More boardgames played from home. I think I'm getting more irked with
remote play now that the possibility of the real thing exists again.
So I did play some more
Letter
Tycoon, but
I think I've pretty much given up on this now. I had 140+ games, and
many of them were fun, but I and the people I was playing against were
good enough that any actual win seemed to be largely chance. Hey ho.
More Rallyman:
GT, which is
just so much more fun at a physical table. Tabletop Simulator (where
I'm the co-author of the GT mod) is much closer to this than BGA can manage.
So I used TTS as the platform when someone wanted to be talked thruogh
the rules, and it seemed to work rather well.
Automobiles
on yucata. Really not soloable, but this is another game I'm very keen
to get back to an actual physical table.
I ran Blood on the
Clocktower
for the discussion.tekeli.li forum. It's hard work for players and GM,
and I think forum games lend themselves too much to analysis in lieu
of reading peoples' body language, but it was still fun. I may make my
own cheapskate's set with coin capsules and a magnetic whiteboard.
Firefly: The
Game,
another play by forum on tekeli.li – a surprisingly fast start with
these mostly novice players, which slowed things down later as they
came up against tough challenges too soon. But I think they had a good
time.
Hardback on
BGA: it's rather less a word game and more a deckbuilder than it
appears to be, something in the style of Star Realms in fact. Lost
horribly, but hey, I'll try again…
More Lemminge
and Red7 on yucata.
Sure, yucata has many of the same conceptual flaws as BGA, but it's
not owned by a private equity fund.
Rallyman for the
monthly challenge. The numbers of players are definitely dropping, but
there's still fun to be had here.
My third forum game, Sherlock
13, which
only took about half a day. Yeah, it's quite fun. But the basic
problem is that it's a £15 game box which contains thirteen cards and
some score sheets.
One more play of A Touch of Evil: The Supernatural
Game
on TTS, in two sessions. I'm in love with the story generation of this
game and I'm definitely going to run it in person as soon as I can.
And another largish game that I'm falling in love with: Xia: Legends
of a Drift
System
(this play with the over-produced and under-scripted paid TTS mod, and
only the basic version of the game, playing to five points and with no
NPC ships). Even without the expansions, there's more of a
multiple-paths-to-victory feel than with Firefly.
(Therefore you should buy my spare games. Burgle Bros, Exodus: Paris
Nouveau, Suburbia with all its expansions, are all up for grabs.)
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