Game Notes Friday July 5, 2019

If you love the board game Clue here’s an entertaining article on how it came to be and changes made over the years. I always like to be Miss Scarlet, myself.

mentalfloss.com/article/586055/clue-game-facts

Secret Fishing Achievements, Wow

This article from Icy Veins on Wow Secret Fishing Achievements has me stopping at every fishing spot I see.

https://www.icy-veins.com/forums/topic/44257-secret-fish-achievements-and-toy-solved/

Perfection

Fun but truly a bit nerve wracking. I wonder if my mother in law would like this. She’s such a fun person.

The Serious Side of Historical Games shows a ton of ancient games, and I’d love to play all of them. See? We were meant to Play.

https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XPodYxIAAOp_jr-W

New In Our Board Game Pile

I love playing board games.  For the last year or so I’ve been looking for board and card games that can be played by two players.  Spousemeister and I used to play board games like fiends.  Now, around Christmas/New Years and till the snow melts, it’s a good time to play.

We haven’t tried any but Dominion yet, but it was really cool, and I could see for the first time the appeal of a deck building game–I think it’s accurate to call it that.

Dominion

Mysterium  Supposedly “Clue for Adults”

Quiddler   I love Word games.   My husband, who is the Math Guy around here likes Word games where he can drag out his unabridged dictionary to find fiendish words to defeat the enemy (me, the Word person).

Jaipur   Somehow you simulate a bazaar and mercantile trades.  Came up like mad for two players.

Kill Doctor Lucky   (I think my husband doesn’t appreciate this title much, but I love mysteries and it seems to have that element.)   “A family board game of cold-blooded murder!”  What’s not to like?

Sunday Comic: Mother’s Day

Today’s Comic Created with Toondoo  http://www.toondoo.com/

If you don’t know what to give mom for Mother’s Day, just sit down with her and play cards or a board game.  Play your old favorites.

Let your mom create a toon in your favorite game and set her loose in the world for a bit.  I guarantee she’ll like the character creation tools in most MMOs with all the style choices.

There is no better gift than time spent with you and time relaxing and playing.

Via Buzzfeed: 17 Signs You’re a Board Game Bully

Ha!  I recognize a few of these behaviors, not in myself of course.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinabarca/signs-youre-a-board-game-monster

I do have some flaws/oddities.  I know, you’re gasping for air at that.

I always want the red token/figure/gamepiece.

Despite my awesome vocabulary, I lose at Scrabble like a dog because I can’t resist nice words!  Putting down a cool word loses to Aaa or whatever every time.

I generally lack strategy because I am just happy to play, la la la.  Dead meat.

I have favorite countries in Risk I try to get and defend because I like them, doh.  Again epic fail.

I finally got a chance to play Dungeons and Dragons and the math aspects ruined it for my non-mathematical brain.  I like games which run those numbers for me in the background.

I like word games, yay!

I am enjoying trying out some new types of board games because, just as with books, films and computer games, my charming imagination puts me right in the world of the game almost immediately and I’m ready to have my imagination enter new enchanting territories.

Happy New Year from The Last Chapter!

World of Warcraft

After having so much fun working in Neverwinter, I had to break to do some of the Winter Veil activities.   Just as with the last couple of holidays in World of Warcraft, I approached the many requirements half heartedly.  There are too many activities for this busy time of the year, and having three PVP ones is a real pain.

So I did the gnome/battlefield one, entering the Isle of Conquest for the first time ever in a skimpy gnome Santa outfit.  Because I’d lose my gnome form if I shape shifted to my feral cat form or a bear or moonkin form for that matter, I had to go in as my Elf Self transformed.  I used my secondary talent set for which I have no talent never ever having used it…restoration.  I can confess here because I feel guilty that I was concentrating on my toolbars and skills and when I entered the battle ground I went in marked dps as always.  I suspect this saved my miserable gnome hide from instant death because I just looked like the only Santa gnome in the place, but not a falsely labeled one.  Shame, shame.

We tried some dungeons as a guild to get some of those achievements.  Only I and my husband and son and nephew dungeon dive, others don’t.  So we did a few, just us, to test things out, then got in the dungeon finder queue.  Unbelievably our first one had this Pin Brain From Mars who was critiquing everyone’s dps and skills and blah blah blah.   Obviously we were doing fine and didn’t need the Head of Bone and we should have drop kicked him sooner, but we waited till the end.  Luckily the next guy was just normal and we sailed along.  Not so confidence inspiring to those who we can’t talk into dungeons at all most days, and to me playing my dread rogue who I know is just awful, thanks for applying the brown sauce.

I’ve been running my shaman through some dungeons trying to level her up to use in the group instead of the rogue.  I’ve had trouble with her in the past which is why she is my lowest level class.  The dungeons in the 50 levels are just torture.  I am always so grateful to qualify for Hellfire Peninsula at 58.  I have been running into one after another of what I call “draggy tanks”.  They aggro one group of mobs then just chain drag them and everyone else through the whole place. Gack.  THEN there was the gnome who was playing his healer with his tank on follow or was it the other way around.  Nobody but me spoke up and said how bizarre that was, and when he died immediately because his following character got stuck on a wall, then everyone died…I got dungeon deserter for leaving that fun time behind.  How I love dungeons.

In an effort to have my spouse help me with a Winter Veil quest, I logged in his guy to just get him set up.  Lo and behold he has an in game email from the devs inviting him to try Raiding.  Hello?  He’s never going to try raiding.  Did any of my characters get it? NO.  Grrr.  Not that I’ve been raiding either but I do play.  

Rift

Aimlessly working on my Pyromancer in Rift.  Am at level 24.  I was trying to do every quest in Silverwood but I couldn’t stand being there forever so I made sure my gathering skills were to level, finished what I could and stepped over the border into Gloamwood.  It is all gloomy and spidery, not looking at all like Duskwood from Wow but having that ambience.  A nice change and I feel like I’m making some forward progress.

Dearth of Games for PC yet again

I was thinking this year how in years past there were always maybe five games out in the fall I wanted badly and I’d ask for them for Christmas.  I can’t even think of the last time I asked for a computer game.  It is not as if there are a bunch on another platform I’d be buying either if only I didn’t love my keyboard/mouse so much.  There is not much of interest released if Action/Adventure is your genre.   I do not count those stoopid find the hidden picture puzzle games as Adventure.

There are a few upcoming lists with some possibles, but not much.

Board Games

New additions this season are Forbidden Island and Carcassonne.  I and my team mates liked both and appreciated the cooperative nature of each.  We are going to see if we can’t re-institute our board game day here, maybe we can eventually lure in others on a regular basis.  Snacks and board games, hard to beat that for entertainment and relaxation.

Repopulation

They’ve got my attention with the new game trailer and Kickstarter for the Repopulation.  They are sidestepping what I thought was a hardcore pvp game and practically stepping out of the video saying if you loved Star Wars Galaxies pre-NGE you will love us play play play!   Am I someone who could resist that?   I’m supporting the Kickstarter and if they bring that puppy up I’m going in for a look.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/therepopulation/the-repopulation-a-sandbox-mmorpg

Happy gaming in 2014!   Atherne and the crew of the Last Chapter

Wil Wheaton’s Table Top

Before there were computer games GASP there were Board Games.  The interaction good and bad across the table from those you know and love cannot be duplicated or trumped.

Games are more complex than when I was playing Supermarket Sweep but how endlessly appealing they are, and how they do activate the imagination.  It is sort of like watching a play, with a few spare props on the stage suddenly being filled in by your imagination to become a world.  Board games transport you right onto some island or time period where you must think and strategize to survive.

I was looking for reviews of a game I’m considering called Forbidden Island when I came across Wil Wheaton on his site reviewing boardgames and a feature called Table Top where he introduces you to a game, tells you how to play, and then brings in some friends to play the game.  Most entertaining!