Be Excellent To Each Other

That's cute. And you can output that to a book?

No I don't think it can do that unfortunately. She will have to enjoy the fruits of my labour as html, I think.

Stanley Parable chap made this using Twine.

There's always this gem from the Beex Archives.

[Edit: and I haven't checked the link within the thread to see if it actually still works]

Holy crap, 509 pages!

ha, that's excellent. I became a robot who destroyed the world. And, as ever, it was all thanks to anal sex using Castrol GTX.

Worth every penny.

It was purchased the day after the pound tanked against the dollar. Thanks, Brexit. Thexit.

We played this last night for our boardgame evening game of choice, there were four of us which was perfect, and none of us had played it before so first job was a read-through of the rules which are elegantly simple but allow for plenty of debate and surprisingly deep tactics plus forward planning once you get into the game.

First game was on NORMAL skill level (we skipped novice), which we managed to beat without too much trouble. So after a break for food, PS4 VR and some chatter we had another go on the next to top skill level which I think was called ELITE, the one where you start with three flood cards.

Unfortunately the beers seemed to have clouded judgements somewhat (although I had no excuse as I was designated driver so was totally sober), and we definitely made at least two mistakes, plus we were playing gentlemanly rules so we didn't allow ourselves to 'rewind' and go back a turn to correct an error. (On one turn one of the moomins completely forgot to hand over a treasure card and instead did a shore up with one of his actions, which he wouldn't have got away with had I not been on a mission to the fridge to get more beers (and a fizzy orange for myself)).

It almost looked like we'd just about be able to make it with a combination of a our 'super powers' (the specific abilities each class gets) and clever use of helicopter and sandbag cards, but the flood level got away from us and we hit the skull and crossbones on the flood level marker.

Not entirely sure how much replayability it has overall, but a very enjoyable game and it was nice to play something collaborative rather than competitive.

Definitely something people can pick up quickly as well, you don't need to be some sort of boardgame pro to get the hang of the mechanics in pretty short order.

We have this but maybe I missed a rule because we found it incredibly difficult to get ahead of the flood waters in time.

Difficult enough to not see how it could possibly won ever rather than 'ooh we were unlucky that time'. Maybe I'll have another look.

Not technically a boardgame but its outcome feels more boardgamey than anything else, I played a game called Spaceteam at the weekend. I strongly suspect this is old news to most of you, and seems like the perfect game for a gathering like the Bottage.

For up to 8 players, each downloads the app to their phone. The idea is you're working together to get your ship to fly somewhere (not sure where, it doesn't matter).

It's basically a Star Trek nonsense-calamity simulator. Each person's phone tells them an action that needs to taken to fix the ailing space ship e.g. Launch the technoraptor! And that command relates to a button on your - or someone else's - phone.

And that action needs to be taken within 10 seconds. But this is complicated by the fact that everyone else is shouting commands while trying to hear the commands of other. It's noisy, chaotic and very funny (and probably quite similar to that bomb disarmament game).

Spaceteam

I've played this with 3 of my friends and it is indeed brilliant.

Look at Mr Popular, there.

Yep, even works cross hardware, and we've played with 2 android losers and 2 iPhone champions.

One day I will win a netrunner game.

They've arrived!

Now I can get on with the rest of it.

Already found a spelling mistake

That's not Mark Sloan! Send it back!

Wrong Mark Sloan

Go go awesome proofreaders!

The first playtest with a mocked-up board went well!



A printed board cost me £27

Looks excellent!

Q) If I were to buy Ticket to Ride to play with groups of people who have never before played Ticket to Ride, which Ticket to Ride would I be best buying? Ticket.

I would say US

Agreed. TTR Europe has its fans for getting people in, but explaining the tunnels, ferries, and station rules adds a little bit more complexity which early on might be off-putting.

Missed anopportunty, there

Grim...: that looks brilliant!

It had fucking better be.

Adding it up, i have 24/35 netrunner datapacks, a core set, 2 deluxe expansions and 6 alt art cards. Which is frightening. Good news is, only 11 datapacks to go to catch up to right now, and 2 deluxe expansions.

Oh, and 12 datapacks cycle out late 2017.....

Elizabeth Mills!

I love Lizzie M, and all cards she appears on.

Board has arrived!


(Adrian Monk for scale)

Now I just need the box to turn up and to print out the instructions, and it's all done!

Looks amazing!

Good work.

Mrs Grim... is going to be chuffed!

I'm most interested in the casting couch, frankly.

I was tempted to give that a screen grab from one of the films but decided not to.

And that's Netrunner done for the year. What started out as losses became closer losses then a few wins. We're now back to closer losses again, but things are up a notch.

I will keep going at it.

We played another game of Hero Quest last night and ace it was too. Playing as the dungeon master, I managed to kill the Elf but I was no match for the Dwarf and Wizard as they won the game in the end and managed to get Sir Ragnor to safety.

Stop teasing me!

There was no door blocking Barbara.

Don't worry, you've only got to wait until October and the cottage before we can have a game. It's not that long.

House rules!

Still not played my Cthulhu Flux yet.

Depends if Joans sells his or not.

Buy Joans, then.

Yeah, buy Joans.... or I could bring mine.

I've got time to get good at painting them inbetween now and then so you never know, They might look nice!

Paint Joans, then.

Played Game of Thrones last saturday with friends and it's probably my favourite board game right now. It ticks all the boxes of what i find appealing in a boardgame.

My wife won, as usual when it comes to boardgames, but I have to play again asap, but stupid christmas got in the way.

Grim..., Did she like it?

We got exploding kittens.