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AusGAF 8 - Worksafe Wankers
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I like playing munchkin much more than I like reflecting on any game of munchkin I've played and realising every single one ends up with every player on the level 9 door having a war of attrition until someone accidentally wins.
But boy is it enjoyable to create a super overpowered character in the midgame and just fuck people over for the most petty of reasons.
But boy is it enjoyable to create a super overpowered character in the midgame and just fuck people over for the most petty of reasons.
reptilescorpio
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Jables Swan
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But I can see GAF, so people should be courteous enough to repost it so I can see it at work rather than having to bounce between my desktop and mobile. I can look like I'm doing work on a PC, I can't when I'm on my phone
Jables Swan
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Forget Munchkin, lets talk about good games.
This is the coolest game kit I've ever bought. It's so simple, but just oozes theme that the game is designed to evoke. The rules are printed in a little notebook, it comes with custom cards with the events printed on them, cool skull (contempt) tokens as well as some dice. All this fits in a little burlap bag that it comes with. I think it's brilliant.
The Quiet Year by Joe McDaldno is a map-making game set in a post-apocalyptic/post-collapse community. You have driven off the faction you were at war with and obtained a year of relative peace. With this year you will use it to try and build up your community. There will be dramas, setbacks, and good and bad luck throughout. Here's the fluff:
Light on components and simple to play. All you need is the small rulebook, a deck of cards (or the custom ones above), some tokens, some six-sided dice and of course some pencil and paper. You decide, narrate and illustrate events as they happen, going from a very open-ended question or statement posed by the cards, often there are options where you can choose which question to answer on the cards. e.g. "The strongest among you dies. What caused the death?" or "The weakest among you dies. Whos to blame for their death?"
After all is said and done, you have a map to show for your time spent playing the game. That map could be used to kick off another roleplaying game, or The Quiet Year could take place during an interim period in another campaign. Joe McDaldno has made roleplaying games in the past, and while this does feature roleplaying, it's different and it's cool and I like it.
This is the coolest game kit I've ever bought. It's so simple, but just oozes theme that the game is designed to evoke. The rules are printed in a little notebook, it comes with custom cards with the events printed on them, cool skull (contempt) tokens as well as some dice. All this fits in a little burlap bag that it comes with. I think it's brilliant.
The Quiet Year by Joe McDaldno is a map-making game set in a post-apocalyptic/post-collapse community. You have driven off the faction you were at war with and obtained a year of relative peace. With this year you will use it to try and build up your community. There will be dramas, setbacks, and good and bad luck throughout. Here's the fluff:
Light on components and simple to play. All you need is the small rulebook, a deck of cards (or the custom ones above), some tokens, some six-sided dice and of course some pencil and paper. You decide, narrate and illustrate events as they happen, going from a very open-ended question or statement posed by the cards, often there are options where you can choose which question to answer on the cards. e.g. "The strongest among you dies. What caused the death?" or "The weakest among you dies. Whos to blame for their death?"
After all is said and done, you have a map to show for your time spent playing the game. That map could be used to kick off another roleplaying game, or The Quiet Year could take place during an interim period in another campaign. Joe McDaldno has made roleplaying games in the past, and while this does feature roleplaying, it's different and it's cool and I like it.
Forget Munchkin, lets talk about good games.
This is the coolest game kit I've ever bought. It's so simple, but just oozes theme that the game is designed to evoke. The rules are printed in a little notebook, it comes with custom cards with the events printed on them, cool skull (contempt) tokens as well as some dice. All this fits in a little burlap bag that it comes with. I think it's brilliant.
The Quiet Year by Joe McDaldno is a map-making game set in a post-apocalyptic/post-collapse community. You have driven off the faction you were at war with and obtained a year of relative peace. With this year you will use it to try and build up your community. There will be dramas, setbacks, and good and bad luck throughout. Here's the fluff:
Light on components and simple to play. All you need is the small rulebook, a deck of cards (or the custom ones above), some tokens, some six-sided dice and of course some pencil and paper. You decide, narrate and illustrate events as they happen, going from a very open-ended question or statement posed by the cards, often there are options where you can choose which question to answer on the cards. e.g. "The strongest among you dies. What caused the death?" or "The weakest among you dies. Whos to blame for their death?"
After all is said and done, you have a map to show for your time spent playing the game. That map could be used to kick off another roleplaying game, or The Quiet Year could take place during an interim period in another campaign. Joe McDaldno has made roleplaying games in the past, and while this does feature roleplaying, it's different and it's cool and I like it.
That looks and sounds amazing.
reptilescorpio
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Only if he plays Blackwater Park.
Totally!
Indeed as you play the game, a map is generated with different features and whatnot as projects are completed or failed and resources come and go for various reasons (as decided by the players). Everyone gets to contribute to things that appear on the map. Playing is it's own reward, but having a souvenir at the end of the game is simply wonderful.
I'm not sure if using the finished map for other games was the intent behind the game, but I'm confident he knew that it would be used for exactly that. It's an engaging and fun way to create a map with your friends and using it to play something else just makes it so much more rewarding.
Media Watch has a trophy called the Campbell Reid Perpetual Trophy for the Brazen Recycling of Other People's Work, named after a former editor of the Daily Telegraph. It's basically a dead fish with the words 'Carpe Verbatim' underneath it, which I thought was pretty clever.
FormallyMegadrive
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Did Aon write this?
later!
Awesome. I didn't actually know whether there were games that allowed use of one's own map (versus a pack-in one) but you learn something new everyday
Now I just need to find friends who'd be up for playing that sort of thing!Planet_JASE
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I really hope it's only open in the morning and has an unreasonably high price of entry.
codswallop
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Tried around a dozen new beers tonight. One a recreation from a 130 year old recipe.
One beer was called Lando Kardashian, the one straight after the Millennium Falcon. How's that for kismet?
It wasn't that great.
One beer was called Lando Kardashian, the one straight after the Millennium Falcon. How's that for kismet?
Yes I'm aware it's Kalrissian, so what?
This is true.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Vita with 4gb memory card for $150 from a friend. I'm thinking yes, on the basis I'll buy one eventually, and I don't see sub-$150 anytime soon.
Help me impulse GAF.
Help me impulse GAF.
pieatorium
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do it
BananaArnie
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get it
Ive got a rock that will provide the same amount of fun and be a better paper weight.... 20 bucks! And itll still be useful a year from now!
Ruthless_Barbarian
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Go for it. MGS collection is free on PS Plus this month. That should get you started.
codswallop
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Wife picked me up from the train station after I drank much beer, noticed the front number plate from her car was missing.
Ugh. Great.
Ugh. Great.
Yes. Best designed handheld ever made and no one is making games for it.
No huge drama, you can get a replacement via the internets these days!
Planet_JASE
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Vita has no gaemz
Has nothign but ports
Its nothign like the 3DS
has over 100
Has nothign but ports
What you're saying is that it's pretty much a 3DS, but with more original titles...
Its nothign like the 3DS
So I'll actually use it?
Have any interest in XCOM?
BananaArnie
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reptilescorpio
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The Hobbit was indeed boring.
There was a ton of other replies to do but it is already late.
Glad you have someone IRL to talk to about shit Danoss! Goes a long way to maintaining sanity.
Do you have PS+? If so you instantly have like 6 games.
There was a ton of other replies to do but it is already late.
Glad you have someone IRL to talk to about shit Danoss! Goes a long way to maintaining sanity.
Do you have PS+? If so you instantly have like 6 games.
reptilescorpio
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Yes. Until you resub. 12 months is usually around $50 without exploits or free months that they seem to throw around fairly often.
You keep any games/content you buy using the PS+ discount during sales obviously.
Once you resub all the PS+ freebies are unlocked for you again.
Oddly enough there are quite a few that are still unlocked even after lapsing, Stacking was one I noticed.
Cool.
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shanshan310
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Media Watch is the best.
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