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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated Fishin' Time in Tabletop Games

Apr 16, 2018

Fishin' Time

1986 | Kids Game, Sports

5.3

(3 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

Fishing Theme (1 more)

Board Art is nice.

Card Draws are mostly bad. (0 more)

Very Luck based and Punishing, but could be fun with some rules tweaks....

Here's the rules I would tweak. You can run home and stash fish so that they can't be lost which creates a push your luck mechanism. You can also have a maximum number of fish to hold, therefore you can try to upgrade once you've hit your limit and release the smaller fish which would be thematic as well. There is clearly a love of fishing, but not a love of fun in the game as it currently stands. Should've gone through another round of playtesting without the designers friends to see the flaws. but the art on the board is beautiful and this should be a more fun game. I'd love to see a modern designer take this on.

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Beetle Rider (341 KP) Apr 16, 2018

I kinda want to try it. Good review. I like the ideas for changes.

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Mark Halpern (153 KP) rated Battleship (2012) in Movies

Feb 9, 2018

Battleship (2012)

2012 | Action, Sci-Fi

5.5

(17 Ratings)

Movie Rating

The Board game brought to life

Alex Hopper is a Lt in the Navy and is about to be kicked out after a fight with another countries commander during RIMPAC (A series of naval exercises to determine who is the best) When all of a sudden a group of UFO's come crashing down and seal his destroyer and a few other ships is an barrier. He needs to figure out a way to defeat these beings and restore order to the sea. What better way than to have a system that involves the rules of the great board game Battleship.

Movie has a good cast with Kitsch, Rianna,Skarsgard and Decker. The storyline and plot however is very cheesy and you can figure out what is gonna happen before it does. Some of the action sequences make this movie at least a one time watch. Also has a decent soundtrack

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Nemesis Lockdown

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Nemesis Lockdown is first stand alone expansion to Nemesis. During the game, players will be taken...

Betrayal at House on the Hill

8.3 (56 Ratings) Rate It

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Players all begin as allies exploring a haunted house filled with dangers, traps, items, and omens....

Betrayal Widow's Walk. Horror adventure exploration co-op

Purple Phoenix Games (2266 KP) rated Dicetopia in Tabletop Games

Jun 12, 2019

Dicetopia

2018 | Dice Game

7.5

(2 Ratings)

Tabletop Game Rating

As board gamers, we are always looking for cool new games to play! Occasionally, that search takes us to Kickstarter, which is where I found Dicetopia. After reading the campaign page, I was immediately hooked and decided to back it! I enjoyed following Dicetopia through production, and the finished product is everything I hoped it would be! Maybe after reading this review, you’ll want to give it a try too!

Welcome to the Dicetopia – a vast city teeming with opportunity. Some people capitalize on those opportunities for the greater good, but not you. You and your faction have more dubious motivations – you see a city ripe for the taking. Unfortunately for you, other factions in the city see the same thing. Now, you must work quickly and quietly to gain control over the city’s neighborhoods before your opponents! Pick up loot, carry out secret missions, and undermine your opponent in any way possible. The sneakiest and most clever faction will come out on top – will it be yours?

In Dicetopia, you are a member of a faction vying for control of the city. You and your opponents have secret missions to complete, and your strategy will vary depending on those missions. On your turn, you will swap one of the agents from your faction board with a die from any neighborhood. Each neighborhood has an action associated with it, and placing an agent there allows you to take the designated action. Neighborhood actions could be beneficial for you (re-rolling a die on your faction board), or they could be detrimental for your opponent (swapping one of their dice for one from the board). A controlling presence is one key to success, so make sure you have more agents than your opponent in any neighborhood! End-game scoring is in three parts: 1. Die total from your faction board, 2. Points for controlling a neighborhood, and 3. Successful completion of your secret missions. The player with the highest score wins!

Overall, I love Dicetopia. It’s kind of a game of worker placement without the weight that is sometimes associated with that mechanic. As someone who has not played many worker placement games before, I think Dicetopia does a good job introducing players to the mechanic. You place your agent, take the die, perform the corresponding action, and that’s your turn. Easy peasy. And since your secret missions dictate your strategy, the game is really more about dice/set collection than it is about worker placement. Another thing I like about the game is that it is dictated by dice, which means you’ll never play the same game twice. All of the dice are rolled and randomly placed during setup, so your city board will always be different for each game. And depending on your secret missions, the die values could make completing your secret missions easier or harder! That means you have to strategize your use of neighborhood actions even more! There is so much more strategy involved in this game than meets the eye, and I love that.

The one thing I do not like about Dicetopia is that whenever you place an agent in a neighborhood, you must take the corresponding action. Even if you don’t want to, or if it would be against your best interest. That gets a little frustrating as the game goes on, because some actions (later in the game) could essentially undo your entire game, costing you points by altering your success on secret missions. I wish the neighborhood actions were optional, because then it wouldn’t feel like my entire game strategy had been thrown out the window in the last couple of turns.

Besides my one grievance with the neighborhood actions, I really thoroughly enjoy playing Dicetopia. It was definitely a great find on Kickstarter for me, and I hope you’ll decide to give it a shot too! Purple Phoenix Games gives it a 9 / 12.

https://purplephoenixgames.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/dicetopia-review/