Rob B

@Robbydigital
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@Pantherina @dpunked this is about boardgames.
@TipRing @dpunked 100% this. I kick-started it and had very high expectations due to the designer, but it really fell flat after a couple plays. I particularly disliked how your faction and board combo really dictated your viable strategy and how some resources just stopped being useful or valuable at all later in the game.

@nukehavoc I just read the full blog post, that was a dumb question, sorry.

Thank you for putting this together!

@nukehavoc This is a dumb question, but there is no chance of an .SVG version is there?
@mo_ztt @dpunked that's assuming they actually make something compelling which requires some level of competency that they have a mixed record in achieving.
@Finnbarr @squidsarefriends you take your turns simultaneously in both games. Also military tends to be overpowered only when you let it be. If someone is going military then they tend to have predictable needs. Are you feeding them explore and settle actions? Or are you letting them provide you with those while you produce and consume without it helping them?

@squidsarefriends @BigilusDickilus

Hard to say, I would caution that the games tend to be at most 3x (exploration, expansion, exploitation) although there can be some direct conflict in race depending on the expansion used.

I might suggest jump drive as a test to see if the other games would make to your families table regularly enough. The upside would be that if it sticks a lot of the symbology is directly transferrable so it should make it a lot easier to pick up any of the others.

@[email protected] @RikerGoogling I loved that thing so much when I was in middle school.
@Kenan I can't say I agree with the first sentiment. I would think that while it is true that a lot of the people who have been kicking around the sister for a while and who have houseruled it to death probably want 2e even if they don't realize it. I think a very substantial portion of the 5e player audience probably wants a narrative system or something else that is super lightweight with fantasy trappings.
@Kenan in my experience #pf2e is vastly easier to run than 5e was despite being a more complicated game. The consistency of the rules and the keywords especially make it a lot easier to be consistent with rulings.