Jocho

joined 1 year ago
[–] Jocho@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Lowering the die you roll with to check out whether the depletable resource, well, depletes, raises the tension while you ate deep-deep in the dungeon.

Imagine that like you buy a top-notch torch, butvit eventualy burns out. You don't have to throwcawayvthe rest of the torch, but keep it for later use, when you have no fine torch left.

Otherwise you may introduce torch tokens, which are removed from your character sheet when you roll 1 on d6. You'd roll only d6s for this burnout check, so every torch has the same chance to burn out. Moreover, you could then introduce d4 for candles and d8 for lanterns.

Or get inspired in Shadowdark RPG where the torches are tied to real-life timers.

[–] Jocho@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I am from Slovakia, center Europe, and here some would call it an embarassment. The average construction worker drinks so many beers alone. If you divide the amount (136, if not mistaken) by four, it still results in 1 beer a day and two in almost every friday.

One beer a day doesn't seem a lot, but sure, seeing so many bottlecaps together might look disturbing.

You could get the same result with coffee cups, or with energizers, if you'd give the same request to our younglings at school.

We're f*cked up I think.

[–] Jocho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I happened to play freshly bought My Lil' Everdell.

It is marketed as a kids' game, but I can confirm there is space for a little bit of strategy.

The game works well both multiplayer and solo, and it can also be added in fewer player counts to raise the tension a little bit

I already had few ideas for variant that would raise strategic decisions one can make, but I'll need few more playtests to throw it into the BGG forum's variants thread.

[–] Jocho@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Three game recommendations from me:

Yamataï gets too little of love. It's a game with a beautiful table presence and with interesting mashup of mechanics that are really on the lighter spectrum.

Mechanics:

  • Action Drafting
  • Contracts
  • Increase Value of Unchosen Resources
  • Modular Board
  • Network and Route Building

Architects of the West Kingdom is my favorite game for a long time and even without the Age of Artisans expansion.

Mechanics:

  • Contracts
  • Open Drafting -Solo / Solitaire Game
  • Variable Player Powers
  • Worker Placement

Radlands is currently my favorite two-player card game. It plays smoothly, has a vibrant color palette and although I would appreciate the game mat I enjoy the game on the clean table as well. I like the action queue mechanic in the form of ongoing events, back-and-forth dynamics and energy (water) management.

Mechanics:

  • Action Points
  • Action Queue
  • Hand Management
  • Take That
  • Variable Player Powers
[–] Jocho@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is a nice quote, however it misses the goal of the original post.

For example, I fall into the group of people that don't care about their digital privacy, but I fully support anyone who decides to go invisible on the internet.

[–] Jocho@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I am ChromeOS user with Debian linux in terminal.

The funny thing is I am beginning to struggle using the chromebook (Acer 714) for actual work, because of increasing hardware requirements of my everyday software.

I know it is an everlasting road to disappointment, but needed to take it out of my chest.

 

Hi!

I would like to use this space for my one-time promotion and share my latest work with you.

Demeter is a solo horror sci-fi journaling RPG that was made for PocketQuest 2023 jam, organized by DriveThruRPG.com. It was a 2-month long jam where authors old and new were requested to create a roleplaying game with a space theme that would fit within 20 pages.

I managed to create a solo game where the perspective from which the story is being told shifts back and forth between the crew of the ship and the unknown entity. Story unfolds as various bad things happen and crew is reduced just like in the good old horror movies.

You can play your own oldschool horror movie by checking out Demeter right on the DriveThruRPG.com.

If you want something more for your money, you should consider getting a whole bundle of horror sci-fi games instead!

Or if you want something different with other than horror vibes, you can check other games from the PocketQuest 2023 Jam. Give it a look, spend some comment, add it to your wishlist!