Ben Turner

More boardgames, especially those with fiddly rules, seem to use their own Discord to increase engagement. Which it does... and all the rules questions get answered... Over and over again, because Discord search is atrocious. It's a terrible knowledge store. At least BGG answers are discoverable.

That show passed me by; adding it to the list!

Is there an option to pull avatars from BGG? That would stop all my plays being me + many blank circles...

March of the Ants - because that evolved edition Kickstarter keeps tempting me and I've not played my old edition enough.

(And... think it's just OK. So might resist the shiny new ants, even though they do seem to be fixing most of the parts that flopped for us.)

Look forward to listening! Been anticipating Hot Streak appearing Down Under for a while. Also over a game of newly acquired Time Barons did my opponent point out 'it's by the Spots guy" and the Perry infiltration of my collection made clear. Well played (and designed) good sir, all great games.

Ha, with Glacier as the assassin word, you've got to be looking at ICE and thinking "oh no" initially. Saved by modern day authoritarianism! Hurray?

Hurrah! Well honestly those decks are so amazingly versatile, everyone should grab one. For Wibbell alone, it's a great investment! Hope the rest of UKGE goes/went well 😊

Oh wait, what's OriginELL? I recall an RPG-like Wibbell game (QUESTABELL?) last year - is that related?

Keenly awaiting it arriving on our foreign shores...

Been waiting so long for a chance to play this one after my experience with Seal Team Flix. Obviously a very tough climate to launch new projects into at the moment, but I'm hoping this one can get the funding it needs to be truly amazing!!

I so rarely get into TV shows; there is investment, I'm pretty time poor, and board gaming is usually priority #1!

So when one of my few precious shows gets axed, it's a emotional gut punch. Today, that's Mythic Quest 😔 Man that show was a delight, one of my favourite ensemble comedies.

And there was me excited to get a new follow 😅

Thanks for the heads up (not that I tend to follow back anyway)

Me too, was deeply puzzled

This has certainly piqued my interest! Guessing it's gonna get this comparison a lot, but it does look at a glance like Hive, which was the travel game that didn't quite land for me, despite being a great design. Will certainly be checking it out when it gets published.

Did we learn nothing from the rabbits and cane toads?!!

Remind me of

Ah thank you, knew I was missing SOMETHING here - didn't realise it was half the game 😅

Private sale groups (in my case for buying and selling board games) keep me there

Only played the learning scenario so far, but it's giving me the Magic Realm "sandbox adventure" experience, with a cleaner set of rules. It's certainly pricey, but for my tastes, it's what Kickstarter was for - this game wouldn't get made without crowdfunding, and it's a gem within its genre 🤘

@bgstatsapp.bsky.social I keep seeing BGG sync issues where I delete a game on BGG, days later BGstats says it's done a collection sync, but the game still comes up as owned on BGstats. Only when I view the game and click on "collection status" does it sync and remove the game from my owned games.

Fantastic - all good now!

Looks like their is a bug in the Android version v5.3.0 (v5030001) when sharing plays; doesn't show up for all plays, but does show up for most of my plays (especially ones older than a few days)