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SeabassDebeste 02/24/18 9:10:12 AM #329:	58. San Juan https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8217/san-juan Genre/mechanics: Role selection, tableau-building, card game Rules complexity: 6/10 Game length: 40-60 minutes Player count: 2-4 Experience: 2 plays with 3-4 players First played: 2016 San Juan is the predecessor game to Race for the Galaxy, from which Roll for the Galaxy is derived. It's a card game in which cards are used as the tableau and the resources you spend and the resources generated on cards. Each Round, the lead player chooses a role, which everyone gets to execute in order, though the leader gets a special discount. Once each player has chosen a different role, the Round ends. Experience - I played San Juan right around the time I came around on eurogames in general, and San Juan was part of it. It's easily grasped, it plays quickly, and it doesn't have a million little pieces and rules that are so irksome. It flew by fairly pleasantly, and the same thing happened the next time. Design - The role selection mechanic at the core of this game is rock-solid, but perhaps the defining characteristic of San Juan is how the cards function. It's both liberating and horribly constraining when you realize that you might have three or four interesting cards in your hand, and that you can only play one. And it's not just a matter of only being able to play it this turn - you'll have to discard the others as a cost. Once you've gotten that down, it's just a matter of drawing cards and building/spending them. The strategy is there in role selection and trying to optimize your engine in drawing cards, but focusing on one resource is delightfully elegant and snappy. Replay - San Juan occupies an interesting space between a filler game and a "main course" heavyweight game. It doesn't feel like an every month game, but it does feel like a more-than-once-a-year game. I played this last month, so maybe in a few months I'd be up for it as an opener in a marathon of games. Bonus question - What is your favorite role selection game? If you've never played any, then what is your favorite way to choose actions in a game? Hint for #57 - I would certainly not be scared to stay at an establishment with such a name --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:896676929] in eighty tab... [t:76312453]...</cite> <quote>58. San Juan https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8217/san-juan Genre/mechanics: Role selection, tableau-building, card game Rules complexity: 6/10 Game length: 40-60 minutes Player count: 2-4 Experience: 2 plays with 3-4 players First played: 2016 San Juan is the predecessor game to Race for the Galaxy, from which Roll for the Galaxy is derived. It's a card game in which cards are used as the tableau and the resources you spend and the resources generated on cards. Each Round, the lead player chooses a role, which everyone gets to execute in order, though the leader gets a special discount. Once each player has chosen a different role, the Round ends. Experience - I played San Juan right around the time I came around on eurogames in general, and San Juan was part of it. It's easily grasped, it plays quickly, and it doesn't have a million little pieces and rules that are so irksome. It flew by fairly pleasantly, and the same thing happened the next time. Design - The role selection mechanic at the core of this game is rock-solid, but perhaps the defining characteristic of San Juan is how the cards function. It's both liberating and horribly constraining when you realize that you might have three or four interesting cards in your hand, and that you can only play one. And it's not just a matter of only being able to play it this turn - you'll have to discard the others as a cost. Once you've gotten that down, it's just a matter of drawing cards and building/spending them. The strategy is there in role selection and trying to optimize your engine in drawing cards, but focusing on one resource is delightfully elegant and snappy. Replay - San Juan occupies an interesting space between a filler game and a "main course" heavyweight game. It doesn't feel like an every month game, but it does feel like a more-than-once-a-year game. I played this last month, so maybe in a few months I'd be up for it as an opener in a marathon of games. Bonus question - What is your favorite role selection game? If you've never played any, then what is your favorite way to choose actions in a game? Hint for #57 - I would certainly not be scared to stay at an establishment with such a name --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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