Live your life one dice roll at a time
Live your life one dice roll at a time
We played through Mansions of Madness 2 on Thursday and I’m going to lay down my first impressions. This isn’t a proper review because I think I’d need to play through it a bunch more times to figure it out…
The DM screen might have been the first clever bit of not-strictly-necessary prop usage ever inflicted on gaming groups and since then gaming groups have added more and more stuff, usually not as successfully, to make their gaming sessions better.…
There’s a real risk of me going totally fanboy crazy over Descent and the Fantasy Flight campaign-in-a-box games, so I’ll try to rein it in a bit. It’s just… after playing 40k, and pissing money away on that finding companies…
May 2015? Jesus Christ, was it really that long ago? Was it really just after I got Descent? Had we only tested the waters with Mansions of Madness? Woo boy. Well, that last post is kind of appropriate because with…
Spoilers: Only sort of… last week we played through the first Mansions of Madness scenario, The Fall of House Lynch. There are 12 possible permutations of this scenario: three choices of Objectives, with two choices of where Edith resides and…
Last Friday Carol reported a bonanza of legit board games that came through Goodwill and after calling me up and letting me know what was there, I directed her to buy as much of it as I thought she could…
A quick recap of what happened from the last time: After killing off some goblin assassins using the stab-parley-stab tactic, they were about to go try to find the bottle-headed goblin Mart and Beth had seen earlier. They were distracted…
I’m still working on a recap of the complicated situation the Echo Wood crew finds themselves in. In the meantime: brief notes of games I’ve enjoyed recently. FarCry4, I wish they’d never stop making these. In fact, I wish they’d…
Having left the Emerald Spire, the party returned to Thornkeep where they: Successfully reunited the wayward Adelind Fraston with her parents, who were very grateful. Talked Adelind into staying with her parents, basically, with Dr Cyrus’ talk therapy. This was…
Okay, here are all the magic things currently up for sale in Thornkeep. There’s a weird absence of middle-ground stuff, only cheap stuff and blow your socks off stuff. Spellcasting is available to 4th level Spells. Scrolls available from the…
