Peter Keay

@rustopian

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A new kickstarter came today... a lighter game, 2 players, by my favorite publisher: Mindclash! I know *nothing* else about it tho so 🤞

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Anybody going to Essen this week??? Let’s hang and play some games 👋

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Humans vs AI overlord games are probably going to be a theme for quite some time Excited to get this one to the table

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🚨<4 days left!🚨 For those who missed the first campaign: ☀️RA☀️ is back! RA is THE classic auction game. Simple but nail-baiting, as players place bids to collect the best resources and artifacts of ancient Egypt. (I got mine in the first campaign.) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chadelkins/ra-pharaoh-edition-reprint-and-more

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⏰ Less than 48 hours left! 💦 It’s a game about dams. ⚙️ Specifically, managing steampunk hydroelectric power companies. It’s complex, it’s competitive, it’s creative, and it’s ranked #35 overall. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/craniocreations/barrage-the-legendary-box

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Another round of Cloudspire - a unique and deep tower defense game with intricate faction powers. I was a pirate faction with a movable ship fortress and cannons. The opponent was a plant faction that could attack with barbs and tower-strangling roots. Close game. I lost to second tiebreaker!

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Anyone ever played Tamashii? Awaken Realms Lite cyberpunk game set in Japan. Rated high at 8.2, but not a super high number of ratings yet (~700). “Become an outsider and fight against Ascend, a cold AI that rules over the world.”

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💵 Crowdfund Alert 💵 Cyberpunk 2077 Board Game ends in 10 days. Pretty reasonable at $79 for standard, or $139 for all in. 🔍 Exploration & Tactical Prep... and Combat, of course ⏰ App Timer enforces quick gameplay. Complete each objective before time runs out! I was skeptical at first, but after checking out some gameplay, I'm in. https://gamefound.com/en/projects/go-on-board/cyberpunk-2077-the-board-game

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Anachrony, Terraforming Mars, Trickerion, Wonderland’s War, Agricola, Blood Rage, Root, Roll for the Galaxy, Unearth, Sky Team, Apiary, Dune Imperium: Uprising, Everdell, Ark Nova, Gaia Project, Castles of Burgundy, Paint the Roses, Eclipse, Concordia, Great Western Trail, Orleans.

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The best Azul game is Summer Pavilion And the Glazed Pavilion upgrade makes it so much easier to play 🥳

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Dominant Species, anybody played? I like it in theory, but not sure I do in reality. Altho at least I can tell onlookers that we’re actually playing The Cones of Dunshire.

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New Board Game Arena release: 🧪 🔭 NEWTON 🧮 🍎 It's a fun (if long) euro game where your assistants travel across Europe *and* race across tech trees in pursuit of scientific achievement. Visit cities, fill up your library with books, and play the right cards to win the game. 7.5 on BGG. It's definitely a sit-down game – clocking in at 90 minutes for the physical version – but the online version plays more quickly. boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=newton

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Needed some Countersmell on that plane ride

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A friend introduced me to two sites I wish I’d known about long ago startplaying.games - find (or be) a professional GM boardzilla.io - very young site that makes it pretty easy to build board games digitally, in TypeScript. I’ll deploy Onitama there soon & will see what game to do after that

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The games have arrived at mtndao! I haven’t played the Civ board game before. I enjoyed the upgradable action card system, which is kind of like Ark Nova action cards, but with more choice when you pick upgrades. But I’m not sure what I think about it overall yet. Anyone else played it?

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Anybody at mtndao? Thinking of running something tabletop… Or D&D!

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Surprise! *Distilled* is on Board Game Arena today! 🍺 🍺 🍺 I mentioned it recently as an aside in a post on Luthier, by the same publisher. It's a great game, especially if you like the theme. https://boardgamearena.com/news?id=811

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Come join us to talk /tabletop RIGHT NOW! https://alpha.tavern.fm/taverns/k9jJqMpBjzTwG3XHZ5WO

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D&D Dice! One fun rule for DMs is *degrees of success*. This is baked into some systems like 40k, but not D&D. The dice can tell you more than just “success” or “fail”. Say your player must leap an abyss. The difficulty is 12. Not bad. Yes, we all know about criticals. A player rolls a 20, they murder it. Eyes closed, dramatic frontflip, even calling in a successful Chinese food order in the air along the way. The player rolls a 1, critical fail. They slip and dive into the abyss. Unless someone casts feather fall, they might die. But what if they roll *exactly* 12? You can say they *barely make it.* A foot slips into the abyss, or one of their companions snatches their hand to pull them forward. What about an 11? Well, dying in an abyss sucks. So a good DM can have them almost make it, hang from the edge. Maybe an item from their pack slips out into the void. An 18 is comfortable, a 14 not so much. This can feed more interesting storytelling than just seeing 12+ and saying “you make it!”

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