I’ve had this game for over a year, played and enjoyed it solo. The latest expansions are on their way to me. I guess i should bring it out and give it another play or two.
Maybe not solo this time, too, yeah?
Best Buy Encounter
Wednesday I stopped by Best Buy on the way home from my optometry appointment. As I made my way to the registers, browsing the movies on the way, a guy wearing an Xfinity lanyard stopped me…
Xfinity Guy: Hi, do you have Xfinity at home?
Me (smirking): No, I don’t.
XG: Who do you use for internet?
Me: Sonic.
XG: Hmmm… how much do you pay per month? Over $50?
Me: Sorry, I just cancelled Xfinity at my house a couple of weeks ago, so I’m really not interested.
XG (now with a downtrodden look on his face): Oh.
And then he walked away.
Sorry, dude.
Oh, and I went home with a ream of printer paper and Sega Classics for the PS4. And a bottle of lemonade.
Green Horde Wave 2
The second shipment of Zombicide: Green Horde arrived at the office.
Behold!
Games Day 05.05.2018
Gloomhaven
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Second game, my character trapped in the basement until Glenn arrived in a magic elevator
Victory!Solo
Except for a couple of days with friends every month, I am a solitaire gamer.
Or solo gamer.
I miss the days when my friends and I would play games almost every weekend, mostly role-playing games like Star Trek or Top Secret. Nowadays we do RPGs once a month.
Because of this we’re limited to sticking with a given game world or system for a few months, like D&D or Hyperlanes or some superhero-based system. Meanwhile, other systems stay on the shelves, collecting dust.
Imagine my surprise when I went to drivethruRPG.com and discovered this:
The Cepheus Engine is another name for the classic Traveller RPG system, and this product allows one to play without a referee/game master in any of the existing versions of Traveller.
Like the one that I have at home from Mongoose Publishing.
At 150+ pages, this looks to be a good way for me to play Traveller… Solo.
We’ll see.
*dust off Traveller core rule book*
Games Day 04.14.2018
Three games played:
Gloomhaven, a dungeon crawl co-op game. This is the 4th time we’ve attempted the first scenario, and this time we succeeded!
Han Solo Card Game, an adaptation of the in-universe game Sabacc; it even comes with a pair of dice similar to the ones hanging in the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon
Dice Throne, which came down to the Paladin (Glenn) vs. the Barbarian (Dave). The Pyromancer (Nelson) and Moon Elf (me) were both knocked out of the game earlier.
Games Overload, Again
So Monday I acquired, through various means:
- Necromunda Underhive
- Leaving Earth
- Top Secret New World Order
- the 1987 MLB season for Payoff Pitch Baseball
Aside from sorting the 1987 season, opening the Necromunda box, and printing out character sheets for Top Secret NWO, I haven’t had a chance to start looking at the rules for the three new games.
And I want to learn them all immediately.
Ack.
Mighty Protectors a.k.a. V&V 3.0
Today our gaming group tried the Mighty Protectors Super-Hero Role-Playing Game.
We created characters (all except me) and ran through a combat session.
Four of the players chose to make random roles for everything, while one had a concept already in mind. We ended up with an interesting group of heroes, all with different power sets, with only a couple of overlapping powers.
The five heroes attacked each other individually, with varying levels of success, mostly due to an occasional bad die roll.
A car was tossed around by a pair of Magneto-type characters, while another pair of heroes squared off, alternately punching and shooting each other with a devitalization (power draining) ray.
All-in-all, I think we’ve found our super hero RPG, choosing this one over Mutants and Masterminds, which all of us had trouble understanding.
Even when we were stumped with a combat situation, we were able to work our way to a solution that made sense.
I look forward to running a full adventure for this, even without playing a character, though I did create a couple on my own.
And they’ll have a butler NPC named Alvis (Jarfred sounded dumb) to attend to their needs. I just have to figure out how/where to introduce him.
Wasted Day
I woke up this morning to some very familiar feelings of nausea.
Food poisoning.
I immediately went back to bed.
I woke up about 4 hours later to email work that I’d be out before I went straight back to bed.
Another 3 hours later, I got up and took a shower since I was sweating a lot while I was sleeping. I made some tea, but only drank half of it and went back to bed.
I woke up again about 4 hours later and made some toast and finished my tea. Back to bed.
Got up again 2 hours later and seem to have shaken off most of the effects, though I do have a bit of a headache.
I tossed the foods that I ate the night before, though I suspect it was the milk, which expires tomorrow, but it had a faint odd smell, but tasted okay with cereal. Never again.
Currently eating dry toast and tea.
As a result of this, I got a ticket on my car for street cleaning violation, and 3 packages (game stuff, camera accessory, Kickstarter reward) that I was expecting at work have been delivered, but I’ll wait until Monday to get them.
Wasted day. Though in my semi-sleepy state I had the TV on to the Giants game, though I missed Bumgarner breaking his hand, and there’s a James Bond marathon on MGMHD channel.
Check Six
The Corsair Leader campaign released the images of the personalized pilot cards for the game, including mine.
Behold!
Since I was about 11 or 12, when I first built that 1/72 scale model F4F Wildcat ($2 from Woolworth’s in downtown San Francisco), I always wanted to pilot one of these.
This is about as close as I’ll get, I suppose, and my cardboard doppelganger will be fighting the good fight against the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II.
I can’t wait.