The roll and write genre has grown in popularity over the last few years, producing some truly fantastic games such as Cartographers, Welcome To, That’s Pretty Clever, and many more. All of these gam...
The Roll And Write genre has grown in popularity over the last few years, producing some truly fant…
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I was just talking to @KingChaos about this as I saw it on KS and set up a reminder before the campaign is over. I think ultimately I'll pass on it - the theme is just so so for me and when I told Sarah it was a roll and write she may or may not have cringed lol.
In fairness, there are good roll and writes out there. Personally, I'm excited for #Cartographers: A Roll Player Tale and #Merchants of Magick: A Set a Watch Tale and #On Tour. Also David turczi did #Rome & Roll and he's awesome
Got a good variety of plays in this week!
Good week!
Edit: Looks like the missing review was due to user error!
So tough to rank them! Not Fair @philryuh!!
But, if I have to:
1. #Dune: Imperium -- played it online and twice in my personal copy -- really enjoying this take on deck building + worker placement
2. #Three Sisters -- Matt & Ben from Motor City Gameworks have another hit going to KS -- if you like "heavier" roll and writes, or maybe you really enjoyed Fleet: The Dice Game, you should check this one out in March
3. #Tidal Blades: Heroes of the Reef -- I was pleasantly surprised at this one -- it looked like another overproduced KS but the engine of the game is really fun -- love the way that you can work with your character to specialize as you take actions all across the islands -- plus that little bit of push your luck is juicy
4. #Vigilante -- another KS preview, this time a 3-6 player (we've only played 3 due to COVID) semi-cooperative -- team of superheroes trying to take down the bad guys -- but is your teammate a bad guy too? Love the events that are controlled by dice, and especially love the neutral characters
5. #Karmaka -- Jay Bell brought this game from 2016 that doesn't look like much by the cover, but inside, you find some great art and a surprisingly meaty little card game. I found it a smidge too long but that's just being picayune. Solid game to start the game night
What roll and writes have caught your interest?
As for your question, I try to only go after lightly played used games when buying or trading. I never really thought about that issue with roll and writes because I'd assume you can find a way to buy more sheets somewhere.
I've never owned a roll and write, but if I did and found one that I really liked, I'd probably try to laminate some of the sheets and just use erasable markers or similar to play instead of using up a bunch of pages. That being the case, I don't think I'd have a problem buying a secondhand copy as long as it had enough sheets left to do something like that.
I'm not huge for Roll and Writes. But I'll see if I can get this one to the table. I wish you good fortune in the competition.
Glad to see I'm enabling more of the community here lol! I actually JUST set up another trade with BoardGameCo because honestly the shelf space I gained from the last trade was quickly taken up. This time around I'm trading:
#War Chest (sorry @theDL lol), #Mystic Market, #Point Salad, #Roland Wright: The Dice Game, and #Paladins of the West Kingdom.
Point Salad and Mystic Market I've been okay with getting rid of for awhile - just had to convince Sarah to part with them which turned out to be easier than expected. Paladins was pretty disappointing for me as I've discussed on here before. I think it has to do with me just being pretty bad at the game and it taking forever to set up. If I were any better at it, I'd have a little more desire to play it over the loads of other games I own. War Chest I like enough, but Sarah really doesn't. I honestly could have gifted it to either my brother or a friend or two just to keep it nearby, but again too many other games to play over it. Finally Roland Wright was one of the several roll and write (go figure lol) games I got from a Secret Santa. I had zero interest in playing it after checking out reviews.
In return I'm getting a NIS copy of #Trajan which I'm really excited about.
Outside of my BoardGameCo trades, I've made a lot of trades in math trades both through BGG and Abecorn which the Board Game Barrage podcast uses for theirs. I find shipping to be a real deterrent sometimes but when you think about the idea of giving up a game you don't really play anymore for one you're excited to play for a few bucks, it sometimes is more palatable. Interestingly I find myself trading away games that I traded for more often than games I've purchased myself. Although I guess recently that hasn't been the case with the need for more room on the shelves.
Looking forward to hearing more about your experience with BoardGameCo when you get your games!
This might get me a lot of flack, but despite all of the use of dice in #The Castles of Burgundy, I agree with your wife that it's not a satisfactory answer for a dice game. I mean the fact that there is a #The Castles of Burgundy: The Dice Game should tell you all you need to know about the use of dice in that game. Yes I realize it's literally the whole game lol, but it certainly doesn't feel like one to me.
We like #Qwixx in our house as well as #Corinth which are both roll and writes that utilize dice. #Camel Up (Second Edition) is another good answer to this (thanks @philryuh) though I think I feel the same way that it doesn't feel like it's using the dice in the way you'd expect...
Probably my favorite pure dice based game is #Strike. It's always a blast when we play. I saw some ads on BGG recently that it's in stock again!
Wow, Hadrian's Wall seemed like a beast of a roll and write. Have you tried it out yet or is it on your way?
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I had a pretty full week:
#Spirit Island - Have played our second game and are really enjoying it. Looking forawrd to ramping up the difficulty.
#Teotihuacan: City of Gods - Have a game on the go on BGA, which has been great fun.
#Race for the Galaxy - First time trying this game on BGA, it is quick and has plenty of luck but the tiny engines you build are exciting.
#Jixia Academy - We had a quick game of this the other night, is wonderfully clever and tactical, my partner whooped me.
#Welcome to... Played a few games on BGA with my board game group, I've never really played many roll and writes (or flip and wrote in this case) but it was surprisingly pleasant.