u/Willing-Impress-871

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My first memory of noticing the fruit of the loom logo was right around the time I had read and watched Hunger Games, and read a Hunger Games parody novel, and Cornucopias were fresh on my mind because I had just found out what they were. From when I heard about the Mandela Effect to now, I was 100% sure I remembered noticing a cornucopia because of hunger games, but now I genuinely am starting to question if I just self-gaslit that memory into existence. Especially since I've seen logos of Cornucopias with fruit at least at one grocery store growing up.

I have the old west and frontier town sets. Other than Belly of the Beast, what would I be missing? I would have heroes, lots of missions, gear, artifacts, etc. Could I play a Feudal Japanese playthrough and not feel like I'm missing out?

Also, I'm looking for a vertical card tray, so I can save table space instead of a single layer card tray​

I'm starting college in a week, and there's a tabletop games club that I'm hopefully going to meet some people at. I'm looking for types of games that I've missed out on only playing Solo. So no dungeon crawlers, co-op games, or euros. Likewise, for people who used to only play multi-player games and started playing mostly Solo, what games do you midd being able to play?

I was midway through a solo game of Imperium:Classics, playing against the Atlanteans AI. Pretty far into the game, I drew a bot card that I had never seen before called Just Do It. Every single piece of text on the card was repetitions of "Just Do It". I was completely baffled, and assumed it was a just prank done by the person I had bought the pre-owned copy from on Ebay.

I set aside the card and drew a replacement card, which was an Attack card. I was still a bit distracted from what had just happened, so I had to check the flowchart to remember what the Attack cards did for that civilization. I flipped to the page, scanned to where it said to Attack, and started to freak out. The entry read as follows:

"KILL THEM ALL KILL THEM ALL KILL THEM ALL KILL THEM ALL."

I dropped the booklet in surprise. "What the flip", I thought to myself. "This is #gettingscary." At this point I was super duper scared. So I stood up to leave the room, but when I turned around, my floor was covered in copies of Anachrony, Voidfall, Star Trek Captain's Chair, Imperium, and Kanban EV.

"Holy moly.", I exclaimed as I carefully approached the boxes. I reached towards the copy of Voidfall that was closest to me and opened it. The first thing to catch my eye was a piece of paper that simply read "11/06/26. You know where". Hands trembling, I moved the paper and underneath it was................ ..... .......... A folded space insert for a ..... ..... ...... ......... A SNIPER RIFLE!!!!!

I watched a few videos on Lord of the Rings which looked fun. And I know Hobbit There And Back Again has a dedicated solo mode, but I've read it's pretty lackluster

I haven't seen this question answered anywhere else and I'm curious

I'm gravitating towards Duel of Meloch, and I don't mind learning the two games before going in. I heard Scythe is a pretty mediocre solo game, so is DoM a better game for purely a solo player overall?

Which of these would give the most bang for my buck?

City of Ancients ($90)>Swamps of Death($90)>Frontier Town($50)>Blasted Wastes Other Worlds($60)>Basic Traits Enemy Pack Supplement 1-3($25)

Or CoA($90)>SoD($90)>Gates of Valhalla($75)>Valley of the Serpent King($75)

Edit: Please read the post before making reddit comments I can smell through the screen

This is in reference to games with an absurd amount of reading with little gameplay like Tainted Grail and Lands of Evershade, but to a lesser extent Oathsworn, Middara and Descent Legends of the Dark. I assume it's because the narrative enhances the gameplay for them, but every time I forced to read more than half a page of writing when playing a board game, it completely takes me out of the experience and usually feels like a chore.

I've read parts of most of these games excerpts, and they all read like extremely amateur writing. I've wanted to get into these games because I thought they would be immersive, but reading actual fantasy books proved to be much more immersive, because you can fully enter the world while reading instead of having to stop every so often to play the game for a couple hours. Not to mention critically acclaimed fantasy series are generally better written than board game Kickstarter projects.

I understand that these games are probably just not for me, and I'm not trying to put these games down or the people who play them, I'm just disappointed from having high hopes of how these games would actually play. As an aside, I'm obsessed with Shadows of Brimstone, because I can roleplay and formulate a narrative as I'm playing, while never being taken out of the mechanics of the game. I also just ordered Sleeping Gods, which I'm excited for and might change some of my opinions about these types of games.

Like would I be able to play the Valley campaign+valley camp with the missions and other worlds from city of Ancients, and vice versa (CoA heroes and town phase but with Valley missions added

The only channels whose new game reviews I can actually trust are John Laruffa and the Broken Meeple, and to a lesser extent No Pun Included. Genuinely every other reviewer I've come across with a significant following has only good things to say about every single game they review, which means that they aren't reviewing games but marketing them.