I could see some local stores picking up a copy or two around the holidays. Shit flies off the shelf at our local store during that time.
Board Games
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faille
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Kindgom Death does look like a great game but not sure it's the best option for getting into board games again. I'd recommend Pandemic ( or Pandemic Legacy), Ticket to Ride, or Catan. They're great introductions which can easily be taught to other people. If you enjoy them, you'll quickly move on to other ones.
Frenzied Wombat
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Thanks for the suggestions. I'm meeting my teenage years besty on vacation in a few months and we're committed to reliving our younger days spent playing Starship Troopers and Magic Realm, so looking to pick somethin up before our trip. It's been a long time but considering the complexity of the aforementioned games (which we played at 15 or so) we should be good with most anything difficulty wise. In any case, Kingdom Death is supposed to weigh 17lbs (lol...) so I won't be taking that halfway across the globe..
Hateyou
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Kingdom Death also has a large rule book with a steep learning curve from what I've read. I doubt you want to spend your time reading a rule book when trying to catch up with someone.
I'd just scroll back a few pages and check out the beginner suggestions people have mentioned, there are plenty of great games these days, no matter what genre you're into.
I'd just scroll back a few pages and check out the beginner suggestions people have mentioned, there are plenty of great games these days, no matter what genre you're into.
Vaclav
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Kingdom Death's rules are pretty simple actually - like 5-6 pages of actual reading the rest is story and nuance stuff that you can breeze over.
Apparently Poots is debating what direction to take things now though - apparently he's down to 50 copies left period, from the sounds of things he'll likely be doing another print run though, but it's not in stone yet.
Apparently Poots is debating what direction to take things now though - apparently he's down to 50 copies left period, from the sounds of things he'll likely be doing another print run though, but it's not in stone yet.
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Just found out about this on Friday and I'm really excited
Betrayal at House on the Hill Widow's Walk
I still haven't been through all of the original 50 haunts but this really amped up the replayability of this game
Betrayal at House on the Hill Widow's Walk
I still haven't been through all of the original 50 haunts but this really amped up the replayability of this game
Seananigans
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Argh I can't believe I missed getting this by like 4 days. Let me know (post here, IM?) if you find any source of new copies that isn't higher than the $400 shipping included that he had on his site. Everything I'm seeing for new on stuff like ebay/BGG is absurdly marked up, idiots hoping to fleece people for hundreds. No thanks.
Vaclav
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I'll try to - I'm only checking monthly now for the mostpart though since that's the anticipated schedule for expansions. (Of which I've already got the expensive half down anyhow)
Rule of thumb for him seems to be that holidays are when he puts up big new releases and such though - most people expect that even if he doesn't get a reprint going yet that there will be some reprints for Black Friday at the worst, that's always his biggest time he pushes stuff. (But would be a heck of a wait from now of course)
Frenzied Wombat
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That email is ridiculous. They sold out in record speed and they have to contemplate throwing another kickstarter in order to manufacture more copies? It's called "kickstarter" for a reason; if your initial business plan takes off (which it did) it should be self-sufficient, or at a minimum be able to attract actual business investors like flies to shit. I mean what was their plan-- sell 4,000 measly copies and that's it? And why the focus on talking expansions when your entire player base tops out at 4,000 people??
Vaclav
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I don't entirely disagree from a business standpoint - but Poots is doing this as more of a passion project than as a business. Although that might be changing with a the PVC massmarket game being mentioned as a plan.
And you'll note in there he mentioned experimenting with a few retailers to see if it sold quickly enough - seems like he's testing the waters to see if a $400 retail board game might actually sell well enough to be worthwhile.
Also keep in mind by most estimates he lost $125-150 per kickstarter backer on the main box and around $30-50 per expansion. He's not a business guru for sure though.
Evernothing
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So we picked up Eldritch Horror a few weeks back, finally got around to playing this weekend. GF and I love it. Definitely going to get the first expansion at the least, since it's just more cards, no more lands/areas. Really fun, great co-operative, and we both have had a lot of fun losing the planet to the Ancient Ones. Pretty quick to pick up and understand, although we were botching some of the rules early on, have since rectified that. A lot of strategy involved in where you go and what you do. Definitely a ton of fun so far.
Seananigans
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Yeah there's a lot of strategy mixed in with the heavy helping of RNG. I tend to find it enjoyable no matter what, even though the most likely outcome tends to be horrible death and destruction. I tend to appreciate fully co-op games, especially the ones that are challenging enough that a group of highly intelligent people can have trouble winning every time. Losing can be fun!
All four expansions are worthwhile IMO, as you get more hero dudes, cards of all types, and even a new setup card type (prelude I think?) that adds more random variation to each game. The extra boards provided by the Mountains and Pyramids expansions are optional, and only come into play if you choose a certain Ancient One, or a certain Prelude card. So you can buy those expansions and don't have to be "bogged down" by the extra boards if you don't want to.
All four expansions are worthwhile IMO, as you get more hero dudes, cards of all types, and even a new setup card type (prelude I think?) that adds more random variation to each game. The extra boards provided by the Mountains and Pyramids expansions are optional, and only come into play if you choose a certain Ancient One, or a certain Prelude card. So you can buy those expansions and don't have to be "bogged down" by the extra boards if you don't want to.