gaming on the 25th

[winterbadger]

So, I'm trying to prepare for my game day on the 25th. I'd like to run a historical miniatures game (though there will of course also be boardgaming). What sort of game should I run?

Even if you're not a regular LJ user/poster, please feel free to vote and comment if you're planning on joining in; I could really use the feedback.

[Poll #512903]

Comments

[sidhne.livejournal.com]

I don't know yet if I can attend, but I picked one because I like to vote in polls.

not definite

[bidger.livejournal.com]

I'm not definite to attend, but I voted anyway (Boer).
So adjust results accordingly.

Re: not definite

[winterbadger]

Bidge', how excellent to hear from you! I thought we had lost you forever to the life bucolic. ;-)

Re: not definite

[bidger.livejournal.com]

Mmm.. well, especially covered with cheese, it is a
fabulous vegetable. But I never heard of anyone
being lost to bro-

Oh. You said _bucolic_.

I'm here all week. Try the veal.

Re: not definite

[winterbadger]

:-)

I do miss you, old chap.

At first, when you mentioned cheese, I thought "The sophomore sensation credits her agility and quick first step to her father, who used to take her to a neighborhood park all covered with cheese." A Sports Night reference, which only poliscidiva, vikingcat, or redactrice will probably get...and they've probably stopped reading. :-)

Re: not definite

[bidger.livejournal.com]

;) Alas, Sorkin has been wasting his time writing a movie,
since his little run-in with sniffer dogs at the airport
led to his departure from WW.

Sports Night getting cancelled still angers me. Because, of
course, there aren't enough real and important things to get
legitimately angry about these days... ;) I was prepared
to be equally disappointed this year but FOX (of all networks)
actually did the right thing and re-upped for Arrested Development
(best network sitcom since SportsNight, IMO).

Re: not definite

[winterbadger]

Because, of
course, there aren't enough real and important things to get
legitimately angry about these days... ;)

As my friend Dave at work (A fellow I think you would enjoy, bidger) is fond of saying, "As long as you're outraged, that's what's really important." :-)

Fox is surprsiing sometimes. "House" is good too. You'd think they were a real network. And "Rescue Me" was really good too, until they started getting wrapped up in trying to out-weird the previous episode.

Re: not definite

[bidger.livejournal.com]

All IMO, but House was the best new show of the year, cable or
network, and Arrested Development was the year before. For as
little as I watch TV, FOX sure does get the bulk of my business.
And they have a summer program, The Inside, co-produced by Tim
Minear of Angel and Firefly repute. The pilot last week was
pretty good (if intentionally grim) for a pilot. Could evolve
into something good.

And, yeah, if you can't get ticked about the little things, then
all that repressing the important stuff could really hurt you.

;)

Re: not definite

[winterbadger]

OK, Mr Bidger, it looks like you (if you make it) and I will be the only people playing, so Boers it is. I'll get started painting and basing...

Why, oh why do people who aren't actually participating still find it necessary to enter a vote other than abstention? Slightly annoying to me, I have to confess.

Re: not definite

[vikingcat.livejournal.com]

I do indeed get it. Just starting the second season now . . .

Re: not definite

[winterbadger]

Yay! thought you might have dropped off the radar screen.

Where do we stand with TYW?

viking cat and bidger both posting in the same week--the (boardgaming-related) planets are aligning!

Re: not definite

[vikingcat.livejournal.com]

My RCS is undiminshed.

Re: TYW (AKA "some crap that happened 400 years ago", which I think would actually have been a catchier subtitle than "Europe in Agony") I was figuring that I still needed to noodle around with CB to figure out how cards work in it, but you can probably tell me that, I suppose. Other than that I think I'm basically ready to roll. It's likely to be an even uglier thirty years for those yearning to breathe free from the yoke of Rome than the real war was, I fear. I guess this time around we should sort out which optional rules we're using in advance, though. :-)

Re: not definite

[winterbadger]

My RCS is undiminshed.

So you're not turning, then. Took me a moment. :-)

I was figuring that I still needed to noodle around with CB to figure out how cards work in it,

Actually I need to do the same. As the two evil princes say in The Land of Green Ginger, you plot and I'll plan, and we'll add together and divide by two.

I guess this time around we should sort out which optional rules we're using in advance, though. :-)

Yes, that would probably be good. :-)

Re: not definite

[vikingcat.livejournal.com]

Back to the original thread, I was thinking that I might be available on the 25th, but my parents have just decided to drop by that day, so no dice (literally).

Re: not definite

[winterbadger]

Alas! We will have to hold the special initiation ceremony another day... ;-)