I am going to embark upon a journey to keep this blog up-to-date, at least with just my life happenings and my random thoughts. Just so I have them written down someplace.
Let's just look at the highlights shall we?
PAX Prime 2012!
This was a fun crazy time! We got in the Wednesday before PAX and spent that day and Thursday wandering around Seattle having lunch in the Sky Needle, which was delicious, and hunting for a pair of boots for Sioned.
PAX itself was great. I spent a bit of time in tabletop free play and getting games demoed to us.
We talked to the designer for 1001 Arabian Nights about how the game play proceeds, I got to be a very dull and stubborn camel in her example, I thought it quite hilarious and appropo given I jocularly proposed a gentleman next to me be the Head Eunic.
Played a bunch of games of Sentinels of the Multiverse, It's a fixed deck players versus the boardgame game. Quite fun and the number of villians and heroes keeps the game quite fresh every time we play. I feel it has a bit in common with Arkham Horror, mechanically wise. This game has gotten a ton of plays out of my gaming group already! Every time we get together it's pulled out for a quick game or two.
And a Demo of Leviathan! A neat tactical navel miniatures game with a steampunk theme of flying battle ships! The rules as demoed to us only had us on one plane but the developer we spoke to mentioned that he was developing some rules for multiple elevations! When we saw the game that feature was the first thing I asked after. I was slightly disappointed that it wasn't already in the game, however, the game is quite good as it is. The combat is simple and quick to grasp but I have a feeling that positioning would take multiple play-throughs to get a hold of all the nuances. It has a very good Age of Sail feel to it.
And that's it for now!