**Progress: Evolution of Technology** currently is one that gets quite a few plays with my wife. We both love that it has a rather logic structure with regards to the technologies you can develop and it looks really great. Of the bigger, more complex g…

I am currently a backer, because I like those old choose your own adventure stuff and this adds a spatial and graphical aspect to it. And I am a solo gamer, so this thing is perfect. Only thing that could make me drop out would be spieleschmiede announ…

Printerstudio has them. Double the price of standard cards, though.

yeah, sorry, butchered the joke by getting the name wrong 😉

**The Duke** or **The Jarl** could be an option. Ok, the board itself is just cardboard, but then – it’s a simple thing. The tiles themselves are wood (Duke) or plastic (Jarl). Both very interesting abstracts with interesting twists. Another option would – of course – be dice games like **Dungeon Dice**. All dice, nothing else. Even engraved dice. **Pandemic: The Cure** was an interesting one that could fit, too. Most components are dice, but the main “board” are a few coasters of heavy cardstock and a plastic ring. The player mats themselves are cards, but you never shuffle them (except if you deal them random and that’s just once at setup) and they are not many, so you could even sleeve them in real sleeves without going bankrupt 😉 Oh, and another option is to get some PnP card games and just print them on 100% plastic cards. I did that for my retheme of cypher, to get something I happily play at the pub without worrying at all about anything spilling over the cards, since if the worst happens, I can just clean them.

I have Tiny Epic Kingdom and really enjoyed it when I played it, but sadly my wife doesn’t liked it that much when we played. So it is sitting on the shelf, waiting for a replay when she has forgotten that she didn’t like it last time 😉 Still waiting …

Aside from the already mentioned **Valley of the Kings**, how about **San Juan**? Can be packed up quite tight if you ditch the official box and put it in a deckbox. **Race for the Galaxy** is great, too, if you just grab the base game and maybe one ex…

this is a long time (well, ever since the german version released last Spiel in Essen 😉 ) favorite of mine. It plays great, is super compact and lots of fun. Theme is pasted on, but hey, who cares, it’s a compact deck builder with crazy comborific car…

**Waggle Dance** has you manage a beehive by sending bees (dice) out to work (cards with dice symbols) and collect nectar (ressources) to ultimately make honey. Very cute graphics and it’s a hoot to play. In **Karnival Koala** we live in a post-eucalyp…

by TheGargoyle
Got my foot locker on Monday from UGG, yikes, that’s a monster! The box, not UGG 😉 – it is slightly oversized for what is in it, so I am actually a bit scared what DVG is up to about filling it …

This. Just sorting pieces to make 10 point stacks and you are done. At least for those games where you have a lot of points to tally.

by TheGargoyle
Dang, this was one of the things I was eager to pick up at Essen. Ok, I am fine with picking it up at my local store, too, but now I have to get the expansions at Essen (because I don’t know wether and when they will be available afte…

Ok, hope you never get the “Sternenschild” expansion and the additional heroes, or you will have to redo it 😉 (otherwise, looks great!)

by TheGargoyle
Ryanmobile wrote:I’m keeping mine in case I need to make replacements or want to proxy a card or make my own custom card. Yeah, I keep mine, too, because some of them (for example Scope, ACOG, Red Dot and other equipments) can still f…

by TheGargoyle
Smilinbrax wrote:the same old tired arguments get trotted out every time. It’s not what the game was designed for. We don’t like it. Well, you are welcome to your opinion, but it’s not what the game is designed for is a lame excuse.Th…

I probably would have backed your KS half a year ago, but now we have Blood Rage and the german version is announced, so that’s where my money goes. In addition, you probably put a dice game into a currently quite crowded market of dice games with every game coming out with a “The Dice Game” version (Nations, VivaJava, Discoveries, Pandemic and whatever else). So probably it was just an unfortune time. I mean, no need to feel bad, because even Petersen games couldn’t get Dicenstein flying on it’s second KS (it might make the cut, but only barely), so probably you are just currently at a lower point on the “want-it”-curve for dice games.

LOTR:LCG. OK, everything but the nightmare decks. Even I have limits in the punishment I take 😉

I like the way the weapons work in **Warfighter**, it feels just “right” (unless you attach the visor attachment to your gun with integrated grenade launcher and then use the visor to get more precise grenade launching – that’s stretching it a little bit 😉 ). I especially like what DVG does with their games, because the rules don’t bog you down in specialities, but over all the feel is quite “movie realistic”. Not simulation-realistic, but hey, I prefer my conflicts in a Schwarzenegger-Style 😉