My wife recently passed away and we were huge board game lovers. I would like to get a tattoo to include small pieces of her favorite games but struggling how to design it and would like ideas/opinions from a community that understands the details of all of these games. My initial thoughts are something like the pieces falling down my leg but unsure how to flow them together. These are some of her fav games not that it has to include them all- ticket to ride, wingspan, wyrmspan, catan, quacks, welcome to, azul, harmonies, raccoon tycoon, flamecraft, critter kitchen, river valley, sagrada, creature comforts, trinket trove, everdell, tea witches and harmonies. This means so much to me and I appreciate any input. Thank you!

I absolutely love playing games with my kids (13, 11, 7, 5) and I have a teensy tiny collection of board games (barely 200+ games plus just a few expansions… like the entire Legendary Marvel collection and the entire Arkham Horror LCG collection, like I said, teensy tiny) and we’ve started to play more complex games.

I’m currently playing DC Legendary with my 11yo daughter and gosh golly gee, wouldn’t you know it, we just manage to squeak out a victory every time.

95% of me says “spending quality time with your daughter who’s having a blast and increasing her nerdiness is an added bonus, just have fun”, buuuut there is that 5% of me that murmurs “constantly greasing the skids so she wins isn’t teaching her valuable life lessons.”

I have started to play more straight up with my 13yo daughter, she figured out when I kept asking her was her score was first and then my score was magically 2-3 below hers every single time was more than shocking coincidence :)

I’m hoping to not have this turn into some political s***show about “kids these days”, just genuinely interested in how other adults have approached this topic.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

Stuff Happens is a simple, casual party game. Each player starts with three cards of miserable occurances of varying degrees, arranged from least painful to most painful. The player before you will read a card to you, without telling you its misery rating, and you guess where it fits on your "Lane of Pain" card row. If you're right, you add it to your card row. First player to ten cards wins. The rules say that you should assume the worst case scenario for each card.

This game can be good fun. The problem is that there are several cards that no one agrees with and sours the experience.

How do you justify losing hot water mid-shower as being way worse than having your flight delayed twice and then cancelled???

I want to buy a co-op game and I’m between this two.I’ve seen a lot of people glazing spirit island and also watch reviews and it looks fun tbh and I adore lotr a lot

I bought a copy of Nakasendo at Essen, today, I get to opening it to check it out, unbox it etc… and this is what I’m greeted by… I know sometimes scratches or rub offs from other components can give the impression that it’s mold… but this box is so packed when first opened, Nothing could have moved and rubbed off. Plus, when you use a flash photo, the spots get even more visible.

What do I do now? Contact Little Rocket games, see what they can do? Can this be recouped? It’s a small box game, but at 30€, it wasn’t exactly cheap…

Plus… my little cosy game 🥺…

What are everyone’s gaming plans for Halloween? 🎃

We are currently painting the miniatures from Mansions of Madness: 2nd Edition!

We are planning a 3 game Halloween night at home!

- A gentle game of Forbidden Island to warm up (kids will join in before they go to their parties)

- Moon Colony Bloodbath

-Mansions of Madness: 2nd Edition

What are your plans?

I'm trying to not fomo in and pledge for this. Since it's the biggest Gamefound campaign ever, I figure plenty of people will be selling a copy in the future. Right? Tell me I'm ok and I can just catch up on my back log.

These cheap "mint tins" from Amazon continue to be my go-to for budget friendly board game component organization. In addition to re-upping my go-to size, I bought some BIGGER sized containers as well!

Hello everyone! I wanted to share a solo development project I worked on for the past couple years. It is an 18 card dungeon crawler called Grim Gauntlet.

I originally designed the game as part of a game design contest but wasn't able to complete it in time. So, I worked on it over a couple of years to submit to the publisher. Unfortunately I never heard back to have it picked up.

The game was intended to be a physical game small enough to fit in a wallet, however I created a digital version for playtesting etc. The game is a bit more work to play as a digital version but is still completely playable.

Do to issues with depression and anxiety I have been having problems with motivation and drive to pursue other publishers.

I wanted to make it available and known for anyone who is interested in playing it. Hopefully at least a few people can get some joy from it.

I created this by myself with playtest help from a couple of friends and my brother. I am by no means an artists but all art was done by myself. I was hoping to get the art commissioned but I was never near close to having the funds for it so please excuse the sorry excuse for art on the cards, I tried my hardest lol.

I did put a lot of time, effort and passion into this game. It isn't perfect by any means but I really hope some find enjoyment from it if you give it a chance.

It's completely free so please consider giving is a try if you have the time. If you do, I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. I am unsure if I will be able to find that passion again but if I do I will try to implement any feedback in the future.

Here is a link to the pitch video if you would like a peek at what its about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpHTJu9VZEM

Here is a link to the free to play digital version of the game:

https://screentop.gg/@Destrucsean/GrimGauntlet

Edit: If you know any other subreddits that this post might be suitable for please let me know so I can post it there as well, thanks so much!

Edit 2: As suggested by another person I made it available on itch.io if you wish to Print and Play!

https://destrucsean.itch.io/grim-gauntlet

Hi all, I recently got second edition of race and have the opportunity to buy the gathering storm and rebel vs imperium. I am set on gathering storm but not sure if I should get RvI Also? I’m mainly concerned about balance and deck bloat and noticed online discourse is a bit mixed on rvi onwards? we play very casually for added context

Hi there!

I'm Kevin Blank and I am a pathological Game Designer. I worked in Video Games for 15 years (on things like Hero Defense, War Alliance and currently, Walpurgis, and lots more)

My current big project is VITA, a boardgame where you step into history and try to live a happy life. I design this together with Peter Kuhn (you may show up in the comments as Leopard4106 ). We have a Kickstarter you can follow HERE - Feel free to check it out and follow it. This is our big dream project and we'd very much love to see it succeed.

I've also worked on the narrative Design for 15 chapters of Oathsworn: Into the Deepwood and I wrote one of them (Chapter 7).
Other than that, I design larps (lots of them, but the best known is probably Greylight 2142) as well as organize game jams (digital and analog), as well as teach Game Design (again analog and digital)

I'm happy to answer any questions relating to any of my projects or the industry in general (any of the ones I work at). My big focus is on finding the differences and similarities between all these different types of Game Design, so I can talk about that at length.

I'll start answering questions at 6pm CEST/10am PDT and hang around until the amount of questions subsides.

I stumbled upon Lancaster and started watching videos on it, and it appeals to me mainly for these reasons:

- Voting phase
- Reasonably priced
- ~2 hours playtime
- 5 players out of the box

It ticks a lot of boxes for me. I had been looking for another game after liking Hegemony’s voting phase but never found one until now.

I’m just wondering if there’s a game that’s come out in the past 15 years that takes the premise and does it better before I pull the trigger and buy it.

There was something special about gaming with friends in the late 90s and early 2000s.

You'd go over to someone's house, fire up the Nintendo or PlayStation, and spend countless hours playing the same game. Everyone had their main character, favorite race, faction, or playstyle. You'd learn each other's habits, develop rivalries, discover new strategies, and keep coming back for more. Even after dozens of sessions, there was always something to get better at.

It wasn't necessarily about having the best game available. It was about having our game.

3 of us recently started meeting up once a week for board game nights. It's been a great way to spend time together away from screens, and it's got me thinking about whether board games can create that same kind of long term bond.

I'm talking about the kind of game that becomes a regular part of your group's routine. The game everyone gradually gets better at, where each person develops their own identity and playstyle, where rivalries emerge naturally, and where you're still discovering things months or years later.

I imagine asymmetry can play a big part in this. Having your own faction, civilization, character, or unique approach gives you something to identify with. But I think the real magic is when a game has enough depth that the same group can play it dozens of times without every session feeling predictable.

We're only three people, and our weekly sessions usually last around four or five hours. We also have a 120 cm round table, so games that don't require a huge footprint or a massive setup are much easier to get to the table regularly. We enjoy both competitive and cooperative experiences, and we're happy to learn a substantial ruleset as long as we're not constantly stopping to look up obscure exceptions.

Thinking about it, I suspect the games that create this feeling aren't necessarily the ones with the most content or the most complicated mechanics. They're the ones that give players room to develop their own stories, habits, strategies, and rivalries over time.

For those of you who have been playing with the same group for years, I'm curious about the games that have become a genuine tradition for you.

What keeps your group coming back long after the novelty has worn off? Is it the factions, the strategic depth, the player interaction, the shared campaign, or something else entirely?

I'd love to hear the stories behind the games that became your group's game, and what made them special.

Hi all, Wavelength is one of my favorite party/board games, but it's not always easy to get a group together to play. So I built a version that works directly within Reddit, where people can drop in whenever they're free: r/InSync.

Would love feedback from folks here, especially on whether the game even works in this format.

Do you only play certain board games when you think it is the appropriate season.

For example: Forest Shuffle, Harmonies, Great Western Trail, Puerto Rico, Wingspan, feel like summer games to me.

Feast for Odin, Brass, Arkham Horror LCG, Scythe, Wyrmspan feel like winter games to me

Darker themes, or themes about "building something indoors" are more winter themes. Whereas nature themes and more "outsidy" board games belong more in the summer

Or am I the only who thinks like

Hello there!

I've been playing board games for 15 years, but started collecting more since approx. 7 years ago. I wanted to share my collection. Sorry for the Dutch titles, happy to translate if you are curious about a specific game.

Top picks

• GoT Board game - all time favorite. Started playing with my buddies back in uni (like 13 years ago) and we still plan nights just to play GoT
• LotR deck building
• Living Forrest
• Cubitos
• Duel for Middle Earth - newest game, I love LotR and 7Wonders duel so yeah it adds up
• Agricola - difficult to find others that want to play this

Honorable mention: Lost Cities duel. I play this a lot (A LOT) with my partner. Quick and easy, great on vacation.

I'm thinking about trimming my collection a bit, happy to hear your thoughts:

• Waterfall Park - the bartering doesn't click with us
• Paris - nice game, but we tend to choose for Patchwork
• Saboteur - never gets to the table, both versions
• Speedy Ants & Cookie Crash - I'm not fond of real-time/speedy games. It's the reason I would ditch Ligretto too, but no way my partner would agree on that

What makes it special to me? The games have a lot of great memories tied to them, with my partner, friends and family. Like playing LotR Risk ("free for all") until the crack of dawn. Or even Monopoly Deal, which we played an entire holiday night including being unreasonably mad losing another round, and laughing about it afterwards.

Final note: as most of you I love it when a game fits nicely in its box and despise it when the box is way too big. Looking at you Splendor!

My fave game this time of year.

I am not certain if anyone remembers this game but it came out back in 2016 I believe and it was called beasts of balance, it was a board game “ish” if you want to call it that. The company behind the project has since ceased all operations, and appears to no longer be in business. That also of course means, no more production of their products. I was hoping to
Get my hands on the “battle cards” expansion (brand new is preferred but pre-owned I would consider) and potentially the “Lalnalion” addition as well. I wondered maybe if anyone has what I’m looking for here on this sub Reddit and may be willing to sell, or if anyone has some idea of where I might find what I’m looking for. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you! 🙏🏻

A classic period example of boardgame kickstarter excess - tonnes of plastic, loads of stretch goals and addons. From a first time creator I believe. I assume it sank without creating any lasting impression like like most of its ilk, but today I remembered it existed and I fancied checking out what its reception was like.

Visually very grey. It was set on the moon in an ambiguously post-apocalyptic future where the moon megacity is probably the last place left. Science fiction setting, but treated as fantasy, if you get what I mean. Very dark-soulsy in its vibe. Lots of portentous verbiage. The player characters (multiple classes each with their own miniature and special abilities of course) wore astronaut suit-styled armour; enclosed helmets, lots of tubes and tanks.

The monsters were nanite nonsense, all looked like they were made of skulls and spaghetti and hated the light. I remember there were only threeish categories of basic enemy - one of which were flying manta-things. The bosses were big hunks of plastic and got to be more weird and abstract - similar design sensibility to the Aeon's End bosses. And plenty of them (if you got all the addons). There was also a multi-part model for the city I remember, which you could add levels to as you developed it.

Light and dark was a big deal. Everyone carried massive torches and/or glowsticks. IIRC the "missions" were about exploration, laying safe trails of light as you explored, defeating monsters before they could break your trail and isolate you. And then boss encounters were their own thing. With downtime phases in between missions to develop the city, progress the plot and unlock powerups.

Obviously I've tried googling various combinations of terms and BGG's advanced search but no joy.

Hopefully someone remembers it and what the bloody thing was called.

Hello guys

I have the base game and I want to buy Boss battle expansion.

So my question is should I first play all the Scenarios in the base game or should/ can i do it with Boss battle?