What kinda board games do you like to play?

Root is weird -- every player has slightly different rules and winning conditions.

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Does anyone here like Warhammer 40k? I have not played before, but I greatly enjoy reading through the expansive lore that it has.

Pyro is really into Warhammer 40k, she goes to international tournaments and has hundreds of the little figures, whatever they're called

Sounds expensive

I know what those Lil figures cost. And all the Lil paonts too. That shit ain't cheap!

Cardboard Crack ain't got nothing on Warhammer 40k

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My other board game idea is called "Prison Break".  Each of the players is a prisoner trying to work together to break out of prison.  But each prisoner also has a secret agenda card that they must complete in order to win.  So you have to perform actions that help the group agenda and your own personal agenda.  At the same time, you are trying to help the other players achieve the group agenda, but block what you think their hidden agenda might be.  Additionally there was going to be:

• Characters: Each with a thematic backstory and different skills/abilities e.g.: the Creep, the Young Guy, the Mafioso, the Lifer.
• Action Cards: These would give players additional actions that they could use or trade.
• A Status System: Different actions will be harder/impossible if you don't have high enough status e.g. Bargaining, Intimidation.  Status can be affected by failing/succeeding at different actions, or from different events.
• A Day/Night System: Different player actions would be harder/impossible at different times.
• Random Events:  Power Outage, Food Poisoning, New Warden, Lucky Punch etc.  These can help or hinder all players or individual players
• Items: There will be different ways to receive these, some will even have to be crafted e.g. Cigarettes, Shiv, Porn.  They'll be used for certain actions or to satisfy conditions.
• A Commissary: A place where items can be bought.
• Rules for Guards: Guards will move around the board, attack or kill misbehaving prisoners, destroy contraband, and generally make everything harder.
• Other NPCs: These can be bribed, intimidated, or killed to help or hinder the game.  E.g. Naughty Nurse, Corrupt Guard, Black Market Connection, Pastor
• Specialized Rooms: E.g. Library, Infirmary, Showers.  Places where special actions can take place.
• Different Scenarios: E.g. Put on a Christmas Play, Prison Riot, Start a Fire.  Each scenario will have its own requirements for escape.
• Hidden Agendas: The Snitch, the Serial Killer, the Team Player: As stated above, each player will try to surreptitiously accomplish a hidden goal.

I'm not sure if this would all make it in and work.  The Hidden Agenda system would be especially hard to implement, but I have some ideas.  Like players could each have a hand of cards that they keep to themselves.  If the Snitch has the "Call Guard" and "I Heard a Rumor" card in their hand when the scenario conditions are met, they'd be the winner.

Lancer

This is what I got at the board-game swap-meet first week of December:


- Transformers Deck-Building Game. what it says on the box.  Christmas gift for a Transformers fan.
- * Mini Rails. like an stripped-down-for-speed version of the 18xx rail games. Looks good.
- Hover Kraft. dexterity game, like Waffle Wobble but floating above magnets. another Christmas gift to give.
- Renegade.  PvE cooperative game, players are netrunners against a random enemy drawn from a deck.  Too many fiddly bits.
- Adventure Games The Dungeon. co-op solve-the-mystery game, gonna try this with my mom.
- * Mottainai. Enginebuilder game I was recommended beacuse it's supposed to be like Glory To Rome and Innovation. Looks good.
- SuperHOT the CARD game.  solitaire puzzle.
- * Ultra Tiny Epic Kingdoms.  I want to study this to learn from it.
- someone was giving away free 3d-printed token trays, I took three of them.

Lancer

This is what I got at the board-game swap-meet first week of December:


- Transformers Deck-Building Game. what it says on the box.  Christmas gift for a Transformers fan.
- * Mini Rails. like an stripped-down-for-speed version of the 18xx rail games. Looks good.
- Hover Kraft. dexterity game, like Waffle Wobble but floating above magnets. another Christmas gift to give.
- Renegade.  PvE cooperative game, players are netrunners against a random enemy drawn from a deck.  Too many fiddly bits.
- Adventure Games The Dungeon. co-op solve-the-mystery game, gonna try this with my mom.
- * Mottainai. Enginebuilder game I was recommended beacuse it's supposed to be like Glory To Rome and Innovation. Looks good.
- SuperHOT the CARD game.  solitaire puzzle.
- * Ultra Tiny Epic Kingdoms.  I want to study this to learn from it.
- someone was giving away free 3d-printed token trays, I took three of them.

Tell me more about SUPERHOT.

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This is what I got at the board-game swap-meet first week of December:


- Transformers Deck-Building Game. what it says on the box.  Christmas gift for a Transformers fan.
- * Mini Rails. like an stripped-down-for-speed version of the 18xx rail games. Looks good.
- Hover Kraft. dexterity game, like Waffle Wobble but floating above magnets. another Christmas gift to give.
- Renegade.  PvE cooperative game, players are netrunners against a random enemy drawn from a deck.  Too many fiddly bits.
- Adventure Games The Dungeon. co-op solve-the-mystery game, gonna try this with my mom.
- * Mottainai. Enginebuilder game I was recommended beacuse it's supposed to be like Glory To Rome and Innovation. Looks good.
- SuperHOT the CARD game.  solitaire puzzle.
- * Ultra Tiny Epic Kingdoms.  I want to study this to learn from it.
- someone was giving away free 3d-printed token trays, I took three of them.

Tell me more about SUPERHOT.

Yeah! 😃 Tell us more about all your board games. Whats your favorite genera?

(Can admin pls move to discussion threads)

Evolution Climate

I just played such a devastating round of evaluation climate. My board, the top photo, the middle photo is the board state, and the bottom photo is my gf board.

During our second to last round, I deprived all the food and was able to take enough food as first player in the rotating turn order, that my partner wasn't able to get a single food token and and all of her animals died!! She had to rebuild on the last turn.

This is what I got at the board-game swap-meet first week of December:


- Transformers Deck-Building Game. what it says on the box.  Christmas gift for a Transformers fan.
- * Mini Rails. like an stripped-down-for-speed version of the 18xx rail games. Looks good.
- Hover Kraft. dexterity game, like Waffle Wobble but floating above magnets. another Christmas gift to give.
- Renegade.  PvE cooperative game, players are netrunners against a random enemy drawn from a deck.  Too many fiddly bits.
- Adventure Games The Dungeon. co-op solve-the-mystery game, gonna try this with my mom.
- * Mottainai. Enginebuilder game I was recommended beacuse it's supposed to be like Glory To Rome and Innovation. Looks good.
- SuperHOT the CARD game.  solitaire puzzle.
- * Ultra Tiny Epic Kingdoms.  I want to study this to learn from it.
- someone was giving away free 3d-printed token trays, I took three of them.

Wow I dont recognize a single one of these

Evolution Climate

I just played such a devastating round of evaluation climate. My board, the top photo, the middle photo is the board state, and the bottom photo is my gf board.

During our second to last round, I deprived all the food and was able to take enough food as first player in the rotating turn order, that my partner wasn't able to get a single food token and and all of her animals died!! She had to rebuild on the last turn.

Game ended i won 47-29