In my opinion The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is very difficult for new players attempting to get into it for the first time to work out what is needed to get started. The game itself is already ridiculously complicated. In fact trying to work out which products to buy is a sneak preview of the amount of mental taxation that will be paid trying to learn the rules and build a deck. ...
As I just loving giving my money away to various companies I decided that sticking to only one card game from Fantasy Flight Games wasn’t enough. Instead, I needed to get involved in THREE. Well, actually four, but after an initial outlay into Star Wars Unlimited I found the god-awful artwork too much to overlook to continue1. I have Arkham Horror and Marvel Champions running alongside this Lord of the Rings one. I think I actually prefer Lord of the Rings for depth and theme, but naturally it comes with the biggest overhead. Lots of rules, lots of cards, and lots of confusion around expansions. Some are repackaged, some are not. ...
It must have been a few months since I last bought a board game. The last one was Lord of the Rings LCG: The Two Towers Saga Expansion back in August, so I am well over-due. It is good for me to slow down on these purchases anyway. I am really only interested in completing some of the Living Card Games from Fantasy Flight Games for now. That includes Arkham Horror, The Lord of the Rings, and Marvel Champions. ...
WORK IN PROGRESS - I have played the scenario and just need to write it up Another Arkham Horror playthrough! I’ve had to call this one Night of the Zealot 2 because I didn’t think I’d replay campaigns, but I am, and nobody is reading this anyway, so it doesn’t matter. Last time I played a “true solo” campaign of Night of the Zealot as Roland Banks. It was pretty challenging and also entertaining. I still remember the broader strokes of that game without re-reading the posts themselves. ...
Avid readers of this blog will know that I bought Star Trek Frontiers this year as an alternative to the rather expensive Mage Knight. I have managed to learn the rules and even play several games, winning many1. The biggest obstacle to overcome was actually staying up late enough to complete the game. Frequently, that is the main challenge in board gaming; putting your children to bed, tidying up the house, setting up the game, and spending those remaining eight minutes hunting down borg cubes before bed. ...
Some of the previous posts were ones I had started and then abandoned after a few words, planning to finish them off, but actually never coming back to them. However that doesn’t mean I gave up with the whole tabletop gaming thing. I have been spending far too much money on them recently and have acquired several new ones. I bought: Expeditions: Gears of Corruption Sleeping Gods Marvel Champions Obsession Dune: Imperium1 The Great Out of these games, excluding Gears of Corruption2, the absolute best game has got to be Marvel Champions by far. This game is so much fun to play, with a wide range of different cards, aspects, heroes, villains, schemes. It’s pretty great, and can be played solo, two (or three?) handed, or with an actual human3. ...
I’ve been looking into some good solo tabletop games that I can get into and spend an entire evening on. I gave up trying to find other people to play with, and coercing family members doesn’t work very well, so games that can be played by myself are what I am after. I actually have a decent amount that I already own1: Scythe Expeditions Arkham Horror: LCG Star Trek: Frontiers Gloomhaven Wingspan Spirit Island And an ever-growing list of ones I want to own, including expansions: ...
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Round 8 Round 9 Done « Arkham Horror | « Part II: The Midnight Masks | Part III: The Devourer Below We are into the final scenario of the starter set; The Devourer Below. I suspect there will be some kind of devouring taking place under the ground, but I don’t want to spoil too much. ...
Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 Round 8 Round 9 Round 10 Round 11 Done « Arkham Horror | « Part I: The Gathering | Part II: The Midnight Masks | » Part III: The Devourer Below The last scenario went pretty well, though in hindsight it would have been better to have prevented Lita Chantler from burning my house down. ...
I have many problems in my life. Here is a short list off the top of my head: Sleeping at a slightly different angle cripples my neck and back for days1 Thinking about the wrong thing while trying to get to sleep will prolong wakefulness by exactly one night2 Eating without having taken a magic pill with trigger my body to start dissolving itself3 Very interested in binge watching TV series but do not seem to enjoy the actual watching4 But another of them is the inability to stop buying board games. This time I decided I would stop subjecting others in my life to this obsession of mine. I have never understood why I find it difficult to commit to a single one-hour long episode of a TV show, but have no problem spending four hours on a board-game, but that is just the way of things. ...