I've never done this much gaming over a holiday weekend. Most of it has come in the form of boardgaming, specifically Settlers of Catan. Des and I made the mistake of turning my family onto the game and we have created monsters. Thursday it was Settlers with my aunt and uncle, Friday night was a mega six-person game with my aunt, uncle, and parents, and Saturday was Settlers with my parents. Today, following up on my recent resolution to resurrect my "other" hobby, I played my first miniatures game in well over a year-and-a-half (my Undead versus Des's Amazons) and had an absolute blast. (Pictures and battle report coming sometime this week, hopefully.)
All the same, I'm a little "diced out" right now. Time to take a couple days to relax and focus on non-gaming stuff before jumping back into the Pendragon campaign (of which I'm two session reports behind - sorry!) and (hopefully) more minis games. Of course, painting minis and writing blog posts counts as "non-gaming stuff" in my mind, so it's not like I'm talking about that radical of a departure...
(Oh, and speaking of minis games, I've come up with an exciting miniatures-related project for 2011. Details to follow sometime soon after the New Year. For now, let's just say I've decided to drink the Kool-Aid, as it were.)
Ello there. Love your blog by the way, especially the Solo Pendragon game. Can I ask, do you know if it's still possible to by the Book of Battles and Book of Manors from Greg Staffords webpage now that the rights have been sold again? Or would I have to go through the new publishers?
ReplyDeleteSame here, though with my family its Dominion and Puerto Rico. The boardgamers just left (the little 5 year old is amazing in that he often wins fair and square on strategy board games.) So now its just my father around who games, and he's into cards mostly. The next couple of days will be bridge and cribbage. Lastly, on of my 2 year old twin daughters is really into Candyland, which she got for Christmas.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas and Happy New Year!
DB: Thanks for the kind words! I'm not totally sure about the status of the Stafford supplements. My understanding is that they're not currently available, but that there are plans afoot to re-release them with new covers and errata under the Nocturnal banner.
ReplyDeleteEric: The family that games together...