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Emperor Norton:

--- Quote from: ChaoSera on 31 Dec 2013, 04:34 ---Don't worry about it, I forgot as well. Wrote you my address.

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UGH! My basement flooded a couple of days ago and some of my collection got trashed. Fortunately nothing that I actually use (I have those on my bookshelves upstairs) but my 3.5 core books were in the waterlogged grouping. Sorry about that ;_;.

ChaoSera:
That is unfortunate.

Game and Watch Forever:
Someone on BGG does a weekly Marvel Legendary challenge thread that has some fun scenarios (the community there in general is pretty awesome when it comes to custom content and ideas for variants). Boyfriend and I are playing through them and having a blast... at least we were until #$*(%*$ Apocalypse showed up in week 3 trying to fulfill X-cutioner's song!  :x We had decided we wouldn't move along until we won each scenario, but holy crap, this feels impossible. The worst was last night when Death showed up in the sewers, kidnapped a Nightcrawler, gave us a scheme twist to KO the Nightcrawler, and then got a new Nightcrawler! This happened three times in a row in the beginning.... Got to love it when a game manages to troll the crap out of you....

Anyway, I totally recommend it if you have Legendary and Dark City (Fantastic 4 gets added later). I'm also pretty pumped for the Spider-Man expansion (mostly for Spider-Woman, Moon Knight, and Mysterio and the sinister six as a Mastermind/villain group combo).

Blyss:
So, my friends and I have a game night on saturdays - where we deliberately stay away from video games - and play board games, or cards against humanity.  I've been looking at adding another game to our rotation, and I wanted to know if anyone here had heard of it/had opinions before I drop $50 on it.

The game I'm looking at is Last Night On Earth, and it's basically a zombie apocalypse board game.  Anyone know of that I'm talking about here?  Thoughts?  Opinions?

As always, I appreciate anything you guys give me.  :)

Game and Watch Forever:
I absolutely LOVE Last Night on Earth (I have it and most of the expansions). With that said, it very much depends on what you and your gaming group likes.

I'll start with the cons... Fighting is based around rolling dice and both zombie and hero players are at the mercy of their respective decks to draw what they need to stop the other side from reaching their goal. So if luck being a pretty strong factor in your games is a problem, you may want to avoid. That doesn't mean skill and planning isn't rewarded or that there aren't interesting choices to be made, though. Both certainly happen, though people might disagree on whether it happens enough. I definitely think it does for what the game is trying to be.

For the pros... Flying Frog Production games are all about theme and LNoE is dripping with it. The components are also of really great quality. If you're the type that likes games that feel like they're telling a story as you play, this is a great choice. If replayability is a concern, then you should be pretty happy with the modular game board, different heroes available, and scenario choices. A few extra official scenarios are available online for free. When you get sick of all that, there's plenty of expansions that add even more of everything, including different mechanics you can mix and match. And if you really wanted to, you could create your own custom scenarios, heroes, and rules, or go to the board game geek community and look at all the stuff other people are sharing.

Also, there are actually two standalone games: Last Night on Earth and LNoE: Timber Peak. Timber Peak is an expansion that has everything you need to play it standalone. The only thing you'd be missing out on is the soundtrack (yes, FFP incorporates atmospheric music with their games). Of course, the soundtrack isn't amazing but can be fun to pop in your first plathrough at the very least. Timber Peak adds a leveling system and some other stuff (spreading fire!) that hadn't been seen yet in the series. I only played TP once, so I can't say whether to get it over the original. I think most would, though I'm concerned about the zombie side being weakened (again, may have just been that one game).

But yeah... hopefully that rant helped. I can definitely answer more about it if you're still on the fence. 

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