3124

You know what, that may be fair. Its been years for me as well, so I am perhaps being overly critical. I don’t remember player interaction being a huge factor, generally on balance it seemed to work out pretty close to even. But that may just have been my group.

I have a copy on my shelf, maybe I should dust it off some time.

3125

Wow thanks. Think I’m going to give it a shot.

3126

And now I might get my Tainted Grail shipment on Friday, if I’m lucky and the driver decides to actually do his job and pay attention to instructions, unlike putative delivery attempts #1 (Monday) and #2 (today) in which no contact was made, no door tag was left, no secure package compartment was used, and no package was delivered. (And I had to call and yell at them to get them to attempt redelivery at all instead of stashing it at a random Walgreens.) I hate Fedex so fucking much.

3127

I’m interested in Maniacal for sure, will check after the holidays if my local store gets it. And I want to check out Cthulhu as well, it could be a fun solitaire game?

3128

As someone who is sorely tempted by anything solitaire or Lovecraft, and especially something solitaire and Lovecraft, I have to say Cthulhu: Death May Die looks like trash. :( As near as I can tell, it’s just a rote dungeon crawl with awkwardly applied Lovecraft theming.

-Tom

3129

Maybe a road trip to LA is in order!

There’s a really good direct port of LeHavre on iOS, but unfortunately, not on Steam. The LeHavre on Steam is some sort of weird adaptation of the LeHavre theming for an entirely different game.

-Tom

3130

I was afraid and wouldn’t buy it unless my local store had a demo. A good solitaire Cthulhu game would be so up my alley if it existed.

3131

Of course my copy just arrived. What a buzzkill. At least I have a kickass 2 foot tall statue :)

3132

LOL. Yes. If only there was such a thing out there.

3133

Mythos Tales? It’s based on the old Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective system, where you move to various locations, gather clues, etc., and it’s basically a single-player (or really as many players as you’d like- no one has individual turns, just a group thing) co-op game.

3134

Doh! Well, I would love to be wrong. I’m certainly a fan of Eric Lang, so please keep us posted. I just skimmed a PDF of the rules and then watched part of a video of someone setting up and playing the first scenario. So don’t take my comments too much to heart.

-Tom

3135

I’m guessing triggercut is chortling about Fantasy Flight’s Lovecraft games, like Elder Sign, Arkham Horror, and Eldritch Horror, which I know both he and I enjoy as solitaire games. But, really, they’re more pulp adventure with a Lovecraftian sheet draped over them. A game that’s actually true to Lovecraft probably wouldn’t be much of a game.

-Tom

3136

I gave up on Mythos Tales after the 2nd case, which was the 2nd one in a row where success seemed determined entirely by randomly visiting one of the default “helper” locations and getting randomly lucky that you picked the right one to progress the clue chain.

3137

So… Kingdom Death Monster in on its way to get it’s first expansion more expensive than the base game. The Gambler’s Chest , sold in the last KS at $50 now goes for $375 and it’s still a year off. Only $25 to go!

At least they are going to release a card pack fixing errata and tweaking balance of the base game and first set of expansions for free (well just shipping costs). I’m sure it will last 5 minutes before selling out.

3138

Is that card pack in the pledge manager right now? Because I don’t see it.

The Gambler’s chest is ‘only’ $325 in the manager, but I guess $375 might be retail? Stupid money, anyway. There’s some cool sounding stuff in there, but all the minis make it unaffordable. Ditto for the Campaign book- I really want that, but at $175… um, no. Yeah, I could sell off all the minis, but I think I’ll just look for the reverse - someone who bought this for them and is selling off the book.

3139

The card pack was announced in the latest KS update. Will go directly into the shop, that’s why I’m concerned it will sell out fast.

I got Campaigns of Death for $40 and the Gambler’s Chest for $50 during the KS, so I’m happy about those two specific choices.

3140

Essentially that. :)

Although I do think that I disagree somewhat with the notion of these games – and I’d include Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition too, which I quite enjoy – veering away from being Lovecraftian and instead being pulp adventure games with a Lovecraft gilt flake. Perhaps for some stories, but the pulp adventure theming is inherent and very much present in a lot of Lovecraft’s original works. “The Call Of C’thulhu”, “At The Mountains of Madness”, “The Lurking Fear”, “The Statement of Randolph Carter” to name a few, are built upon and chock full of classic pulp fiction story frameworks.

But yeah, between Eldritch Horror, Arkham Horror LCG, Mansions of Madness, and Elder Sign, that’s an awful lot of Lovecraftian gaming that’s at least good, and very often great.

And contrarian opinion here: Elder Sign with at least the first two expansions might be my favorite of the lot…

3141

I’ve got some of the fantasy flight games as well and I backed Mythos Tales on Kickstarter. Mythos Tales is not Sherlock Holmes. The Fantasy Flight games are fine, but as Tom said they don’t really feel like Lovecraft.

I don’t know how, but some kind of game where the only solution is to avert attention of the elder god that the cultists are drawing but narrowly avoiding the actual knowledge of what is happening.

3142

Fallout the board game is going for about $30 on Amazon right now, anyone have an opinion about that?

3143

1575055685036816914474760914766
15750556850368169144747609147661332×1998 1.45 MB

Trying Tapestry for the first time. The components are nice.

Also tried Pandemic Rapid Response, which was quick, hectic and nice.