Back from Origins
And a good time was had by all.
For those that dont know, Origins Game fair is a large gaming convention in Columbus Ohio. Itcovers just about all games except gambling (which im sure happens in some parts but they are not open with it) There are also seminars and kids games as well.
My friends and I got there on Thursday around 2:00, got registared and jumped right into the dealer hall. there where certain items we wanted to buy so got that out of the way first.
After a quick trip out to the car to drop off our accuiered goodies, we headed back in and split to our diffrent intrestes. I spent a lot of time at the Mayfair booth demoing games to earn ribbons. The ribbons are put towards convention only expansions to diffrent games they had for sale. I have most of the Catan games and wanted the 3 new maps that where being offered as prizes this year.
The big new catan game this year is Settlers of America. It plays with the same mechanics of most Catan games but has a bit of a diffrent them in that you have settlers that create towns and railroads that allow you to deliver goods to other players towns.
I played a number of diffrent mayfair games and earned 4 of the 5 ribbons I needed for my first map.
Later that evening, we stopped by the board game room and checked out the diffrent games that where offered for checking out to play. We played Warlords of Europe and Cant Stop
Friday I spent about half the day in the mayfair booth. I was very glad that I only had to play a couple games multiple times. I enjoyed playing many diffrent board games. By the time I left the dealer hall, I had 2 of the new maps in my bag and only needed 1 more ribbon to get the 3rd map.
I took a break after dinner and spent some time in the small game auction at the convention and then headed to the board game room again. This time it was a very fun game of Railroad Tycoon that I got into. The group was realy relaxed so the game was very fun.
Saturday I finished up gaining all my ribbons and got my 3rd expansion map. I also picked up a Settlers of America game as well as a Pack and Stack Game. I thien wandered around the dealer hall and picked up a Roll Through the Ages game (which I had wanted for a while now)
I met up with some friends in the Boardgame room and we played Ticket to Ride and a new game called Founding Fathers (where you take the place of one of the founding fathers of america and are writeing the constitution 2 acts at a time. I was James Madison.
Sunday was a lot more relaxing. We played a couple more games before heading back to Maryland at around 12:00. We got into Frederick by about 8:30 and i was at home and im my bed by 10:00
A good time was had by all
For those that dont know, Origins Game fair is a large gaming convention in Columbus Ohio. Itcovers just about all games except gambling (which im sure happens in some parts but they are not open with it) There are also seminars and kids games as well.
My friends and I got there on Thursday around 2:00, got registared and jumped right into the dealer hall. there where certain items we wanted to buy so got that out of the way first.
After a quick trip out to the car to drop off our accuiered goodies, we headed back in and split to our diffrent intrestes. I spent a lot of time at the Mayfair booth demoing games to earn ribbons. The ribbons are put towards convention only expansions to diffrent games they had for sale. I have most of the Catan games and wanted the 3 new maps that where being offered as prizes this year.
The big new catan game this year is Settlers of America. It plays with the same mechanics of most Catan games but has a bit of a diffrent them in that you have settlers that create towns and railroads that allow you to deliver goods to other players towns.
I played a number of diffrent mayfair games and earned 4 of the 5 ribbons I needed for my first map.
Later that evening, we stopped by the board game room and checked out the diffrent games that where offered for checking out to play. We played Warlords of Europe and Cant Stop
Friday I spent about half the day in the mayfair booth. I was very glad that I only had to play a couple games multiple times. I enjoyed playing many diffrent board games. By the time I left the dealer hall, I had 2 of the new maps in my bag and only needed 1 more ribbon to get the 3rd map.
I took a break after dinner and spent some time in the small game auction at the convention and then headed to the board game room again. This time it was a very fun game of Railroad Tycoon that I got into. The group was realy relaxed so the game was very fun.
Saturday I finished up gaining all my ribbons and got my 3rd expansion map. I also picked up a Settlers of America game as well as a Pack and Stack Game. I thien wandered around the dealer hall and picked up a Roll Through the Ages game (which I had wanted for a while now)
I met up with some friends in the Boardgame room and we played Ticket to Ride and a new game called Founding Fathers (where you take the place of one of the founding fathers of america and are writeing the constitution 2 acts at a time. I was James Madison.
Sunday was a lot more relaxing. We played a couple more games before heading back to Maryland at around 12:00. We got into Frederick by about 8:30 and i was at home and im my bed by 10:00
A good time was had by all