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Coming soon: Gempire: Zarmund's Demands

A hidden-action, city-building, heavy strategy game with different victory conditions every game and absolutely NO DOWN TIME.

Check this game out! A friend of ours at our FLGS made it. We played it the other night, and it's truly something special. The description given is pretty darn accurate.

I think he's shooting for September to officially open the Kickstarter for backing (I don't do Kickstarter very often, so I probably said all of that wrong).

Anyway, if you are into the whole Kickstarter thing, consider backing this one. It deserves a publishing run.

Oh! And it's the winner of this year's Ion Award!

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Played some games last Monday. I think we played some games the week before, but I didn't take pictures and I'm not sure I feel like thinking back that far.

We played our monthly game of Legacy Betrayal. I guess I'll put a spoiler warning somewhere on this post in case you haven't played and want to.

Spoilers ahead!

This round takes place about 30 years from the events of the prologue. The relatives of the three people murdered in the house have decided to investigate the mysterious disappearance of their loved ones. Why they waited 30 years to do so, I can't say. But here they are.

I'm not sure they learned what happened. R. thought it would be a good idea to reanimate the corpse she found buried beneath the kitchen. So, our search for answers came to an abrupt halt as we all had to team up to stop R. and her corpse buddy.

M. tried to use his trusty flintlock, but it misfired, causing it to explode, and killing him. My character died, but not before burying all the body parts except the head. J. pulled off a last minute save! Removing the head and getting it buried in one swift action. He was the only surviver.

Apparently, the corpse we buried is still alive and can be heard speaking to this day.

Safe from spoilers

Next up, we played a round of Kabuto Sumo

It's part dexterity game, part abstract strategy game. Maybe it's just a toy. Idk. But it's ridiculous and loads of fun. Players take on the roll of sumo wrestling beetles. On your turn, you take a disk from your inventory and scoot it into the arena to try and knock out other disks and your opponent. Each beetle has special abilities and a special, odd shaped, piece. One is long and looks like a cactus. Another is just really big. One looks like the pincers of a rhinoceros beetle. You get the idea, right?

I knew J. would love it. He's an avid wrestling fan, and loves gimmicky little games like this. It's a fun game and packs more depth than you might imagine. The disks don't always slide the way you think they will. The smallest gap between the pieces can make all the difference. Throw in the odd shaped pieces and things get even trickier to figure out. It's probably best to not overthink it, but I can't help myself.

Lastly, we played Welcome To.

It's a pen and paper game where you fill in numbers on houses in a little suburb. Sounds boring. Looks boring. But it's the kind of puzzle that grabs ahold of you and makes you want to keep trying till you get it right. I absolutely love these types of things. I'll definitely be adding this to my collection soon.

I think that's it for last week. Tomorrow we go and do it again. No idea what we're playing. But I know we'll have fun.

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Don't mind me. I'm just flying around on my butterfly.

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I'm not good at writing these things on a consistent basis. To be fair, I haven't had much time to, and when I do have the time, I just don't want to.

Well, I'm having a tire replaced on my car so I have a a couple hours to kill. I decided to get some lunch. I have a gluten intolerance, so that made the burdensome task of walking even worse. The nearest restaurant with a decent gluten free option is a half a mile from the tire place. I know a half mile isn't that far, but it's cold and windy and it's been a bad morning already (I decided to eat a flour tortilla last night. I thought "surely one flour tortilla won't aggravate my gluten intolerance". I was wrong.). Aslo, I need to work. And the tire repair is eating into my time. And money.

Sorry to complain. But I don't have anywhere else to do that right now and it feels good to write it out.

So, I have some free time. I guess I'll tell you (myself) about the games we played last Monday.

We started out with a quick round of Roll For It. It's fast, simple, and fun. It's really just an excuse to chuck around some dice. (Sorry. No pics)

Then we played Sentinels of the Multiverse. It's a cooperative super hero game. Each player picks from a variety of heroes and they all work together to take down the bad guy. This week, it was a giant terraforming robot trying to make the planet livable for its alien race or something like that.

It's big. It's bad. It's got a tough outer shell that we had to crack into.

It's up at the top of the photo. You can't see that. I did a bad job photographing things.

My hero was Setback. He's a super unlucky dude. But when he gets lucky, he does some massive damage. He was a lot of fun to play with.

We did a pretty great job fighting the robot. And the army of ninjas coming from the nearby monastery. I had a particularly hard time with one ninja that just wouldn't die. It had an ability that kept it coming back to life by implanting itself on the top of a player's deck. It sucked. And lead to a moment when I set myself on fire by accident and dealt one extra damage more than I wanted to and "killed" it for, probably, the third time, sending it to my deck. Again! I tried everything I could to keep it from happening, but it was too late. I sighed and said, "give me the damn ninja".

This game is always fun. It's a little chaotic and fiddly, but that's OK. I love the artwork in this game. It's got this old comic book style that obviously took a lot of love and care.

That was all we played on Monday. We all had to leave early, so we couldn't get any other games in.

Last week sometime, R. and I played a new game I got. New York Zoo.

You have to race to fill up your zoo with cute little wooden animals and tetris like tiles. It was fun, but explaining the rules about placing animals was a challenge. But there's definitely something special here.

I managed to win, but it was close.

I guess that's all the gaming and life stuff happening for me. Hopefully the week will get better. In the near future I plan on starting a journal based ttrpg called Anamnesis. Maybe I'll share some of my stuff from that, but maybe not. I'm hoping it will get some creative juices flowing.

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Am I turtley enough?

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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Solo Journaling Game - Anamnesis

Anamnesis cover image – black and white body with head blowing away in the wind I FINALLY GOT TO PLAY ANAMNESIS! It is no one’s fault but my own that it took me this long. According to itch.io, I downloaded the game over a year ago when it was first released. But something about setting aside the time for a solo game…I was not making that time. But last weekend I finally decided I would do it…

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I need to look into this...

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The names of the players in Super Mega Baseball 3 are perfect.

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I've been sick the last couple of weeks, so I haven't felt like writing anything. I'll try and make up for that now.

Last Monday (the 23rd), I felt well enough to game again. It was good to be back. From what I hear, the week we missed was great. There were a couple of new folks there and Jo. brought along some big round tower thing that looked neat. To be honest, I had no interest in playing it. It looked like a war type of thing with area control stuff. Not my favorite thing to play. But I'm sure the group would have made it fun.

Monday we kicked off the day with Scrap Racer. It's a push-your-luck racing game.

Players chuck dice and move along a track. You roll one die at a time and if you roll a duplicate of any number you crash. Crashing isn't all bad. If you crash three times you get a power up that will give you a huge boost on a later turn.

It was quick, random, and pretty fun.

I forgot to take pictures of the second game we played. It was the Epic Spell Wars deckbuilding game. We only got through a few rounds, so I didn't get to see what sorts of crazy combos the game contains. The artwork was irreverent and childish and made us all giggle like middle schoolers. I look forward to trying again.

Lastly, we played Parks with J.

I liked this a lot more with another person. It's fine with 2, but it really got interesting when more hikers crowded the trails. Thematically, this is the opposite of what you want, but it makes for a more challenging game, so I guess it's OK. I really like this game. It's relaxing, nice to look at, and relatively easy to teach.

It was good to be back. Even missing one week is too much. Next week I have my first therapy appointment in the morning before we game. I hope it doesn't wear me out too much. I don't know what to expect. I know that I'll definitely be looking forward to games afterwards.

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Playing Rune Factory 5 has me wondering what my real life sleeping and eating levels are.

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Board games have been on my mind a lot this past week. I got some new shelves to store them on. Their cheap, look a bit childish, but they hold the games in neat stacks. I've been going through my games, "organizing" (really, I'm just stacking them as neatly as possible) and pondering what games would be good for our Monday meetups.

Our group has decided to take turns each week choosing a game to play. This week was M's turn. He chose Quacks of Quedlinburg. Players take on the role of potion makers. Each round players simultaneously pull chips from their bags until they feel like stopping, or until their brew explodes. There are different ingredients you can buy to get yourself farther along the track, earn rubies, points, etc.

It's a push-your-luck game at heart. It was loads of fun! Plus, it looks great too!

Between bigger games we played a round of Zombie Kittens. It's like Exploding Kittens, but players can come back to life. It was OK, but I think I prefer just standard Exploding Kittens. I neglected to take pics. One of these days I'll remember to take pics of all the games we play.

Lastly, we played a round of Mind Mgmt.

This game makes me feel like the spouse/ S. O. of the detective in those serial killer movies. They always walk into the kitchen at, like, 2:00 am, obsessed detective staring intently at papers and crime scene photos and documents splayed in a mess all over the table, and say, "why don't you come to bed? You've been at it all day."

The detective replies, "I'm so close. I can feel it."

S. O. sighs and says, "well, turn the lights out when you're done."

The next day, at work, divorce papers arrive for the detective.

It's a deduction game, and a challenging one, but my mind can't ever, and doesn't really care to, make sense of the loads of information on the board. I understand it's important work their doing. That they're close to catching this guy. But I have supper to cook, and dishes to wash, and a life to live. Leave it to the professionals! You're only two weeks from retirement. Let the new guy handle it.

Sorry. Got a bit lost in the metaphor. But hopefully you get the idea.

Everyone else at the table is able to figure it out pretty well, so I guess that's OK. Somehow, my final random question about some pool on the board revealed just the right piece of intel to make it all click into place for W. and J.

Somehow, I always enjoy myself. I'm supportive and try my best not to interfere.

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I may start incorporating more video games into this blog.

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Nobody ever buy me the stained glass window version of Azul, words cannot describe how badly I yearn to eat these tiles

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Playing wingspan always includes the unfortunate temptation of Forbidden Cadbury Eggs

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Over the past week, R. and I only had time for a couple of games. Splendor: Duel is in the first photo. It's a two player only version of Splendor. It adds a couple of new mechanics that really beef up the experience. The Board adds a slight visual puzzle to the mix, and the privilege tokens add one more thing to consider when making certain, overpowered, moves.

I like it a lot! R. Is always better at Splendor. This one is no different in that regard, but I feel like I have more of a chance at winning.

A couple days later we played Parks. I picked it up with some Christmas spending monies. It's a super chill game about hiking. It's got some of the best artwork and production value I've ever seen in a game. The artwork is all relatively famous pieces, but they're all beautiful.

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Wizard War’s queens know that anyone who tells them not to stab their enemies with magic spears or manipulate them with blood magic just hates to see a girlboss winning

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I just want make sure I remember to look into this more.