I think this is spot on and I overall dislike the game. One thing that I am a li’l bit interested in is the hitpoints system which seems like a good mix of Fate stressboxes with D&D damage.

The amount of incoming damage can go to certain thresholds and that has different consequences (both symbol-layer mechanical and diegetic). I think that’s neat and I’m glad to see that experiment carried further.

How much gold is in that hoard?

Wow, I had missed that. That’s not good. I mean, CR gets criticized for their “shopping episodes” (even though my own group is even more extreme in that regard) so maybe that’s to address that? Diaspora, for example, just has a “recourses” roll instead of detailed accounting of space credits, and it seems to work well in the context of that game.

How far does that bandit run?

I don’t think that’s a fair characterization; range bands is trued and tested tech. Cartesian spatialization is overkill for most game groups.

@Aielman15@lemmy.world @Shyfer@ttrpg.network

@thorbot

The wrong thing was that “It doesn’t matter what the US does” when the US is exceptionally culpable on the demand side, the drill side, and the policy side.

@thorbot@lemmy.world

And looking at per capita, consumtion based, the US is ten times as bad as China. US: 20 tons per person. China: 2 tons. I think the world average is 4t.

China still needs to cut down because 2 tons is a lot more than what is OK but holy shit saying

But the problem is, even if all of the US came together and stopped 100% of our emissions, China would still continue to pump out 90% of the world emissions

is the wrongest thing I’ve ever heard. There are very few countries on this planet who arr doing worse than the US:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/consumption-co2-per-capita

@snota@sh.itjust.works @boardgames@feddit.de

Oh, that is wonderful!

Yeah, I’ve been reading Nick Bentley, he’s like been wary of even simple abstracts, let alone a full euro. I’m still gonna cut down overall (not buying new hardware is better than buying harm-reduced hardware) but I’m glad they’re trying to harm-reduce! 👍🏻
Makes me more interested in the game.

@boardgames

I guess I see pandemics as still an unsolved and dangerous issue, although of course not as bad and important as climate change is, so I still have a hard time seeing the difference.

I didn’t mean to rain on your parade and I hope you end up enjoying the game.👍🏻

For me, buying new board games is something that’s riddled with climate guilt. It’s one of my own biggest footprint leaks. And this theme, I feel, would remind me everytime I’m playing the game about that. Which I guess is a good thing.

I already have nine co-op games so I’m set for a while*. If peeps in my part of the world need to fill up seats for Daybreak I’d be willing to give it a spin on someone else’s copy. 🫡
Leacock has made some great games.

*: Actually I kind of needed this thread because I’ve been eyeing Unfathomable today but I guess I don’t need a tenth coop game right now. This is the irony of Daybreak’s theme—it’s meant to inspire the fight against climate change and as such it reminds me to not buy games much more than a plastic pile like Unfathomable can.

@boardgames

Climate change has the same “going through it in real life” trait as Pandemic has.

@boardgames

It’s awesome!

Now that the concept has caught on so widely, I’ve often wished @pluralistic@mamot.fr had gone with a less scatological term. But maybe that is part of the reason it caught on 🤷🏻‍♀️

@technology@lemmy.world

That’s rich when the Google Play store is full of malware while F-Droid is full of gems.

@technology

best: play games with them

Yes! I was just about to say the same thing.

It’s something most boardgamers really want, it’s something that they can’t buy, and it’s lower impact on the planet than buying a bunch of plastic and cardboard.

There is this game CO2 where everyone is kind of the villain sorta but you’re also supposed to be cooperating. It doesn’t work very well, your idea sounds better.

But the theme is still a li’l weird to me.

@boardgames@feddit.de

I know, right? And I’ve had that group since 2014 and our most recent campaign was 254 sessions and if even players accustomed to that kind of brutality wasn’t into the “weeklong healing” rule, that’s saying something about how beyond brutal that rule is!

@smeg @dndnext

Wouldn’t be the first Diablo TTRPG.

@rpg@ttrpg.network

Despite this unbridled optimistic view, it’s hard to deny that much of this game could be described as fantasy. The clarity of structures found in the format of a board game in no way parallels the deeply troubled complexity of our world. In fact, Daybreak makes it clear that to accomplish such an arduous task requires the absence of hurdles such as opposing financial incentives and human egoism.

Yeah 💔

For me these games are kinda upsetting almost, for how frivolous they come across. The “build back civilization easily after the collapse” ones are even worse, though.

I was on a seminar with some scientists who had created and played many sessions of a very realistic sim game of how Switzerland could meet its climate goals. And no group had ever managed to win it. People were unwilling to give up cars and meat and cheese, was one problem. (That’s also why I don’t fully buy the “it’s only the corporation’s fault” line of reasoning.)

@boardgames@feddit.de

I love Carcassonne and play it often but I don’t like putting a bunch of expansions in. I have three versions: South Seas, The Castle (a.k.a. Zamek), and Mists over Carcassonne, I play them separately and that way I think they end neatly and satisfyingly. My last game of Zamek with @smorkin came down to the last tile drawn!

@iAmTheTot @boardgames

It usually happens because a character died and that player started over with a new level-one character.

@smeg @dndnext

If D&D had only been a series of fights, it would’ve been the same thing, but the revolt happened when one char was doing fun fun village stuff and exploring and social interaction while the other char was healing up from bloody wounds in an inn bed for a week. I think they were only like three or four levels apart.

Now we use https://idiomdrottning.org/oh-injury instead for our HP realism purps. (Basically HP is fatigue/hope/destiny.)

@smeg @dndnext

I’ve tried it! The players revolted because I was running mixed-level parties and this system exacerbated the issues inherent in that (low-level chars need to rest more often than high-level chars in the same environment).

@smeg @dndnext

I forgot to add the best part which was the Ra game itself.

@reverse bought out early and had no sun discs left. Our other friend had only one, and it was the lowest remaining disc, a three. I had the highest three remaining discs.

But Ms. Disc Three refused to invoke, just pulled tile after tile, and finally we had a full action table. It’s pretty good, but Ra’s boat is on the middle of the field. I figure I can get three times as much as her if let her have it, so I do.

I have the run of the board.

And immediately pull three Ra in a row and die. I ended up dead last, and @reverse actually won the game. I got played 🤦🏻‍♀️ I love Ra!

@dpunked

I played Ra, Blood on the Clocktower (not sure that counts as a “game” but we had fun👍🏻), and some more Sail. Sail is so great. Ra is good too but as we were packing up the game some anti-boardgame people came up, being jerks to us.

And also I played some Magic which I am so sick of.