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Oddly enough, several of you have been hired to build the city of OddVille, home to four powerful worker guilds.
Cleverly place your buildings in order to obtain greater power and fame, while thwarting your opponents' plans. Manage your workers to obtain the resources, coins, and building projects you need in order to make your mark on the city. Plan the city streets to get access to resources or coins from nearby buildings, even if not yours.
Impress the right guild, and you will get a visit from a guild member, who will gladly help you out while enjoying your hospitality. The guild comes first, though: At a moment's notice, every guild member will return to the guild hall, regardless of how much that inconveniences you. Of course, the person who "inspired" the guild meeting may be chuckling gleefully at the "unfortunate" timing of your guest's departure.
OddVille is a card-based city-building game in which all actions are carried out by playing one of your four Worker cards. Each Worker card has a different power and can be used in different ways: to get a project, to obtain resources, or to collect coins. During your turn, you can either play a card or add a building to the city. Connect it to adjacent buildings with roads and you will gain their bonus.
The city grows with each player's contribution, ever changing the values of players' buildings. As soon as a player builds his sixth building, the game ends and the player with the most points wins.
- Game of the convention
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- And everything from the gang was played on up to High Frontier.
- Orville was probably the game of the convention. I would argue.
- Yeah, I think they were playing the full Monty, but they only played one um whatever you call the how it delineates the the chapters, if you will.
- You know, a game's long when people are saying, 'Yeah, I love High Frontier, but the game's just too long for me.'
- The joy I get from running the convention isn't, 'Oh, what games did you play?' Cuz let's face it, as the convention runner, I don't get to play a lot of games during Heavy Con.
- And without those discussions, um Ryan Courtney the designer never happens.
- Whoa. Okay.
- If you weren't running a board gaming channel on YouTube, how often would you play epic games like High Frontier 1822, Mega Civ, etc.?
- It's not a space issue. It's a when I cut things off, I cut things off.
- My answer is going to be a lot different than probably most.
- And so, yeah, usually Saturday morning, that moment is is pretty cool.
- It is the most stressful thing I do every year, but as long as people keep enjoying it, I will keep putting on the convention.
- Um, like dude, settle on a design and develop it.
- It's it's it's not worth talking about at this point.
- There's there's a pacing there's to the to the to the story of the hand.
- Bro, you know exactly what you did. Just just don't do that. That's all I said.
- You have an absolute maniac.
- Bro, what are we even doing here?
- If you're not betting your hands with these hands, you're why are you playing poker? Because you can't win money this way.
- Staggering negligent play on his part.