bsky.app Iain McAllister (@giantbrain.co.uk)
We are just hearing that Greater Than Games has been closed by Flat River Group. Can anyone confirm? Seeking sources.
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz sailorplutoid @midwest.social Greater Than Games has been shuttered
Darrell Louder confirmed in a pasted screenshot
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works Trump tariffs could mean 25% fewer board game publishers
www.polygon.com Trump tariffs could shrink board game publishing by nearly 25%Local game stores likely won’t have as many board games to put on their shelves
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/157533
Less than two weeks after the Trump administration’s announcement of historically high tariffs on virtually all goods imported into the United States, the board game industry appears set for an unexpected reckoning. An ad hoc industry survey conducted by Cardboard Edison reveals that nearly a quarter of publishers polled will simply stop making board games. A majority believe that prices for board games t
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz Dharkstare @mastodon.world I played Undergrove for the first time today and it was really fun. It's developed by the same person who designed Wingspan. I really like the natural world themes she uses in the games.
I played Undergrove for the first time today and it was really fun. It's developed by the same person who designed Wingspan. I really like the natural world themes she uses in the games.
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz PunkiBas @lemmy.world Dragons of Etchinstone crowdfunding is up on Gamefound
Just wanted to let everyone know that there's a campaign going on for one of my favorite games, Dragons of Etchinstone, it's one of those 18 card games that you can play without a table, like Palm Island, so you can play on the bus or train on your way to work.
I really like that you can take a couple of fast turns here and there and whenever you wanna stop, you just chuck all the cards in your pocket and you're good to go.
I have no relation with the guys that created it, but I really like several of the games this designer has made, like Gloomhaven Buttons and Bugs and other micro games, so I wanted to give a shout out.
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz mysticpickle @lemmy.ca Arkham Horror LCG: Boundary Beyond help
SPOILERS AHEAD SO READ NO FURTHER IF IT MATTERS FOR YOU . . . . . .
So we've played through the Dunwich, and Path to Carcosa campaigns and had a grand time all the way through them. Then we started on the third campaign The Forgotten Age.
Things were definitely trickier with the new explore mechanic but manageable for the first two scenarios. We definitely felt a large step up in difficulty.
Then we got the Boundary Beyond and just got like totally smashed with almost no headway towards finishing the second act. Like we retried it twice but the results were nearly the same we got one maybe 2.5 locations cleared out before our situation became obviously hopeless.
The costs to explore each location are just so punishing and leaves you with no gas to handle the mythos that ultimately ushers us to our doom.
It's really soured our group on the game in general and I'm not sure they'll want to continue at this point. Is there something we're doing wrong?
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works What do you think of the current trend towards prettier games?
The last 5-10 years have seen an uptick in the trend of games having nicer and shinier bits and pieces. In my mind, the trend is best exemplified by Wingspan, which to me was a fairly average game wrapped in a beautiful package of glossy Cadbury eggs and pretty birds. I'm personally in favour of getting nicer bits and pieces for my games, but they are undeniably having an impact on prices (how much of an impact is something I'd find really interesting, let me know if any publisher has discussed the issue).
What do you think of this trend? Are you in favour of moving back to 100% cardboard chits, or do you like the newer, prettier boardgames?
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz cm0002 @lemmy.world 
arstechnica.com Trump tariffs terrify board game designersMost games are made in China. They now face hefty fees.
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 @ttrpg.network The world's cutest chess master strikes!
When he struggles to reach across the board to move his chariot, I lose the plot.
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works An incompetent American attempt at manufacturing games locally
www.superheumann.com My Year in Manufacturing & GamesI spent a year in the manufacturing and board game space, learning more than I thought possible...
Edit: Title was changed since many people don't seem to get the term 'hilariously incompetent'.
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works Tabletop industry in full panic as Trump tariffs are poised to erase decades of growth
www.polygon.com Tabletop teams near panic as Trump tariffs could kill decades of growth‘Devastating consequences’ on the way, says trade group
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz ace_garp @lemmy.world First day of sneaking GAH onto the shelf, until my wife notices her present.
We both play Grand Austria Hotel on yucata.de all the time, this will be the first time on cardboard for us.
(An exceptional gaming experience, with plenty of opportunities for chaining. You can remove the Kitchen-Hand card for a more balanced game.)
Also saves on wrapping paper ;-)
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz db0 @lemmy.dbzer0.com Finally got Dune Imperium: Uprising - Bloodlines
Was very excited to get this expansion as it added some elegant additions to the well-crafted formula. I managed to play 3 games since Friday with it (3pl) and the experience solidified my view on it and its place as one of my favorite board games.
Pic is from the first game we played.
The Sardaukar Commanders add a much needed early tempo option for Solari. Normally you don't really have anything to do with Solari in the early term, as it's usually not worth spending it for 1 water when you could be saving it for a council position or a swordmaster. However now with the Sardaukar in play in some easy to reach positions, it gives players an incentive to spend their early money to quickly grab one of them before they're all snatched away.
Likewise in the late game, once you have your council seat and swordmaster, Solari didn't have that much impact outside the occasional conflict or card. Now if you have a few Sardaukar in your employ, they give a significant power to your combat eff
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz drjkl @programming.dev Quick reference card/cheat sheet for Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition (PDF in post)
About a year ago I put together this 2-sided reference card for Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition to help teach some friends and family how to play (and to remind myself of some of the new keywords in DE). While talking with someone recently, they suggested I actually publish it somewhere online (which I probably should have done a year ago, but oh well).
PDF and LibreOffice Draw files for printing/editing.
When I printed it, I ended up folding/cutting the sheets into quarters and gluing them together to get a thicker card. You could probably just duplex print them if you had thick enough paper though (bleed-through is a concern).
Fair warning: I think I was a little aggressive with the page margins; I was trying hard to avoid shrinking the text more/packing it too tightly to be easily readable.
I did my best to be concise but accurate, particularly with the glossary (some rewording was necessary for space). I also tried to match the c
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz leun089 @feddit.org Andromeda's Edge is an awesome game, but you better have a large table!
Picture shows the end state of a three player game. So much fun!
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works Arcs errata card pack now available
ledergames.com Blighted Reach Campaign Expansion | Errata Card PackIf your Arcs: The Blighted Reach Campaign Expansion is not first printing, you do not need this product! If you're not sure what printing of the campaign expansion you own, please see the third photo.This pack contains 23 updated cards for the first printing of Arcs: The Blighted Reach Campaign Expa...
Nominal price of $2, free shipping worldwide.
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works TIL Ticket to Ride has actual lore / backstory
On a blustery autumn evening, five old friends met in the backroom of one of the city’s oldest and most private clubs. Each had traveled a long distance — from all corners of the world — to meet on this very specific day… October 2, 1900 — 28 years to the day that the London eccentric, Phileas Fogg accepted and then won a £20,000 bet that he could travel Around the World in 80 Days. When the story of Fogg’s triumphant journey filled all the newspapers of the day, the five attended University together. Inspired by his impetuous gamble, and a few pints from the local pub, the group commemorated his circumnavigation with a more modest excursion and wager – a bottle of good claret to the first to make it to Le Procope in Paris. Each succeeding year, they met to celebrate the anniversary and pay tribute to Fogg. And each year a new expedition (always more difficult) with a new wager (always more expensive) was proposed. Now at the dawn of the century, it was time for a new impossible jour
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works Facebook employees still remember an infamous game of Catan from 9 years ago
www.businessinsider.com An ex-Facebook exec said staff let Zuckerberg win at board games. But now the plot thickens.Former Facebook exec Sarah Wynn-Williams claims Mark Zuckerberg's employees let him win Settlers of Catan in her new book "Careless People."
Business Insider published an article today titled "An ex-Facebook exec said staff let Zuckerberg win at board games. But now the plot thickens."
TLDR for the article:
- In her new book "Careless People", a former Facebook executive recalls a SPECIFIC game of Catan played on an Indonesia trip in October 2014. She writes that other Facebook employees let Mark Zuckerberg win at Catan by never stealing from him and failing to block his victory.
- Another player at that game is refuting her assessment and saying that it's actually WORSE that Zuckerberg enlisted the other players to gang up on him in order to secure the win.
What's funny to me about this article is that I'm sure we've all had at least one game session that has gone down in infamy due to it's contentiousness. It seems this specific session of Catan in Indonesia was THAT game for the players at the table that
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Board Games @sopuli.xyz AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works 
www.gamingonlinux.com The board game Frosthaven is getting a video game with the designer of X-COMThe popular board game Frosthaven is getting adapted into a video game, with Snapshot Games at the helm led by CEO Julian Gollop, known for designing X-COM.
