I played a game of Grifters.
Reply: Too Many Bones:: General:: Re: CTG Addressing EU and World Fulfillment
by TheGargoyle
we are talking about GQ here. Of course it can be canceled and sent at the same time. If someone would achieve this, definitely GQ would be at the front of the list 😉
/u/bboomslang on Kickstarter Roundup: Oct 22, 2017 | 20 Ending Soon (incl: Resident Evil 2, Numenera 2, & ELO Darkness) & 52 New This Week (incl: Too Many Bones: Undertow, Downfall, & Legends of Sleepy Hollow)
In for that one, too, even though it actually isn’t that much value – went in for the 100$ level, as that seems to have the best bang for bucks. The good thing with CTG is that there is no FOMO, because everything will be available later on. It’s mainly about being the first to own it 😉

Damn, Menoetius really pummeled Geta of Pompeii. Just couldn’t get up to speed quickly enough to make him move around the board and he got a few nasty shard shocks in, no way for me to realistically beat him today. Hoplomachus: Rise of Rome might not hit my table often, but when it does, it always is a fun experience. Definitely among the best solo games I own.
Endlich Mal wieder Hoplomachus gespielt. Hauptproblem ist die grosse Kiste, die man immer gerne irgendwohin weg räumt. Denn das Spiel selber ist immer noch fantastisches für solo spielen – und ich freu mich schon auf Karthago und Machu Pichubals neue Städte Ende des Jahres. Shared on Google+ by Georg Bauer: Damn, Menoetius really pummeled Geta […]

Damn, Menoetius really pummeled Geta of Pompeii. Just couldn’t get up to speed quickly enough to make him move around the board and he got a few nasty shard shocks in, no way for me to realistically beat him today. Hoplomachus: Rise of Rome might not hit my table often, but when it does, it always is a fun experience. Definitely among the best solo games I own.
Damn, Menoetius really pummeled Geta of Pompeii. Just couldn't get up to speed quickly enough to make him move around the board and he got a few nasty shard shocks in, no way for me to realistically beat him today. Hoplomachus: Rise of Rome might not hit my table often, but when it does, it […]
/u/bboomslang on The 7th Continent Kickstarter has concluded as the 3rd most funded KS game of all time at over $7 million
I did back, but only for the expansion and the comfort creatures, since I already have base game from last KS. It is a fun game in its way, but be warned that it really is different I structure from other games, more akin to choose your adventure books. I myself only got into the curses as expansions, because they add replays, whereas weather and the other stuff enhances replays – and I don’t see myself doing lots of replays with this, more like going through all curses once and the maybe revisiting a few years down time, just as with those books. No point for me to add stuff that just changes how a curse plays during play if I don’t expect to do that replay. Comfort creatures just sounded too cute to skip, since I play solo with one character I thought having a companion for future curses might be worth it 😉
/u/bboomslang on What’s the newest mechanic?
Yeah, that was really something new that I haven’t seen before. And it works astonishingly well in that game.
I keep seeing posts that Ajani stopped Nicol Bolas on Alara, but..
..that’s not really what happened. Nor did he defeat Bolas. At least not defeat in the sense that many people seem to convey. Ajani neither kicked Bolas’ ass like a total badass, nor stopped him from getting what he wanted. Since I imagine not all people here read the Alara novel or want to spend money on it, I thought I’d sum up here how it went down, quoting from the book. Hopefully this is at least a bit useful, and helps at least one person get a clearer picture!
First, Bolas slaps Ajani around the mountainside a bit, which means Ajani spent the remainder of this encounter lying about in pain.
“Ajani groaned and coughed blood onto the walls of the gorge. He searched his mouth with his tongue and felt two teeth loose, but clenched them into place with his jaw.”
They banter a bit, and Bolas steps into the maelstrom.
“The maelstrom exploded into a sphere of light, drenching the dragon planeswalker in waves of power. The force of the blast crushed Ajani into the wall of the chasm, feeling like a continuous barrage of electric shocks.” “Unable to cope with complex thought, Ajani’s mind repeated one phrase over and over: He’s done it. He’s done it.”
“The dragon moved within the radiance. Its wings opened; its arms and legs stretched out; its tail uncoiled and spread long and majestic; its head reared up to the empty sky; its mouth opened. It was unmistakably Bolas, but Ajani thought he looked larger than he had been, or somehow more grandiose. He had no scars or wounds, no frayed scales or pinions, no scruffy patches at his joints. He was smooth, sleek, a study in armored scale stretched over lean muscle. He had become everything that his potential allowed him to be: he was a divinity of the Multiverse.”
So, suffice it say, Bolas’ plan worked flawlessly. Ajani utterly failed to stop him from achieving his most important goal.
Here’s where the typical Bolas arrogance sets in though, and a tiny bit of the maelstrom remains “a meek swirl of energy no bigger than Ajani was tall.” This leaves enough Maelstrom for Ajani to power up his spell!
Enjoying his new power, Bolas decides he might as well destroy all Alara now, while Ajani begs him not to. Bolas replies; “Why should I not? It’s a disgrace now, a ruin bereft of value.”
Ajani does not want this to happen, and makes Bolas go away! Here’s how:
“Ajani evoked the essence of Bolas ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).” “As it continued to cohere, detail after detail resolved like a distant image coming into focus until it was a glowing, astral reflection of Bolas himself.”
Bolas then fights his doppelganger: “The two dragons crashed into one another, and they howled, a sonic mirror.” “The Bolases were perfectly matched – each blow was met with a counterblow, each attempt to gain advantage slapped aside with perfect precision.”
“Suddenly the dragons reared back, gazed with pure hatred into one another’s eyes, and then thrust their necks forward and snapped their jaws onto one another. The streaming energy of the maelstrom enveloped the draconic ouroboros, and a flash of thunderous light overwhelmed Ajani’s senses.”
After that, Bolas and the doppelganger are gone, which means that Bolas planeswalked away before he risked hurting himself fighting himself. Looking at ‘Enter the Eldrazi’ we see that Bolas is fine as well, happily doing his evil machinations and standing in evil looking light. Not to mention, in the Hour of Devastation stories, he was described as immaculate and flawless several times, like he had become after the Maelstrom.
So, in summary, Ajani essentially put a band-aid on an arterial bleed. It’s impressive, but the damage was already done.
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/u/bboomslang on Game of the Week, Redux: Concordia
I love to play it and I love to bring ut to our game meet, but sadly it usually crashes the 2 hour limit, which is why I don’t get it to the table that often. I love the way you build your end game scoring up by buying cards and at the same time use those cards to get to place houses where they help you score. It is nicely interwoven during play. It jusr feels great to play, because you allways can do something, but of course you try to do it optimally.
Reply: Apocrypha Adventure Card Game:: General:: Re: This game…
by TheGargoyle
That is the thing: if the best way to learn a game is a 3 hour video to get into it and get started, something is wrong. When that video has to actually be created by fans, because the official videos just leave too many questions it …
Reply: Apocrypha Adventure Card Game:: General:: Re: This game…
by TheGargoyle
buschenfeld wrote:Has the worst rule book in Boardgame history. The game looks awesome but I’m no clearer on how to play it having read the rules, they’re almost like a stream of consciousness written at 4am. I would do a complete ove…