Golden Anvil

Well, tonight MrsKheldar and I played another game of Last Night on Earth. Mark couldn't make it over, so it was just the two of us. She was playing the heroes this time while I took over the zombies.

This time we were playing the advanced rules. This adds an additional 20 cards to both the zombie and hero card decks. It also means a number of additional scenarios. The scenario we randomly drew was Escape in the Truck. There's a truck parked in the center of the board. The heroes need to find the keys and find the gas and fuel up the truck. Then there needs to be two heroes at the truck at the end of their turn in order to win. The zombies win by killing off 3 of the 4 heroes (so that they don't have the required 2 to escape) or running out the clock (15 turns).

So, I do very much enjoy the Descent board game that MrsKheldar got me for Christmas, but it IS a long game, so our play times will be less frequent than desired. Plus, I'd allocated some of my Christmas money for another board game. So, this week I went out and picked up another game called: Last Night on Earth.

This is a game about zombies, presented in a fairly light style intended to bring about the feel of a horror B-movie. We didn't take any pictures this time, but you can see one here.

Today MrsKheldar and I spent most of the day playing Descent: Journeys in the Dark. This is a big board game with lots of counters and markers and such, kind of like Arkham Horror (for those of you who've played that). This was MrsKheldar's Christmas gift to me, and it definitely looks like a winner. We had a lot of fun playing, although the game too waaaay longer than expected, in part due to time to punch out all the markers and having to do a lot of searches through the rules as we were playing. I suspect our next game will be a good deal shorter.

Well, I wasn't planning on extending yesterday's post another day, but I kept thinking of other things I wanted to mention about the game, so I figured maybe having a follow up post would work well. For this post, I just want to list a couple of things I really like about the game. These are in no particular order, but I'll try to provide some context to each so that they make some kind of sense.

I promised a review of Arkham Horror, so I'd better get to it. Before I get sidetracked and forget.

Arkham Horror is a cooperative game for anywhere from 1 to 8 players. The game is set in the 1920s, and the general theme and concept is that some vast alien monstrosity is trying to force it's way into our world. Once here, it will destroy everything. Each player has a character who is trying to prevent this unfortunate event.

Well, the plan tonight was to play Og. But... two of our four players revealed to me that they weren't going to make it (and seemed surprised that I wasn't aware of that fact), so we decided to postpone Og until next week.

Instead, we played another game of Power Grid. It would have been four of us, but another guy at work joined in so we had five. It was pretty fun, although I think I'm pretty much played out on that game for now. Not that it's a bad game. In fact a number of people at work have been playing it fanatically for the last month or so. I just don't feel a big urge to play again.

Anyway, so the whole roleplaying preparation bit is pushed back another week. (Well, except for the forum game, but that's a little more flexible on starting date.) Guess that means I've got another week to goof off before I have to get cracking!

Enough for now. It's late, and I need to head to bed.

Well, tonight was the first time our gaming group has gotten together for about three or four weeks. Monday is our usual play night, and I intend on keeping everyone up to date with what goes on.

Right now our group consists of me, MrsKheldar, RaNae (our teenaged friend from church), and two guys and one gal from my work. We all meet at my workplace, and MrsKheldar usually brings food for everyone. We've been playing for something over two years now, usually once a week, although sporadic at times due to scheduling problems. We've been playing a supers game set during World War II time period.

Having just finished up our last adventure prior to Christmas, we decide it was time to put the old campaign to rest for now (who knows, perhaps we'll pick it up again sometime) and start into something new. So, we spent a portion of the night talking about what we wanted to play.