Grrrr! Arrrgh!

Friday night games, and Kn chose "Brown Bear" and 'Rampage!' (aka Trouble in Meeple City)
Brown Bear a simple little game of turn based card drawing with a memory aspect if another player picks up a card you want and puts it back. Fast, so we had four games before moving on.



Then Rampage! Lots of Kaiju fun. Some of us may have tried to focus a bit too much on knocking the teeth out of each other while L snuck away to a good meeple-fed win.

More Munchkin

Had another game of Munchkin tonight.   The new board is getting some good use.

I've finished it off a bit more since the last post - it now has a flocked grass surface and I've added some extra fittings to the rooms.

So now we have the rooms with the following thematic influences:
1- Greecian mythos
2- Water myths
3- Destroyed by lava
4- Knights and Kings
5- Witches hut
6- Egyptian tomb
7- the Dark Forest
8- the Labyrinth
9- standing stones
10- the cave of gems

then as we played a game the other day, and the dice went for a roll - I thought "hmmm, maybe we could use a dice tower?"....

May the Gamer Gods forgive me...

...but I've introduced the kids to D&D.

AD&D to be precise - hauling out and dusting off (fairly literally) the old Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition books that have been sitting in the old 'nostalgia' back corner of a cupboard.

On short notice, a few Friday afternoons ago, L and I discussed and agreed that I should organise a game for that evening to give the kids a try at the game.  Fortunately I had already been considering a plot arc for the kids, but hadn't committed on anything yet - so I made some hurried notes in my notebook and that would have to do for a start.

So it was with some trepidation that I launched the kids (and, unexpectedly, L) into a tale starting in a quiet village called Hurstbridge, a crossroads a day's coach-ride out of Stirling, the local port city.  The kids were a pair of foundlings, probably related, who had been taken in by the local shop-keeper and had done quite well in their simple village life.  Unfortunately the kind shop-keeper had died a couple of years ago, but the couple who took over the shop allowed the pair to continue to live in the upstairs room.

Trixie, the girl, has been working at the village tavern and often runs other errands around town.  Her speed and gift for short-cuts giving her a reputation for efficiency.  She has occasionally found that locked doors get in her way, so has developed methods to rectify matters...

Nic, the boy, has been working in the small library attached to the council buildings.  Old Hopkins, the librarian has been generous in adding to Nic's education when there are no chores to be done.  This education has included some dabbling in magic, as Hopkins is a retired Wizard.  Nic has proven to be a willing and talented pupil, already able to memorise basic spells.

Appleby is the village oddity.  A vaguely green-hued lady who spends most of the time out in her apple orchards outside the town.   

Events are conspiring to throw these three together on an adventure they never could have imagined...

 

Blast from the past!

Went to the FLGS the other day determined to make a purchase.
First option was not available, so I put that on order and instead found ...
RoboRally!
I remember playing this years ago at the CGS! Good times...

So brought it home and finally got to unbox it and start a game yesterday.
It's just as much fun as I remember, and Kn is loving it as well. Hopefully we'll have many more games.

Got that sinkin feelin

Friday night is game night! Tonight we opened with a couple of hands of that old trusty card game - "Uno!"

For a change, Kn didn't win. Kr pulled off a nice finish blasting us with some Draw 4 's and then finishing off with a Wild. L won the other hands and we then moved on to the main game of the night...

Forbidden Island!

Four adventurers searching for lost treasures on an island that is rapidly slipping under the waves. Cooperation is the key, as skills are combined to get the treasure and get off the island. It was a close run thing, with all of our swimming, engineering, pilot and adventure skills being required. I think the most valuable skill was L being able to judiciously bend the rules when needed. We escaped just in time!

Kn and I then finished off the evening with a couple of hands of Star Fluxx. Which he won.

Friday night Who

Nostalgia for Doctor Who continues, and Kr chose to play the Doctor Who Family Trivia game. We've blinged it up a bit with some of the minifigs that are available.
Simple game: roll dice, move, answer questions and so on. A nice mechanic where the center flips over and can trap you.
Kn continues his roll, winning both games. Jammy kid!

Rampant disease! Again?!?

Another Friday night, and yet again the world is caught in the grips of Pandemic.
This time we're trying the 'In the Lab' expansion, adding extra flavour to the process of discovering the cures for the four diseases.
Just L, Kn, and myself playing tonight -pausing the game about halfway through as Kn ran out of puff.
So far blue (the "Blue Flu") has been cured, but black and yellow are getting away from us. (Black = Zombies?)

Saved the World!

Woot! Smashed the game Pandemic today. K played the Medic brilliantly. Love how fast he grabs the intricacies of these games :)
S was with us after a business trip from Perth, and I have to tell you - playing Pandemic with two trained medical scientists who actually work fighting diseases adds a whole extra level to the game :)

Friday Night Games - Rampage!

Gonna try to remember to blog the Friday night games regularly for the rest of the year.
So tonight was "Rampage!" - our four kaiju attempt to eat the most of the city. Kn has a strong game, playing his attributes well in attacking our kaiju and going for extra points, but in the end it is L who pulls out the big win with many eaten meeples and a good number of teeth claimed from us as well!