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Call-Break Multiplayer

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Call Break Multiplayer is a Live, Online, Multiplayer FREE gaming app from Artoon Solutions Pvt....

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Scan, print and organize documents from your iOS device! You can use your iPhone or iPad to...

Blood & Honor

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Blood & Honor is an easy to pick up, hard to let go, world domination game. It mixes the classic...

Gendering Radicalism: Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California

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In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor...

Joe Goodhart (27 KP) rated Faction Paradox: The Book of the Enemy in Books

Nov 30, 2020

This is, for all intents and purposes, as close to identifying, or, at the very least, understanding who the Enemy is. The stories that make up the whole of this collection is as follows: Subjective

<b>"Interlock" and "The Annotated Autopsy of Agent A" Simon Bucher-Jones
"Cobweb and Ivory" Nate Bumber
"The Book of the Enemy" Andrew Hickey
T.memeticus: A Morphology" Philip Purser-Hallard
"The Short Briefing Sergeant's Tale" Simon Bucher-Jones
"A Bloody (And Public) Domaine" Jacob Black
"Life-Cycle" Grant Springford
"First Draft" Nick Wallace
"Eyes" Christian Read
"We are the Enemy" Lawrence Burton
"Timeshare" Helen Angove
"A Choice of Houses" Simon Bucher-Jones
"Houses of Cards" Lisa Sarah Good
"The Enemy - The Hole in Everything" Simon Bucher-Jones
"The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Enemy" Jay Eales
"No Enemy But Despair" Simon Bucher-Jones
"The Map and the Spiders" Wilhelm Liebknecht</b>

I quite enjoyed the book as a whole, even though there was some weak pieces that did not really seem to fit, like Helen Angove's "Timeshare". Overall, it was a fitting collection for what it was intended to be. Of particular interest were Simon Bucher-Jones' interconnecting briefs that tie it all together. Quite brilliant, despite some of the weaker stories.

And, yes, as some people have remarked in their reviews, there were some noticeable punctuation and formatting errors. However, the stories are good enough to overlook and not focus on those shortcomings.

Recommended to all fans of Faction Paradox as a whole!!

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Paul T (21 KP) rated Deception: Murder in Hong Kong in Tabletop Games

Sep 2, 2019

Deception: Murder in Hong Kong

2014 | Bluff, Deduction, Murder & Mystery, Party Game, Spies / Espionage

7.7

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Tabletop Game Rating

Hidden roles (4 more)

Quick playtime & set up

More players are better

Easy rules to teach and learn

Tons of replayability

Can be frustrating for those who aren't into bluffing (1 more)

May need to reset if someone talks during set up.

Great social deduction game with a theme that matches perfectly. All of the different roles and cards included in just the base game gives a ton of replayability! Fast paced and discussion start right away unlike some social deduction games where you have to wait a round or two before key information is given. Only downsides I've had with this game are one... having to reassign the hidden roles 4 times in a row before the round started because I was teaching to a new group of 6 players and someone would talk or say okay to confirm their hidden role during the clue and means selection phase or the witness phase. Most games this would be an issue however, everyone got a huge laugh out of it and eventually the game continued as normal. The other issue ive run into is when you play with smaller groups AND the witness role, the witness will sometimes stop the game mid round because the investigators all used their badges/guesses and lost. Regardless of those things I've had only positive experiences with deception murder in hong kong and used it to replace resistance, mysterium, and secret hitler. A must have to any collection and if you enjoy it look for the undercover allies expansion!