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Birthday / Gaming
Mar. 25th, 2005 01:17 pmYesterday was my birthday. #33 in a series. Collect them all.
It's been a number of years since I was excited at all by birthdays. I didn't do anything special yesterday, though Kimberly wished me Happy Birthday a couple of times. We'll be going out for dinner tonight as a joint celebration, and then my dad and step-mom will be up on Monday for more going out to dinner. (And perhaps my sister too? Unlikely.) And then it'll be onward to another years.
I did have folks over for gaming, yesterday. My regular review/new-game group, and that was nice, so I didn't sit at home eating frozen dinners and watching West Wing all night.
We played Succession which was an adequate, though not amazing negotiation and auction game. It's main downfalls were that the auction wasn't particularly clever in any way and it had event cards which were very powerful. A pretty typical American design. I believe Mike A. hated it. That's on my list for review this week, and is going to get rated 4+ Style/3+ Substance at RPGnet.
More amusingly, though, we played a little card game that I picked up last year called Geshenkt. Six times. Now, it's admittedly a 10-15 minute game, but that's still a lot of plays. It's a simple game, where you either take a card or place a chip on a card each turn, and at the end of the game cards are worth points (which are bad) and chips remove points (which is good). You can also put together sequences of cards, and then you're only penalized for the bottom one--but not all the cards are in every game so no sequence is a sure thing.
There's clearly a lot of luck in the game, but I believe I won 4 out of the 6 games, with one near second (and one totally inadequate third). So I was either very lucky last night, or my strategy is good (though I go entirely by gut in that game). I remember Eric R. winning most of the games last time I brought it to the RPG group.
Everyone seemed to love the game, the same experience that I had when I brought it out at my RPG group. Which, I suppose, means I should review it. That one's probably a 4/5.
Just got copies of For Sale and The Motley Fool's Buy Low, Sell High in the mail, and they both look like good games. I think BLSH is going to be our game for next week, since it's 4-player and we'll be down one.
It's been a number of years since I was excited at all by birthdays. I didn't do anything special yesterday, though Kimberly wished me Happy Birthday a couple of times. We'll be going out for dinner tonight as a joint celebration, and then my dad and step-mom will be up on Monday for more going out to dinner. (And perhaps my sister too? Unlikely.) And then it'll be onward to another years.
I did have folks over for gaming, yesterday. My regular review/new-game group, and that was nice, so I didn't sit at home eating frozen dinners and watching West Wing all night.
We played Succession which was an adequate, though not amazing negotiation and auction game. It's main downfalls were that the auction wasn't particularly clever in any way and it had event cards which were very powerful. A pretty typical American design. I believe Mike A. hated it. That's on my list for review this week, and is going to get rated 4+ Style/3+ Substance at RPGnet.
More amusingly, though, we played a little card game that I picked up last year called Geshenkt. Six times. Now, it's admittedly a 10-15 minute game, but that's still a lot of plays. It's a simple game, where you either take a card or place a chip on a card each turn, and at the end of the game cards are worth points (which are bad) and chips remove points (which is good). You can also put together sequences of cards, and then you're only penalized for the bottom one--but not all the cards are in every game so no sequence is a sure thing.
There's clearly a lot of luck in the game, but I believe I won 4 out of the 6 games, with one near second (and one totally inadequate third). So I was either very lucky last night, or my strategy is good (though I go entirely by gut in that game). I remember Eric R. winning most of the games last time I brought it to the RPG group.
Everyone seemed to love the game, the same experience that I had when I brought it out at my RPG group. Which, I suppose, means I should review it. That one's probably a 4/5.
Just got copies of For Sale and The Motley Fool's Buy Low, Sell High in the mail, and they both look like good games. I think BLSH is going to be our game for next week, since it's 4-player and we'll be down one.