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…
We played Soul Raiders again last night. If you're interested, I strongly advise you to look at my write-up of our previous game. That essay has a much better presentation of the game than what I have here. This is the first time we've played the game in which we could not complete the chapter in a…
Yesterday A, J, M, and I (as in "I" myself as opposed to an anonymizing initial) got together for an afternoon of gaming. It proved to be complicated for an unexpected reason: there was a firefighters' parade in the streets near A&M's home. It took me about an hour to find a route to get to their…
Due to various life circumstances, last night was the first time in weeks that I could sit down with A, J, and M to play board games. We played three games. The first two were both Railroad Tiles. We don't often play the same game twice in a single night. Railroad Tiles was a short and fun…