Splendor vs Aeon's End

I love it bc he is better at boardgames and sees engines, interactions and strategies I often miss.

We buy this 4 cost card from the market and place it in our discard pile. We then cast a spell into an open breach for later use. 2 aether can be spen...

All that being said, after Space Cowboys (the original publisher) was purchased by Asmodee there have been some quality issues (or at least changes). The copy my parents ordered was SO MUCH LIGHTER than their copy that my father weighed it and compared it against theirs. He then insisted on opening it beforehand to make sure everything was actually in the box (it was). But the gemstone chips were only about 2/3 the weight of the other set

This is not a deck-builder where you just buy everything. Buy carefully and learn how the economy balances with gems and spells in "early-game" and transitions in late-game to charges.

I didn't feel like a gemologist trading gems as I moved up the international mineral ladder to conquer my opponents. I feel like a guy sitting around a table trading poker chips as I build a card gathering engine. The saving grace for the theme of this game is the art and execution. The art is nice, adding a bit of environment to the game while the substantial poker chips do add a bit of tactile feeling to the game

**Roll Player** \- got this one for my husband and surprised him with it Wednesday night, so we had a game to play at the hotel

I like to think of it as “Splendor Plus,” with the “plus” being a nice spatial puzzle thing.

Cooperative deckbuilding is my new favorite genre, so I was thrilled to find this gem, the best-designed one I've found yet. It even has some unique game mechanics that set it above other games, such as a random-ish turn order that scales with number of players (the villain has 2 out of every 6 turns, but the turn order cards determine when!). Plus, the Dominion-style card market (stacks of cards randomly selected at the start of game) is my favorite deckbuilding style, so it's great to see it in a co-op game.

The experience is still shared. When we play multiplayer solitaire games like roll and writes, Orleans etc. we still *talk* and laugh and comment on each other's game and enjoy each other's company. I can't tell if you're exaggerating to be funny or not but if you completely ignore what the other person is going for you will probably lose

I play with one other person very often and this is the best co-op game I have played yet. It requires serious teamwork and is also complex enough where one player cannot rule over the entire game. In other co-op games I've played, there's generally an optimal strategy that all the players must start following, so it's ends up less of each player contributing and more "this is the optimal strategy, do it". This is not the case in Aeon's End

. last ups and the final score is tallied. There are certain nobles laid out that look for certain card combinations

I researched this one and thought that it looked the most fun - and that creature on the cover looks bomb and like something I needed to vanquish! It takes a lot of prep. I thought I could sit down and dive right in, but the rulebook was lengthy and complicated. Having played a deck building game before I wasn't expecting it to be as complicated but once I got into I loved it! It reminded me a lot of playing D&D but with more guidance and rules. You can pick from 8 different characters which is cool bringing a lot of variety

Needless to say, every single corner of the box was damaged, the plastic broken through and the box messed up. Hard to say its bad enough to go through the trouble of returning it and trying to get a new copy, but how stupid is that to send something like that with just a shipping label stuck on the front. You are asking to have the box damaged.

This is hands down my favorite gateway and I can't see myself removing this from my collection.

Sadly, that does not describe my family. Over time, Splendor's depth of strategy turned out to be its Achilles' heel. My family grew tired of losing to me, and preferred other games with a better chance of them winning. Make no mistake, this game is not nearly as "random" or "casual" as it appears, and if you do master the strategies, you'll consistently dominate those who haven't

What prompted this thread was our recent experience with Aeon's End War Eternal. We've had a very complicated relation with this game. We played the introductory scenario a couple of years back, disliked how easy it was, and we haven't played the game for a while. We got back to it a couple of months later, enjoyed the first proper game a lot more, but afterwards we forgot again about it