Another Mansions of
Madness
session, this one with a published scenario (Ill-Fated Exhibit).
It quickly became clear that this was basically a logic grid puzzle,
having five items each with three characteristics to be discovered.
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For me, that was the more enjoyable bit (partly because I beat the
others to the solution by a few seconds); once we'd scattered and
found all the data we needed, there was a secondary adventure of
moving an item to a place and throwing actions at it while monsters
advanced. And these felt awfully random; a shoggoth, a Mi-Go, and a
Hound of Tindalos? Sure, why not? They're basically just there to be
sacks of hit points that close in and kill you. But this is a more
general problem that I have with FFG's approach to the Cthulhu mythos:
all too much of it comes down to shooting eldritch beasties in the
face with shotguns.
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Most of us went mad. I even got an appropriate madness.
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But we completed the objective, just barely in time; this means that
technically I lost, but I don't really care about that.
Next we played Between Two
Cities,
which went rather better than the last time I played.
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We ended up having to go to the second tiebreaker to determine a
winner (which wasn't I). I rather like this already as a basic
city-building game, and the skewed play adds to the fun.
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Finally, Flamme
Rouge, using
one of the promotional courses that includes material from the
Péloton expansion. This is a bit longer than most of the standard
courses, and we were all flagging by the end.
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Fairly spread out by the top of the first hill.
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Mostly back together, but the lead breakaway rider was still out
ahead.
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At about the two-thirds mark the pack was back together.
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"Everybody gets exhaustion cards!" First time I've seen that happen.
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I pulled off a win… just barely, and certainly not on team average.
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