It’s embarrassing. But I’m the only one who buys board games in my friend group. So I now have three Uwe Rosenberg games coming my way 
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I have frequently used Lego for D&D they’re about the right size
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Game is great. Expansion is on board game arena. LMK if you want to try a round on there.
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Let’s do it. Who else wants to get in on this?
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I started a game
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lol, I saw a sealed Ticket to Ride at a goodwill for $10 the other day and I didn’t buy it because the one game of it I’ve played was enough for me.
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it’s like $44 new and still in print, so this is a misplaced decimal point, or comes with all the expansions, or is the actions of a madman
Found a Rio Grande version of Puerto Rico for $10 at Goodwill today and excitedly snatched it up. Now, reading more of the rulebook, I was wanting a refresher on the specifics of the argument that gets brought up frequently about its theme, and I am contending with some cognitive dissonance.
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the brown worker pieces arriving on ships are a very direct parallel of enslaved African people being forced to work on the plantations, but the game calls them colonists
https://faidutti.com/blog/blog/2017/06/02/postcolonial-catan/#english is the most well-known summary of these themes
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Yeah I went and read a bunch of stuff afterwords. I enjoy lots of stuff that is by bad people or with bad politics, but from what I am reading I feel like this hits differently for me.
I got to play some new games this weekend. A couple highlights:
This game has very fancy components. It’s an economy that’s entirely driven by player actions. At each stage of the supply chain, players set prices, buy, sell, and ship. I think it might be a hassle to try to get good at the game, but it was fun to try.
This one also has nice pieces. You bid by placing more and more valuable buildings in a chain to try to end up in a good position. (Only the winner of an auction actually builds, but everyone gets to place all of their buildings eventually.)
I don’t know that I’d buy either of these (Container is almost impossible to find anyway) but I’d definitely play both again.
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I bought Mother of Frankenstein last night at a Boss Fight Books book release party because the game designer impressed me so much, looking forward to digging in sometime
Anyone familiar with a boardgame called Cartographers? I’m going to a comic convention this weekend that has a bustling tabletop room and one of the events on the schedule is a 100 player game of Cartographers. Is that worth 2 hours of time?
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i have that game! it’s a game where a card is drawn, and each player has a map that they draw on, based on what card was drawn. it usually takes a lot less than two hours to play, but obviously, i’ve only played in groups of 2-5.
i think the novelty of being in a 100 player game might be worth it?
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Yes, Cartographers is a good game and it generally doesn’t take anywhere near two hours even with teaching. The only player interaction is when you (simultaneously) pass your map to the person immediately next to you occasionally to draw monsters. I guess it could take a while if it’s just one or two running it who have to help a lot of new players with scoring.
I just found out that Ashes now has an Aeon’s End-style co-op mode (though limited to two players). In fact, it has for years now (the “Red Rains” expansions) and there’s also a new base set coming out. I thought that game was pretty fun when I played a friend’s copy long ago, but it appears to have become one of those games you’ll spend too much money on if you like it.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plaidhatgames/ashes-ascendancy
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Maybe I’ll check the Cartographers event out then, assuming there are still spots available. This comic convention has a very popular tabletop room, and I planned to go this year for specifically for that tabletop room to try out lots of the events, like demos with game designers (like the designers for Wingspan, Thunder Road: Vendetta, and Talisman). But then I thought I wasn’t able to go up until yesterday, and now most of the tabletop events don’t have registration spots left. 
I’d been doing research into Ashes Red Reigns for a bit in preparation for the Kickstarter, since the base set has been sold out for a while. I think this is just the reality of any collectible, deck construction game that’s been around for a decades which I understand Ashes has. I’ve been looking for an lcg that I can play solo and has varied deck construction, like a regular TCG. I’ve also been looking at Arkham Horror and that’s even more expensive than this Kickstarter if you want to get a lot of it.
I don’t think ashes red reigns clicked with me until I loaded up some custom decks off an Ashes fan website rather than using starter decks. It’s got a very different pace from a TCG though, with its micro turn structure. But it’s nice they figured out a good system that supports all the cards in the game.
Of course, most LCG/ECGs are PVP only, so I can only look and wish I could play them. I want to play Trinity Draft! It looks just like my Japanese anime (tcgs)!
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