The game you’re looking for is [url=http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13823/fairy-tale] Fairy Tale. [\url]
It has a similar card-drafting start, but you make a hand that then gets played.
The game you’re looking for is Fairy Tale.
It has a similar card-drafting start, but you make a hand that then gets played.
jpinard
4383
Castle Panic - Do you shuffle the deck after you’ve used up all the cards? Or are you in panic mode because you no longer have cards but a lot of monsters to kill yet?
Thanks!
Got it! Reading the rules now.
There is a great video series for learning to play that game.
Did they take back the other LoTR?
Jelly, thank you very much for the link. I definitely need it. The rules don’t really giv eme a feel for the flow.
Tyler, they did take back the other game, although I was charged a restocking fee by the grunt who didn’t want to defy the absent owner. I’ll complain later.
A restocking fee for a brick and mortar store? For a same day return where you’re walking away with another game and still spending the money?
Was the other game opened?
Seriously…I doubt I would ever return to a store that pulled that crap on me (unless the item was opened). My experience really seems to be that these game stores simply are not interested in keeping customers happy. Thankfully there are other options than putting up with thier hassles.
Yeah, I’d removed the shrink wrap and that’s it. I think that the owner will make things right when I talk to her. If she doesn’t, I’ll just cost her a bunch of money by bitching about her store on BGG.
SlyFrog
4393
That’s the “friendly local gaming store” for you.
I have no idea why so many board game stores seem to have such bizarre management/employee/owner problems. It’s like customer service actually causes them pain or something.
Well, if you removed the shrink wrap I can see thier point. Why did you take it off if you knew you were gonna return it?
Reldan
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I think a lot of game store peeps are people who think they’re especially qualified to work in a game store on the basis of them liking games. Kinda like the folks who think they’ll love doing QA because they like to play video games. They’re not getting paid much, and the owner is getting what he/she paid for.
I think it might go back to a time when they were the only place nerds could get thier “fix”. I always feel like the attitude is “we have what you want so we can do things however we want”. With the advent of online shopping that’s not really the case anymore.
Annoying policies and a rather unwelcoming feel has basically driven me from my local game shop. There are still a few things it is easier to get there than online, but I do not look forward to having to go down there.
magnet
4397
Glen More has been called the “7 Wonders killer”. See this video review for details.
I can kind of maybe sorta see it given the shrink being off, just because the flip side is that boardgame customers tend to aggressively nerdgotiate around slight or imagined imperfections in the product. But that’s an opportunity to swallow a couple of bucks in return for cementing a relationship with a customer, something my (back of his car) local game vendor understands. Good luck with the owner.
As a point of interest I just got of chat with Amazon. It seems one of my LotR: LCG AP’s was mysteriously delayed. They promptly overnighted me another copy free of charge. No muss, no fuss. I hate to be the guy siding with the huge corporate entity, but the level of service is just lightyears ahead at Amazon vs. my local game shop.
I do agree with LK about the shrink wrap thing, but I can tell you that if something similar happened with our family business (Remember the original mistake lies with the game store setting aside the wrong copy. And while you can argue that the customer should check, that’s no way to run a business) we would totally eat it to keep the customer happy.
As a mater of fact even in my own business I have had to take it on the chin in the name of keeping clients happy in the face of lousy circumstances. But that is the price you pay for having a great reputation and generating repeat customers and word of mouth business. It is definitley always a win to give up a little, since I have found it always results in me comming out ahead in the end.
Oh yeah, they also game me a $5 coupon for my inconvienece. Not a big deal, but it was only a $12 item.
So on the gaming front, I played Summoner Wars today. I’ve had a starter set forever, and tried to get my son to play it with me, but he refused, because “it looks boring.” Well, recently I bought the Master Set, which comes in a huge, really attractive box, and suddenly it no longer looked boring, so yay.
I’ve only played 1.5 games of it (we cut the first game short as a learning game, because I was whomping him), but I think it’s sort of highly excellent. It’s like Magic, in that you’ve got a “summoner” wizard who can use magic resources to summon up other creatures (who often have rule-exception powers), and the goal is to knock your opponent’s summoner out of hit points. It’s like Battleground: Fantasy Warfare in that you’ve got cards with stats that represent units who move tactically on a battlefield. It’s like chess in that you’ve got columns and rows, and need to pay attention to positioning things tactically in that griddy way, keeping in mind that units act differently. It’s sorta like Manoeuvre, in that it’s a grid based tactical battle game with distinct factions.
But more importantly, it really seems to tie all that stuff together really well, and the factions in particular are really well done with very different feels to them (thanks to different unit stats, different unit powers, and different event cards). It’s a great meld of CCG-like resource/card management (albeit with a fixed deck, though there are deck-building rules) with tactical positional combat.
The Master Set is a great deal, too, coming with like six factions as it does. Tons of replayability there, and then obviously lots of expansions out for it.
