Located 56 results from search term 'tabletop'
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Commented in Dice, Camera, Action Episode 1 - An Official D&D Game Master (Chris Perkins) Streams a Game of Ravenloft
Watching people play a game of D&D doesn't sound like much fun, but to steal an argument from a web comic defending eSports, it's not all that different than watching people play a game of football. ;)
Seriously though, I've been watching a lot of these streaming tabletop RPGs playthroughs lately, and they're weirdly addictive. It's like following a radio play where your favorite character could have a fatal dose of bad luck at any given moment.
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Commented in Don't worry, board games: video games can't steal what makes you great
Great article - I've hit some of these points when someone gives me the "tabletop games are for anti-social nerds" trope (never mind that you're interacting face to face with a bunch of other people), nice to see a lot more I hadn't thought of.
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Commented in The Challenges Gamer Girls Face - What Stigmas & Biases Exist?
Maybe it's an ignorant standpoint, but when it comes to female gamers, I've always drawn the line at if they call themselves a "gamer girl." Same with "gaymers." If you have to give yourself a special label, I don't respect you as a gamer. At that point, you're just trying to stand out.
Also, I've always hated that "almost half of gamers are women" statistic, because most of those women are playing mobile games. I'm oldfashion and maybe a bit elitist, so simple games like that don't make you a gamer to me. It's like how playing Monopoly does not mean you are into tabletop games (I'm not sure if there's a word for that).
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Commented in The Red Dragon Inn
The game gets a little unwieldy when you start combining too many character sets. We played a 12-person (games 1-3) round at the last TableTop day I hosted, and too much happened in between your turns that you lost a lot of control around what happened to you. Once the board was whittled down to 6 players or so did the game start to "work" again.
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Commented in We filled our first set of tabletop shelves!
Congrats! That's always a fun development! We just filled our fist shelf, so still a ways to go for the bookshelf acheivment ;)
What are your thoughts on Formula D? I watched the TableTop episode and thought it looked intriguing.. Also have you tried Forbidden Desert? If you like Forbideen Island I recommend it! Time to start working on that second bookshelf :P
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Commented in The Red Dragon Inn
Sounds pretty awesome! Have you heard of "The Tower of Dread?" It is a really neat RPG tabletop that uses a Jenga tower as a game mechanic... I want to play that some time.
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Commented in Ryuutama: A japanese travel RPG
Aww man, this sounds awesome. Now if only I had someone to play it with... ;_; If anybody knows any reliable ways to find local tabletop groups, that would be greatly appreciated.
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Commented in Ryuutama: A japanese travel RPG
There's been two japanese RPGs translated so far (by the same guy) and it's so interesting to read them. Japan doesn't have our RPG histories going back to the 70s and so now that they are starting their own, they break lots of those conventions we're used to because they don't have that baggage.
For instance, they don't call them tabletop RPGs, they call them tabletalk RPGs.
I got my copy of Ryuutama on Drivethrurpg and the translator says he'll deduct the price from the hard copy when it's ready.
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Commented in Where do you buy your games? Online or at your local shop?
I mostly buy from steam, GMG, GOG, or humble bundle.
For board games I usually get from Amazon Canada, or a local store.
Tabletop rpgs come either from Amazon, local store, or direct from paizo subscriptions
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Commented in Where do you buy your games? Online or at your local shop?
For PC games, I typicallyget them through Steam, GOG, or oneof the bundle sites. For tabletop games, I've probably spent the highest amount at Barnes & Noble just because it is closest to my house, but I also buy from a local game store.
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Commented in Where do you go for board games reviews?
For me its a mix of some youtube channels and BoardGameGeek. On the YouTube side there is Tabletop which can be fun. I've seen games on it that made skip the game because I didn't find it interesting or the game mechanics weren't what I wanted in a game. And while some people may not like them some of the reviews people put on Amazon can be informative.
Finally my favorite way to discover a new game to play is when I go to PAX East. I'd sit down and learn a game on the fly. If its easy enough to learn I may buy it that weekend and enjoy with my friends during late nights or early mornings of our trip. The game Ascension is a good example of it. We learned it at their booth. Picked up a copy and played it at the hotel later on at night.
There was a board game thread not long ago. I tried to find it but had no success. People listed a bunch of games they liked. These are the ones we play the most at my place:
Ticket to Ride - Very easy to learn and fun. Settlers of Cattan Cyclades - Fun game. Reminds me of Clash of the Titans a bit. Ascension - Easy to learn. It has many different editions out, so I suggest going with the newest one. Cards Against Humanity
There is a Marvel cooperative card game that is a bit long to set up but fun. I think there is an Alien version of it out now. Resident Evil was another card based game we've had a good time with. I played Star Realms at Pax this year and had a good time with it. Its a two player space ship combat card game. A game that was harder to learn (for me anyway), but good once you get it going was Puerto Rico. Another one I'm a bit slow to get is Android: Net Runner.
I could be misremembering but I think I've heard Pandemic is good game.
*fixed some misspelled words
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Commented in Where do you go for board games reviews?
Wil Wheaton's Tabletop series.
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Commented in Cartel LES
Interesting! I like this, especially with the tabletop games the artist added in.
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Commented in FTC announces it will go after scummy Kickstarter projects that steal backers' money
Read up on this a bit, seams Erik Chevalier is not the creator of this game, but was working with game creators to create a new company and produce this board game. When Erik didn't deliver they took their game to Cryptozoic Games and had them make it. Cryptozoic Games apparently gave every backer a free version of this game (approx. $93,450 out of their pocket). I do wonder who Erik now owes money to. Did Cryptozoic think they could send out the game to the backers and sue Erik for the costs, or are some backers trying to have their cake and eat it too?
http://diehardgamefan.com/2014/03/26/tabletop-review-the-doom-that-came-to-atlantic-city/