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Mar. 25th, 2020 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherThis month with the gaming group I played Dice Forge, Tomb Trader; Antidote, Arkham Horror: The Card Game, Parfum, and Carnival of Monsters.
I particularly enjoyed Tomb Trader and Carnival of Monsters. Tomb Trader is a quick-playing card game in which everybody is trying to sneak valuable artifacts out of an archaeological dig, but you have to negotiate with another player if they're after the same artifacts as you (it's kept quick-playing by there being a time limit before the dig's guards show up, at which point anybody still arguing gets nothing). Each player gets a character card at the beginning of the game, which affects which artifacts they're most interested in. Carnival of Monsters is a much longer and more elaborate game, but come to think of it the premise is broadly similar: in this case, the player characters are running expeditions to find rare and mysterious beasties they can show off back home.
I would also happily play Parfum or Arkham Horror CG again. We only got to play the introductory section of the Arkham Horror campaign, but at the end of it the bloke who owned the game packed our character decks away as-is so we could continue it another time. The character card I chose to represent my player character turned out to have flavour text explaining that she was devoutly religious and on a divinely-inspired quest to smite evil, which seemed like an odd character beat for a Lovecraftian horror game, but it does come with a built-in risk of losing your sanity (if you fail the tasks the voice in your head gives), and of course there's no guarantee she's right about where the voice in her head comes from.
In other gaming news, the roleplaying campaign has progressed. We've mapped out most of the tunnel system now, and had an amusing encounter where we interrupted a group of darkmantles, cave-dwelling critters whose signature attack is to drop on their victim from above and envelop his head, leaving him blind and unable to breathe. What made it amusing was that the character they tried this on was mine, who out of the entire party is the one who doesn't breathe anyway.
I particularly enjoyed Tomb Trader and Carnival of Monsters. Tomb Trader is a quick-playing card game in which everybody is trying to sneak valuable artifacts out of an archaeological dig, but you have to negotiate with another player if they're after the same artifacts as you (it's kept quick-playing by there being a time limit before the dig's guards show up, at which point anybody still arguing gets nothing). Each player gets a character card at the beginning of the game, which affects which artifacts they're most interested in. Carnival of Monsters is a much longer and more elaborate game, but come to think of it the premise is broadly similar: in this case, the player characters are running expeditions to find rare and mysterious beasties they can show off back home.
I would also happily play Parfum or Arkham Horror CG again. We only got to play the introductory section of the Arkham Horror campaign, but at the end of it the bloke who owned the game packed our character decks away as-is so we could continue it another time. The character card I chose to represent my player character turned out to have flavour text explaining that she was devoutly religious and on a divinely-inspired quest to smite evil, which seemed like an odd character beat for a Lovecraftian horror game, but it does come with a built-in risk of losing your sanity (if you fail the tasks the voice in your head gives), and of course there's no guarantee she's right about where the voice in her head comes from.
In other gaming news, the roleplaying campaign has progressed. We've mapped out most of the tunnel system now, and had an amusing encounter where we interrupted a group of darkmantles, cave-dwelling critters whose signature attack is to drop on their victim from above and envelop his head, leaving him blind and unable to breathe. What made it amusing was that the character they tried this on was mine, who out of the entire party is the one who doesn't breathe anyway.
