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« on: September 24, 2015, 12:22:35 PM »
Is anyone headed to this fair? I have been trying to find out when it is, but have had no luck. My wife loves Dixit and there is a set of promo cards that are only going to be available at this fair. I was hoping to coordinate with someone who might be going to get a set for me. Please let me know if you are going. I hope I didn't miss it! 
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« on: May 26, 2015, 09:23:06 AM »
I don't read. It's a detriment, really. I recognize that. It's not that I can't, or have too much difficulty, but I do read rather slowly and it has always seemed like a chore to me, so I just don't.
That said, I do enjoy the occasional audio book. I recently listened to Ender's Game and it's sequels, Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind as well as Ender's Shadow, the first in the companion series which follows a different character from the first book. I am still hoping to find the rest of the Shadow series so I can finish that.
These books are written by Orson Scott Card and are really skillfully interwoven and actually rather prophetic in his description of future technology since the first one was written in 1985. He quite accurately describes the internet and what people use it for, tablets (he calls desks), and other things perhaps yet to be discovered.
I found the character development to be really excellent. A common theme with a lot of alien attack stories is the unification of the globe and the resulting common culture. Having been a Mormon missionary to Brazil, Card paints a really interesting picture of the Portuguese language and culture being infused into the common jargon and even some of the common practices of the people, especially on the battle school space station.
I enjoyed the movie that came out fairly recently, but it didn't really do justice to the book. It felt like it was on fast-forward through the whole movie. It would have been difficult to squeeze it all into a movie though and I think they did pretty well with what they had to work with. If you've never read them, enjoy future/space epics, or just well-written stories, check them out. I recommend reading them in chronological order, but you don't have to.
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« on: May 26, 2015, 08:55:02 AM »
Don't get too excited, this is only a suggestion, but do get excited because it's a great idea! I was thinking the other day how great it would be to be able to play through Whaley's campaigns with JCloisterZone. I recognize that this would require some extra programing, but I think it would be well worth while in the end. I believe I speak for the Carc-deprived and disenfranchised masses everywhere when I invoke those most revered words of Captain Jean-Luc Piccard. "Make it so." ...please?  Link to Whaleyland's campaigns
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« on: May 25, 2015, 07:26:42 PM »
I just bought this game online and am looking forward to it. I think my son will really enjoy it. I'll try to get in a brief review when I get a few plays in.
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« on: May 22, 2015, 01:54:28 PM »
This just arrived and I played a few games with my kids. It's a little simpler than I anticipated having not seen the rules before. It's good for my 5-year-old, but a little beneath my 7-year-old I think. I did start him on regular Carcassonne a bit recently, but that's still a little much for him.
My lone complaint is the box insert. It's identical to that from the base game which makes no sense to me. I suppose it works fine, but the tiles are too tall to sit in the box stacked on their sides and it just seems completely inappropriate for the game pieces. I guess they just didn't feel like designing an new insert?
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« on: May 14, 2015, 07:19:12 PM »
As far as expansions with unique features goes, I own everything except Crop Circles 1 (the new Castles is on the way). I don't really count Cathars because I own siege and the tiles are the same. The different iterations of Windroses, and Cult Places fall into the same category for me. That being said, I still have not had an opportunity to play with all of them. Below is the list that I own and have not yet played. What's on your list?
Bridges, Castles, and Bazars (I have only played with the bridges)
Windroses
Plague
Crop Circles
Festival
Little Houses
The new Klosters/Kloosters
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« on: February 21, 2015, 10:55:40 AM »
Does anyone know where I can buy a set of meeples for the Castle game? I cannibalized them for fan-made expansions long ago and decided to try and get them to complete this game again.
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« on: October 24, 2014, 10:31:51 AM »
This was in my son's reading lesson book today. It's very appropriate.  ) My homework is done; my report is complete. My family knows I'm itching to compete! A board game, a card game, a word game - pick one! For I've played every game under the sun. My family looks around to find a way out. "You cannot escape our Game Night!" I shout. We've had this tradition since I was just four When we used my cereal snacks to keep score. Roll the dice; spin the spinner; it's time to begin. I crow like a rooster, "Tonight, I will win!" I play by the book. I'm certainly no cheat! It's gamesmanship that me a game athlete. While I play the game fair, I am fair game, For the end of the game is always the same. I start every game with a plan to defeat. In the end, I am always the one who gets beat! 
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« on: September 10, 2014, 12:57:02 PM »
I am very happy to have received a rare, new copy of Glen More at a reasonable price. I have been wanting this game for quite some time. For those that are not familiar with it, it is a tile laying game (something we can all appreciate), but also has many other Euro game elements that are really interesting like resource management, engine building, card drafting, markets, and a great turn order mechanic. I can't wait to get it to the table! If anyone wants a copy, I know where you can get one at retail (as of today).
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« on: September 08, 2013, 04:33:23 PM »
Played Discovery for the first time today. It was interesting. I'm not sure what my opinion is on it yet, mostly because they guy who taught me has been playing wrong the whole time. I suspected something was wrong when we were scoring 40 and 50 points for mountains by the end of the game. They kept saying how they couldn't figure out why they always scored over 300 points per game. I guess that's why. I'll have to play it again to really have an opinion, but I do like the extra large feature in the water. Make me think that I might enjoy playing with the Forests.
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« on: August 29, 2013, 01:35:32 PM »
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« on: August 21, 2013, 11:42:03 AM »
Since HiG has a presence here now, I was wondering if we could approach them about having a board where they could give us official rulings on questions that we post. This would probably require some greater management, but I wonder if they'd be willing to post answers to those questions, say once a month, or every other month. Questions could be sent to the moderator and posted consisely on the board, that way we wouldn't have the same question six times, and if someone asks a question that's already been answered, they could be pointed to the answer elsewhere. If we could do that, it would eliminate the middle man.
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