, push walls, deadly pits and other obstacles. I don't know if there is an official name for this genre or mechanic, but this is a plan-and-execute* game. In the first phase, everybody builds a program of 5 actions (moves, rotations, etc.) and places them face down in order of execution. Once programming is done, these cannot be changed. Then, you flip each register one at a time, execute around the table, then the next register, execute around the table, and so on. In order, everybody does their #1 action, then their #2 action, until the round is done. The kink being, if you run into each other, you push, and now your opponent is executing a program based on a different position than they intended. Hell promptly breaks loose. So over and again, the game is about making a plan and that plan going very poorly. There's more to it: upgrades you can install to give you special abilities, weapons that fire every register, damage cards that can "lock" your program registers that you then have to try to program around (or incorporate into). It's just a hell of a lot of fun. It's also long. Our beginner 2-checkpoint race took just over 2 hours, and that's after having learned the game to the point that we can start racing right away once set up is done. I can't even imagine how long one of the expert courses take.
Oh, and the courses are cool because they're modular. You can mix and match the course boards however you want to create dozens of different factories to race in... and you can place the checkpoints wherever you want. Literally millions of combinations, and unless you specifically use one of their recommended layouts, you may never run the same race twice.
*Edit: according to BoardGameGeek, this is called a " programmed movement" mechanic, and RoboRally is their marquee example.
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Post by ganews on Mar 27, 2024 9:15:49 GMT -5
Wikipedia
Someone licensed Wikipedia into a trivia tabletop game that I had never heard of, though it seems to have been printed 10 years ago. As Trivial Pursuit ripoffs go I guess it's not the worst, actually a clever adaptation in someways. They saved money by letting players keep track of score on little pads instead of making a gameboard. There are no categories - a given card could be about any topic. Each card contains three topic trivia questions, three subjects that must be ranked by pageviews as of 2014, and a "discussion" topic that doesn't have any answers. The trivia question were mostly pretty easy. We found a number of typos however, and correct answers to multiple-choice questions are marked in hyperlink-blue that is super difficult to discern from incorrect answers in black.
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