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2024
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Description
A strange Dowager lives outside of Derby in a sprawling manor distastefully done up like a Scottish castle. More distasteful yet is that her estate is simply crawling with odd characters, refugees from around Europe and eccentric, if pedigreed, characters from closer to home. Respectable people shun the great lady for her appalling taste in acquaintances, but one must confess that her rabble is spectacularly interesting...
The Characters expansion for Obsession brings thematic new personalities to Derbyshire who provide unique actions for managing your country estate: Constable Bucket, a fair hand at running off all manner of unsavoury guests; a Mr. Higbee who can find domestic help in a pinch (“References? I am sure they are here somewhere…”); the wise Reverend Grantly, a dispenser of sage advice; and an Eccentric Dowager Marchioness, who will connect you with a Prussian major, Swedish noble, and a Russian count as quick as a wink.
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- It was fantastic. It was just there was so much stuff going on that was really enjoyable.
- Well, I think there's that one Warhammer guy that syn There's some synthesizer show synthesizer synthesizer shows that I watch that have been around for a long time.
- We must slay them.
- Thanks for nothing, Danny Nunan.
- It's like, Oh, honey, I'm so sorry.
- This is the longest running weekly live stream thing held on YouTube 10 years or so in a row.
- Americans don't even like America.
- It's not like we're keeping track here yeah, who's keeping score
- Oh, really? Runner up code names.
- You don't make a podcast.
- I mean, the definition I don't even know what you're saying.
- You're just making up words.
- So defeist.
- Yeah, that gumballs.com. They suck.
- This is not a good website.
- The two eyes are swords.
- It's like, how does anybody know this guy exists?
- I'm always impressed when things like that exist.
- Oh, yeah. I guess you can. Yes, you can. But that's not the same because podcast is a different
- It's like, oh, you know, use use use non like you have didn't make this game colorblind uh friendly.
- Be excellent to one another as Bill and Ted would say.
- The fact that the dice rolls were so unlucky against me.
- I love the game, but it's when those dice rolls don't go your way.
- It's like, Oh, you know, should he fight the wolves or should he run away?
- This is the most evil, most powerful terrorist organization in the world that never wins.
- It's like, 'No, nobody's died. This is realistic.'
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Pros
- Adds cooperative play against a challenging AI
- Distinguished family members enhance early game engine building
- Expanded passing phase with character board offers more strategic options
- Adds depth and replayability with new characters and mechanics
Cons
- Can be very challenging, especially initially
- Managing the AI opponent requires careful strategy
- Competitive play might still be preferred by some for its focus on individual strategy
Thematic elements
- Managing social events, reputation, and objectives in high society
- Victorian era England, elite social circles
- Players embody families striving to gain social standing and fulfill objectives.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- AI Opponent — The Sneeed family acts as an AI opponent, with its own turn order and actions.
- cooperative play — Players work together against an AI opponent (the Sneeds).
- marketplace drafting — Players acquire tiles and cards from a central market.
- Objective Cards — Players have personal objectives to achieve for victory points.
- Passing phase — An expanded phase where players can choose from multiple benefits, including activating characters.
- Player Turn Order — Players and the AI take turns in a set order each round.
- reputation track — Players manage their social standing through a reputation track, influencing game actions and scoring.
- Resource Management — Players manage money, servants, and family members to perform actions.
- Set Collection — Acquiring specific tiles or cards can fulfill objectives or provide bonuses.
- special abilities — Distinguished family members and character cards grant unique player abilities.
- Worker Placement — Assigning family members or servants to specific locations to take actions.
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Quotes (from this video)
- The Sneeed family is very formidable, I will say.
- Distinguished family members, my favorite aspect, my favorite element of the upgrade is that.
- It's really nice that everything comes in these little boxes inside of boxes so that it kind of fits in uh Tetris style inside of your big game box.
- The cooperative play sounds really fun to you, that you like obsession, but you also might find the competitive too competitive, too cutthroat, um, play against the sneeze because now there's this common enemy and I think that that is really, really cool.
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