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Forked from: New Miniatures... Info? The debate in the thread I forked from brings up an interesting point: how can you get the most minis for your dollar? Therefore, I challenge the posters of ENWorld to offer their sage advice. I offer the following constraints: 1) minis need not be...

Exploder: the difference between inter-player balance and balance of the party vs. outer threats is something that the WoW players of the world have cried many millions of pages about. I doubt even 4e could balance a fight between a wizard and a fighter. It was said, in response to my post...

I have to disagree completely with the premise of this thread. The concept of balance as a hindrance is completely idiosyncratic, and held aloft only by the promise of "Well, I won't break the system." As other posters have pointed out, lack of balance STIFLES creativity because it creates...

my only quip with what you've said is your analysis of the roles is that really, ALL roles get to do a little bit of everything, especially damage. this is especially true of the leader class that often HAS to deal damage in order to heal/support. Also, look at the classes coming in PHB2 and...

Yes, it provides access to all weapons including superior weapons. There is an ask wizards to confirm this. No, it is not too good. The two classes in question do not have str as a bonus stat and so the feats are meant to make them competitive with classes that do.

We just got dominion this weekend and it was a blast. On sunday we finally printed out the insert and that definitely helped cleanup. An immediate extension of the above poster's suggestion for an individual card type for each player would be left and right individual cards: put a card pile...

This weekend we all went out to our FLGS (although with a 40 minute drive it's hardly local) and individually splurged on games. Two games people had purchased were pandemic and dominion. They're both still essentially euro but they were both quite enjoyable.

If you take the exact numbers from D&D and strip away the flavor, only to put on a new coat of paint, you'll find most of the system still works. The main point of difference is that D&D doesn't have nearly as much emphasis on ranged combat as one would expect in a sci-fi setting. If you can...

A Skill challenge is a great place to start, but you should know ahead of time that you have a lot of work cut out for you. Long term "sim-style" challenges are not entirely covered by the rules, nor are the skill challenges immediately fleshed out in order to expediently facilitate that...

I played empire builder when I was a young kid. Well, I tried to anyway, I never fully understood the game. Now I'm contemplating picking up Railroad Tycoon, but I'll need a bigger table first.

I have played agricola, puerto rico, power grid, and race for the galaxy. I have high regard for all of them, to be honest. If I had to pick a favorite I would choose either powergrid or race for the galaxy, but PR and agricola are by no means bad. I've actually started playing PR "by mail"...

Early on, it will feel extremely non-interactive. The change from the puerto rico style where one player taking a phase excludes another will lead to learning plays constantly overlapping. This is not to say more seasoned players will not overlap, but it will happen much less because of what...

I played illuminati many years ago and did enjoy the games that I managed to play. Also, this weekend we finally got a chance to dig into BSG. I and my lady were reticent at first since neither of us was familiar with the show, but our enjoyment of the game is making us consider beginning to...

I played cosmic encounter a few times many moons ago, and generally enjoyed it. For me the main appeal to it has always been that it was one of Richard Garfield's inspirations for magic: the gathering.

I'm glad to be hearing good things about games I was already investigating. Reading about Cash n guns, it sounded like a hoot, glad to hear it's also fun. The same person in the group working up to T&E will be considering Starcraft thereafter. When I look at the image shots of Twilight...

It definitely sounds like the first wargame you mention has enough elegance to avoid the dangers of a never ending unit list and a huge sourcebook, and I've looked into mem '44. Abstraction like that in Risk and its spinoffs is cool with me. We do LIKE eurogames, we're just looking to increase...

All great suggestions. We actually have BSG but haven't gotten to it yet (so many games!), so once we actually play it i'll be sure to post my reactions. The only concern is that, since I haven't watched the show, some of the subtle tie-ins might be lost on me. We do also have arkham horror...

After just beginning to really dig into gaming this year, our group has grown weary of the somewhat lighter interactivity of eurogames. We got so many of them from our respective christmases that we've suddenly exploded through agricola, powergrid, race for the galaxy, ticket to ride, and...

the 10$ quote is going to depend on his vehicle and what kind of gas costs at the time. back in the summer gas was 4$ a gallon, and old beater can get 15mpg if it's not exactly brand new. At 37.5 miles, depending on how much freeway time we're talking, it could concievably take about an hour...

4th edition generally uses a trap replacement theory. The stats and experience rewards are typically balanced around the idea that they should replace a monster of the same level. So you might, for example, have traps working alongside monsters in a single encounter. You can also create an...