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Kaara (5 KP) rated Charterstone in Tabletop Games

Apr 14, 2018

Charterstone

2016 | City Building, Economic, Medieval

6.9

(8 Ratings)

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Legacy games rock

This is my second legacy style game, and I'm in love. The theme stays relevant to the game play, and the "twists" thrown in by each new set of cards are great for keeping the game interesting. I'm only halfway through my first play and I'm looking forward to trying the expansion pack to play again.

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Shadowreal (5 KP) rated the PC version of The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind in Video Games

Feb 21, 2018

Nostalgic (1 more)

Immersive Quests

Back to Morrowind

Morrowind is a fun chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online series. Starting in Seyda Neen you can travel around the isle of Vvardenfell exploring the different house lands and the people around. Whether this is your first time on the isle, or you visited in previous games this is a great expansion.

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SLAM Reviews (2 KP) created a post

Jun 19, 2019

I still haven't got this account up and running but I wanted to share a link with everyone!
I'm so excited! Renegade Games is releasing another Clank! expansion this September! Clank! is one of my favorite board games out there! Who else is excited for this?!?!

https://www.renegadegamestudios.com/clank-expeditions-ape-lords?fbclid=IwAR2M66CqOq-pIQbcfd-PIdhrVcetGJtwkdrKJDBcE-nqNT72grYBaTwv58o

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Trove: Adventures

5.3 (8 Ratings) Rate It

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Adventures is Live! Explore a new biome, level your club, and set off for epic new adventures in...

MMORPG Action Platformer Adventure

Tapestry: Arts & Architecture

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Choose from a variety of new capital city mats, a new advancement track featuring new types of cards...

A Study of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Process: What Caused the Core Melt and Hydrogen Explosion?: 2015

Michio Ishikawa

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Written by an expert in the field, this book is perfect for those who would like to know what...

Purple Phoenix Games (2266 KP) rated BANG! The Dice Game: Undead or Alive in Tabletop Games

Jul 17, 2021

BANG! The Dice Game: Undead or Alive

2019 | American West, Bluff, Deduction, Dice Game, Fighting

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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In the expansion review series, we take a look at a game expansion to discuss whether it is a necessary purchase/addition to one’s collection.

This breakdown is for the push-your-luck dice game BANG! The Dice Game‘s modular expansion Undead or Alive.

The Undead or Alive expansion offers several modules that can be added or left out at the players’ discretion. Module 1 is entitled “Look Me in the Eyes” and cannot be used unless Module 2 is also included. This module replaces two normal white dice for the new black Duel dice. On the Duel dice is a new icon of crossed pistols signifying a duel. The player who rolled this symbol chooses another player and they engage in a roll-off using the Duel die. Whichever player loses will need to take a random Wound Token found in this expansion. Module 2 is “Two Bullets Are Enough” and references the new Rage cards included. Every time a player suffers two or more lost hit points they must draw a Rage card to be used at the start of their next turn. Module 3 is “A New Posse in Town” and simply add in the new character cards to the base game characters. The catch is that some characters have special abilities that only trigger if the appropriate expansion module is being used, so character choices may need to be adjusted.

If you have been wondering why it is called Undead or Alive because no undead anything has yet to be mentioned, you are now in luck. Module 4 is “Undead or Alive?” and can only be used when playing with four or more players. This module has players revealing Boneyard cards when eliminated from the game. Once the number of zombie hands depicted on revealed Boneyard cards equals the number of players a zombie outbreak is initiated. At this point all eliminated characters now become zombies and are tasked with a new goal: eliminate all living characters. Zombies only use three white dice during their turns and do not gain life from beers or other effects. The survivors now switch focus to eliminating all zombies and their Zombie Master (I will let you discover this on your own).

The final module is Module 5 “Wild West Legacy.” This module is only used when playing multiple games of BANG! The Dice Game in succession. This module introduces a method of determining which player will become the next Sheriff in the next game and rules for changing characters between games.
Is it necessary to include the Undead or Alive expansion to enjoy BANG! The Dice Game? Absolutely not. It adds a lot of new content and ways to play the original game, but is not an absolute need.

Official recommendation: I categorize this as an expansion that I am super glad I have now in my collection because I know exactly the gamers with whom I want to play it. I don’t think I will use it every time I play BANG! The Dice Game, but I certainly think it is something that regular players of the base game should pick up. Being able to re-enter the game and gang up on those that were playing without you is a huge step up from typical player elimination style games. I hate being eliminated right away and waiting a long time to get back into a game. Luckily, BANG! The Dice Game is short to begin with, but coming back as a zombie is mega sweet.

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Gisell Middleton (189 KP) rated The Expansion in Books

Jul 12, 2018

This book reminded me very much of Ann Patchtett's State of Wonder. Unfortunately, I didn't like that one very much either. I found The Expansion to be very slow and had to trudge through it in many spots. I had a hard time really caring for or about any of the characters who seemed very one dimensional and not fleshed out enough. I did like that there wasn't much technical talk regarding the Panama Canal even though a large part of the book centers around its blueprints, plans, budget and expansion project. Many events were left as dangling loose ends, never to be tied up or severed and, even worse, some events had nothing to really do with any of the storylines and did not bring anything substantial to the narrative.