Last game we played before we graduated college and went our separate ways, and it couldn’t have begun in a more hilarious manner. Here’s the order of things:
1. On his first turn, my male friend drew Change Sex.
2. On his second turn, my male-turned-female friend drew the Amazon, scoring him-as-a-her a free treasure.
3. The treasure the Amazon gave him-as-a-chick was the Broad Sword, only usable by females, which he now was.
3.5. There was a Chicken on His/Her Head at some point I guess.
I think this ranks up there with “Divine Intervention winning the game for multiple Clerics at once.”
One game that is getting the Table Top hook in has been Ticket to Ride. One of them also is a person who loves that character from the large multi billion dollar company, so I made a custom map we were playing on. Still needs some work, but was a lot of fun!
So I’m not sure “Ultimate Talisman” is actually how it is referred to, but basically we set up the main game of Talisman with all the current expansions, with the dragon expansion off to the side.
Apparently there are two ways to play the Dragon expansion. The first of which is you stick it in with one of two sides face up over the center of the board, replacing the original way to beat the game. The second of which is using the other side of the board as a board expansion, reachable only after getting through all the nasty crap you normally have to do to win the game.
This is probably the fourth time I’ve played Talisman so far, but it turned out to be the most brutal yet. There was four of us playing (my friend, his wife, another friend and myself). The first friend and his wife both died and had to get new characters maybe three or four times during the game while me and my other friend wound up surviving the entire game on our original characters.
My character came out of the Dragon Expansion, and probably only survived from her special skill (underlined on the photo). What sucked was she starts off with 2 strength. And during the first couple of hours of the game I kept having fights that came to a draw (meaning I lost no health) or was able to run away.
By the end of the game I had 10 base strength, plus an additional 11 or so from other things versus the red dragon boss. Even though the boss is random, in the end it was the one I was most effective against.
The best part of the game came when my friends were all almost prepared to try to join me on the last part of the board and my friend (whose wife had since gone to bed) drew the worst card he could:
which this card wipes out every card on the board. Initially it is just the region that player is in, but, the red dragon was the boss at the time so it meant every card on the board had to go away. This basically meant nobody else besides me had a chance to get to the last boss without spending another hour playing.
Here is what the board looked like before the card was drawn:
You can see me off to the far right on the dragon board fixing to win the game.
My last play had me draw a card that let me teleport anywhere in my current region, so I skipped the last several encounters and went straight to the final boss.
Since my strength was so high we determined the boss could not roll high enough to beat me, and called the game there.
In the end we spent about 5 1/2 hours playing, and it was the first time I’ve won at this game.
So that was the end to one of the best days ever for me, since earlier that day I found out I passed my last class for my degree and will be receiving my BS in Computer Science.
A really tense game of #pandemic One turn away from finding the last cure when the 8th outbreak struck. Losing is such fun. If you find you have the sniffles tonight that may be our fault. We’re so very sorry.
This is our youngest daughters first game of D&D .. She loves it. She is playing an elf thief who is chaotic evil. She carries a trained pet rat named roach and let me say she fits that role well! I can’t wholly express what proud parents we are right now!
Hello again Wil Wheaton/TableTop/Geek and Sundry!
I posted a week ago about my family’s newly adopted tabletop night and was overjoyed and very appreciative to see that Wil Wheaton actually reblogged it! Talk about being “good people” as he would say :) So thanks for that. You made us super happy fans!
Anyway, I thought I’d give a little update on how our game nights are progressing. I’m proudly posting my tabletop victory photo this week since my wife got all the glory on the first post. Haha, that’s understandable, isn’t it? We played Bananagrams - a simple, yet highly competitive word game. My wife’s a soon-to-be Harvard grad school graduate who likes nerdy-wordy games like that. I’m a jazz musician. She had the advantage, to say the least, haha. BUT I managed to win 2 out of 3 games by a hair. I was VERY afraid I would never end up on our fridge, but I prevailed on our 2nd week! Next week we’re playing Pandemic with a couple of friends. I promise I won’t post our picture every week, though. Don’t want to pollute this tumblr with our silly photos, haha. Just wanted to boast a little! And as you can see, we’re going all out on our photos. Gotta have incentive to win!
Thanks, again!
Marc and Meredith
Mother’s Day treat! A game of munchkin with boosters, some expansions and epic rules!
Second game today. A nice dose of Pandemic.]
Start up
Medic spreading the healing balm.
First cure - we’re on the way
Second cure - blimey, we’re fair motoring
Third cure - could we win this game?
Bloody Nora! We only won!
What do you mean we were cheating with the researcher? IT STILL COUNTS!
Played a game of Game of Thrones today. There wasn’t as much plotting and scheming as I expected, that’s probably because it was our first game and we were wrestling with the ins and outs of the rules. Still good fun though and the family did stay on friendly terms. Now then, how about some pictures?
Setting up the board - I had to put up with it, so can you.
All set up to play, doesn’t it look lovely
House Greyjoy’s corner. What, you didn’t get a real Valerian steel sword in your game?
House Baratheon - not the fat, bearded Yorkshireman you were expecting?
House Stark - “Winter is coming” but you’re gonna miss it if you don’t open your eyes, love.
House Lannister - after the dye job
After turn one - peaceful expansion
A little bit of tension between Lannister and Greyjoy
“I defend myself at you, Sir.” “No, I defend myself at you, Sir.”
Turn four and House Baratheon seem to be surging ahead.
Supply card is drawn and House Lannister suddenly has all the things!
House Greyjoy prepares to dominate the North West coast. Which, on reflection, maybe should have happened earlier.
House Baratheon grabs ALL the power.
The Northern coast is ripe for taking - coo! It’s just like the books!
House Baratheon points at the trouble.
The killing blow - Lannister win (bastards)
That was a lot of fum and next time I imagine there’ll be more plotting and scheming, which will be nice. After dinner we played some Pandemic (it’s alright, we washed our hands afterwards). Pics to follow.
Plained a simplified version of Ticket To Ride with my 4 year old. He loved it! Getting some future Eurogame passion in him.
