"We Didn't Playtest This At All". Played two rounds of this while someone was fetching "Shadow Hunters" from his car and setting it up (!). Let's see... The first time I lost to a card that said, "Everyone shows 1-5 fingers on a count of three; everyone who showed an odd number loses." The second time I played the card "PC: Everyone still in the ( Read more... )

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I went out gaming and tried "7 Wonders". Meh. The idea is that you're building a civilization by picking out cards that produce resources, technology, and victory points, with more advanced cards building up over time. So we started the game and did a couple of rounds of "drafting" -- take a set of cards, keep one, and pass the rest to gradually ( Read more... )

This was a neat one. It's "Are You a Werewolf?" with combat mechanics.

Shadow Hunters pits Shadows (monsters) against Hunters and Neutrals. Each player gets a random character in secret, each with a certain amount of hit points (8-14) and a special power. Then you roll the strange combination of d6+d4 to find which location you move to, giving you ( Read more... )

"The Isle of Doctor Necreaux" is a weird cooperative game. I got to try it while visiting Six Feet Under Games while visiting Lancaster, PA. In this card game... well, the official blurb is, "Build a Character... Infiltrate the Island... Defeat Necreaux’s Minions... Find the Scientists... And before time runs out... Escape!" It's built around a ( Read more... )

This is about interesting choices in games. I tested a card game called "Anima: Shadow of Omega", part of a series. (Cool art from it here.) I was only able to try it alone, so I missed some of the mechanics, but it got me thinking ( Read more... )

I stayed out late tonight playing games, and got to play something that wasn't a Steve Jackson Games game for once: "Thunderstone". It's a knockoff of "Dominion", and reluctantly I'll admit it's a little better ( Read more... )

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Due to server trouble, the creator of Minecraft is making the game free for all till Monday or so. That's the full Alpha version with the crafting and monsters, substantially more interesting than the free version. It's expected to be free to play for now, but that doesn't mean you can keep playing that version after the servers are fully restored ( Read more... )

I played "Munchkin Quest" on Friday. I was really tired so I didn't give it a completely fair hearing, but I didn't like it all that much. This was the basic set plus the "Looking For Trouble" expansion ( Read more... )