PAX Unplugged 2019

Conventions
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I dunno. I saw a lot of people walking around with Klask boxes.

Also, everyone was talking about that Blockbuster game, but someone explained the rules to me, and it sounded like a massively overcomplicated Trivia game.

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Klask isnā€™t new. Itā€™s been around for many years, and I have video of Scott and I playing it at a West a while ago. Itā€™s fun. Itā€™s way better than you might expect. It has good rules and clever mechanics.

But itā€™s an old game. Also, it was for sale at PAX. There were effectively zero copies of Nokosudice for sale. Thatā€™s how new it is.

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I feel like Oink games made serious money with their distinctive booth and the fact that SUSD had just had a video about them within the last month or so. They also go name dropped at like 3 panels I went to. I personally picked up 2 Oink games. Canā€™t wait to see your review.

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We got a lot of mileage out of A Fake Artist Goes to New York this Unplugged, and Deep Sea Adventure is a classic. I bought both for gifting and also a submarine pin.

Iā€™ll pick up Nokosu Dice as soon as I see it. Per BGG, it looks like it was originally published in 2016, but thereā€™s a (first?) US release as of Unplugged.

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Meanwhile in my strange bubble I have played Pax Transhumanity 5 times since Friday and it has only gotten better. Many people in my board game Slack groups and twitter, too. After Pax Transhumanity and Pax Renaissance, Matt Eklund is a designer Iā€™m following closely.

Looks like Engames (the new Japanese publisher) is a board game cafe in Japan. I wouldnā€™t expect any kind of distribution in North America outside of (maybe) a small number of games in the BGG store at some point.

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If we canā€™t get our hands on official Nokosu Dice, at least it is a very easy game to make. Just get some cards and hit up the Chessex booth, and youā€™re all good.

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I gotta say, it was fun playing Magic with you all, and kinda surreal watching Scott play. Especially being so 1993 minded that he puts his lands in front of his creatures.

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How was I to know that people donā€™t put land in front of creatures anymore? Also, second place, canā€™t complain.

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Not complaining in any way, just observing.