Beasty Bar Bombed

Superfly usually is pretty good at nailing good games but boy did this one bomb at my last game night!
It seemed to have all the elements I like in a game but it fell flat. I found the players were confused with the symbols and what each animal did, and one player could care less what they did, HAHAHA. These symbols were not done very well and I think they would have been better off just going with text on the cards like Guillotine does with its cards.

Will give it one more chance over the Christmas gaming extravaganza.

Get smarter friends; my 7 year old and 14 year old have no problem with the Euroglyphics LOL

Seriously, don't bother reading the cards, because unless you know what they mean, it's just confusing.

Print out this, hand to players.
files.geekdo.com/geekfile_download.php?f...36cbd5f63c86bda9dfa8

The first couple games might not be "optimal" because you don't know the card powers by heart. After the 4th game, if you still don't get it, yeah, maybe it's not for you. We love it, and everyone I've played with loves it. My buddy just sent me the game, the expansion from Spiel, and the Taz promo, all shrunk down to poker-deck size. Fuckin' A, baby. All about it.

The link doesn't work.

Unfortunately, today's games have to be optimal out of the gate or I will never get the game to the table again. I am more forgiving being the Pro Gamer I am but my game group is brutal.

Tell your friends to stop being such pussies...make sure you shout it at them...and in an Arnold Schwarzenegger accent.
It takes like 2 games of Beasty Bar to get the symbols down.

LOL, I can see the the preference for the poker sized cards, The Jumbo cards look like something out of a Kindergarten game, the only thing that saved it was the bar theme.

We played Knizia's Figaro right after that and it went over much better. Felt like going from driving a Yugo to a Porsche.

The link worked for me, but you can just go to the Beasty Bar listing at TOS, go to files, and then get the reference there.

I like the poker cards because my 7 year old has tiny little kid hands and having the large tarot cards is a bit absurd and hard to handle for her. Doesn't seem to hurt though because her kid luck pretty much guarantees that she draws something that fucks me over....

Learning what each animal does might not be the easiest thing in the world, but that game is awesome. Pete and I had a blast with it.

I think Beasty Bar is an okay card game but man, you guys talk like it's revolutionizing the industry and dazzling the crowned heads of Europe.

think Beasty Bar is an okay card game but man, you guys talk like it's revolutionizing the industry and dazzling the crowned heads of Europe.

Typical insiders in Over-Hype mode, that is why I tell the straight scoop, I'm an outsider, no connections , could care less about fitting into the hive mind.

Legomancer wrote: I think Beasty Bar is an okay card game but man, you guys talk like it's revolutionizing the industry and dazzling the crowned heads of Europe.

No, nobody has or is saying that. What I'm saying is that if you have a glass of bourbon and 30 minutes, this is one of the best ways to utilize that 30 minutes. It's just a really fun game, at least for me, and everyone I've played with.