Board Game thread

[Ruki]

Any one here willing to sell me their Game of Thrones board game? Everyone on Amazon wants $100 for it. The one seller who had it priced at $53 just emailed me saying his last one was damaged and gave me a refund.

Try a site that isn't Amazon?

http://www.miniaturemarket.com/ffgva65.html (out of stock, but $40). Same deal here: http://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/136820

Just look at board game shops online. THey usually have good deals (or at least free shipping)

[Meacon Keaton]

I did look outside of Amazon and everywhere was out of stock.

Just found it for $60 on ThinkGeek. So bought.

[Ruki]

From a random user?

I just completed all of my math trades as of yesterday. The guy went through all the pieces of the game (Shadows Over Camelot)...one of the swords was missing. That was awkward :/

[Meacon Keaton]

No, not a random user. Its from their website. They have new ones in stock.

[Ruki]

Oh! Think Geek, I was thinking of Board Game Geek. My bad >_<

[Meacon Keaton]

You did make me double check to be sure.

[Ruki]

The past two nights were filled with gaming!

Last night: Settlers of Catan, I won!

Tonight: Two games of Red Dragon Inn (I won once), Lifeboat (I got ganged up on), Zombie Dice (someone won with one roll), Quarriors, and Pandemic (I thought we were doing good...then we got destroyed). Good night!

[Ruki]

Going to be playing Red Drunken Inn on Saturday.

Pretty sure I am going to be drunk before round one of the game is done.

[Meacon Keaton]

First time playing Game of Thrones tomorrow night. And my sister-in-law's boyfriend owns Settlers of Catan so I will get to play it soon too.

[Ruki]

Game of Thrones is fun! If you're the Starks, don't leave Winterfell open. It's too easy to sneak in via the water.

[TEOL]

Game of Thrones is fun! If you're the Starks, don't leave Winterfell open. It's too easy to sneak in via the water.

Already found that out the hard way.

[Ruki]

Game of Thrones is fun! If you're the Starks, don't leave Winterfell open. It's too easy to sneak in via the water.

Already found that out the hard way.

I forced a friend to find that out the hard way. Twice.

....and then it happened to me.

[Meacon Keaton]

I know not to be the Starks. And I know I'm going after Winterfell.

Any other tips?

[Ruki]

Stock up on influence points (I think that's what they're called. You use them to bid on the throne/raven/sword)...those are super useful.

[Meacon Keaton]

Won tonight as the Lannisters. I love this game.

[Ruki]

Played Risk Legacy for the first time in 6-7 months....and I won And my won brought with it many changes to the board (bio-hazards!)

[Meacon Keaton]

Played Game of Thrones, Munchkin, and Settlers of Catan this weekend. Loved them all.

Won at Munchkin and helped the lesser of two evils win at GoT.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Board game convention in Henley, Stoke-on-Trent on 10th/11th August. Very much looking forward to it. I know the guy running it and numerous people going. I used to go before I went to Japan and it's been my first chance of going now for a while. It's a great couple of days and probably the least geeky of the UK games conventions.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Off to the convention tomorrow! Very excited. Whooooo.

I'll be picking up this:

I've been waiting to be able to get it for a year now since it came out. The designer's previous game is one I have about fashion designs and so on....

...and is great because it's a very good game wrapped up in a theme that most gamers wouldn't touch because of the theme - which is actually a plus for me because I love themes that aren't just the normal fantasy/trading etc.

Anyway, back to Robinson Crusoe. It's a co-op game for 1-4 players (whooo solo)

"Robinson Crusoe: Adventure on the Cursed Island is another epic game created by Ignacy Trzewiczek, the author of Stronghold. This time Trzewiczek takes the players to a deserted island, where they'll play the parts of shipwreck survivors confronted by an extraordinary adventure. They'll be faced with the challenges of building a shelter, finding food, fighting wild beasts, and protecting themselves from weather changes. Building walls around their homes, animal domestication, constructing weapons and tools from what they find and much more awaits them on the island. The players decide in which direction the game will unfold and – after several in-game weeks of hard work – how their settlement will look. Will they manage to discover the secret of the island in the meantime? Will they find a pirate treasure, or an abandoned village? Will they discover an underground city or a cursed temple at the bottom of a volcano? Answers to these questions lie in hundreds of event cards and hundreds of object and structure cards that can be used during the game..."

[Meacon Keaton]

That's one I want to pick up. I really want a few co-op games, and that one is on my list.

My local bookstore just relocated right next to a board game shop I didn't even know existed. I feel like I'm going to be parting with a lot of my money.