Yeah. It's actually cool that some people already received their game! The graphic on the game page when ordering clearly showed the dispatch time for SM Champions being Sept. 10 - 17, and standard dispatch being Sept. 18 - 20. Today is the 10th, so everything is under control!
Gloomhaven is just so massive. It takes a lot of time to set up and then actually play it. It's not even complicated or slow paced. Just so much material to keep track of. This Aeons Greek game that Kickstarter yesterday looks even more massive, lol. But Oathsworn actually looks kinda manageable. Curious about the price with all the minis. 99$ is only the hero minis but standees for the big monsters as far as I understood it.
I really enjoy Escape the Dark Castle. It's card and dice based, super easy to learn but really fun to play. But you need to like the artstyle to really enjoy it.
The Broken Token organizer for Gloomhaven is literally the *only* way we ever get it out and away as often as we do. Sometimes when I look across the table at all the components I just can't believe how anyone would go about playing it without the organizer.
I have organizers but its still a challenge XD Game is great though. Really great in fact with great atmosphere and artwork.
Have you looked into A Touch of Evil by Flying Frog Productions? It's a Gothic horror game that can be played competitively or cooperatively. There are a couple expansions out, but overall I think the game is "done" as FFP has their hands full with their Shadows of Brimstone line. The general gist of A Touch of Evil is there is a supernatural horror of some variety out there, and you have to gear up, track it down and kill it. There's a ton of fiddly parts, cards and charts to roll on and stuff, but overall I'd say it's fairly medium weight. It's not as heavy as Gloomhaven by any stretch, but still a bit more complex than Pandemic.
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I'm jealous. I've been wanting to try Gizmos and Quacks for a little while now. I figure I'll probably just buy Gizmos myself once the new version with the plastic marble dispenser comes out, but I'm still not sure about Quacks and need to probably try it first to see what I think. Not sure when I'll ever be able to do that though.
Yup, it'll be nice addition that should get to the table easily enough. The only other long-standing tabletop KS remaining is Seize the Bean.
On BGG there's a pretty good DIY solution using cheap Plano boxes. This is what I use and it works very well. I'll try to find the link.
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Here it is:
Y.A.S.S (Yet Another Storage Solution) | Gloomhaven
A few people have messaged me asking for pictures showing how I've organized Gloomhaven. I think it's a great system: everything fits in the box, the important things are labelled and well separated, set up and tear down are quick, and implementing it doesn't consume a hugeboardgamegeek.com
I did this with my copy. It's so nice for setting up and tearing downOn BGG there's a pretty good DIY solution using cheap Plano boxes. This is what I use and it works very well. I'll try to find the link.
Edit:
Here it is:
Y.A.S.S (Yet Another Storage Solution) | Gloomhaven
A few people have messaged me asking for pictures showing how I've organized Gloomhaven. I think it's a great system: everything fits in the box, the important things are labelled and well separated, set up and tear down are quick, and implementing it doesn't consume a huge
it takes us like 5-10 minutes to set up and then there isn't too much more besides controlling our characters because we just use an app for the monsters :P
I have heard that the some of the components' quality is a little sketchy even after they "upgraded" the reprint, but at this price it was a no brainer. I'm looking forward to adding another euro that plays well at 2 to my collection.
Using the app isn't really an option for me because I don't like to stare at a screen all the time. Kinda defeats the purpose of playing a board game IMHO.
It's still far from staring at a screen all the time. It just streamlines the monster stuff so you don't need to pull out the monster decks, or shuffle any of the cards or anything like that, and gives you an easy way to track initiative, you still have to do everything else with the monsters on the board and what not.
I did this last year :
Seems like a good opportunity to share the custom insert I finaly finished last month :
Not that expensive of an option, but pretty time consuming., while commercial ones are expensive AF in europe with the shipping cost from what I saw.
I still need to add grips to it so I can get everything out of the box in one go.
I also finaly ( not that it should take long but I had many other things to do and I'm easily distracted ) finished making my Ikea Bjursta table into a gaming table :
( Gloomhaven map for scale )
I rather enjoyed it with my one play. It's a very straight-forward resource gathering/resource conversion game, however it's got a really cool theme to it that sets it apart from your standard bone-dry "trading in the Mediterranean" euros. It plays pretty quickly too. I think our learning game only took about 90 minutes or so.
