Any tips, good strategies, warnings, recommendations or funny sessions? Please share!
We don’t have as many games as most people in such communities have. 😀 I was on vacations last week, so we went through most of the games.
Played a game of Settlers of Catan, couple of games of Ticket to Ride, one game of Splendor, and some games of Monopoly Duel.
Just got Cities & Knights expansion for Catan, but that seems a bit more complicated for the kid, so haven’t stared that yet. Maybe after he has played a few more games of base Settlers of Catan.
Played all of these with wife and kids.
Those are super good games, ticket to ride is a fun family game! No shame in having a few games, I prefer playing them instead of a huge collection!
If you dont know it yet, but I think in particular for kids its great, check out Carcassonne! It also exists as a junior version but depending on the age I think the normal version is amazing even for kids!
Thanks!
We already have Carcassonne, and it’s one of our favourite! Don’t know why we didn’t play it last week 😀 (Offtopic, but if you play videogames, I am currently playing Carto, which uses Carcassonne’s gameplay, and adds further puzzles and story to it. Highly recommended!)
Other than those we also have Dominion, Lost Cities, Dungeon Mayhem and Point Salad. Though I have been thinking about getting my kid a bit into D&D. He loves video games, so I believe it should attract him. Just having trouble figuring out how to start, specially since my wife isn’t a big gamer, and I don’t know how she will feel about goblins and orcs.
How is Gloomhaven, for kids (and non-gamers adults)? Just read about it, and seem like a good first step (but an extensive one) into Dungeon Crawling, without going full D&D. Though that is just by reading few snippets, I haven’t even begun the research into it yet. So, I could be completely wrong about it.
Not counting Gloomhaven, Munchkin is next on my wishlist, but that too needs a little bit more research.
If you are not sure about gloomhaven get Jaws of the Lion. It’s easier to learn and get to the table than the big box. Not very story heavy and not many decisions, but might be a nice introduction to dungeon crawlers.
You have a nice collection!
I have not tried Carto but have been playing Dorfromantik on steam, which is like a hexagonal puzzle carcassonne! I love it!
Have not tried Gloomhaven yet, so I could not say.
So your kid plays Dominion? If so, Clank is a must! Its a dungeon crawling deckbuilder, its amazing!
Another option for DnD is to ask ChatGPT to DM for you, this way both of you can play. There is a bit of a learning curve to understand how to ask ChatGPT certain things but I think a lot of people already are using it for that. So there might be some tips to be found online!
Members of our group were finally around! A couple weren’t, so there were just 4 of us which means Gloomhaven JOTL!
We hadn’t seen each other for best part of a month, so we spent far longer catching up than intended so we ran on later than usual, but thanks to some incredible damage output, we managed to speed through some sections of our scenario! Nothing like the smell of burning vermlings to invigorate us before a boss fight!
Our copy of Button Shy’s River Wild also showed up this week, so my partner and I played an introductory game of that and scored a mildly reasonable 39 points! 1 more point and I could boast it was a reasonably good score!
My friends and I played Legends of Andor with the expansion where you are on a ship. It was very hard for us the first tries because alot of monster spawn at the beginning and we didn’t have the right tactic to fight all of them. Also we didn’t get the rules completely right which made things much harder for us. But we beat the first chapter and I don’t know if I wanna play again. It takes sooo long to play and to setup
Is this a coop game? I find many of those less entertaining. We love deckbuilders but Aeons End or Battle for Hogwarts are all a bit lackluster and often can be boring for the “healer” or similar dedicated support roles (at least in our group). The games are also often very mechanistic with lots of dependencies occurring in sequence.
Maybe spirit island and pandemic are better but I have not tried them
It is a coop game, I’ve played Robin hood and I actually liked that one, it has a nice story and simple mechanics were I think almost nothing is dependent on dice. I got later to the group for Andor and didn’t even play the base game, maybe that’s why I didn’t enjoy it as much
In legends of Andor there isn’t really a support role but some characters you can choose are stronger than others.
We player Brass: Birmingham for the first time. It’s very promising, but by the time we finished the canal era it was almost midnight and we decided to stop there. It took us 3 hours to read the rules and play an half game ;)
Looking forward to play it to the end next time!
