Nhemet

I find everyone I play in Arcana right out of the gate blitz’s for personalities. I prefer a more systematic method.

1. Start with relics, they are cheap and rarely will you have competition for them. Also they com in handy for the next step. After you’ve gotten 4ish move to step two.

2. Personalities. Yeah, everyone else will be fighting for these, but you’ve set yourself up with a bit of an advantage in step one. Just start bribing them out from under your opponents.

3. After you’ve built your deck up a bit start hitting locations as they come up. Your opponents may have more personalities than you, but bribing could have let you get some high stakes personalities with out the need to have a bunch of middleweights.

This isn’t a guaranteed strategy, I’m mean there is still a lot of luck involved. Using it as a loose frame work though let’s me win more often than not.

Busted Abyss out the morning after new year as me and the girlfriend were up first and bored. By the time we finished the whole house had woken up and watched us play and wanted in, problem was there were 8 of us.

As a quick solution, and to keep in theme, we split in to teams of two to form “Noble Families”. It turned out fantastic, the plotting and scheming got way more intense. We had cabal’s forming, alliances made and discarded, internal disputes, and even an out right betrayal! I feel like it added to the game and definitely gave a social party game tint to it.

This game is amazing, and absolutely ridiculous. One part I feel is really underutilized though is the EPIC WIZARD VOICES.

I know the rules said that players can choose a punishment if you fail to cast your spell in your voice, and this is what my group game up with to give it an impact on game play. If you fail to cast your spell in your wizard voice you lose a random component. you only forget once, usually cause it leaves you standing a little weak on your knees.