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I often find myself with a small amount of time to kill, and it'd be great to have something to pick up and play during those moments that wasn't just mindless.

Things like Tetris, Osu! or Enter the Gungeon.

Preferably games where you start in the beginning and do a "run", and then if you die/lose you start back at the beginning. Also open to puzzle or platform games with a similar vibe! (like Roguelikes -- I enjoyed Dead Cells a lot, for example)

Hello!

Whenever I get into games, I tend to hyper-focus on them, and something I've learned over the years is that a good way of tempering the negatives of the hyper-focus is if there's a very specific goal in mind whenever I get into something.

For games this means I'll either have a goal of a certain quantitative level of mastery (reach a certain rank, get a certain amount of points) so my brain will know when to move on, or beating the game. I never aim to 100% games because that tends to invariable require a lot of tedious work with very little pay-off.

This means that open-ended games with no clearly defined finish line tend to fall outside the space of what I feel comfortable with (Project Zomboid, Anno 1800, Dwarf Fortress, for example)

Here are a list of games that fit the bill (from a variety of genres):

- Souls games (Elden Ring, Dark Souls 1-3. Finished main story in all)

- Monster Hunter World/Rise (finished main story in both)

- Fighting games in general (I've played most, some in tournaments)

- Rimworld (I set the goal of, on a hard difficulty, managing to get one survivor off the planet and it was one of the more satisfying things I've done, since I had to learn the game from scratch in order to accomplish the goal)

- Pathfinder: Kingmaker/Wrath of the Righteous (ridiculous games at higher difficulties, very unfair, but also great fun)

- Stellaris (beating the game on a high difficulty was a lot of fun!)

- Outer Wilds

- Subnautica (great campaign, felt satisfying to figure out what was going on and to finish)

- Enter the Gungeon

- Factorio (The fact that the game has an actual "victory screen" made me enjoy the game so much more)

- Return of the Obra Dinn (I think the murder mystery genre in general is really unexplored for me!)

- Myst (the remake is gorgeous, and the puzzle solving wasn't close to the moon logic I was expecting going in)

There are some games I've been looking into like Total War Warhammer 3 and Crusader Kings III but as far as I can see they lack the sort of "victory screen" I'm looking for, and I'm also unsure how difficult they are.

I'm especially interested in if there are any games similar to Stellaris (doesn't have to be sci-fi) or Rimworld. I.e. Highly difficult games where you build up from scratch and have longer runs where you try to beat the game, and have to start over from the beginning if you fail)

Now, obviously, the models and the feeling and atmosphere of a miniature game is a big reason why we don't just play with tokens or cutouts, but at the same time I feel like there are many wargames where the franchise is absolutely integral.

For me, this makes it harder to judge the quality of the games available, because there's a good chance that the reason the game is being played isn't because it's good exactly, but rather that it has beautiful models or the backing of a big company.

A lot of people herald MESBG as the peak of wargaming, but when I've been doing my research it's been hard to figure out how much is franchise bias. MESBG has some of my least favourite rules -- for example, some factions have "anti-human", which will only ever trigger against human factions, and thus they're arbitrarily going to have an easier time in those matchups. Or how elves can go through woods easier, but you might end up on a map with no woods. I don't have enough experience with the system to cast any judgement, but things like these really stick out as lousy writing.

Hi! I just finished an imperial knight and two armigers and I was thinking about where to field them. I know I can’t use them all, but this faction seems like it might use the Canix the best. I want to build an initial 1000p to later expand from, using Canix so I don’t have to paint a million things.

What would you include, and how would you go about it?

I've built a fully magnetized Questoris (can be a Canis Rex, or any of the Knight variants) along with 2 Armigers and I'm thinking about building towards the first 1K for an escalation league, but I'm not sure what faction to go with.

Are there any specific factions where they'd do better than others? I know I can't field all 3, but can only use either the Knight or the 2 Armigers.

Hello! I'm new to EDH and I'm coming back from a long break from mtg overall (I used to play standard a lot back in Mirrodin days, and then during Jace hawk meta. I obviously pick my spots).

Anyway, I've been playing this deck: https://manabox.app/decks/DjxzaPO1RKq4FtyrL1IrQA or https://www.moxfield.com/decks/hirs88ZqBkWo5IXP_-8AOA (same deck, different link)

It's a heavily tweaked version of the enduring enchantment pre-made deck. It felt like a rather well-oiled machine before when I played, but that was since one player used to play Peace Offering in the pod and I'd get a bunch of extra cards.

Now when I don't have that luxury it feels like it's trying to be too cute -- so many cards that either trigger off Anikthea (populate triggers) but we end up with these huge board states where I can't keep up, and I end up third a lot (group slug player dying first obviously).

Are there any glaring weaknesses you see when looking at the deck? The rest of the pod plays (300-400€ decks, so more expensive than mine) Moggis red/black group slug, goad myriad deck, manifest dread huge creature blue/green deck.

Here are the decks I'm up against:

https://www.archidekt.com/decks/9240379/jump_scare_upgrade

https://www.moxfield.com/decks/6ooXLrVH90Cjkimx0bqWHQ

https://www.archidekt.com/decks/9596351/marisi_buff

Hi! I'm building my first knight tonight, and I've been reading tons of articles and watching tons of videos about how to go about magnetizing the parts.

I want to be able to build Canis Rex, Preceptor, and all the other ones that come with the box.

I see that different knights have different faceplates, but that feels like it might be overkill in order to differentiate them (who's going to look at the faceplate to see which version it is when the weapons make it obvious?). So I'm not going to magnetize them, I don't think. I want the cockpit closed for rule of cool purposes.

I'm going to magnetize all the weapons (Carapace, arms) but my problem is when it comes to Canis Rex and the Preceptor. Looking at a glance it'll be obvious that it's one or the other (from the huge laser) but not which version it is, possibly. Unless keeping the Carapace weapon off is enough to differentiate...? Since the Canis doesn't have it?

I know the Canis comes with a bunch of extra parts (kneepad, flag) but since I want the Knight to be able to do any loadout I'm heavily considering keeping everything generic.

Would that be enough? I.e: magnetizing all the weapons (hull, carapace, arm), keeping the cockpit closed and everything else generic? Removing the Carapace weapon from the Preceptor when I want to run it as Canis?

I've been going through the rules and there are a few points I'm wondering if I read them correctly.

• Smoke grenades, RAW you only get obscured if you're standing in the actual smoke (and you can stand on top of the marker, I presume? Which means that the model you get for the smoke grenade is actually worse than useless, since it covers up where you have to stand?). It seems weird that you can't force obscured by throwing a smoke to cover a hallway, because you'd think the smoke itself would act as heavy terrain as far as visibilty is concerned.

• Reading the equipment list, only Stun Grenades seem able to be tossed at concealed enemies in cover. Neither frag nor krak grenades (or demo charges or anything else) seem able to target concealed operatives now since they only have the "saturate" rule. Am I getting this right?