Why you should never watch videos with your kids around

So, I was watching the OTHER Video Reviewer that I trust (the first is Downtime Town), with my back to the wall, although there is an entry nearby. My daughter was apparently there peeking.

cinemassacre.com/2010/02/03/board-james-fireball-island/

All I heard near the end was "Whoa! Daddy, I ~need~ to play that game.". She's 5 and she loves games. I am now completely fucked...I'm going to spend 2 weeks sourcing parts and spending a god-awful amount of money, then getting some of that expanding spray foam to fill the plastic board and make it heavier and more indestructable.

Why! Sweet Jesus, WHY!?!!?

On another note, I now also want Key To The Kingdom

Key to the Kingdom is great for kids -- you should be able to find that fairly cheap on ebay.

SuperflyTNT wrote: then getting some of that expanding spray foam to fill the plastic board and make it heavier and more indestructable.

I own Fireball Island and have never thought of doing this. Did they do it in that video review? Do people actually do this, and does it really work?

My favorite way to play Fireball Island is two player. You each get two characters to control and each character gets a hand size of four still but you have to run the two hands separately. You can get really tight games this way. Then play really loose and let people count their die rolls back and forth on just two spots if they want to collect cards and whatnot.

Classic is fun too and I still play like that when we have 3-4 people willing to make a run for it but I really love playing it two player. It's so much tighter like that with tons of really fun back and forth fuckery going on.

God I really need to clean it up though, I'd love to work on an advanced rule set for that game... it's just so perfect for what it is.

Aarontu wrote:

SuperflyTNT wrote: then getting some of that expanding spray foam to fill the plastic board and make it heavier and more indestructable.

I own Fireball Island and have never thought of doing this. Did they do it in that video review? Do people actually do this, and does it really work?

www.rakuten.com/prod/dow-great-stuff-ins...2d0b0CFewRMwodCGYAow

No, they didn't. I've bought some blow-molded, thin plastic terrain for mini wargaming, and it rarely is durable. I realized that what it lacked was support from the back, so I tried it. After I filled it, I took a coping saw and cut the excess off so it would lay flat (meta) and then sanded and/or chiseled the balance off to make it perfect. Shit's indestructible after that. It's also heavier, which keeps these things from moving due to bumpy tables.

www.amera.co.uk/product.php?range=u
This stuff is DIRT CHEAP, but brittle and easy to damage. Just fill the back with this foam (DON'T OVERFILL, ONLY FILL 30%, IT EXPANDS!) and then saw off the excess.

cinemassacre is great.