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09 Jul 2014 00:09 #181841 by black inferno
Power Grid is certainly an agreeably dull Euro. It's pleasant without stirring the senses, quickening the pulse, or causing you to experience any shameful emotions like excitement. It may even skirt too closely to being pleasurable; luckily the early-mid 2000s brought us a whole class of Agreeably Dull Euros designed to cleanse you of such debauched sensations: Africa, Pizzaro & Co., Attila, Australia, etc.
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09 Jul 2014 06:58 #181850 by ChristopherMD
I thought the ERP was all about agreeably dull Euros.

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09 Jul 2014 10:33 #181873 by Ska_baron
"Glad we can defiantly stand side-by-side against the Feld incursion, however. To come back to the hobby and find my old game group overrun by lifeless, tensionless point salad exercises all designed by a guy I'd never heard of was, well, disorienting. Kind of a Marty McFly returning to a dark alternate 1985 type of disorienting. Stefan Feld is basically evil time-traveling Biff in the Casino - he's taken the Euro side of the hobby down a dark, horrible tangent that was never meant to be."

JPCloudy has been dethroned as coolest newb on the block. This is priceless.

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14 Jul 2014 04:36 #182184 by daveroswell
Hello.

I'm the new Dave.

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14 Jul 2014 13:53 #182196 by jeb
Hi Dave, welcome. You'd better not like STONE AGE or I will set you on fire. SuperflyTNT will put you out and you guys can hug it out in your love huts.

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14 Jul 2014 16:01 #182225 by Black Barney

Ska_baron wrote:
JPCloudy has been dethroned as coolest newb on the block.



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14 Jul 2014 16:51 - 14 Jul 2014 16:51 #182234 by charlest

jeb wrote: Hi Dave, welcome. You'd better not like STONE AGE or I will set you on fire. SuperflyTNT will put you out and you guys can hug it out in your love huts.


In an objective world Stone Age would be part of the NERP.
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15 Jul 2014 03:36 #182261 by daveroswell
Well, Pete's version of Stone Age has caveman minis. One action is they can spear each other to death on Heroscape terrain.
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16 Jul 2014 07:13 - 16 Jul 2014 07:34 #182321 by veemonroe
Hi,

I've been lurking here for a while. I was attracted to the site by Michael Barnes' posts on 'what's wrong with modern euros'.

About me: Former climate change scientist, now a part-time SF-crime novelist and science journalist. Based in the UK. I got into gaming as a kid. Mum and I played loads of Heroquest, Rummikub, Battlemasters, Totopoly (which is actually a half-decent game) and Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs. I played a bit of Warhammer, but never got into it. It seemed to have too many rules and too much running away. I remember one miserable afternoon with my Imperial army fleeing like the blazes away from the nurgle. Cowards!

I returned to gaming via Magic the Gathering Worldwake in about 2010, but got out of Magic again because everyone my age had been playing for years and could beat me without breaking a sweat. Playing blue decks against 17-year-old newbies brandishing big green monsters is simply mean. You keep three land in hand and bluff them to death.

My gateway game was Descent: First Edition, which I saw in Forbidden Planet in London in 2011, and which reminded me of Heroquest for adults. It turned out to be a tactical combat game, which was fine too. From there, I bought Arkham Horror and Talisman.

Today we share a house with too many games and just enough cocker spaniels. I mainly game with two, but we also have several gamer friends and attend London on Board. I still enjoy gaming with my mum, the meanest TTR: Nordic player in the known universe.

Favourite pure euros: El Grande, Tigris & Euphrates, Stephenson's Rocket, Carson City, Euphoria: Build a Better Dystopia, La Citta, Finca, Thurn & Taxis, Bruges, Kingdom Builder, Castles of Burgundy, Dominant Species, Elfenland, Metropolys, Lord of the Rings (Knizia), Rattus, Konig von Siam, Race for the Galaxy, I'm the Boss, Sleuth.

Favourite pure Ameritrash: Chaos in the Old World, Nothing Personal, Cosmic Encounter, Eldritch Horror, Relic, Titan, Survive: Escape from Atlantis, Duel of Ages II, Tales of the Arabian Nights, The Doom That Came to Atlantic City, Lord of the Rings LCG.

Stuff that isn't really either: Yomi, BattleCON: War of Indines, Puzzle Strike, Blue Moon, Innovation, Impulse, Through the Ages: The Story of Civilisation, Krosmaster Arena, Pandante, Omen: Reign of War, Mage Knight, Eclipse, Clash of Cultures, Galaxy Trucker, Android Netrunner, Cyclades, Kemet, Ghost Stories, Sentinels of the Multiverse, Yedo, Eminent Domain, Ascension, Fantastiqa.

Bored senseless by: At the Gates of Loyang, Notre Dame, Macao, Trajan, Stone Age, Caylus, Nations, Village, Tzolk'in, Russian Railroads...
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16 Jul 2014 08:38 #182325 by repoman
Howdy and welcome aboard Vee.

Just some clarifications: Heroscape for adults is officially known as Heroscape. Don't care what age you are it's just plain fun.

I'm the Boss I wouldn't really classify as a pure Euro. Any game that can end in an actual fist fight is something different.

Otherwise, a discerning taste in games. Omen...I haven't played that in quite a while...I really should.
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