My September Gaming

September ended up being my heaviest gaming month of the year so far and probably will be for the year on a whole. That’s because I went to a convention as a reunion with a bunch of old gaming friends.

I learned:

Paper Pinball - Mall Bats

The Walking Dead - Surrounded

Food Truck Madness (Alexander Shen)

Scout 

Portal Heroes

Last Light

Cursed Court

Spicy

Biscuits and Battles

Hadara 

Cat Ass Trophy

Point Salad

Dinks and Donkeys (playtest)

Last Light was the heaviest game I’ve learned in a while. In a past life, I’m not sure if it would have qualified as heavy, just toyetic. (A word I just learned existed, thanks to reading an article about the development of the Paw Patrol franchise lol) With that said, I was glad that I was able to follow along and enjoy myself.

I also really enjoyed Hadara. It doesn’t quite cross the line into being a Civ-light game but it is the kind of game that got me into board gaming. Enjoyable choices and a tempo that keeps the game going.

While it wasn’t a new game to me, Knizia’s Medici was the hero of our table. I played it more in one weekend than I ever had before. It is such a ridiculously pure auction game. I still like Ra more but Medici earns its reputation as a classic.

And I also learned some solitaire games as usual. The Walking Dead - Surrounded is a nice little tile laying game that gets a lot of its value through its advanced play.

Yeah, it was a good month.

My September PnP

 September wasn’t crazy busy for PnP crafting. Truth to tell, I have a feeling that the rest of the year will be busy enough that I won’t be crafting a ton of stuff. I definitely have more stuff in queue than I’ll make this year.

Mind you, I also want to play what I make, which means just crafting away isn’t much fun.

I made:

The Walking Dead - Surrounded + expansion 

One Page Mazes

Pont D’Avagnon

Butterfly Garden Duel - Solo version

Townspire (cards and Bunny Creek map)

Dinks and Donkeys (playtest)

I’ve had the Walking Dead in the line for months and I decided it was time, that it would be my big project for the month. It was better than I expected but you really need to play with the objectives, not just the base rules.

Butterfly Garden: Duel was another ‘larger’ build. I was very happy with Dr Finn’s recent R&W book and o wanted to try out some of his other PnP designs. This seemed like a good start. And I’m behind on my goal of playing g everything that Radoslaw Ignatov has made so Townspire was a no brainer.

Life can be crazy PnP can help you stay sane.