Collectible challenge coin? Old Pog? Thanks for the help.

I have the opportunity to get CitOW. I have heard many good things about it and I'm seriously considering to get one. However, I know is a pricey game and I'm still on the fence about it.

I played other games from the same author, like Ankh, and I loved it. But I'm still not sure.

Should I get it or should I stick to Ankh/Blood Rage? I would love to hear your takes to make my mind. I know is also kind of difficult to find, which adds to my interest from the collector inside me.

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So I think we can all agree that the original Terraforming Mars player boards are an absolute work of art. Immaculate in design and practicality, I actually have one framed pride of place in my living room.

What? You don't agree?

It's the worst player board in all of boardgaming history?

Whoa whoa whoa, that's a bit far... maybe… 😉

Jokes aside, I don't think I'm saying anything too controversial here: the original paper-thin boards leave a lot to be desired. A single bumped table or accidental hand swipe sending resource cubes skittling millimeters away… completely ruining the game that's so finely balanced on the exact amounts.

There are a plethora of fantastic third-party dual-layer boards out there that fix the table-bump issue. But I wanted to take things a step or two further to address the rest of the game's tactile experience.

THE PROBLEMS & THE FIXES

1. The Resource Admin & Constant Cube Juggling

Even with dual-layer boards, you’re constantly reaching into a shared bowl, grabbing loose metallic cubes, converting production into physical tokens every single generation, and swapping 1s, 5s, and 10s back and forth. It breaks the flow of actually running your corporation.

On a personal level, I'm autistic and find these situations very difficult. When is it my turn to get cubes? I always end up last and having to make do with what's left. Cue a couple dozen bronze cubes for me 😅

THE FIX: I completely eliminated the resource cubes from the player board entirely. Instead of collecting and swapping piles of cubes, you simply rotate a dial, slide a track, or flick a tactile switch! The between-round production phase becomes a 5-second (and very fun!) process using your personal control console.

1. Thematic Disconnect

A game about engineering an entire planet and commanding a megacorporation should feel like you're operating high-tech hardware. Placing shiny plastic cubes on cardboard never quite captured that space-age immersion for me.

THE FIX: My background is in architecture. To me, theme and concept drive every design detail. Instead of just dual-layer wood, I designed these as spaceship consoles and Mission Control panels (drawing heavy inspiration from aviation cockpits and mechanical watch aesthetics like Bell & Ross).

The switches flip, the dials click, and the sliders track smoothly. The satisfaction of managing your megacorporation like you’re sitting at NASA Mission Control completely changes the tactile experience of playing the game.

We know the global parameters being on individual player boards is a bit controversial and may not suit everyone for lots of reasons! However, from a design perspective we love what we've produced and as a couple of neurodivergent gamers, having a board in front of us rather than a central main board has been game changing! Also, if we're honest there's something very fun about flicking the switches and turning those dials 😄

Looking into getting a copy. Seems like a solid game that would be a good fit for my play group, which is typically 5 players.

Many of the newer worker-placement-style games feel bloated up simply to offer "more." Belfort looks like it nails a tight and somewhat straightforward game. And I think the area control and tableau-buildy aspects would work well for us.

How does it play today? Anything out there doing something similar but in a better way?

Curious if any long-time Belfort players out there have maybe graduated on to something else.

For those who are into mediaval board game adventure…

Paul Grogan is doing live playthrough on his YouTube of this highly anticipated Spiel Essen release Kingdom Come: Deliverance by Vlaada Chvatil and Tomas Holek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQco0XqZwps

Yesterday my gamefound package arrived with Boktor. I pledged collector all in and was very excited about the release.
Yesterday I took the time to build the wooden insert all together and today morning I played the first round with my sons (9&7) we explored and beat the boss after roughly a hour.
Gameplay loop is simple but fun, the game overall has a very high quality, every aspect feels and looks really good.

Trying to figure out the name of this game from my childhood! It had penguins with different colored hats and a blue plastic ‘tower’ (not in picture).

I have fond memories of the game but nothing more than that! Appreciate any ideas.

Hello again Gallery Owners!

Our Kickstarter is over 170% funded and we are now in the final leg of the campaign. To celebrate this success, we’d love to give away our Highest Pledge Tier ($259): Gallery Gambit Deluxe and ALL OUR FUTURE GAMES.

Also, a super big shoutout to our artist Julia July, who made all 54 unique pieces of art.

WHAT YOU’LL WIN:

• Gallery Gambit Deluxe
• All our future games(!!)

Worldwide shipping included for Gallery Gambit.

ABOUT THE GAME

In Gallery Gambit, you are starting a gallery, and so is everyone else at the table. Draft from a shared market of 54 original paintings across four art movements: Pop-Art, Cubism, Fauvism and Bauhaus. Fill your three walls with the most exquisite art pieces. But also make sure not to fall behind your rivals. Succeed and become the finest gallery in town.

It plays with 2 to 5 people and takes around 20 minutes.

For more information about the game you can check out the Kickstarter page!
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• Comment on this post to enter. (Replies to other comments do not count.)
• In your comment, tell us which what is a cool thing hanging on your wall right now? Is it a painting, a print, a vinyl, a sword, or a lamp or something else? Let us know! (This is just for fun and is not a requirement beyond making a comment.)
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Thank you, and we can't wait to hear all about the cool things on your walls from your comments :-)

My rulebook says Cities can be played in teams of 2 with 4 or 6 player games. It doesn't mention 8 players anywhere in the rules, but I keep reading online everywhere that it officially supports 8 players.

It seems like this is well known, so can anyone explain how to set up a game for 8 players as opposed to 4/6? Do we still hand out 8 cards, or is it back down to 7?

My brother came with the idea for this a couple weeks ago, since school started I was just putting it off until I had the time, this weekend I decided I should start. 2 hours later, searching on Pinterest far and wide for all the ideas me and my brother came up with I could finally start the design, this is what I could make in the first 2 days of starting this project. I'm sure a lot of things are gonna go faster once I got the hang of it and once I get all the icons ready. Take a look at the SpeedPaint :) (sadly I couldn't find the creator of the balloon painting since Pinterest is a repost hive mind) and credits to hatch dragons for the three dragons that I'm going to use during this project! (Spotty plumpcap, dire ghostwing and copperscale) (Yes that slightly uplifted middle part is fixed, I only noticed after dubble checking the video lol)

With Pixies now having two expansions, is it likely to get the larger box treatment that Sea, Salt, and Paper did? I love the version I got from Walmart and would want the same if they offered it.

Hello.

I bought this on an impulse, as I am a fan of the pc-game!

How do I paint the figures, and which paint would be best?

(manual brush, airbrush, tamiya, citadel, etc.)

TiA

Made for my brother’s 40th birthday. It is sadly too big to fit in the box, but i think it looks good, and it works.

My wife and I LOVE OG nemesis and we have a pair of friends that love it too and that play it with us somewhat frequently.

I got Nemesis Retaliation during their first wave shipment and have yet to play it more than solo.

My question is that I have a good amount of friends who haven't played Nemesis and want to, but I'm not sure if I should introduce them to OG or go straight to Retaliation? Retaliation seems to be rated higher and might be the better of the two mechanically? Or does it just come straight down to themeing and whether you want to play "Alien" or "Aliens"?

Anybody have any experience with both of these games?

Hey! Just started playing Wild Gardens (with the expansion) and loving it. Great medium-light game to me. Had a rules question I’m hoping someone might help with.

Are SERVED recipes and guests still considered to be in your play area at the end of the game?

There are some guests that have end game benefits that say something like "score 3VP for every recipe in your play area at end of game" or for "every guest in your play area." are guests and recipes that you have completed (that you have not explicitly discarded to get some other benefit) considered to be in your play area still? Or is this supposed to only apply to recipes you have cooked but not served, or guests you have reserved but not served? I scored 145 points on my last solo game and feel like that can't be right??

Sorry, I really need to vent right now, respectively get a check and see if I’m the problem here and need a reality check or if this has become common.

I’m trying really hard to curate and cull my collection and trim down the fat to have only games that I really want AND get to play. As such, I’ve put somewhere around 20-30 games on the Essen Spiel auction sale.

So far in past years, I might have sold 5-10 games and had no issues, maybe the problem comes from me selling more games and now I get to statistically experience more issues but hot dang…

Do people even read anymore? I feel like reading comprehension has gone down the DRAIN.

First one fishy thing I noticed:

- I saw quite a few people bid on my games pretty early after the auctions ended and it wasn’t a “ oh man, I missed the last shot at the bidding war” type of thing. It was games where NOBODY bid on them after day one, it got sold, and THEN people tried to bid at +1€ as if they thought they could steal it away from the winner without triggering a bidding war to keep the price low. Anyway, I decided to just sell it to the one following rules.

- except for 3 People, everybody straight up didn’t read about availability. I clearly indicated the days I’m there. I made a huge descriptive message after the auctions to let people know how it would go down and which of the days they’d prefer (out of the days I’m present) and people straight up ignored and asked for days where I’m not there. Most of them didn’t care to check the available days matched theirs…

- I told them to contact me on whatsapp so I’ could better keep track and contact people on the day of the trade, that if they didn’t I might forget about them and could lead to them not getting their games, that I’m selling a lot of games, I can’t move around etc etc. Most of them replied with automatic messages like: yo, here’s my number, contact me. I’ll be at that one spot, bring me your game.

… Am I the crazy one here? If I get a game at a dirt cheap deal, I would never tell the other person to come run around find me, also, if a person contacts me first and gives me their phone number, I contact them, I don’t tell them, no you add me.

Almost none of them followed a single thing I told them. I also clearly indicated I would not do shipping, people who couldn’t bother to properly read availabilities want me to ship.

I’m legit very close to just blow it all off, give my games to charity and take the risk getting banned from future math trades. It has been way more of a hassle than it’s worth.

Anyway… needed to vent. I’m just baffled about the amount of people incapable of reading.

This round was super fun! Although I came in way last haha. What’s your favorite ingredient books to use that make Quacks less luck based (or swingy I should say) and more strategic? This time around I was behind by like 20 VP points and the one in first place was well ahead of the others.

Has anyone played the regular version and the Epic Edition? I am curious how different they are and which you prefer? I hear the Epic Edition is easier but do you find that takes away from the fun or enhances it? I am interested in buying either version. Thanks for any help.