quiet Game Day

[winterbadger]

This was a very small gathering. Around 1.30 or so Chris and Mel came down and we had a couple of games of foosball, then started learning St. Petersburg. Ellen R., who I met recently and invited to join us, came by and demurred from diving into the deep end of boardgaming right away, so we started off with several rounds of Pass the Bomb. Keith B. showed up, and we played Trivial Pursuit. Ellen had to leave (for her last night of barmaiding at the British Embassy music hall) and we finished the game, then had a mixed coubles game of foosball (Keith and Melissa trounced Chris and me). Keith and I had several matches of Odin's Ravens while the grrls went upstairs and took naps. We had dinner and some football watching, after which the grrls reappeared and we all had a couple of games of Condottiere, using some optional rules, and eventually parted around 12.30!

Comments

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

I just bought Odin's Ravens...how do you like it? Did you like St. Petersburg?

[winterbadger]

Odin's Ravens is *loads* of fun, especially once you read all the rules correctly :-) (For a while, Keith and I missed the important fact that you can play three cards *each* from your hand and your auxiliary pile). It might also be a better game if one played to a specific difference in scores, instead of to a limit. Hmmm, that's not terribly clear.

For those of you without the game, you play each match to 12 points, and each player can win several points per game. Once one of you reaches the end of the course, you get three for having more cards spent on magic, plus how many squares ahead of the other player you were at the end. So I might finish the game and get two points for being two space ahaead of you, but if you had more cards in the magic pile, you'd get three points. I'd have gotten fewer points in that game than you did, but if I had ten points already, and you only had, say, six, then I would win even though I kind of lost the game.

It's not that it's necessarily bad that wy; Keith and I just thought it might be more fun if one had to accrue a ceratin number of points *more* than the other person.

But it's definitely a fun game. We played three matches, whihc I think amounted to at least ten or so games.

[sidhne.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun. I'm sure you had more fun than I did. My house looks like a cyclone hit (more so than usual) while I prepare for ' arrival. It would have been nice to take a break, but the amount of tasks still to complete is quite daunting.

[sidhne.livejournal.com]

Make that sharrainchains' arrival.

Sheesh, I must be low on caffeine!