Order of the Stick boardgame?

JoeGKushner · 13th February 2009, 02:21 AM

Had a chance to play it. Played for a few hours and didn't finish. Some good stuff there though and looks like it has some replayabiilty factor as the characters, despite having similiar mechanical abilities in overall bonuses, have different flavors to them.

MerricB · 13th February 2009, 02:39 AM

Everything I've heard about it indicates it just takes too long; that, although it's amusing, the jokes wear thin after 4+ hours. It's a great pity.

Cheers!

scitadel · 13th February 2009, 06:35 AM

It's fun, and yes, it's amusing and there's a lot of variety in the characters. Fixing the length of time of the game is actually very easy - you just reduce the number of dungeons and give the characters more Schticks (Feats aka their Unique Abilities) at the beginning so they can burn through the monsters faster. Do that and the game speeds up a lot and wears less thin.

mlund · 14th February 2009, 12:40 AM

Yeah, it runs long. It is fun, but it runs long. You can (and probably should) escalate the game by preemptively leveling the characters.

- Marty Lund

Sabathius42 · 17th February 2009, 01:22 AM

Played it twice.

Thought it was OK the first time.

Didn't enjoy it at all the second.

It too way too long to get to the finish line and after awhile the jokes weren't really all that funny.

It sits at a bad valley of fantasy boardgames where there are too many rules to play while watching a baseball game or drinking with buddies (Talisman is good for this) but not enough rules to engage everyone for multiple hours (I hear Decent is good for this, but truthfully if we have our game faces on we just play DnD so it may not be).

DS

bobthehappyzombie · 17th February 2009, 03:54 PM

Sad to say, try as we did to like it, it is just a poorly made game... sorry Rich.

Dog Moon · 17th February 2009, 05:49 PM

Yeah, my group had a similar thought. Friend bought the game a while ago and we played it really quickly, but we haven't even really thought about it since then.

Although we did play the Munchkin Boardgame which has a somewhat similar premise that we found to be much more enjoyable.

Stormborn · 17th February 2009, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bobthehappyzombie

Sad to say, try as we did to like it, it is just a poorly made game... sorry Rich.

This was our experiance as well. I think it could have been good, but not only did some of the rules need work, the explination of those rules needed a major overhall.

dinsdale · 18th February 2009, 08:21 PM

Increasing the number of schticks does help.

In case anyone was not aware, there is an FAQ+errata available from the ape games website.

http://www.apegames.com/oots/oots-do..._FAQ_Color.pdf