Weekend

[learnedax]

On Friday tpau and I picked up juldea, went and muddled around a bit with a pharmacy, and headed out to WPI for Gaming Weekend. Awesomeness ensued.

I was somehow under the impression that mpgalvin and shogunhb would be the only people I even vaguely knew there (aside from our crash-space-provider londo). As it turned out I think I knew about 30% of the atendants, including drdt, mr_teem, qedrakmar, pawo, and a surprising number of people I hadn't seen since I was a freshman at WPI and who I never thought would be involved with the gaming community.

The three days run together a bit, particularly since we got to bed around dawn both Friday and Saturday nights, so much of the weekend is just a blur of Bang (nifty game I'd never seen before), Apples to Apples when I was feeling braindead, Roborally (still lots of fun, but I had forgotten how slow it can be), occasional DDR, and a profusion of random other games. Didn't get into much deep strategy, opting for novelty instead. Friday night a large group of us played Pictophone, a hilarious lightweight game in which sentences are passed around a circle on pieces of paper, with each player alternately translating to and from pictographs, much as in Telephone but actually fun.

A large chunk of my Saturday was spent hanging out with drdt and running Blind Cosmic Encounter with him. Fun time. I wish I'd been able to go to the King Lear cast party and/or jjaquinta's party, both of which look like they were a lot of fun; in fact I had mad party-hopping plans, but they failed annoyingly so I was stuck only having one kind of fun at once. Ah, well.

Sunday tpau, juldea, mr_teem, and I played in shogunhb's Care Bears Call of Cthulu one-shot, which was extremely amusing and might have been genuinely creepy except for the wacky Care Bearness (I played Kung-Fu Action Bear).

After some more random gaming (including my introduction to Bohnanza, which is pretty fun) a mob of us descended on TGIF along with an old WPI friend I hadn't seen in some time. Much fun and alcohol was had. Got home around ten, and crashed in fairly short order after that.

Comments

[mr-teem.livejournal.com]

Kung Fu Action Bear! was awesome!

[shogunhb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was a good one.

[jducoeur]

"Blind Cosmic Encounter"? Inquiring minds want to know...

[learnedax.livejournal.com]

Also known confusingly as Double-Blind Cosmic Encounter. The powers are kept secret from the players, and they have to work out what's going on. This requires a lot of work for a referee (or in this case two), and that certain powers not be used as they would require player knowledge to work properly. This particular game was thorny in that we wound up with Pentaform (including Terrorist, which confused the players rather a lot) and Changeling bouncing around and keeping almost everyone from cluing in before game end. The latter also unexpectedly put together Mirror and Virus, leading to a final battle of 300 to 9.

We used a rule where if you correctly guessed what power you had you could control it, rather than be assumed to always use where applicable, which didn't come up that much but is still an important addition.

[jducoeur]

Okay, let me just say that that is the most *completely* insane thing I've heard all month. I can't decide if I would love it, or hate it, or both at the same time...