Over the last week…

Tuesday was RPG night. As I mentioned before, the goal is to have two or three campaigns going on at the same time, so that we can accomodate business travel, irregular schedules, preparation requirements, and other absences of various participants, while still maintaining weekly meetings. This week we started a Savage Worlds 1920s pulp campaign run by Joel. I’m playing a Seminole rumrunner/gunrunner. This first night started a little slow with the players completing character generation. But again, we had a great time, especially playing up the characters, even if we didn’t get too far in to the mystery.

Though the winter should be good for gaming Friday night after Shabbat dinner, again this week it didn’t happen. I was sick earlier in the day and still recovering. Julia started getting sick at dinner. However, after getting to bed early, sleeping through the morning, and bailing out on a lunch invitation, the rest of Saturday was an improvement in terms of games. In the afternoon, I played Memoir ‘44 with the girls (scenario 10 [name?]). Julia and I beat Barrie, though it was tense and close.

Then at night was the Kemp Mill Gamers group. At the Tenembaum’s, however, only 2 people showed up (in addition to the host). Still, we played one game each of Dominion and Kingsburg. I wasn’t too eager to play Dominion, but gave it a try and was very pleasantly surprised. I hear it compared a lot to Magic. I’ve never played magic. In addition to the collectible aspect, I’m put off by a game that has many unique pieces. In Dominion, though, while there are many cards, there are not actually that many different cards. And only a select set are involved in each game. Constantly reshuffling the cards is a pain, but worth it for a game that’s easy to learn and plays pretty quickly. After Dominion, we played Kingsburg. For a game that involves dice, Kingsburg takes a fair amount of concentration. And even though I lost again, I still really like it and would put it near the top of my hot games list. (Y’know, I think I’ll finally go add that list to BGG when I’m finished with this post.)

To top it all off, on Sunday I palyed another game of Memoir ‘44 with the girls. Again, Julia and I beat Barrie. This time it actually wan’t as close a game even though I thought the setup gave the Allies a significant advantage. Julia rolled spectacularly well.