J.B. Mannon

Game six of Risk: Legacy with two players who have not played since game one. My how things have changed!

I’ll be trying out Return of Ramses, the LEGO/Kinizia game, again. Played it last weekend and it was very loose. We had to create several ruleings that were not covered in the rules (some pretty basic things too). I’m hoping that playing around with some of the optional rules will help clearify some of the missing rules. I’m looking forward to it because the game’s hidden information and memory elements are a lot of fun to play with.

Jim I’ve heard great things about Defenders 2+ but I had yet to hear a report about one player. I’m glad the experience holds up. I may pick it up for my between games game fix. There are only so many times you can lay out solitary before you start to feel like a prisoner.

I’ll be getting together with my group to play some Dresdin Files. Got in some Ticket to Ride earlier today as well as some Magic this afternoon. As always I’m keeping up with about twenty games of Ascension with friends I rarely get to see. I’m hoping that more games take the same route as Ascension and let me play on my phone against my friends from far away. I don’t get nearly enough gaming in and I’m starting to get bored of the basic Ascention available through the app. That got ranty out of no where. And I’ll probably take the new Of Sky & Sea board to show off to the gaming group. No idea if they will play it or not. I kinda burned them out on it during playtest but then again it has been over a year and there are some new folks. We’ll see.

My friends and I picked up an all colors deck when I was 11. We had mo idea what we were doing. We read the rules and played as best we could. At first we just divided the decks up evenly with no regard to color or mana and just played. It is a mark of how well designed the game is that with three of us and a sixty card, totaly random deck one of us was able to win. After a few games like that we started to see the relationship between the spells and mana and broke the deck down by color but by then we had barely enough cards for a full hand. So we did what any smart 11 year olds would do. We saved our money and bought a booster pack each and added the new cards to our decks. This was around the time that Ice Age came out and the boosters were all from different sets and most had rules that were strange and new. That did not deter us in the least. If we didn’t understand a rule we either figured it out as a group or ignored it. I’ve been playing off and on since then and I always feel like I am coming home when I open a new booster. I know my story is probably the same as a lot of other players but I felt it needed to be said.