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  1. Comment on As per the username: Anyone want to talk about D&D? If you play - what's going on in your game? in ~games.tabletop

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    Tell me more about this hick crocodile man.

    Tell me more about this hick crocodile man.

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  2. Comment on As per the username: Anyone want to talk about D&D? If you play - what's going on in your game? in ~games.tabletop

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    Not yet. At one point we were captured by an army of gnolls and were being marched to his castle, but we successfully created a diversion and escaped. And then they found us again and we killed...

    Not yet. At one point we were captured by an army of gnolls and were being marched to his castle, but we successfully created a diversion and escaped.

    And then they found us again and we killed them all. Not sure why we didn't lead with that, but it wasn't my plan.

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  3. Comment on As per the username: Anyone want to talk about D&D? If you play - what's going on in your game? in ~games.tabletop

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    I play in a small game doing the 5e Curse of Strahd usually once a week (sometimes less). It's been a lot of fun. The DM is modifying the campaign pretty heavily. We have fought giant trees,...

    I play in a small game doing the 5e Curse of Strahd usually once a week (sometimes less). It's been a lot of fun. The DM is modifying the campaign pretty heavily. We have fought giant trees, little trees, (no medium sized trees yet). I got my ass kicked by a broom. I tried to sleep with a ghost (and almost got killed). So far we've only had one PC death (eaten by a giant tree, dissolved by it's acidy sap before I could save him). The DM has suggested that we all make backup characters ahead of time, because it's going to start getting harder though.

    I really want to run a Star Wars: Edge of the Empire campaign (or play in one) but it's hard to find the time. I can barely do D&D once per week for 4-5 hours.

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  4. Comment on What have yo been playing recently? in ~games.tabletop

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    I like ME:A too, but yeah there is a lot of really bland parts. It feels like they wanted to go back to Mass Effect 1 in some ways, and I felt the Mako parts of ME1 were the most boring parts of...

    I like ME:A too, but yeah there is a lot of really bland parts. It feels like they wanted to go back to Mass Effect 1 in some ways, and I felt the Mako parts of ME1 were the most boring parts of the game. Just dry "drive 5 minutes here. Now drive 5 minutes here" filler, and ME:A had that in droves.

    Having a LOT of quests with no map markers (or even some indication of what planet those quests should be done on) doesn't help either.

    I liken it to Arkham: Origins. It's probably the worst game in the series but if you like the series you won't hate it and it's worth playing at least once.

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  5. Comment on What are your favourite board games? in ~talk

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    I really like Puerto Rico. Something about having your own playspace to manage, while still being able to mess with other players, is really satisfying.

    I really like Puerto Rico. Something about having your own playspace to manage, while still being able to mess with other players, is really satisfying.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on What are your favourite board games? in ~talk

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    I second Waterdeep. It's a lot of fun and it's also real easy to get new players into, even if they're not used to playing modern board games. And once you're used to the game it has plenty of...

    I second Waterdeep. It's a lot of fun and it's also real easy to get new players into, even if they're not used to playing modern board games. And once you're used to the game it has plenty of strategy without becoming bogged down.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on What books are you reading nowadays? in ~misc

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    I've been reading Noumenon by Marina Lostetter. It's a series of vignettes about a colony of space ships that travels from earth in the near future thousands of years to a distant star that...

    I've been reading Noumenon by Marina Lostetter. It's a series of vignettes about a colony of space ships that travels from earth in the near future thousands of years to a distant star that appears to have some man(alien) made substance or unique element around it. the ships population are all clones of the original few thousand something crew.

    It reminds me a bit of Asimov, in that it comes off as hard sci-fi but focuses on human problems rather than the technical details.

    Apparently a sequel is coming out later this year, which I'm pretty excited for.