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sundancer 5 months ago.
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As predicted my plans to do anything productive got scuppered, because carnaval happened and that is an event I simply don’t want to miss out on.
First up was the saturday even, where they also introduced the not-bride and not-groom who will have a fake farmers’ wedding on tuesday. This is always done by an entire neighbourhood or a big club and is quite an event.
Fun fact : the neighbourhood is Moluccan in origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moluccans
It’s all kinds of awesome when the entire audience sings with the artists on stage.
Today (sunday) was one of the many parades.
New editions better ?
I’d say usually they are *if* they are done for the right reasons and the writers have the balls to do what is needed to fix things.
AD&D 2nd to 3rd edition did fix one of my major issues with the game : the inconsistent dice rolling. The feats system was a good idea, but in hindsight they went a bit over the top with it and it became a mess.
Flames of War 4th edition … definitely another good upgrade. Removing the overly complicated nation specific special rules was a good thing as was the introduction of unit cards with the upgrades factored into the stat lines.
8th edition 40k *was* a good idea … but GW forgot that they either needed to kill factions or change to a D8 or D10 based system (or maybe even multiple dice types) to really allow factions and units to shine without having to add a ton of special rules to them.
Kings of War / Deadzone / Firefight … I’ll just say that Mantic has shown that they know how to fix things and they do it in the most customer friendly manner possible.
@limburger – looks like great fun!
@ sundancer – new edition.Are we talking board games/tabletop games? Or games in general?
I always thought that Laser Squad on the ZX Spectrum was a great game, even if in two-player mode, you had to take turns to leave the room (and call your opponent in once you were “spotted’). But Laser Squad Nemesis was a vast improvement on the mechanic. I still see it as the same game, but maybe more accurately, it’s a game set in the same world?But for tabletop games, of course it’s got to be Blood Bowl.
All those look-up tables, dice modifiers, add one for this, subtract one for that…. all gone with the block dice – a much easier way to play. Once you got familiar with the rules, you kind of memorised a lot of the look-up tables, but the block dice as a way of getting rid of look-up tables was a nice touch.
There’s no doubt that Blood Bowl 3rd edition was the same game even with new rules, dice and game mechanics. It was still Blood Bowl!I just backed by another Kickstarter which is a “new game” that more or less says it’s a tabletop version of an old game. Your favourite 90s RTS no less… https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kneedeepinhexes/knee-deep-in-hexes/
Here’s your music.
In honour of Gerry’s smart new haircut (which, @avernos, looks fantastic by the way).I actually got to this stage about a week ago, but haven’t known how to proceed with making furniture up until now. Time to scratch build with match sticks and lolly pop sticks…
@danlee – that looks really nice!
I’m afraid I’m unlikely to get much time to work on my Dungeonalia project before the deadline at the end of this month.
But I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the mix of 3d printing and making “old school” clay tiles with texture rollers. But slap-chopped terrain just looks brilliant! And your columns and textured walls/floor look really cool.I’m really quite pleased with how my Head over Heels game has come along so far (a bit further than my latest project write-up) and I really loved working on the puzzles and cards and so on, and it’s really sowed the seeds for a great game idea. I just don’t think I’ll have the time to get it over line to a “finished” state before the end of the month.
And then I saw this in my Facebook feed the other day and it got me questioning my entire approach (using clear acrylic “stands” to make blocks appear to float in different levels).
and, yes, it’ll mean some limiting factors when setting up rooms – and I’ll have to reprint a lot of the items I already made, to make them more “box-y” and square. But it’s also a fantastic way of building ladders and steps and floating platforms. I think I might just have to give this some serious thought…..
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