As for all successful products, there is also the comic series "Not Funny" by Joscha Sauer, a game. It thus joins the ranks of "Dork Tower" and "Order of the Stick", but without specifying a corresponding topic.
It's all about the 25 target cards and seven cubes in four different colors. The seventh cubes in pink holds a special position. The cards are divided into five dinosaurs, lemmings, yetis, Mr. actuator's and professors. All can be attained through certain cube results and bring at the end points. The players roll three times and try to reach certain dice combinations, you then permit the inclusion of one or more target cards.
For one of the cards "Mr. Riebmann", "Lemming" or "Yeti" you need a Pasch in a particular color. For professors cards you need three identical dice results in three colors; The dinosaur gets the one who achieved very high cube results. Each of these cards at the end of the game promises points.
So far so simple, but it is then not so easy as it seems. For sure you are a non-points until the end. On the one hand cards that you have in front of them and have not yet been turned over to erwürfelt from other players. They can also be brought from death or its poodle. In order to better illustrate this, there are six cards death, Mark deceased creatures. For all this, the pink cube is responsible. In the event that a map has been reached, the corresponding death is determined by the roll of the dice determines (Here you can also obtain the map of a teammate), then a separate card (preferred lemmings) covers. Just dinosaurs are against death immune (since they are already extinct). Does the player get at least one target card of pink dice indicates the cards are turned over. Only upturned cards can no longer be won by other players, but they are still vulnerable to death.
To yet bring in more tactical possibilities, there are still six special cards. Each cube has its own symbol instead of six. These cards can as the time machine be negative or positive for the player who gets them, such as the UFO. And these cards are constantly changing hands.
Another innovation are the different values of the target cards. Lemmings are worth a lot, but they are most likely erased by death. Yetis only bring a lot of points if you have more than one, and for the professors may be cubes, how many points they achieve.
Of particular interest in a game that is based on a comic book or other literature, is always the graphical and ideological background. In "Not Funny" all the cards are provided with different cartoons, of course reflecting the famous hero. Since there are only 37 cards, it would have been a nice gimmick reflect new cartoons. Unfortunately, there is only the already known comic strips, which fans also get their money.
Especially towards the end of the game it can be very easily happen that individual cards can not be awarded, and the game is unnecessarily protracted. Also at this point you could hone perhaps, while nice is the idea of having the different points values when various conditions are met, but also that would have started "Michael Rieneck" can have a more stress.
In the end, you would have something to get more out of the funny comics, as this rather monotonous dice game. Fans of the series will certainly also have as their fun reunion with old friends, and people who do not yet know Joscha Sauer will certainly get a taste.
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