44 minutes ago, totgeboren said:

Me and my gf must really suck at this game. We most often play just the two of us (though a few four and five player games too), but we win like.... half? A third?

The game has a ton of mental traps that are there to drain your time and actions over quite a sever clock; I never played 2p (we usually play 4 investigators), but I can imagine how these traps could have a stronger impact on low player counts, and how the game could become considerably harder with just few investigators in.

On 18/12/2017 at 1:29 AM, Samea said:

This is a family adventure game. I doubt that sexuality of any kind will ever be explicitly mentioned.

Forgot to answer this point. I agree that an explicit mention of sexuality would be out of place; I was more inclined towards something more subtle, in which you're lead to think something, but it's presented in a very natural way. FFG seems to be very receptive to this: at the moment we have a lesbian relationship hinted in a Mansions scenario, and IIRC there should be something similar also in Legacy of Dragonholt. And if I'm not mistaken, there should be an LBGTQ character in Gloomhaven (obviously this isn't FFG)? Which are all signs that the times they are a changing.

UGH!!! I started a wildfire of awesome discussion just as my logic board died and missed the whole thing

On 19-12-2017 at 12:39 AM, totgeboren said:

Me and my gf must really suck at this game. We most often play just the two of us (though a few four and five player games too), but we win like.... half? A third?

I can relate, I “suck” as well.

We normally play 4 or 5 player games and only manage to win about half the games.

On 14-12-2017 at 11:40 PM, Bibbles said:

The game is chosen by me to suit the compliment of attending adventurers. Games like Fury of Dracula (5 players one female) make them sit in mint condition on my shelf, while I weap gothic undead blood tears in all the shadowy places of my crypt rather than fangs beard chasing my friends around Europe. Dracula gets a pass due to story constraints but only just barely.

The characters in Fury of Dracula are based on the classic Dracula novel. I’m a bit surprised someone would not play this great game because of this.

We live in a time of lots and lots of great games. I doubt that something like the attractiveness of the main cast would keep people from playing the game at all. But with limited time to play, you have to choose. And, at least for me, when picking from a choice of great games, theme, artwork, components and characters can matter a lot.

Right from where I'm sitting right now, I see a lot of games on my shelves that I really enjoyed, that I would love to play right now and that I haven't touched in years. Because, come game night, other games are always just that bit more appealing…

20 hours ago, cheapmate said:

The characters in Fury of Dracula are based on the classic Dracula novel. I’m a bit surprised someone would not play this great game because of this.

Indeed, fully agreed here. It's not a game about vampire hunting in the victorian age, it's a game featuring Stoker's classic's characters, and for this reasons they couldn't be different.

It'd be like playing a wargame set in the ancient times and being pissed by the lack of female warriors in the Roman times. Don't get me wrong, I'm all in for equal opportunities and equal representation of races, cultures, sexual orientations, and everything in game, but it must make sense.

ot: One stale representation of the roman army is depicting it as all-roman, and just etruscan romans at that. Or, in the case of movies, brits posing as north italians but with a prole brit accent. Provincial divisions must've had a lot of locals.

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I can relate, I “suck” as well.

The key to making the game a bit easier is developing a sense for what board and card objects are "lures" and what will actually be useful for completing the task in time.

Being relatively new to Mansions of Madness, I have really enjoyed reading through this thread and all your thoughts. A day will come when we won't even think of these things, they'll be trivialities of the past, but for the present it is good to see variety in Mansions of Madness.

I really worried about my wife playing a horror game especially when she doesn't really like other thematic exploration games (Imperial Assault/D&D adventure games). However MoM has become one of her absolute favorites. This is the game we will plan our weekend around it. She has even branched out to play eldritch horror some. She doesn't like it nearly as much but being in the same universe and having some of the same concepts I think betters the experience for her.