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I love Ark Nova. Like TM it is the reactionary and quick think on your feet style that draws me to many games. Although I do enjoy strategic and well planned out games sometimes I want to play a game that thrusts me into tough spots and makes me rethink my whole game plan. I’m not a fan of META gaming, and although it’s obvious that reptiles and birds are easy play strats that are more consistent they are generally one you adopt alongside a plan with a bigger pay off. On top off that more cards is more replay-ability for me, the same reason I love games like TM, Everdell and Dog Walk the amount of cards involved means there is never one overpowered combo that everyone is playing for because if you wait for that one big play you know can win the game never comes up, you probably finished dead last.

No thanks, I prefer channels that open the game, play a single round, take money from the publisher, and recommend the game as a must buy /s

I came here from 18 India. Add this version to the list!

I knew it's gonna be RA

Me, a day after watching this: FAAAAAARTY Cutlet, Farty-Farty-Cutlet!! 🎉

I disagree about not playing this game with randoms. I play this on BGA frequently, some rounds are better than others. It just means you have to talk more in between rounds about goals. I recently played a game with a person from Portugal and we had one of the most amazing rounds I have ever played.

Absolutely agree, Cascadia is a "best in class" for design marrying elegance with depth topped off with great production and theme. In a crowded market this one shines exceptionally bright.

Glasgow is another mean, cutthroat two player worker placement and tile placement game. Never hear it mentioned but its awesome!

Ra is fantastic. Love it.

Great article and research. Loved the work. But sorry, when you said "not to put words in his mouth" and proceeding to paint a villain was very unprofessional. Especially since you were equating horrible conduct of another person from a different country to Davidoff... Any roleplaying game can become horrible if led by horrible people, but we're not damning Gygax for it. As a gamedev, I can evaluate, with your good research, that Mafia was invented not as a game, but as a teaching tool, which means you need a well instructed teacher to lead it. And there are no instructions except what you found in a Davidoff's interview, that he leads players to be honest. That's nowhere near an accredited teaching tool to be used for more sensitive aged children... It grew up as a folk game, and I played it as a folk game a lot. Its history is really fascinating, thanks!

Good review 👍 👏 👌

Bro, what are you doing? How come you dont offer YT membership? Im guessing Google takes a bigger cut than Patreon?

I don't think that's Sting 🤔 Also, yes, Sidereal Confluence is definitely in my top 3!

I was listening to this, and when I heard you say "Zorp" I googled it and there actually is a game called that. There is a whole other story here about how mainfame based text adventures were an attempt to adapt Dungeons and Dragons. Most of the earliest Apple ][ CRPGs, from famous ones like Ultima and it's predecessor Akalabeth, and more obscure ones like Robert C. Clardy's excellent Dungeon Campaign, Wilderness Campaign and Odyssey: The Compleat Adventure were all attempts to stimulate D&D on a computer. Both Garrott and Clardy were D&D fans.

After over a year of playing Frosthaven I can confidently say that Outpost Phase was too much.

El grande sandwich 🥪 😋 lol but that was Sir Patrick with the cat not Sting but I am sure you knew that.

Will you be reviewing The 7th Citadel? Please say yes.

Who what huh? Whistling dog? Which game won game of the year?

6:14 Milk is the drink of tough people who work two jobs and spend their free time on board games. I like milk. Good job.

Can’t believe that with all those flaws and negatives you still gave it a 7

I have sometimes found with people who actively have had a bad experience in a social deduction game, including BotC, that it's the specific bad social behavior of gaslighting that ruins a game for them. Emphasize on sometimes because some people are just allergic to being lied to in general which is understandable. Hence why my group, and I believe the botc discord as well though the wording might be different, have a unique rule for it: If a player believes that the only way out of being caught in a lie is pretending like they didn't say something to a specific player or small group of other players, they privately inform the other that they'll deny that conversation happened the way it did and, importantly, will keep the denial simple and *will not invent a different story about it.* This serves the purpose of not engaging in behavior otherwise deployed by abusers. Also the other player has the opportunity to ask for that to not happen and instead reach a concord of mutually keeping quiet about it instead- which is my preferred option. Or in other words: it's lying with consent freely given.

‘Its a little dry’ 😂

Ra is truly a gorgeous production that a classic deserves. The fixed numbers for bidding is so key to making this an open and accessible game.

I cancelled my $1000 pledge, so I sent you a donation as a thank you from saving me from this Asylum of a game. Also: [ INTO THE UNKNOWN WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION]

getting back the sun disk of the last won auction, and putting your own sun disk up for grabs is such a clever mechanic

Great review! Huge thanks for the recommendations in the end! 🤗

25th Century Games just texted me: "the regular reprint should be on store shelves in a couple of months. Deluxe reprint is going back on KS next month."

All these favourite games! What a great series 😊

Everyone is raving about this game--I'd love to try it! I'm one of the last people to ever complain about board games sounding too complicated, but man, every description of the rules sounds suspiciously like The Cones of Dunneshire.

The Deluxe version is a bit $, which is the "correct" newest non deluxe version of the game? Priests 2009?

The tension of the clock running down and the end of the era is coming close. People start bidding on nonsense just so they don't go the whole round and get nothing. And then, other rounds when there is plenty of time on the clock and there is only one person left, who can let the track fill up as much as they want. And don't forget the push your luck, when you are the last player, but the next RA tile ends the round immediately...do you push for one more free tile, risking losing it all?

I'm very happy with my Uberplay copy, but I do want to put together a compatible version of those clever player boards

Not as good as Modern Art though is it? ;)

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Saw this being played on Rob's Gaming Table and had to have it. Love it! Completed the campaign, backed all the new content, and going to run through again with a new character. Probably my all time favorite game. You did a marvalous job describing it. :)

Love the desicions and risk/reward Maquis presents you with. An interesting one is Hostage Negotiator and Final Girl. You decide what you want to do and then roll if it's a success, great success or catastrophic failure. So the luck comes after the decision, which is often bad, but in these games imo creates an unbelievable level of stress that fits the theme (escaping from a killer) quite well if you're into that. And there's many rolls, so you can try to switch tactics if need be.

What if one player get both 16 and 15? Isnt there an infinite loop of winning bids?

It’s been a revelation to discover this classic via this new version. Ian O’Toole’s graphic design is so intuitive, that when we were teaching a new player the other week, that new player caught that we were scoring the Monuments wrong simply by the graphics displayed on the player boards. (We had been scoring monuments each round and not the final round only.)

Ra…one of the finest games around! What ever happened to Elaine? She seems to have faded away in these videos. Would like to see collaboration and humorous interplay.

Ra is also one of my favorite auction games; it’s probably between that and Nidavellir.

Love the video. Perfect ratio of game info and humor.

Modern Art and Ra share the #1 spot for my favorite auction game. They're both so good and yet have enough differences to make them distinct, I'll gladly play either of them and have a great time!

This is a great series. I'm always excited to get away from all the new releases and hear about the amazing games that already exist.

It won't be but I hope your favourite deck builder is Heart of Crown

Yeah, the tension of when to call Ra vs when to draw an additional tile is super exciting and makes this such a special game. I like watching it almost as much as I enjoy playing it! - Chris

I'm gonna guess the next one is Gee-Dubya-Tee (even though, imo, it's not *really* a deck-builder, more of a deck management on a big old rondel)

I love the channel <3 i'm sure y'all must have considered it but since you're giving these amazing, in depth reviews that make me want to go out and buy _____ right now would you ever do referral links? There must be some conscientious board game seller out there that would work with y'all!

Yay! I bid on more Puns!

I didn't expect this to be my kind of boardgame but video got an instant like for Hudson Hawk, then I was pleasantly surprised that I also was sold on the game