I figured with the holiday coming up, time off work means more games! I have the next few days free and I'm hoping to get some Dead of Winter in with some friends back home. What is r/boardgames doing this weekend? Any plans or gaming goals?
Posted Sep 5, 2015, 3:26 AM UTC
Hoping to really dig into a lot of my Gen Con and post con purchases. Have games of Blood Rage, Arkham Horror, Alchemists, Mysterium, and Imperial Assault lined up to name a few. Three separate groups with three separate game nights over the next 72 hours - I'm pretty excited.
Have a great long weekend gaming!
I'm jealous of your weekend.
That sounds great! I've finally got some free time from grad school, so I think I'm gonna sucker some friends into playing rex with me.
Also breaking out Dead of Winter tomorrow with some friends. Going to try the betrayer variant, since we've played three games so far without any betrayer. Kinda frustrating.
Having some friends over Sunday for a BBQ thing, so might break out some party games.
Betrayer variant is definitely the way to go. It makes things so much more tense knowing that there's going to be a traitor. It also makes it that much more hilarious when you've been spending the last hour or so accusing each other only to find out that there was no traitor on the off chance that happens.
I haven't needed Betrayer variant yet, I keep getting Betrayer, and I feel bad working against them. The game is hard enough without me dicking them over.
It is kind of a shame if you get the traitor objective while teaching others how to play. I've had that experience and genuinely felt guilty about winning.
I've had that every time I've been teaching...
What are the odds of getting multiple betrayers with the variant? Have you had that happen? That's the only thing I was kinda worried about.
Edit: Never mind I clearly didn't read how many betrayer cards are included.
Bringing Codenames, Evolution, Carcassonne: H&G, SpyFall, Lift it!, Cockroach Salad, and Dark Moon to a friend's tomorrow. For our usual Sunday gathering I'm hoping to crack open Samarkand for the first time. If not, more Roll for the Galaxy is always good.
My group has a labor day game of TI3 planned. Very excited and hoping I finally get to play as the Mentak.
I'm so jealous. I've always wanted to play TI3 but can't really justify buying it because I doubt I could get anyone else interested in an all day 4X space opera. Some guys at my FLGS said they play it from time to time and I'm hoping to get in on their next game but as far as I know that's still TBA.
Dragoncon!
Rpgs, some panels, and teaching/learning boardgames to fill!!!
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My wife works as a manager at a chain restaurant - that means long hours of life-or-death food delivery (or so the average customer seems to think its a life-or-death matter... I mean, how can you expect them to wait 30 minutes for food when the restaurant is packed during a dinner rush!)
However, you inspired me... I'm hoping to squeeze in a game of San Juan to complete my first game with 10 plays this year. However, holiday time means more time at work and not time off for those in the service industry. :( Enjoy your time off and gaming weekend.
To be fair: humans are hard wired to get irritable when they have low blood sugar. Disclosing the long kitchen times at the hostess table and suggesting appetizers at the tables goes a long way
Good luck with your 10x10! I used to work in food service so I understand your plight. Hopefully you still get a chance to have some fun over the weekend.
I'm at strategicon so I am hoping to play a lot. I am volunteering but will hopefully have time to play in the Castles of Burgundy qualifier tomorrow and play arctic scavengers with some friends. Mice and mystics on sunday. My mom is coming to the con that day so we will probably do some gaming 101 sessions for some games we haven't played yet.