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Down to the Well
Apr. 8th, 2024 09:31 pmOne of my games went off. I played in a couple of others. Saw some Lexington friends.
Lexicon is a board game con, and if you're not there for that, and especially for whatever classic and/or darling of the year that the organizers are in love with, you're a second-class citizen. Minis and RPG folks are shunted off to a very loud room, and it looks like more board game tables are going to be placed in the RPG space. So, we're not only ghettoized, but we're going to be colonized. Yay.
Shadowdark is a really good game. From my experience, it seems to walk a line between OSE and DCC, and that's right up my trad-fantasy alley at present. The Electric State ... it's interesting to see how far stripping down the MYZ engine can go, but the setting just left me cold. That may be due to the GM, however. Whatever. I have plenty of games.
And playing Coriolis was good. I'm taken with the setting, in its Third Horizon incarnation, anyway. I went in on the Kickstarter for Great Dark, then canceled my pledge after seeing the Great Dark preview release. Not really to my taste.
Lexicon is a board game con, and if you're not there for that, and especially for whatever classic and/or darling of the year that the organizers are in love with, you're a second-class citizen. Minis and RPG folks are shunted off to a very loud room, and it looks like more board game tables are going to be placed in the RPG space. So, we're not only ghettoized, but we're going to be colonized. Yay.
Shadowdark is a really good game. From my experience, it seems to walk a line between OSE and DCC, and that's right up my trad-fantasy alley at present. The Electric State ... it's interesting to see how far stripping down the MYZ engine can go, but the setting just left me cold. That may be due to the GM, however. Whatever. I have plenty of games.
And playing Coriolis was good. I'm taken with the setting, in its Third Horizon incarnation, anyway. I went in on the Kickstarter for Great Dark, then canceled my pledge after seeing the Great Dark preview release. Not really to my taste.