askthesunjackers:

Hey here’s a thing I’ve been working on for a little while but didn’t want to announce before I’d brought them to Bronyscot: Sunjackers playing cards! I’ve also bundled it up with some gem chips and a game of my own design, but you can also just use the cards for playing such classic traditional card games as… *shuffles papers* snap!

Anyway you can grab these if you want, or don’t! I’m not your dad. I’ll be getting around to more actual Sunjackers updates… at some point! I know it has literally been like six months since I updated I’ve just been doing a lot of stuff I’m sorry here’s one of the things i hope you like it

board games with friends is contractually obligated to declare a conflict of interest and will not mention OVERTIME in review coverage however look I made a game!!!!

It’s Cards Against Humanity with a gimmick.

*emerges from the crypt, groaning with jaw hanging off*

If you - the reader - would like to hear about the indie games that have contacted BGWF, let me know! I’d really like to help everyone here. It happens rarely enough that I can’t really do roundup posts, and I can’t really justify the kind of illustrated reviews that I use for the main coverage, but the odd bump can’t hurt!

now to resume my exile, the board game police are still hunting me down

Are these adequate replacements? Maybe! They’re more fun at any rate. Today’s games are Funemployed, Welcome to the Dungeon and Coup.

For more, here’s our RPG update, and here’s our holiday update (part 1)!

Next time, we try to unseat three of the most popular and accessible card games on the market. That’ll go well.

Part 2! Skull, Spyfall, Sheriff of Nottingham, and Dead Man’s Draw.

In a Board Games With Friends first, it’s a double feature! Rainbow Dash will come back with her recommendations for holiday games that are a little spicier next [unit of time] when I can get around to drawing the update.

Once again this time’s games are:

Timeline, The Mind, Codenames, and Sushi Go.

askfirestarterspitfire:

hey check it out i’m gonna be at Bronyscot in a couple of weeks! I know it’s kinda way too late for this to influence anyone’s weekend plans but HEY look for me there if you wanna hang out! I’ll be in the games room and doing an animation thing and probably doing something similar to what I did at Galacon where I just walk around blasting Eurobeat from a speaker.

See you there!

Hey there table friendos! It may interest you to learn, if you are heading to Bronyscot, that I’ll be bringing a couple of custom horse™ conversions of Popular Board Games® to inflict on the general public: Changelingfall (a FiM-themed version of social deduction farce Spyfall), and Crossfire: Fallout Equestria (who knew, it’s a Fallout Equestria-themed version of social deduction accusation machine Crossfire).

In addition to these games, I should be bringing everything I brought to Galacon plus more:

• Pandemic: The Cure & Experimental Meds Expansion
  
• Magic Maze & Maximum Security Expansion (new!)
  
• Splendor
• Crossfire (regular version as well as the FoE version)
• Skull
• Love Letter (regular version, though I know a pony version exists!)
  
• A Fake Artist Goes To New York (new!)
  
• Welcome to the Dungeon (new!)
  
• Buck: Legacy (new!) (maybe! It’s not my copy!)

We love RPGs, but we love them more for the RP than the G. The unique aspect of roleplaying games is the way the players collaborate to steer the story and create situations out of whole cloth, and the mechanics provide a framework - be it more or less rigid - to facilitate the creativity of the players. We don’t mean to dunk on people who love RPGs for the combat puzzles provided by the mechanics, that’s just not what we turn to RPGs for. As such, we don’t really care that much about the minutia of differences between systems. We’ll happily sit down with either.