'Jaynestown'
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
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OK, taking initiative here. Created a Buffistas group in Steam, It's not public, to help keep riff raff out. Add me as a friend, and I'll invite to the group. My profile has a pic of me in a tux trying to be James Bond.
I'm new to Steam, so be patient as I figure stuff out.
Dang. That steam app heats up my macbook air something fierce.
Dang. That steam app heats up my macbook air something fierce.
That's what you get for using Steam-powered gaming platforms.
Sooo... how would this Tabletop Simulator thing work? What can you play on it?
Looks like it comes with a handful of classic board games. Also, a model to build a RPG game. And I think you can purchase modules, or build your own.
So to take a purely hypothetical example, we couldn't play Race for the Galaxy thereon?
I believe so. You can set up cards, so that you can not see the other players hand. So the hard part (possible copyright infringement part) would be importing the card decks into the virtual table top program.
(theoretically. All I've done is download the program. #notanexpert)
omnis I sent you a friend invite on Steam from Lagarat.
edit: actually I think you will see me as Webslinger. That's me and D's account. Could you guess?
Accepted! Sent you an invite to the buffista group in Steam.
What can you play on it?
BT, back on the laptop, here are the games that you can play as a single person with base purchase of the Tabletop Simulator:
Jigsaw, backgammon, cards, cardbots, checkers, chess, chinese checkers, custom, dice, dominoes, go, mahjong, pachisi, piece pack, poker, reversi, RPG, sandbox, solitaire, tools.
I would guess, all of those you could play with someone else.
It looks like there are 3 down loadable content (DLC) to buy, currently available for Tabletop.
Cosmic Encounter Connector
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Superfight
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Darkest Knight
[link]
Each are under $10 (US). If I understand the descriptions, only the host has to own the DLC.
ETA
Also Mistfall
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Someone has created a RFTG mod. Whoever decides to 'host' subscribes to the creator's RFTG to download the game (for free), and everyone else simply joins the hosts's room and starts playing. (full disclosure- the publishers of RFTG would receive no money from this)