A Descent into Dullness

It was Thursday, so not much happened. I sat in on a game of Railroad Tycoon. Then I went looking for food (since the Mesa Convention Centrer doesn't allow any kind of outside food/drink. If you get caught with it, apparantly the con gets fined). Anyway, since there wasn't really anything I was really wanting to do I decided to just call it a day and head home. Hopefully tomorrow will be better...

Still no Matt, so things are still unsure as to what game we may eventually run. Tonight was more board games. Some Formula De, Guillotine and then some Descent where Miles utterly crushed us. The team of Archer, Ranger, Valkyrie did not do very well...

Spent the evening playing Scrabble and Chez Geek, discussing (ie ranting) about DC and Marvel comics and exchanging gits with some friends. From 3 friends I got 3 movies. Only 1 of which duplicates one I've already got the dvd for. Not a bad ratio...

Me gots: Young Frankenstein, Payback and O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Noah gots: Cerebus volume 1 and King of Comedy dvd
Miles gots: Bone Complete Edition and DMZ vol 1
Brendan gots: T-shirts from threadless and Turtledove's "Lost Legion" series, Young Frankenstein and The Big Red One

It was an enjoyable night, despite Miles crushing everyone at Scrabble after jumping way in the lead with the 86 point "rebounders"...

I just spent thirty dollars so I can adventure in the land of books, kicking monster ass with my mad spelling skills. I regret nothing!

Why of all the board and card games buy people this one? Because they'll play it. Its simple and fun and you can actually convince a whole family to try this out. I love games like Ra and Betrayal at the House on the Hill but I wouldn't try and get my mom to play. I broke out this one at the last big holiday gathering and ended up with 8 people playing, ages 28 to 60. That says good party game and thus great gift...

$20 here or $25 at Amazon

And it was another lighter than expected week. Though apparantly I'm not the only one to mention that my comic shop's website is widely inaccurate when it comes to what is supposed to arrive each week. So only two pulls this week...

First is the next issue of Squadron Supreme. This one focuses mostly on Blur, Dr. Burbank and Nighthawk. And I definately think the writing is starting to pick up again, getting back to previous levels. And the art seems crisper as well...

Then we've got a new Fables, where the Adversary meets with his top people to make plans against Fabletown. I especially liked Hansel as his High Inquisitor in charge of Unauthorized Sorcery. There's also a short back-up story by Gene Ha about Rapunzel...

So since I had some extra money in my budget I decided to go down to Game Depot. Where unlike Gamer's Inn I had to make hard decisions about what I could and couldn't buy. I ended up grabbing the new edition of RuneQuest from Mongoose (which is frankly a little thin at 128 pages for 25 bucks) and a copy of Lost Cities. Next time I'll probably grab the Thieves' World source book (though I'm annoyed its $35) and a copy of Ra...

So I decided to head to Gamer's Inn last night where spoonyone and the others had migrated after Game Den closed. Place was much improved from the last time I went. Less funk and they had partitioned off the computers and given them all head sets so it was much quieter. Given my exhausted state I did ok. Didn't win at anything, but only really got crushed at Diablo and Guillotine. Almost managed to win Rheinlander despite having no idea what I was doing. Also played some Ra...

Last one for a couple weeks. Though it looks likely that we'll be switching to either Thursday or Friday afternoons. Depending on what Miles' class schedule is next semester...

So today we played some Descent. Nice board game, a dungeon quest kind of thing. We got fairly lucky on our initial skill cards and that allowed us to steadily power up. Heck, Mike took down the final Demon Lord with a single shot. Long game though. Somewhere in between 2 and 3 hours...

Also played some Guillotine and St. Petersburg. And I managed to beat Mike's Deadly Commons Red/Green M:tG deck. First with my Black speed deck, then my Green speed deck...

So we finally got back the group game running again, sort of. Mostly the day was going to be spent just playing board games. Except Miles couldn't make it. And Brendan got called in by work. And then I found out I'd been scheduled to work. And Noah was late. Still managed to get in a game of Munchkin with Brendan and some other people at the game store...

*shrug*

Halloween themed Bejewelled

Now I want some candy corn or maybe some gummi bats...