44 minutes into the cusp

[reverancepavane]

Or alternatively: Go Speed Racer Go! I quite liked the film, but it's definitely film that will polarise the audience. Either you accept the underlying anime premise and relax and enjoy the movie (in which case it flows a lot faster than you expect), or struggle to catagourise it by thinking it is something that it isn't (and end up leaving in disgust). The aggregation of boardgames continues, with the likely candidates being Power Grid, Ticket to Ride (Europe), In The Year of the Dragon, and Shadows Over Camelot in this round. I would have gotten Galaxy Trucker or Twilight Struggle, but since neither copes with 5 players I doubt I'll get to play them if I do. Considered expanding Arkham Horror (and still might), but probably won't get a lot of play out of it either (although it would impressive when fully set up). Might also get Give Me The Brain for the non-gamer crowd, although Family Business is probably also a valid alternative. I was seriously tempted by Agricola,the new German game of being peasant farmers attempting to become prosperous peasant farmers, but this will probably need to wait for the next round of aquisitions (which means someone else from our gaming group will probably snaffle it ahead of me; pity, looks fun). Meanwhile we have just completed a number of games of Imperial, the pre-WWI game of arms profiteering. Quite a good game with an apparent similarity to the classic Diplomacy game, although this is misleading, since identifying with any specific country is a recipe for disaster. Too many players focused on creating economically viable countries, when the real secret in the game is to steal as much of the country's treasury as much as possible. Also, being in control of the United Kingdom apparently rots your brain. Still thinking of virtual table-top roleplaying (although in this case it's more probably going to be roll-playing – VT and all). Really tempted to convert some old dungeon crawls, and seriously looking at using the old The Fantasy Trip rule set to do so, or at least modifications of it. However this will probably just add another circular tuit to my already impressively-long tuit shopping list. Thinking of getting some more indie stuff, but I'm cunningly going to wait until all the physical items are in stock at the same time, especially since it doesn't seem likely it will get played. Have I mentioned how much I hate the added expense of shipping? Especially since no one seems to offer "tramp steamer" rates any more. <sigh>

Comments

[maelorin]

hurrah!

hot rods and gun bunnies. hmmm. *steeples hands*