This post is about what I brought back from Essen – as well as some
things I'd been thinking about but ended up not buying.
Auction winnings and games for other people:
A Railroad Ink. promo board; Between Two Cities; Tobago; and
Automobiles: Racing Season. Shake Up and its promo pack,
Possession and its expansion, and lots of Flash Point.
The main haul: Odyseja, Magic Maze Hidden Roles (not sure how much
sense this makes, since I only know one other person who likes Magic
Maze and he's several hundred miles away), Lux Aeterna, Lovelace &
Babbage; then demonstrator freebies Conflicting Legends, Doctor!
Doctor!, Among Thieves and Finger Guns at High Noon. (I'll
probably keep Among Thieves, but the others may go into a maths
trade still in shrink.) Also Mental
Blocks (but not Tuki which I couldn't find at a decent price),
Bloom Town, and an ex-demo copy of Aftershock.
Just visible on the left: the Aeon's End: The New Age mat.
Finally a bunch of promos from The Dice Tower, which will be going
into their respective games.
Considered but not bought:
Reset '86: not yet available, and looks mechanically uninteresting.
Trial of the Temples; Jiguan: The Eastern Mechanist; Jixia Academy:
all more expensive than UK retail.
Coloma: heavyish euro with a Western theme, which ticks none of my
boxes.
Throne of Allegoria: seems oddly lacking in anything fun.
Trismegistus: interesting ideas but a famously bad rulebook and I
didn't see anything to outweigh that.
Not Alone: Exploration: not available.
Project L: would have been a Kickstarter pickup, but they had
last-minute problems with the prototype batch.
Sarah's Vision: oddly over-abstracted for me.
So, You've Been Eaten: not available.
Obscurio: turns out to be an Asmodée company, and while I'm not
boycotting them I'm trying to put my game-buying money towards the
smaller companies that actually need it.
Just One; The Quacks of Quedlinburg: neither available in English.
Tuki: couldn't find it below UK mail-order.
Arcana Magica: weirdly unappealing when I saw it in person.
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