THE GOTHIC GAME emerges from the Crypt

NECROTHREAD!!!!!!!

This bad girl landed on my doorstep yesterday. This will be perfect for Hallowe'en and TrashFest NW 2016!

Jealous. I'd love to have this but I couldn't bring myself to pay too much for it. More games need A Butt of Malmsey card though. And there's not a lot of games where you can get approval from Satan(!).

I paid 10% of BGG's market listing. No way I would pay that listing price.

The last time I paid a "market"listing price for a game was for Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit at $100.

Holy crap, I had no idea Gothic Game was going for that much. Insane. You got a good deal, Doc.

Now that's what I call a necro thread!

Where did you even find one to buy? This game is STUPID rare...it was hard to get during the 20 minutes or so that it was in print, now it's practically non-existent...unless you want to pay the big bucks...I'd actually go $150 on it as a max, which would make it the most I'd be willing to pay for any game. It is truly one of a kind.

It's a shame that the reprint effort that I was involved in about 10 years ago never got out of early talks...we had the designer on board, he was interested and I did some work on new cards for every room... The goal was for it to be 100% playable as it was originally published along with the new, revised edition. So not a whole lot was going to change, if anything I just wanted to make the game more brutal, unfair and hilarious.

But it just didn't take off- our backed lost interest and away it went.

The original designer still lives and, with some courtesy and some taste, he may be willing to ship out one of his last few copies. That's how I got mine.

wadenels wrote: The original designer still lives and, with some courtesy and some taste, he may be willing to ship out one of his last few copies. That's how I got mine.

Yep, that's exactly what I did.

Aaaaaand SOLD to one Mr. Barnes Esq. for $150!*





* Joking of course, it's staying on my forever shelf.

Michael Barnes wrote: Now that's what I call a necro thread!

Where did you even find one to buy? This game is STUPID rare...it was hard to get during the 20 minutes or so that it was in print, now it's practically non-existent...unless you want to pay the big bucks...I'd actually go $150 on it as a max, which would make it the most I'd be willing to pay for any game. It is truly one of a kind.

It's a shame that the reprint effort that I was involved in about 10 years ago never got out of early talks...we had the designer on board, he was interested and I did some work on new cards for every room... The goal was for it to be 100% playable as it was originally published along with the new, revised edition. So not a whole lot was going to change, if anything I just wanted to make the game more brutal, unfair and hilarious.

But it just didn't take off- our backed lost interest and away it went.

Kickstarter?

I really like The Gothic Game, but $150 is too much to pay. It has the simplicity of the classic family boardgames combined with dark humor and a unique appearance. However, it can go on a bit long for a game with player elimination.

Shellhead wrote: I really like The Gothic Game, but $150 is too much to pay. It has the simplicity of the classic family boardgames combined with dark humor and a unique appearance. However, it can go on a bit long for a game with player elimination.

What is the running time? On BGG for some odd reason I thought it said 20 minutes but on second view it doesn't say.

It can go pretty long...with a full table, it can hit 90 minutes, easily...especially if you are playing properly and goofing off the entire time. One of the things I wanted to do with it was to put some kind of a timer on it.

Here's a protip Doc. Make sure you play with the dice cup rule. Players MUST roll (or "throw") the die with the cup. If they do not, they immediately die and are eliminated from the game. I'm serious. This results in LOTS of hilariousness as people try to get each other to throw without it. Like handing over the die but not the cup. It adds a touch of nastiness to it that is lots of fun.

Michael Barnes wrote: It can go pretty long...with a full table, it can hit 90 minutes, easily...especially if you are playing properly and goofing off the entire time. One of the things I wanted to do with it was to put some kind of a timer on it.

Here's a protip Doc. Make sure you play with the dice cup rule. Players MUST roll (or "throw") the die with the cup. If they do not, they immediately die and are eliminated from the game. I'm serious. This results in LOTS of hilariousness as people try to get each other to throw without it. Like handing over the die but not the cup. It adds a touch of nastiness to it that is lots of fun.

How much time would you have aimed for? I like the cup rule. In the pirate game called Trade Winds, you have a tiny ship that you can load up with treasures but if at any point any treasure drops out of it, it's gone. Much laughter has been had with people losing a shit ton of loot due to clumsiness combined with greed.

So...My copy just arrived the other day, just in time for Halloween which is great since it doesn't seem like Ghostbusters is going to make it by then. Thanks for the inspiration!

Seriously, the Fort must have just about cornered the market on copies of this game.