Lords of Waterdeep Boardgame - In Stores Now Hot

For those interested, Amazon has a really good pre-order deal on this game.

Hmmm...this is an interesting product from Wizards. Wooden cubes, pawns...no minis? Those things don't bother me and the game description sounds like this might be pretty cool. Trickery and negotiating sounds like my kind of game. It actually sounds alot like Warrior Knights or Game of Thrones.

I guess I'm going to keep an eye and see what you other F:ATies think of this one.

It sounds like it may be a worker agent placement game.

What Uba said. From what I've read, it's a worker placement game. It's compared a lot to Caylus, though I'm not an authority. I talked to Peter Lee briefly at GenCon about this (it was just announced and not yet named), and he called it the Euro game he (and his boss) had been wanting to make.

A friend of mine is buying it, so I'll try his copy, as I'm not sure this is my cup of tea.

God help me, I played this game this weekend and enjoyed it. It's a totally lame place workers to gather cubes and turn the cubes in for points shopping game, but I think I had fun. Although I may just have been drunk. I'm not sure. It's an almost mainstream, very accessible implementation of worker placement. Maybe that's what makes it trashy. Plus it's pretty and has purple cubes.

Yeah this is a pretty straightforward, but fast, worker placement game with the primary distinguishing feature being the special power (intrigue) cards.

I like it better than most other light worker placement games I have played, but it really does not have anything that is going to win over the most euroskeptical of gamers. I can not recommend trying it unless you already have some inclination to give euro games a shot.

It has all the usually Worker placement internal workings BUT it plays better than all of them combined. Even with 5 players it plays in an hour or less and no matter how badly you feel you are getting beaten or picked on you are always in the game till the end. For me it's an almost impossible dream for a game to be this good but there it is.

The most astonishing part is that it was co-created by the same guy that made those awful D&D dungeon crawl board games. I think this guy has found his calling for game design and should let those lame ass games die a slow death.

Steve Avery said:
Waterdeep: This game won't be gud. They tried to trick SteveAvery by putting swords and boobs on the cover. SteveAvery is too smart for them.

But I bought it anyway. My mom likes the Waterdeep books, and it's easy enough that both she and The Spawn can play. It plays very fast, and there is almost no down time, which is important when playing with kids. I think it's a solid family game - i.e. my knowledge and experience gives me no advantage over a 10 year old - and for the other reasons Bearn gives. And the theme is cooler than most family games.