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Pax Pamir is better than Pax Porfiriana in a lot of ways. It's a cleaner design, easier to learn, though winning can be even trickier to parse than the victory conditions in Pax Porfiriana. It was my GotY for 2015, and my group can't get enough of it.

Dan Thurot wrote: Pax Pamir is better than Pax Porfiriana in a lot of ways. It's a cleaner design, easier to learn, though winning can be even trickier to parse than the victory conditions in Pax Porfiriana. It was my GotY for 2015, and my group can't get enough of it.

I'd just like to say that it's about time a second saint found this place. It's been mighty lonely preaching to the heathens on my own all this time.

Sagrilarus wrote:

Dan Thurot wrote: Pax Pamir is better than Pax Porfiriana in a lot of ways. It's a cleaner design, easier to learn, though winning can be even trickier to parse than the victory conditions in Pax Porfiriana. It was my GotY for 2015, and my group can't get enough of it.

I'd just like to say that it's about time a second saint found this place. It's been mighty lonely preaching to the heathens on my own all this time.

I've only played a partial game of Pamir so far. None of us really got what we should be doing in it, so I can't really say how it compares, but I'm eager to try again. Main thing is that we were three and it looks like you really need 4-5 for it, which is a tough sell in these parts. I'd love to get in a game with someone who already knows it to help out.

Last night I read through the rules of Pax Porfiriana in the hopes of getting it played today. I now have the Collector's Edition, which I bought almost specifically for the revised rulebook (which has, as far as I recall, one or two revised rules). IT IS LIKE NIGHT AND DAY. This rulebook is SO MUCH BETTER. Clearer text, lots of illustrations and examples, rules actually in the rules and not hidden in the glossary. They really should make this downloadable, as it's a vast improvement over the previous ones.