Happy Monday, tabletoppers!
What games did you get up to in the last ~7 days? Feel free to share any stories, anecdotes, thoughts, and opinions about your game sessions. And don’t forget to discuss others’ games too, of course!
Bonus question of the week: What game do you introduce/recommend to almost everyone?
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Nothing in the last week. My copy of Expeditions showed up from Stonemaier Games though and I cannot wait to get into it, maybe next week when I’m on vacation. I played it back in May at a convention in St. Louis and loved it!
Do you prep the game box before first play? I sometimes like to save popping out all of the tokens since my friends like it so much!
I used to pop everything once it showed up, now I tend to wait. I’ll typically have a game already prepped before playing so we can jump into the rules explanations from the get go if possible.
Ran my first session of Pirate Borg! Opened the session with naval combat to get everyone used to the rules. Really enjoying the naval combat rules and my players were happy with the new system. Excited for the next session where we will be running the in book adventure! In true OSR/NSR fashion someone died in the first session which there were plenty of laughs around the table.
Outside of ttrpgs I finally received my copy of Dustrunner. A solo only board game that fits in a mint tin. Had several plays of it already and quickly becoming my new favorite out of my other mint tin games. If anyone considers solo board gaming a try, Dustrunner is an excellent start.
The Taverns of Tiefenthal is a new one for us, played it 3 times so far. The game combines deckbuilding and dice drafting in an interesting way. First time we played with the basic ruleset after that we felt confident enough to throw in all the modules at once. The game is definitely best in this full mode. The extra modules are not too complicated and make the turn-decisions more interesting. Some act as mini-games of sorts. One of my favorite modules is the one that gaves unique starting setups, looking forward to playing with all of these. I kinda wish there were more besdies the 7 included. There is an expansion out there, will have to look into that at some point.
I finally got around to playing Stray and it’s such a good game!
It always sounded like such an odd concept to play as a cat but it actually works quite well!
Would definitely recommend it!
Hey! Unless there’s a tabletop game named Stray that I’m not aware of, I think you might be in the wrong community (this is Tabletop, not !gaming@beehaw.org).
(Although now I’m secretly hoping there’s a tabletop game just like it 😁)
Haha yeah, sorry! Guess i should pay more attention!
I’ve had a bit of a low gaming week, only played
D&D 5e (1x 4p): We’re taking a bit of a break from our main campaign that’s been running for 5 or 6 years, and one of the players is DMing a few sessions of something from the Wild Beyond the Witchlight book. We’re enjoying the very strange Witchlight Carnaval! I play a Fairy druid, and as I discovered as we started playing, my character has ADHD. I’m really enjoying the silliness of the setting, and the DM is fantastic at doing silly voices which fits so well!
Bonus question of the week: one game I recommend to almost anyone is The Crew. Cooperative games are enjoyed by almost anyone, the rules are so simple to explain and fit pretty much everyone’s attention span, games are short but you can play it for hours too, and depending on experience and skill you can dramatically adjust the difficulty. And it’s cheap and small and easy to bring places. Great game all round!
one of the players is DMing a few sessions of something from the Wild Beyond the Witchlight book.
I loved playing through Wild Beyond the Witchlight! It’s such a clear departure from most of the modules that Wizards puts out.
Yeah it’s been really fun so far! I mean we’re only 2 sessions in so I don’t know much about where it’s gonna go yet, but so far it’s a really different experience. I’m excited to play on, just gotta wait for people to get back from their holidays…
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My group are currently fighting the BBEG in our PF2e Agents of Edgewatch Campaign. We’ve taken our characters from level 1-20 (a few deaths or departures along the way) It’s been about 2-2.5 years that we’ve been running the game, so it’s a bit sad to see it ending, but also exciting that we’ve made it this far.
Mild spoilers are marked below, nothing major plotwise. My character is currently the party member that wields the maguffin. Its a
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level 25 artifact that can cast a 10th level Dominate spell unlimited number of times/day, with a DC 49 Will save. Downside is that my character is the only one who can wield it safely, due to not having the Good alignment (I’m a LN Rogue focused on Dual Weapon Warrior, so using the super magic artifact is an interesting change).
Shenanigans have been had.
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During a single fight, there was one boss monster and 4 demons. I ended up permanently dominating 3 of the demons, and had them carry my other party members around, lifting them up near the flying boss, so the melee fighters could smack him.
My group almost finished Act 1 of Stars of Akarios it’s a GloomHaven-esque game set in space. You play a group of fighter pilots and engage with other craft. There is a very neat exploration mechanic too which I really enjoy. There are some teething issues but that will hopefully be corrected in the next release.
Ooh I’m not familiar with this game but it looks pretty cool! In what way would you say it is like Gloomhaven?
