Month: October 2015

TableTop games.

If you have read my previous posts (yay!), you know that I have mentioned TableTop several times. If you haven’t ever read my blog, welcome! This post is mostly for you.Picture found on http://www.wired.com/2014/04/wheaton-tabletop-crowdfunding/

TableTop is a show on YouTube about tabletop gaming. Can you guess how it was named? In each episode Wil Wheaton explains and then plays a tabletop game with 3 or 4 friends.

The winner of the game gets a prize. The prize received depends on what season you are watching. In Season 1, they had one trophy they gave everyone and then had to take back, so they wrote the winner’s name on a piece of tape and stuck it to their shirt. In Season 2, they gave the winners repurposed certificates to take home. In Season 3, they decided to buy enough trophies so that the winners could take them home.

While the winner receives their prize at the Winner’s Wall, the other players get to hang out in the Loser’s Lounge. Wil ends up in the Loser’s Lounge so often they added a special chair just for him.

My parents and I highly enjoy this show, and encourage all families at home to watch it.

The picture of Wil Wheaton shown above was found on Wired Magazine at http://www.wired.com/2014/04/wheaton-tabletop-crowdfunding/.

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To the Floating Market!

In Floating Market you are Ama’s little grandchildren. The first grandchild to collect 5 different types of fruit wins. Each turn you will have 3 customer meeples Floating Marketwho will do assorted tasks for you.

There are a wide variety of tasks that you can have the meeples do. First of all, you can have them go onto one of the boats that have the fruit. Second of all, you can have them go to the Fruit Stand. The Fruit Stand allows you to take a fruit if one of the boats adjacent to you scores.

You can also send them to the Boatsman.  The Boatsman allows you to retrieve all of your out of play dice that turn only. You can build a Dock, to improve your chance of collect coins. Or perhaps you would like to visit the Artist’s Hut to add a surprise to the Dice Pool. If you please, you may stop in the Temple, to send a Fixed Tile to the Dice Pool. There’s also the Woodworker’s Stall, the North and South Traders, and the famous Tailor. Of course you can’t forget our other 2 friends, the Fishmonger and the Office. And then there’s the Market. You can place meeples on 3 of these places each round.

In addition to the loads and loads of places the meeples can go, you must also place at least 1 of your dice into the Dice Pool. This die will contribute to the roll that decides which boat of fruit scores. Under each boat there is a range of numbers printed on the board.  This range of numbers shows which fruit boat will score depending on what the dice in the Dice Pool roll. If you have a meeple on the boat that scores, you get one of that type of fruit.

I would play this with my family and convention friends.

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Munchkin in the world of Oz

Another Munchkin variant! Munchkin Oz, like Munchkin Legends (see previous post), mostly varies from the regular Munchkin because of the monsters and the equipment. However, in Munchkin Oz, everyone needs allies, just like Dorothy. So now allies are another wonderful object you can find!Munchkin Oz

In my previous post, I compared Munchkin gear and monsters to Munchkin Legends gear and monsters. As I said then, regular Munchkin gives us the Eleven-Foot Pole (2 handed item, plus 1 bonus to combat). Munchkin Oz provides us with Oil Can (1 handed item, plus 1 bonus to combat) instead. For monsters, you could fight the Platinum Dragon (*Yawn*), or you could fight the Nome King (“Aaah!”).

Please note that a lot of the references are from the books, not just the movie. Therefore if you have not read the books and are playing this game and don’t recognize something, that’s why.

I would play this with my parents and my convention friends.

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Nothing like a good game day

I just went to board game day at Games Plus. (Board game day is the first Saturday of each month.) There I learned two great games, Coup and Medieval Academy.  We ended up buying both of them. It was hilarious that I learned Coup, because just the day before we watched the TableTop episode about it. I also learned how to play Stanley Cup, which is like a hockey version of Foosball.

Though we only played three of the games, there were several other games being played as well. One of the nice things about Games Plus is the wide variety of games it has. They have some new games, like Evolution Flight, as well as some older games, like Ogre. They also have a wide variety of role-playing games and miniatures.

Our goal in our trip to Games Plus was to try new games, to see if we liked them. We enjoyed all of the games listed above greatly, and I highly encourage you to play them.

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