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I finally had some time to try out the #earthborneRangers #LCG #boardGame and I don't know if it's a #game for me.

I see all the beauty of the writing and the systems interplaying but we needed three multi-hour attempts over several days to properly understand how to setup the game.

A 4 hour long play session past the tutorial didn't even let us start completing the quest.

I think the basic game loop [for quests] is just too long for me. Too many things to interact with.

alojapan.com/1303071/hidden-wo Hidden Wonders | ‘Game of Life’ Play Area Opens Outside Aoto Station #AotoStation #BoardGame #Game #GameOfLife #HiddenWonders #HiddenWondersOfJapan #news #TakaraTomy #Tokyo #TokyoNews #tomy #TrainStation #東京 #東京都 Outside Aoto Station in Tokyo’s Katsushika Ward, there’s a playful area designed to resemble a giant version of the board game The Game of Life. The ground is patterned like the game board, and the bench is shaped like th…

Living Forest is a pretty nice #boardgame , but it has two flaws.

The first is that the setup is amongst the longest in our collection. That makes it difficult for kids.

The second is that out of the three ways to win, one is nearly always the easiest, and the other is always the hardest.

The first issue is one can work around.

The second means the game's relative complexity isn't matched by a richness of available tactics, and it feels unbalanced. That makes me sad.

I still like it.

The history of chess is fascinating, with its roots as a game being linked mainly to India, but claims that China and Persia, or even earlier civilisations in West Asia may be the source.

Over 500 years ago the chess pieces moved differently to how we know them today, and variations on how to play the game weren't standardised internationally until the last century.

#chess #games #boardgame #history #SocialHistory

en.chessbase.com/post/valencia

ChessBase · Valencia: 550th anniversary of the birth of modern chessBy ChessBase

In a world where solving important problems like world peace and climate change are just too mainstream, one brave soul 🦸‍♂️ has finally unlocked the age-old mystery of... a board game 🤯. Let's all take a moment to appreciate this groundbreaking achievement while quietly rearranging our fridge magnets for maximum point potential. 🧩🍕
ft.com/content/0ab64ced-1ed1-4 #HackerNews #BoardGame #Innovation #Humor #FridgeMagnets #HackerNews #ngated

Financial Times · Lone coder cracks 50-year puzzle to find Boggle’s top-scoring boardBy Oliver Roeder

"Closed Mondays" is a halfbreed between #TTRPG and #boardgame: Create a #dungeon and an adventure with card decks and a few dice. A #GMless game for as many players as want to. It works for any enclosed space - the "classic dungeon", be it a submarine, spacestation, or a giant monster's insides (or maybe you were shrunk?).
Out now for free as HTML on ranarh.itch.io/closed-mondays
Playtests are welcome!

Another 3h to go for the #BillionairesAndGuillotines #BoardGame #CardGame on #kickstarter already #funded

> In Billionaires & Guillotines, players take on the role of 2-5 rival plutocrats vying to grab the wealth of the world before their actions trigger a revolution where they all lose… a lot more than their assets.

Hope you all find this as exciting as I do and chip it. The #FundingGoal is already reached!

#bringyourownguillotine

kickstarter.com/projects/pluto

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I have been enjoying Folklore the Affliction #BoardGame. Greenbrier Games went out of business due to a Kickstarter screwup, which is a shame because they were a local game producer. But it is fun and tells a good story. I wish I could get the Dark Tales expansion. I got the base game and Fall of the Spire expansion very cheaply. I don’t need another expansion, but there you go. At least I got the updated anniversary edition. #BoardGames.

I feel that any company running a #TTRPG or #BoardGame crowdfunding campaign this year is really asking a lot from their fans and customers. There are a few I would easily support any other year, but the lack of economic stability and the threat of insane tariffs is really make me pause. ☹️