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Board Game Bash - Day 2
Aug. 10th, 2014 07:55 pmOften when I pay for things I want to get the maximum use out of them. But this time I decided to relax instead of trying to participate in as many hours of Board Game Bash as possible. I went home at a reasonable hour the night before, slept as long as I wanted, and got a few things done around the house before returning.
The goodie bag I got on the way out had lots of delicious junk food. I brought the so-called granola bar (some type of candy with peanuts on top) with me. As I approached the hotel, I was suddenly starving, so I ate that bar on my way there before entering.
First I played Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards which was an extremely ugly game, but quite fun. It's a card game, and you build a spell out of up to three cards. Then our hosts explained that they have a rule that when you cast your spell, you have to do it in a wizard voice. I didn't know what they meant, but melodramatic went over well.
All spells have three parts, and if you don't have a card for each part, you have to make up your own name for that part. These names were pretty amusing, such as Professor Presto's Two-Faced Cone of Acid or Ben Voodoo's Boulder-Iffic Bedazzlement.
Then each card tells you stuff that happens, some of which involves getting to use additional cards. There's definitely some strategizing, but there are also a lot of things you just can't know so it also feels random. Mostly it's just silly fun.
I think this is the point at which I joined T&S and we played Glory To Rome. This is another building/resource management game, but each card has several uses and you have to choose just one. The goal is to construct buildings and collect resources, but it feels like just collecting points.
The particular game we played had too many insta-win cards that came up early in the game, so it didn't last as long as we all decided it should have. And I didn't pay attention to the other players' strategies as well as I should have (which is common for me, especially the first time I played a game), but it was good fun while it lasted.
Next we played Gravwell, a beautiful game with hilarious laws of physics involving gravity and black holes. It plays out like a short, oddly random Robo Rally type game--you decide ahead of time whether you're trying to move closer to or further from the nearest gravity source or pull all sources closer to you, but this can result in quite different actions depending on where those gravity sources end up by the time it's time for your action to take place (since the other players are gravity sources). And the last register is always locked! But there's also a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Then we played Salmon Run, a quite frustrating game where we salmon had to deal with strong currents, waterfalls, bears, fish hooks, and exhaustion just trying to get back home. I do feel sorry for salmon, but that game was a little too frustrating to be maximally fun.
Then S was having a craft night so she could see some more of her Austin friends and we went to that. I was very pleased with myself that I was able to fit my snacks for that (brownies plus some cheese cubes and something else I no longer remember) plus my craft (a scarf I'm knitting) into the knapsack I brought with me to the Board Game Bash. (Yes, once again I illicitly brought outside food in, in spite of eating the granola bar before entering.)
It was fun to see all the people. Also, supposedly I learned what kind of milk I want to be buying once I'm bringing home a little more money, but now I've forgotten. "Something Farms" brand. [A different] S recommended it and J has actually been to those farms. Oh well, I can ask again next time I see one of them, probably at the next craft party in two weeks.
In other news, I got to eat at my favorite Tex-Mex place for brunch today. Fortunately my favorite thing to order is soft and soggy and appropriate (the #3 combo plate with a small burrito, beef enchilada, and beans and rice). Still, the rest of the day I've been having liquids (chocolate milk and tomato soup) because it's so much less stressful. I don't feel like I'm risking hurting anything.
And supposedly I can do aerobic activity again starting today, but in reality I am easily tired. I do feel like I'm getting enough food now that that's not the problem. Just healing my little bit of damaged gums appears to be taking a lot of energy. I still got some good productivity in.
The goodie bag I got on the way out had lots of delicious junk food. I brought the so-called granola bar (some type of candy with peanuts on top) with me. As I approached the hotel, I was suddenly starving, so I ate that bar on my way there before entering.
First I played Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards which was an extremely ugly game, but quite fun. It's a card game, and you build a spell out of up to three cards. Then our hosts explained that they have a rule that when you cast your spell, you have to do it in a wizard voice. I didn't know what they meant, but melodramatic went over well.
All spells have three parts, and if you don't have a card for each part, you have to make up your own name for that part. These names were pretty amusing, such as Professor Presto's Two-Faced Cone of Acid or Ben Voodoo's Boulder-Iffic Bedazzlement.
Then each card tells you stuff that happens, some of which involves getting to use additional cards. There's definitely some strategizing, but there are also a lot of things you just can't know so it also feels random. Mostly it's just silly fun.
I think this is the point at which I joined T&S and we played Glory To Rome. This is another building/resource management game, but each card has several uses and you have to choose just one. The goal is to construct buildings and collect resources, but it feels like just collecting points.
The particular game we played had too many insta-win cards that came up early in the game, so it didn't last as long as we all decided it should have. And I didn't pay attention to the other players' strategies as well as I should have (which is common for me, especially the first time I played a game), but it was good fun while it lasted.
Next we played Gravwell, a beautiful game with hilarious laws of physics involving gravity and black holes. It plays out like a short, oddly random Robo Rally type game--you decide ahead of time whether you're trying to move closer to or further from the nearest gravity source or pull all sources closer to you, but this can result in quite different actions depending on where those gravity sources end up by the time it's time for your action to take place (since the other players are gravity sources). And the last register is always locked! But there's also a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Then we played Salmon Run, a quite frustrating game where we salmon had to deal with strong currents, waterfalls, bears, fish hooks, and exhaustion just trying to get back home. I do feel sorry for salmon, but that game was a little too frustrating to be maximally fun.
Then S was having a craft night so she could see some more of her Austin friends and we went to that. I was very pleased with myself that I was able to fit my snacks for that (brownies plus some cheese cubes and something else I no longer remember) plus my craft (a scarf I'm knitting) into the knapsack I brought with me to the Board Game Bash. (Yes, once again I illicitly brought outside food in, in spite of eating the granola bar before entering.)
It was fun to see all the people. Also, supposedly I learned what kind of milk I want to be buying once I'm bringing home a little more money, but now I've forgotten. "Something Farms" brand. [A different] S recommended it and J has actually been to those farms. Oh well, I can ask again next time I see one of them, probably at the next craft party in two weeks.
In other news, I got to eat at my favorite Tex-Mex place for brunch today. Fortunately my favorite thing to order is soft and soggy and appropriate (the #3 combo plate with a small burrito, beef enchilada, and beans and rice). Still, the rest of the day I've been having liquids (chocolate milk and tomato soup) because it's so much less stressful. I don't feel like I'm risking hurting anything.
And supposedly I can do aerobic activity again starting today, but in reality I am easily tired. I do feel like I'm getting enough food now that that's not the problem. Just healing my little bit of damaged gums appears to be taking a lot of energy. I still got some good productivity in.