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Channeler, Exorcist, Mesmer, & Valkyrie heroes, new deck containing Necromancer abilities, new events and artifacts

If I wanted to Zerg Rush, I'd just play a Real-Time Strategy. Already I'm regretting the expenditure, but I'll just cheat like a motherfucker and start the game with assassins, succubi, void walkers and your mum. So clearly I need to amend the search query: are there any games that fulfil the above...

Also, my overall experience (at least on higher difficulties) has been that I can easily grow faster than the AIs, but I still get crushed if they decide to make a massive surprise attack against me before (roughly) the renaissance era. This is probably partly because I pathologically over-invest i...

So clearly I need to amend the search query: are there any games that fulfil the above criteria and reward you for settling down, exploring a bit for resources, developing your cities and making the best units rather than running ahead with Zerglings in the first three turns ? Civilization 5 is com...

Well, the argument revolves around whether or not "levels in a spellcasting class" is a term used to refer to a unique property distinct from both caster levels and class levels, or if it is an ambiguous plain English description that can mean either "levels in a class which grants s...

If a magic item said only that it "added one level in a spellcasting class" what kind of level would you think was being added? Dude, you are seriously overplaying your hand, here. If you asked me that before I read this thread, I could not imagine giving any answer other than "class...

In the Lab addresses one of my complaints about Pandemic, which is that it mostly feels like you're waiting for the cures to fall in your lap rather than going out and getting them, but in the process it adds a lot of fiddliness and not much depth. Or at least, that was my impression from playing it...

Tangential note on an argument NineInchNall made, which is not the same as the argument that Frank made: Language doesn't work that way. Suppose I say, "When you buy a compact disc at the store, you should check whether it is the same color as your other discs." The second instance of &quo...

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Features 4 new heroes (Ranger, Scout, Wayfarer, and Wind Dancer), 8 new blights, and new events, artifacts, and search results.

I can certainly see reasons why you'd feel differently about the Knight; but during development I had many of the same concerns about the Knight that I did about the Wizard and Druid, so it's interesting to know what worked for you and what didn't. It'll also be interesting to see if you feel any di...

Corruption has a lot of interactions that are either poorly defined, or simply very unintuitive. You asked about this previously in this thread . I did try to word the Corruption's rules specifically to clarify that it blocks bonuses originating at its location rather than targeting its location. T...

Playtest for second expansion starting:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/104 ... ifting-win

Nymph's back in the store: http://boardgamegeekstore.com/products/ ... ight-nymph

In a hypothetical pure-cooperative version of BSG with no cylons at all, I'm pretty sure the optimal strategy would still involve putting several players in the brig, so that you have more player actions and skill cards per crisis card (spam Executive Order from your cell). That's probably not true ...

Yes, the Nymph promo is separate from the main game and With an Inner Light. It includes one character (the Nymph), one event card (Metamorphosis), and one artifact (Hallowed Seed). The publisher gave BoardGameGeek a temporary exclusive on it as part of an advertising deal. As I said, BGG has recent...

I suspect the Nymph Promo disappeared from the BGG store because they ran out of stock. They recently ordered more, so maybe try again in a week or two.

I believe their exclusivity deal also runs out around October 15, after which you will probably be able to get it from VPG directly.

How does one design a game to discourage this sort of behavior? What do you mean by "this sort of behavior"? It's not clear from your story what you think the root problem(s) are. Making mistakes when strategizing or interpreting the rules? You can make the strategy or the rules simpler (...

Question: is there a way to back out of a movement card if it turns out you don't want to go the places it will let you go? No, because in rare cases there are cards that get played as a reaction to you playing a movement card, so canceling out of a movement card is technically not the no-op that i...

I wouldn't worry about the publishing angle until you've got a game that you like and that you think is "done" (or at least think you're close to that point). You're going to need a prototype to pitch it to a publisher anyway. Doing a relatively small and simple game as your first project ...

In my experience, Cobalt is popular for pretty much anything having to do with ice magic in quite a few games. Anything blue gets associated with ice in lots of games, but that's not even trying. Cobalt is an ore named after goblins that releases toxic fumes when smelted, containing a secret metal ...

http://victorypointgames.com/cw3/assets/product_full/DN_WAIL_cover_front(LARGE).jpg With an Inner Light is now available. First expansion for Darkest Night, introducing a quest system, four new playable heroes (the Crusader, Monk, Paragon, and Shaman), and new event and artifact cards. They're also...

You do realize you're supposed to separate out the city draw pile (not the infection deck) into equal piles and shuffle the epidemics into each pile and then assemble the deck right? The difference between 4 and 7 epidemics is *huge* in frequency. Yes, I'm aware you space out the epidemics. My game...

I agree, I love Pandemic something fierce. It's quick, it's elegant, it's maddeningly frustrating, and it's *easy* to adjust the difficulty all the way up to "are you fucking insane?" levels. How do you figure? One of my complaints with Pandemic is that I can barely even tell the differen...

Is there a way to keep a player playing after their token is dead? Your options here fall into 3 categories: Give them something to do that doesn't require a token. Maybe you manage the NPCs, or continue drawing cards but play them on allies' turns or something. I haven't played Sentinels of the Mu...

Ghost Story is a game I want to try, but the rulebook is... kind of awful to learn from when I sat down to a demo of it, and I'm wary of buying it for that reason. The rulebook is kind of bad due to translation, though I believe more recent versions are better than the original. The actual mechanic...