Green Room - Week 21 - Day 5

[clauderainsrm]

There are some serious events happening over the next couple of weeks: Game of Thrones is ending, End Game is closing out a cycle of Marvel movies that have been happening for over a decade. And of course, our Literary Prize Fight is coming to a close with fight scenes that rival both of those events: https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1063125.html

We might not have the big budget explosions happening on screen, but we've got the "Man, that's good!" explosions happening in your brain when you read what the Top 4 have submitted. Well, that and the explosive charges I've set around your house - but those are just for fun!

and of course, tonight is both Survivor AND the Amazing Race! So life is pretty fully right now.

Well, if life can be defined as "things I'm watching on a screen", which, I'm pretty sure that's the definition.

I just started Barry as well...

What sort of screen-filled life are YOU enjoying right now? Or are you doing that fake "actually going outside" thing?

Comments

[sonreir]

Ah, I'm jealous! I don't own any of the expansions. :)

7 Wonders is GREAT for large groups, and I like the Leaders expansion and whatnot that they've put together!

I can understand the frustration with co-op. I have some Thoughts about Pandemic, for instance. :) Mostly I just hate games where you can utterly screw the other players for no good reason. I prefer more of a friendly competition where you have to trade with people, etc, to make everything work. Catan is a good example of this -- you can't be a jerk to everyone, because if you are, no one will trade with you and odds are good that you'll lose the game (unless you somehow manage to get ALL THE RIGHT RESOURCE TILES, but I've never seen that happen).

I have not heard of Xenon Profiteer! I'll have to check it out. :)

You've probably heard of it already, but if you like "I build stuff, I don't destroy stuff", Race for the Galaxy (and Roll for the Galaxy) are both great. I'm super-fond of Race, just 'cos it's really fun once you've got the basic rules down, and the two-player as well as the 3-4 player games work very differently but are each delightful in their own way. :)

[hwango]

I have played hundreds of games of Race for the Galaxy. = ) There's a PC version against an AI, which for a while there I played several times a day, and I play it fairly often in real life with a friend. It's actually been a few years since I got to play it with 3+ people. Roll is also great - that one I usually end up playing with 3-4 people. I find Roll is much easier for people to learn, since there's less iconography to learn.

As to just screwing with people...yeah, I'm not a fan. My friends and I have a running joke about games in which you can be wronged by a player and then declare "all of my future actions are against you," and just have your own private conflict, which pretty much guarantees neither of you will win. Those tend not to be my favorite games.

Did you see my comment on another thread about Wingspan? Wingspan is amazing. It's beautiful, has no aggression, and is really fun. https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/4444007/wingspan
https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/4458013/wingspan