No formal games this week, but Shieldhaven, Stands-in-Fire, and a couple of other friends and I went to MACE West: Cudgelcon last weekend, instead of going to the Eclipse campover. It was a lot of fun, as Haven describes here, and in addition to renewing my fondness for Magic: The Gathering, I picked up a few rulebooks.
Fiasco: looking forward to this one! The game is a rules light, GMless game played with D6es. It is intended to recreate the experience of a Cohen Brothers film. Check it out here, and I'll provide a more thorough update once we've had a chance to play it.
Savage Worlds, and Savage Worlds: Suzerain: Haven't had a chance to read these yet, but it does give me a chance to pimp the awesome Aaron Acevedo, whose art decorates the Suzerain book, and many other Savage Mojo games. Savage Worlds, incidentally, is apparently hot shit in Western NC! I was impressed.
We also played some Core 11/Besieged of Magic: The Gathering. I'm iffy on the Besieged set, mostly because I was very spoiled by the Alara block. I mean really-- thorough multi-color support, super fast deployment of creatures... omg, merfolk. It's just happy. That said, I made a pretty decent Infect deck, having played a bunch of Wither in Alara. In case you were curious Infect does the following:
Creatures with Infect deal damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters, and to players in the form of poison counters.
So Poison Counters are also a new mechanic. If a player gets 10 of them, they lose the game. Awful, right? Yeah, play a white deck with Prot. from Black and Green creatures in it, and tell me that again.
We managed to not play any Battlestar Galactica or Mansions of Madness, though they're both games I hope to pick up soon.
In the meantime, been playing all the Shadow Hearts. I love that game-- so very hilarious, and far less railroady than I remember. But doing what sidequests you can before the second disc helps with that. Speaking of which, I am very nearly to the second disc-- at 40 hours of play. Fairly straightforward play too. Huh!
The very first World Event of Dust to Dust is this weekend! After work for me!
Yes, my work is in North Carolina, and the game is in Georgia. The game starts at noon, and my work, on Sat, ends at 10 am.
Whee!
Tuesday Magic Item – Crown of Misrule
4 days ago
Actually, Poison counters are not new - the Poisonous ability goes back to Legends. =)
ReplyDeleteI need to sit down and read Fiasco sometime soon, but then I need to have time to sit down and read soon...
Hm, I never saw it in anything I played, but I didn't play any straight legends. But one blended sets a lot more back in the day.
ReplyDeleteFortunately, Fiasco's a pretty quick read. Also, I remain pretty convinced Samhaine would be all about this. And Wombat too, when he comes down here.