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Beyond the sun is such a hidden gem
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Looking into this led me to a discord server that has a bunch of TTS mods that are Too Hot For Steam Workshop, and wow, these people making TTS mods are crazy. People have gone through the effort of making mods for big campaign games that have hundred of components, hundreds of pages of story books, and full scripting for all of it. It all sounds like way more involved work than normal pirating.
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hey, it’s easier than VASSAL
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There are some good board game deals on Amazon right now. To name a few:
Windward for $28
https://www.amazon.com/Windward-Harness-Master-Strategy-Players/dp/B08SL8KFVJ/
Azul for $20 (and Summer Pavilion for $35, which is not a huge discount but it is a discount)
https://www.amazon.com/Board-Game-Mosaic-Tile-Placement-Next-Move/dp/B077MZ2MPW/
Spirit Island for $44 (and Horizons for just $17)
https://www.amazon.com/Greater-Than-Games-Spirit-Island/dp/B01MUHP51S/
https://www.amazon.com/Horizons-Spirit-Cooperative-Strategy-Players/dp/B0BBSHZFLB/
Hadrian’s Wall for $37 (tempted by this one)
https://www.amazon.com/Renegade-Game-Studios-Hadrians-Wall/dp/B08R8S2XGN
Splendor for $20
https://www.amazon.com/Asmodee-SPL01-Splendor/dp/B00IZEUFIA
Citadels for $21
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09CDSJMP5/
Deals on various Arkham Horror Card Game sets, too (but of course that game is expensive even when discounted).
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You know… Catan and Pandemic are still kind of fun.
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There are some cash grab Pandemic clones that are actually decent. One is Warcraft-themed and one is Star Wars. I wouldn’t buy them but I had fun trying them when others brought them to game nights.
This is the only version of Settlers of Catan I could see myself willingly playing again. I think it improves the game (but still retains some of its flaws):
Okay, I guess I’d play the Mega Man version of the basic game once, just because.
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that rockman edition looks awesome.
I’d love to play one of the offshoots of these games, like Pandemic Legacy or the Settlers of America game. These have been fun for me just because I can play them with my family and entertain the hope that they’re acting as gateway games if only by showing them that paying attention to a boardgame can be fun and rewarding.
I’ve never played Carcassonne but I’d try that Knizia Carcassonne game.
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I would be happy to teach it if you ever want to try it on BGA. While I lost interest in Settlers of Catan over time, I still like Carcassonne a lot.
The Knizia one you mentioned is very good, too, though strictly for two players so not quite as versatile.
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Yeah that would be fun! One of my favorite aspects of Cacao is just seeing the jungle grow tile by tile so I’ve thought that Carcassonne would be really cool.
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Okay after my second full game of Catan, I think this game may have some very obvious issues.
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Play it with a dice deck.
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Same experience I’ve had with Catan. In the back of my head I always respected it for being a good intro game but playing it again recently with family someone is always stuck doing nothing
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This is exactly it. I don’t mind randomness, but when the least-advantaged player has basically no real way to mitigate randomness to dig themselves out of last place it really seems like a problem. Yet, everyone at my table was having fun. I expect with enough sessions most people inevitably grow less accepting of this and, hopefully, just start asking what else is there to play in the land of boardgames.
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I’m looking at the expansions this game has and people seem to like the Cities and Knights expansion because it, like, makes Catan more strategic and complex. I don’t know, I’d just probably go play any other game than seek out a way to make Catan more complicated. But I guess if your table isn’t going to play anything other than Catan, sure.
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Starting positions can be rough as well. A person can unknowingly wall themselves into a corner and then spend an hour watching the game pass them by
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It was my starter board game back in ~2009 when everyone was getting into them too. I was impressed with it at first, as everyone was whose point of comparison was monopoly or risk.
I remember I started getting salty at Catan earlier than the rest of my playgroup and came off as a sore loser
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I look at Settlers of Catan the way I look at the Harry Potter books. It’s great that they get so many people playing/reading, and hopefully that leads to discovering better games/books.
Not to mention the way Settlers basically popularized modern board games all over the world, starting way back in 1995.
Carcassonne definitely has this type of appeal. Much more than Cacao, in fact. Sometimes it’s hard to resist a move in Carcassonne that isn’t your best possible action but makes the countryside look nice.
If you want to play it, we can meet up at a specific time if you want me to explain the rules or just play async if you want to figure it out. (It’s not a hard game to learn.) And if anyone else is interested in joining, it plays up to five.
- I’d like to play Carcassonne.
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I’m down. But I gotta wait for our two BGA games, plus maybe the 1890 game I’m in to finish up before I can commit 
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Carcassonne Discovery has some beautiful tiles, I have spent way too many hours playing that version. Gold Rush is also quite fun as an alternative!
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