I’ve been enjoying this game a lot. Thanks for posting the video.

Great way to introduce kids to gambling and death early in their lives.

Wait, I died?

Roll a die to die.

Same for me. Generally I am pretty quick to understand even complex rules. I was a Magic the Gathering tournament player and judge and a D&D DM. So lots of practice with rules questions. But some games simply have poor explanations or bad card wordings. Then it can help to watch a video.

I’m not sure what is exactly the reasons you don’t play it. Is your partner no interested in the game? If so, why? Depending on the reason such as it is intimidating, it might take too long, cba to learn a new game right now, wants to play a different game etc. a different approach could work.

One general thing that has worked for me is to just put it on the table. On a free evening where both of you have no plans when the question comes up what you want to do today just say. ‘I’ll take another look at mage wars arena.’ this way they can’t say no. Because it’s just your plan. You didn’t ask to play. Now if they show interest you can ask if they want to join in. Or they might ask themselves.

Thing is no matter the reaction in the designated time you put the game up, prepare everything, read up some rules etc. Usually my partner would come over and see what I was doing and eventually join on. Everything is already ready to play after all. And if not I’d maybe play vs myself for a turn or two and eventually ask if they wanna join in. If even then it is a no then it won’t becomes a yes and I’d ask friends to play the game next time.

Everdell apparently. I know nothing about it yet but a friend invited me to an introductory game on Sunday.

People taking it too seriously are one thing. Another is people not taking games seriously at all. As in they just come to chat and barely engage with the game and won’t learn the rules even after multiple times playing. They will also be super lax with the rules and basically do whatever.

The worst offenders are the ones who are super lax with the rules, taking back turns etc, unless it is against themselves. Maybe I just had some bad luck. My current board games group is super fun though.

As for games I dislike games where the good choices are too obvious. It doesn’t have to be heavy to achieve that imo. But it has to have a minimum of complexity for me to enjoy it.

They generally still don’t. I’m very picky about my board games and also about the people I play with. If you just grab a random well liked board game and a number of average board game enthusiast and sit me at a table with them. I might have a good time but it’s unlikely.

I like throwing some ruffians from the GM guide at the players. Snagging strike is really strong. They fit in well with any group of bandits, robbers, criminal organization of choice or as hired thugs for a noble.

I agree. Strength is pretty valuable as it is important for combat maneuvers such as grappling, jumping etc. Also if you track carry weight it is more important.

Dex is imo not OP in Pathfinder due to how armor works. Dnd it is the so called God Stat.

Con is strong. Who does not like HP?

Intelligence and Charisma I can see being regarded as weaker. Both don’t have a save attached and are only directly important if your class needs it. However if the GM, adventure or players put any emphasis on recall knowledge and lore or social encounters being important this fixes itself. Int also gains a buff if languages are important in your adventure or world.

Lastly I think wisdom might be a bit strong. Perception is very powerful and it is the default initiative Stat. Also Wil saves. Mechanically very strong. Perception is also used for what dnd calls insight or sense motive. And survival can, depending on setting, be an important skill of not. But I think the imbalance isn’t too horrific and imo I wouldn’t go as far as change the system too much for it. And initiative can be shifted to other skills by being smart which fixes a lot.

18 games isn’t too bad for a campaign game at that price point yeah. We don’t get to play super often so it seems like a fine length to me. Thanks for the input.

I live in Germany and it is super easy to get here. I’ve seen it in every store since the Spiel des Jahres win.

Thanks for the reply, you mentioned some things I did not think about before.

Honestly, it’s a one player game that you can play cooperatively.

Sounds like playing the PC game with someone backseat gaming over your shoulder.

My wife adores the steam version so if it is very close to that but cooperative then that’d be a plus.

Even though I agree that social media is a problem I don’t think it is that hard to disclose relationships, free products or money received for content.

The guidelines aren’t even that strict. So if creators fail to adhere it means they probably didn’t even try or purposefully hide information.

Both GMs I had for Pathfinder so far love when players use recall Knowledge. It’s a great way to get some lore to the players that is immediately relevant too. So they try to reward it with many useful monster stats.

Most of the time I am the GM and I very much do the same thing.

Recall Knowledge is by far my favorite one. Getting to know some flavourful info about the enemy and some weakness or strength or stats is something I enjoy. But I’m very tactics focused in combat.

Other than that demoralize is nice. As are the 1 Action Plus 1 Bonus cantrips if no other bonuses of the same type are active.

Someone reads the rules and or watches the video. That person is the game guide for the night. Set everything up and try to learn by playing.

My youngest is 3 years old an absolutely loves to play board and card games with me and her sister. Sometimes her mom too but my wife loves to get some housework done or relax while the kids are busy. The little ones ability to count has definitely skyrocketed since we started playing. Before she could count to 19, now she is past 100 and only stops when she gets bored.

Apparently it is looking at the other comments here. The downside would be that on weekends you have to book a table some time in advance because the place is usually packed Friday evening to Sunday evening. Also when it is very full it can get a bit louder which not everyone likes.