Last night, I played Gnome Hollow with A, J, and M. I enjoyed Gnome Hollow. However, it's not without its issues. I already mentioned the need for table space, not unlike Leaf. The game is subject to quite a bit of "analysis paralysis"; the box cover says "45 minutes" and we took three hours. That's an expansion…
M and A had received a special edition of the classic board game Puerto Rico. We looked at this edition, with beautiful new artwork, board design, minis with separate sculpts based on player count, and so on. However, J pointed out that none of us really knew the rules. The suggested time on the side of the…
Last night was the first time that M, A, J, and I were able to play as a group since just before Thanksgiving. It was good to get back into the groove again. Speaking of "back into the groove": Last night was also one of failed references on my part. Would you believe that the others are…
Last night (to be accurate, yesterday afternoon), A, M, and I played the second half of Chapter 2 of Soul Raiders. In that earlier post, I predicted that we were going to lose the game. Unfortunately, that prediction proved accurate. We came close to final victory. However, my character got badly sidetracked in the last third of…
Last night was the first time in a while that A, J, M, and I were all able to play a game together. J brought the Royal Collector's Edition of Castles of Mad King Ludwing. A, J, and I had played this before, though it had been years ago; it was M's first time. It was a…
Last night M had other plans and couldn't join the game session. It was just A, J, and I. Be certain that you're all friends before you start playing Perch, or you might not be friends at the end. As I said, it's quite the aggressive game. It was another pleasant evening of gaming!
This post is a follow-up on my earlier blog post on my collection of old amateur magazines (APAs). Thanks to the efforts of a librarian friend of mine, the APAs have been scanned. I've set up a separate page on this site with links to those scans. I won't claim the collection is complete (it's not) nor…
When I heard we'd be playing a game called Three Sisters, a line immediately flashed into my head: Ta ra ra boom de yay, sit on a stone I may. This has nothing to do with the board game Three Sisters. It's a line from Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters, Act 4, though translations from the Russian…
I join A, M, and J on most Friday nights for a game night, so my "last night" recap is normally typed on Saturday. I'm typing this on a Sunday. Am I a liar? Well, maybe. But not this time. We continued to play Emberleaf until 1AM, technically into Saturday. From a certain perspective, that game still…
J couldn't make it last night, so we invited a different gamer whom we all knew. He and A shared the same first initial ("A", in case you hadn't guessed). So I'll refer to the original A as A0 and the other as A1. The game we played was Micro Moonshine. The players are running illegal liquor…