Yes we got a couple of games of Armello in.
I would like to try again next weekend, not Armello specifically unless that’s what a lot of people really want. Personally I really want to try out Carcassonne and maybe one or both of the two new games in the above linked humble bundle which is still on sale for just under 2 more days. I’m going to be picking it up for all the Carcassonne DLCs so that should we ever play it I can probably host and allow the use of them. So again I strongly recommend every one picks up tier 1.
I will be available most of the day on Saturday so anyone want to play during the early hours of the CEST afternoon, evening or night let me know when you think you’ll be available and lets try to get at least one group together.
OR if Sunday, Friday… Monday? suits anyone better just let me know and we’ll try to sort something out.
This is a call out for anyone who wants to join me in playing something today. Lets say in about 20 minutes. 17:00 CEST.
Post here or on steam if you’re interested and available.
That’ll depend on who will be available.
I would really like to try carcassonne as I’ve mentioned, love letter is definitely a top pick as well. But I’ll play anything really.
We had a lovely couple of games of Love letters, thank you @PeteMcc, @Danacscott and @Vandem for playing.
I’ll be taking a couple of hours to get dinner and do some chores, but if there’s interest in playing some more later on make it known and we’ll get another group together for something.
Got to play some patchwork with @Evranu tonight which is a pretty cute but surprisingly deep 2 player strategic game about sewing blankets. We went into it blind having no idea what anything did which I think is the most fun way to start a new game. Took us 2 games to really figure the basics out and 3rd game I finally felt like I knew what I was doing.
This one will definitely stick on my list as a good fallback game for times when you can’t find the 4 players most other games requires. And since it works with remote play together, I can play it with just about anyone.
While your timezone certainly does pose it’s challenges I am often available to play in most time zones at some point in time. We also have @PeteMcc over in a similar zone to yours so with you around we might have an easier time to get EU morning and early afternoon games running. Please keep an eye on this thread as it’s where I try to announce things before they happen.
Thanks for your invites, information as well as the notice of giveaways. I was super lucky to have a friend who knows my tabletop hobby, he gifted me 4 games of tier 1 from Humble’s recent tabletop bundle. (Love Letters, Potion Explosion, Smallworld 2, Patchwork) + Four Kings One War before it was free to claim on Steam. I was taught Carcassonne in real life, and I have played Carcassonne on Epic Games. Tokaido on Andriod thanks to Chrono.gg forum community posts.
If any of you like, I can teach Wingspan on Tabletopia too. Has the DLC (you don’t need the DLC to play)
I would have played Gloomhaven more, but I have been avoiding combat games in these coming months unfortunately.
I am for sure. Only reason this has not been ongoing for a while now is that it’s so hard to wrangle enough people into finding a suitable time slot that fits everyone.
Which is why you don’t do that, you make a Discord channel/Chrono bigger chat/whatever, with a few people, and try to make up a time slot for a few at a time
Do you even understand what you just said? “don’t do that” “just do that”.
You will need 4 players for most online board games. Look around, this is post 401 in a thread in which I’ve been doing precisely that, trying to find times with a few people at a time.
we have like a million people in the steam group chat channel for this, and it can still be difficult to schedule something sometimes; need to get 4+ people that are; in the mood, have the time, is online/checks chat, and own the game
^filling one of those criteria is easy, already at 2 it can start to get murky to say nothing of fitting all of them at the same time
Well I’ll let you have a go at this and we’ll see what happens. You do have one willing participant so far, you just need 2 more.
A little advice to get you started though.
First you’ll want to figure out what you actually want to play. You said you bought tabletop simulator, that’s not a game you don’t play tabletop simulator, it’s an engine through which you can play damn near any game you might know or even conceive of. If you start things off too open ended like “Anyone want to play something this weekend?” You’ll get a few positive responses but nothing concrete, no feedback. You have to give people options to pick from. List 3-4 games you want to play and a range of days+hours in which you want to play them. Now you’ll get people responding with one of the games they’d prefer, or have at all, and possibly even whether they’re available at the times offered.
But even then your best bet is usually to go chase people down personally and issue a direct invitation, ask them specifically when they’re available. Then you have to try to piece together times when your selected potential players are able.This is people wrangling and it takes a lot of time, energy and often don’t pan out into anything at all.
Anyway, I ran across this ‘cheap and cheerful’ thing and thought I’d check and see if there’s anyone who might be interested in picking up and learning mahjong?
I have no idea how good the game is as an implementation of the game and it is suspiciously cheap. I love the game so I’d really like to play it with people and I am entirely willing to teach it to anyone who wants to learn. It’s nowhere near as complicated as it looks.
And there’s a Table Game Bundle where if you already own Koi-Koi Japan, this game is even cheaper:
It seems that there’s not enough online players though.
It is pretty easy to learn, I agree with @Fraggles, for people who play cards and enjoy Rummy, this is very similar.
By the way, I am reading through the reviews, they seem to tell people to go play the single-player Mahjong games in the Yakuza series if you want to play single-player, and to play on Mahjong Soul if you want MP…
I am not sure if those are enough for people in general. This game seems to just have one set of rules and no tutorial, so not great for learning on your own.
