A Descent into Madness

I’ve been slacking off posting.  It’s so easy to just wrap myself up in what I’m doing and skip the writing part. I owe a few posts; maybe this week I’ll catch up.  But!  we’ll work backwards - newest first.

I believe I’ve mentioned somewhere that we picked up the World of Warcraft board game after Polycon and played it into the ground. It’s a good game, with good replayability, and I enjoyed the mechanics.

Hungry for more gaming in the key of ‘how am I going to fit all this on a table?’, I picked up ‘Descent’, also from Fantasy Flight.  We played the training quest on Sunday.  The game is a dungeon crawl in a style similar to Warhammer Quest. One player runs a predesigned dungeon as the ‘Overlord’, controlling all the creatures and traps.  The others play heroes, ready to crush the baddies.

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(crossposted from The Dream Library)

iPhone!

I’m going to talk about the iPhone now that I have one. As a kind of mercy, I’m going to cut it here for those of you tired of hearing about the damn thing.

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(crossposted from The Dream Library)