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Wil, I really love these TableTop videos, because I am both entertained by you and your friends playing them and because I get to learn about games I had never heard of that I might introduce to my friends and family. However, I'm worried that the most recent three videos have tended to use more simplified house rules. I can see that maybe this makes the videos more entertaining in that it lets you focus on the interaction between the players, but I feel like I'm not getting a good sense of the games themselves and how they would work with my own friends and family. Here are some examples:
1. Say Anything -- You outright said that you were using house rules for scoring. You were clear on this, and I understand if you want to do this once in a while, but...
2. Fiasco -- There were cards and tables that were flashed on the screen that never ended up being used. I get the idea that the play was simplified greatly.
3. Gloom -- There were apparently illegal plays and parts of the cards that weren't used correctly (acknowledged by you later). This was key, because from the video, I actually got the idea that Gloom was a pretty unbalanced game if the best strategy in all cases is to kill your family the fastest (rather than try to build on points, if possible) -- and it seemed like you could kill your family really fast.
So that's three games in a row where I feel like I didn't get a good picture of what the games were really like (especially if you're not playing with professional screenwriters and comedians who can make up detailed stories on the fly). I did enjoy the enthusiasm of the players and for that I did enjoy those videos, too. However, I would like to ask for a bit more detail on the games themselves -- the way the videos for Settlers of Catan, Ticket to Ride, and Castle Panic were done. Thanks!
New Tabletop! Say Anything with Matt Mira, Jonah Ray, and Josh Cagan!
Casual party games are a great infection vector for introducing tabletop gaming to our non-gaming friends. For experienced players, they're also fantastic palate cleansers between games of Puerto Rico and Power Grid. This week's new Tabletop is a really fun, quick, easy, and profoundly silly par...
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