So what got played last night? I saw Agricola and Niagara, and Shadow Hunters. It sounded like Shadow Hunters was a blast!
I started off with Stone Age, Playing with Mr. and Mrs. Sylvus and Nate. It was my first worker-placement game, and I really enjoyed it, but I had the sneaking suspicion that my victory was largely luck driver, based on an awesome dice roll/gamble that scored me a pile of gold. I did choose to put six meeples on the gold mine that turn, and the results allowed me to purchase a 45 point hut. So if I win a game but am not quite sure what happened it makes me pause. Still, lots of fun and dice tension, although I was playing with fun people, so that helps a lot. Next we started playing Ghost Stories, which felt like a mashup of Blue Moon City (a game I traded because it felt like I was just watching the scoring mechanism at work for an hour) and Pandemic (lots of fun). The pieces and art are really cool, and Nate made some awesome ref cards. Unfortunately my brain was starting to shut down at this point and I had a hard time figuring out the village iconography, so I had Ken take my place and I headed home to score some wife points (i.e. getting home at a decent hour). I am a mental midget--I think I can play about 1-2 medium weight games a night and then I'm done. I attribute it to either my general lack of good sleep or ADD, not sure which. I tried drinking a Rock Star prior to playing once at Blakfyre and stayed awake until 3 a.m. Matt: please pardon my poor gamer manners--I hope Ken's substitution didn't cause too much disruption. I need to not play co-op games when I'm the new/dumb guy! I think I made the same mistake with my first game of Pandemic, wandering around vacuuming up disease cubes and not quite sure what was going on. Had I read the rules earlier I might have been some help. Mea Maxima Culpa! Other events of the night included: 1. The presence of two kids! Had I known I would have brought my son, who is 12 but a gamer. Or my nine-year-old, who regularly beats me (not much of an accomplishment) 2. Dragon's Keep: I was a little nervous when the Magic Players tromped downstairs, but once they began playing I didn't notice they were there. Levi phone from his private helicopter to say he couldn't make it, but wanted to reserve the first Friday as board game night. I was also impressed with how many MtG players knew the games on the table and seemed interested in playing. It looks like the group is going to expand in the future. I don't know if an expanded group will fit in that space on the same night at the MtG players, however. Everyone was very friendly and welcoming, and I enjoyed checking out the RPGs at the end of the evening, and the old (memories!) copies of Dragon Magazine. It's nice to be in a store with those layers of gaming history. 3. It is too bad that the BGR entourage can't join us until later in the evening, but such is life. What did you all think of Dragon's Keep and the evening? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "utah county boardgamers association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ucboardgamers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
