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13 votes
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Magnus Carlsen vs. Ian Nepomniachtchi: What do the numbers say?
4 votes -
Future of D&D (Core rules rework)
8 votes -
10-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi is America's newest Chess Master
4 votes -
Garry Kasparov on the genius of Mikhail Tal
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The dark side of chess: Payoffs, points and twelve-year-old Grandmasters
5 votes -
Board games: A price breakdown
8 votes -
Stop chess draws
7 votes -
How a board game about birds became a surprise blockbuster
14 votes -
What's a good book to (re)learn chess fundamentals?
Most people online seem to favor a practical approach to learning chess, but I tend to prefer something more structured, with a bit of theory, concepts, and explanations. I'd also rather use my...
Most people online seem to favor a practical approach to learning chess, but I tend to prefer something more structured, with a bit of theory, concepts, and explanations. I'd also rather use my physical board instead of an app. I already know how to play chess, but I'd like to give it another good and see if I can achieve a higher level than before, starting from the beginning. Any suggestions?
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Avatar Legends RPG on Kickstarter August 3rd
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How to become a Grandmaster in chess
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Hou Yifan and the wait for chess’s first woman world champion
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Magnus Carlsen celebrates ten years unbroken as world number one – only seven players have topped the FIDE rating lists since 1971
12 votes -
Abhimanyu Mishra, 12, becomes youngest Grandmaster in chess history
10 votes -
Productive scab-picking: On oppressive themes in gaming
6 votes -
Esoteric tabletop gaming rules review
Players are understood to be sharing a cake. How much cake do you want? Be fair. Anyone who has had the least gets to size the next piece. Don't finish the cake! Is this plausible ttg rules text?...
Players are understood to be sharing a cake. How much cake do you want? Be fair. Anyone who has had the least gets to size the next piece. Don't finish the cake!
Is this plausible ttg rules text? Do you recognize the instructions?
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Meet America's newest Chess Master, 10-year-old Tanitoluwa Adewumi
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Pokemon card graders face unprecedented shortages in grading services as prices rise
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Exploring the top of the D&D power curve with Vecna
7 votes -
Anybody fancy a round of the Board Games of Thrones?
I've recently been playing a bunch of the Board Game of Thrones (the epic strategy/war/negotiation game) online over at thronemaster.net, and was wondering if any of you fine folks would like to...
I've recently been playing a bunch of the Board Game of Thrones (the epic strategy/war/negotiation game) online over at thronemaster.net, and was wondering if any of you fine folks would like to join me in a game?
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Dungeon & Dragons favorite character sheets?
I have started playing D&D basic with my family as a way to spend time together away from devices. I found the original character sheets:...
I have started playing D&D basic with my family as a way to spend time together away from devices.
I found the original character sheets:
http://www.ultanya.com/2015/10/throwback-thursday-character-sheets.htmlAnyone else have favorite character sheets for D&D?
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Lancer publisher Mastiff Press launches official website with hardcover core book available for purchase
7 votes -
Auroboris: Coils of the Serpent - New tabletop rpg by Chris Metzen
7 votes -
A bird-feed seller beat a chess master online. Then it got ugly
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Anyone wanna play a TTRPG?
My old TTRPG group hasn’t met in months now, and listening to actual play podcasts only scratches the itch. Probably a long shot given the size of the site, but anyone interested in playing a...
My old TTRPG group hasn’t met in months now, and listening to actual play podcasts only scratches the itch.
Probably a long shot given the size of the site, but anyone interested in playing a TTRPG sometime soon?
I’m thinking something easy and low pressure, like Stewpot, or Fiasco or maybe a world builder like the Quiet Year/Microscope/Anomaly/The Ground Itself; I have the PDF for most of those.
But hey, if you have something you’ve been waiting forever to play: I’m here for it.
I have literally nothing to do tomorrow so drop a message if you’re interested! I’m in CST
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Magnus Carlsen eliminated from his own tournament – world champion lost his semi-final against Russian champion Ian Nepomniachtchi
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Two-person boardgames?
My girlfriend and I have had a habit of going straight to watching movies and tv-series when we hang out, because due to lockdown almost everything is closed, so we don't really have a lot of...
My girlfriend and I have had a habit of going straight to watching movies and tv-series when we hang out, because due to lockdown almost everything is closed, so we don't really have a lot of activities to choose from.
We also play games occassionally, recently scrabble on our phones. But what other boardgames work well when there are only 2 players?
Edit: Wow! I can't possibly respond to everyone but I didn't expect so many people to comment with help. Thank you so much!
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Dungeon Alchemist Kickstarter meet in three hours - Dungeon map generator
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Magic: The Gathering announces crossovers with Lord of the Rings and Warhammer 40,000
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Stardew Valley: The Board Game - Available now
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MPC Autofill: Proxy a vintage cube for ~$100 USD
5 votes -
Gonti Steals Kaldra | Commander Clash Moment #6
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Campaigns & Companions will delight RPG fans who are obsessed with their pets
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In his first-ever classical game with the world champion, Andrey Esipenko scored a crushing upset victory against Magnus Carlsen, dominating the game from start to finish
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What puzzles and poker teach us about misinformation
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Magnus Carlsen expects to start back on the winning trail – Norway's world champion aims for yet another first prize at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament
6 votes -
Spill your RPG character's secrets that the other party members don't know!
I'll start: the party knows my character is a veteran of the war between the elves and the humans, but they don't know that she was duped into helping develop a type of biological warfare and...
I'll start: the party knows my character is a veteran of the war between the elves and the humans, but they don't know that she was duped into helping develop a type of biological warfare and becoming an accessory to war crimes.
What are you hiding?
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Ideal Chess - Drop chess perfected
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Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue: The historic chess match between man and machine
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[SOLVED] Looking for the name of a specific board game, recommended on tildes
As the title suggests, I am lookimg for the name of an existing boardgame. Some time ago (months), there was a discussion about boardgame recommendations. One person described a very interesting...
As the title suggests, I am lookimg for the name of an existing boardgame.
Some time ago (months), there was a discussion about boardgame recommendations. One person described a very interesting boardgame, which I wanted to gift my family for christmas, but I sadly closed the tab with it and I can't find the original post anymore.The game goes as follows:
One player builds a construct with different shapes and colours according to certain guidelines. The other players now have to find the rules, which the presentated construct follows, by building their own construct and getting feedback from the gamemaster, if it fulfills their guidelines.According to the poster, this game was originally a game a group of friends played in college, it became so popular that they created a sellable version. Recently they revamped it.
P.S. I am not really familiar with this kind of post, so if I did anything wrong, some feedback would be nice.
P.P.S. Is there some kind of function (maybe through tags?) to mark this post as solved, if hopefully someone managed to recognise the game?
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esoteric board game rules templating review, please
I'm working on a card game that would arrive to your home without a rulebook, but I'm having a comprehensibility problem. Below is some basic rules text for this game. If you had enough time to...
I'm working on a card game that would arrive to your home without a rulebook, but I'm having a comprehensibility problem. Below is some basic rules text for this game. If you had enough time to decipher the below, do you believe you could understand its meaning? Are there any words which are too obscure?
Join a game by selecting a central objective from among its currently apparent contests. Catch a turn from wherever to start playing then describe your plan aloud to the group. If anyone agrees that your plan is valid (legal?) then they can accept you into the game as their second. Anyone else who wants to join at this point may also join/rejoin as your teammate.
Contests are tensions between two scales which can be described by consensus. For example, imagine I'm 1v1 with Ah while you are on a team with Bo and Ci against Du. Imagine Du sees that the tide is not in their favor, and decides to jump ship to the other game. They may do so at any time by admitting they want out of their losing position and describing which team in the other game they would like to swing over to join (My team or Ah's.). Bo, Ci, and you are left in the boat without an opponent. This may cause a crisis (see "Crisis Card").
Farewell, I am off to prepare lunch for a child.
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A case for the possible sale of Wizards of the Coast
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DnD 5e's Newest Rulebook (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything) is out tomorrow
For people new to tabletop RPGs, this is the equivalent of a DLC expansion. It's new content, new rules, new classes, and so forth to augment your 5e game. Notable contents include: Racial Traits...
For people new to tabletop RPGs, this is the equivalent of a DLC expansion. It's new content, new rules, new classes, and so forth to augment your 5e game.
Notable contents include:
Racial Traits
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Racial stat bonuses can be moved around at will (i.e you can change a Half Elf's +2 Charisma to a +2 Strength)
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Races with negative stat bonuses no longer have negative stat bonuses
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A new "custom lineage" race exists, which allows to pick any race, and replace their features with a +2 to any stat of your choice, a feat, and darkvision.
Class Variants
These modify class features. Unfortunately, many of them are somewhat controversial in the community because people do not believe that they fixed many of the classes that are considered to have poor design, notably rangers and sorcerers.
For the spellcasters, spell versatility (a feature which allows you to change spells you know on a long rest) was not implemented, disappointing many
New Subclasses
A few subclasses from other books are reprinted so you don't have to buy them (example: Eloquence Bard, from Mythical Odyssey of Theros), and a few are new, like Order Cleric, Wildfire Druid, and so forth.
In particular, the Clockwork Soul Sorcerer is one piece of good news for Sorcerer players.
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Running tabletop RPG games with Obsidian
10 votes -
A collection of one-shot tabletop RPG adventures
8 votes -
New paper from DeepMind and world champion Vladimir Kramnik uses the AlphaZero self-learning chess engine to explore nine variants on the rules of chess
7 votes -
Impact of Go AI on the professional Go world
11 votes -
Tasha's Cauldron of Everything announced
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Magnus Carlsen fought back from the verge of defeat as the world champion clinched his seven-day, 38-game match against Hikaru Nakamura by four sets to three
9 votes