/r/lfg

(Although, two hours is pretty short notice. Still, you might get lucky).

The best way I've found is through Discord. I didn't have an account until I got TTS. You can join servers for just about every game you want to play. There are plenty with "looking for game" threads. You can usually get games set up pretty quickly. Here are a couple of links:

TI4:

https://discord.gg/TVuZJr

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TTS:

https://discord.gg/

Best off finding the discord because the multiplayer community is small.

The community is pretty friendly but very small, so it's hard to find players close to your skill level and the in-game matchmaking isn't very effective. Your best bet is to start posting on the Discord server for the game and be patient. There's usually a few new players trickling in and if you hang around you will find people to play with.

if you have two computers on the same home network with different accounts, they can both join the same server for multiplayer. We have done it before with multipul laptops once at a game meet when we decided to try playing Mage Knight all together on TTS but sitting at the table together

There is a hotseat mode.

There is an explicit rule on table talk in the rules: players are not allowed to show their hands to other players and are not allowed to directly talk about what cards they have in their hands. The main purpose of this rule, I assume, is to not end up in a situation where one player takes charge and just makes all the decisions on what everyone plays and does. It's okay to be pretty lax on this rule as long as everyone is actually playing and cooperating.

There is also the peril keyword in the saga: when a card with peril is revealed from the encounter deck by a player, that player has to deal with the effect of that card alone. Other players can't play cards and can't even talk to the player about what they should do. I think this is a fun mechanic and I encourage playing it as written.

When I play with others we aren't strict about showing hands or talking about cards. There may be players that aren't much into the game so making them play with their open hands helps all at the table suggesting what to play. Usually we don't show hands but we do say like "I have a Feint; would you like me to use it on that enemy?". So to discuss and think together about strategies and plays

Glad you’re loving the game too; I got into it earlier this year as well!

I’m pretty sure the rules say you can’t look at other players' cards or tell the players what to do, but you are allowed to openly discuss your cards with the other players. I think this is to prevent ‘backseat driving’, as it were, but none of the people I play with are controlling, so we discuss our cards all we like. Whenever I draw a good card, I immediately show it to the other player, and we both get so excited, lol.

Im my experience it’s a lot more fun when players are open with each other (it’ a collaborative game, after all).

As for Lobelia, she’s a fan-made hero, so… idk.

Good news is that it’s a cooperative game so it doesn’t feel as bad when you house rule stuff. I play this multiplayer a lot, but all decks are my own, and I have a few house rules to get around this:

• I have around 12 pre-made decks with different play styles etc. So they can just pick up a deck to play (as my friends don’t have the game so it would take hours for them to learn and construct a deck).

• I ignore the unique rule across different players. I.e. if I have an Aragorn and so does my friend’s deck, that’s fine. This avoids having to check for duplicates with these ready made decks.

• I play doomed player cards as optional (similar to the latest ALEP card) - I.e. either the player who played it only gets the affect (and raises their threat), or ALL players do (you decide). This avoids issues with secrecy decks being screwed over by a swarm deck playing Legacy of Numenor early on.

I appreciate the above can make the game easier, but given it’s a pick-up-and-play version of the game, and my friends are all new, I have no issue with that. We all enjoy it and it means I can introduce the game to a much wider audience.

I think one reason Lobelia's card explicitly states she can look at other players' hands is because others might want to hide their nice item attachments from her, but now they can't. It's also just a good thing to set out in a concrete way because the rules aren't super clear about it. 

Is not really bad it is just "restrictive" and "limited" since the plauer that joins you is more like a "follower" rather than another community

It can be laggy

It's not that it's bad or unfun. It's that it's not what people expect. When you join someone's game, you are there to help them out. So if they spend a lot of time fucking around with their base, you might be stuck standing around twiddling your thumbs.

I'd be interested in this offer, though am playing other games and working so my time is limited haha.

Fingers crossed that this works for all hidden hands eg Agricola 2p. Will try it soon.

After subscribing to the tool, how do you implement it into your games? I.e., I'd like to add this to a game of Codenames. What steps do I take?

Would that work for scripted games as well?

I think this is sort of funny. Since the button saves like two clicks but may give people the confidence to hotseat in multiplayer.

edit: Tried it out it actually works well, would reccomend.

Has anyone made a youtube tutorial on this tool? Was planning to run a dnd game on TTS with two computers hosting two players each, just wanted to see this mod in action. The demo screenshots/videos don't seem to show much or explain if/how well this tool would work with d20 mods. I also don't have TTS yet, but was planning on getting the 4 pack if it will function as needed.

There is a discord channel for FOW and they have a subchannel for TTS

You can only do it in games with no hidden info. It doesn't enforce any rules, so anyone can move any object. You can hotseat it but all players by that screen will see the same thing

Each person need to have a copy of TTS. I am sure the developers would be happy with it.

I haven't tested it, but have you tried Steam's remote play together feature? One of you will host, then it's essentially a four person hotseat (with the other couple playing remotely)

At some point, I'm gonna experiment using Parsec as the remote stream, mostly due to friends who don't have great PC rigs and/or are anti-Steam.

FYI Found a Workshop Tool that solves this exact use case.