For the last few days, my brain has been eaten by the game Pandemic Legacy ( Read more... )

We played Britannia yesterday. This was something of a challenge, since Britannia is unambiguously a game for four players and four players only, and there were two of us. Nothing daunted, we decided to give it a go ( Read more... )

Last year's new board games were Troyes (which we played once and appear to have forgotten about ever since), the Firefly game (which is fun, even though Pellinor always wins it, due to being more willing to engage in risky crime) and Mage Night. I really like Mage Night, which we play in its co-operative mode, but the downside is that it takes us ( Read more... )

For me, two computer games have reigned supreme in my affections for over 15 years: Baldur's Gate and Thief: Deadly Shadows. BG and BG2 I must have played well over half a dozen times, in a variety of ways: solo, different character classes (well, a few; I really am very reluctant to play anything other than a paladin), and with a variety of ( Read more... )

Most of our board-gaming is done at home, just the two of us. Sadly, some of the best board games in our collection either don't work at all for two players, or don't work well. It's not all doom, though. Some games, such as as Caylus, are different in their 2-player version - different challenges, different tactics - but just as good. Others can ( Read more... )

Divinity Original Sin is a computer game, and I like it. There. That's probably all that most people reading this need to know.

If, however, you want my long ramblings about this game and how it compares to Baldur's Gate - my Best Game Ever that has long reigned unchallenged - read on.

( Much rambling about Divinity Original Sin and Baldur's Gate )

We've spent much of the last month playing The Aielund Saga, an old and acclaimed Neverwinter Nights mod. It really is very, very good - probably even better, in my opinion, than the original game. We started at level 1, and ended up at level 35 or so, having lived through an enormous and satisfying epic saga that covered many years. Various ( Read more... )

I'm playing the new enhanced edition of Baldur's Gate. The BG series is almost certainly my Best Game Ever (though Thief: Deadly Shadows runs it a close second) and I must have played BG right through at least 4 or 5 times before, over the last dozen years or so. I've not played it for a few years, though, so I jumped at the chance to play with a ( Read more... )

Although I spent most of the week doing healthy and improving things outside in lovely scenery (*ahem*) we did spend a small amount of time lounging on cat-covered couches, eating cheese and throwing dice.

( Roleplaying )

Much of yesterday's roleplaying was toilet-dominated, too, and involved length discussions on interior design and plumbing. From there we moved on to custard, and today we made a lot of money selling enormous quantities of custard to miners, though we are not entirely sure why they need so much. Now we have made HUGE mega amounts of money ( Read more... )