Eminent Domain, Dungeon Petz, Endeavor
I spent a lot of time at the game store today, watching people play board games, and also playing board games. Both of these things happened.
After a bit of waiting, played a two-player game of Eminent Domain, which is a deckbuilding game that I am indifferent toward. It just adds a bunch of stuff that feels really unnecessary, with planets and little plastic ships and resources? I don't know, if I want all of this nonsense, I'll just play Race to the Galaxy, which it is very similar to, but a lot more focused.
Then I played a new board game I got, Dungeon Petz, which has a ridiculous theme but is actually a lot of crunchy fun. Each player is tasked with caring for some pets, and to do this you spend some time gathering resources, then draw need cards for each pet and assign them. The bigger the pet, the more needs they have, so the more resources you'll need, but also the more points they are possibly worth during an exhibit or to a potential buyer. I messed up around turn three, getting caught with a crap hand full of disease, which will drop a lot of negative points on your pet, and managed to accidentally mutate one of my pets out of existence, so that was a waste, and I lost. But everyone seemed to get what was going down pretty quickly, and I like the crunchiness of this a lot.
Then a boring old game of Endeavor. I won again, because I always win Endeavor, because I'm just that good. It's all about the cards, guys. You need to get those cards.
I spent a lot of time at the game store today, watching people play board games, and also playing board games. Both of these things happened.
After a bit of waiting, played a two-player game of Eminent Domain, which is a deckbuilding game that I am indifferent toward. It just adds a bunch of stuff that feels really unnecessary, with planets and little plastic ships and resources? I don't know, if I want all of this nonsense, I'll just play Race to the Galaxy, which it is very similar to, but a lot more focused.
Then I played a new board game I got, Dungeon Petz, which has a ridiculous theme but is actually a lot of crunchy fun. Each player is tasked with caring for some pets, and to do this you spend some time gathering resources, then draw need cards for each pet and assign them. The bigger the pet, the more needs they have, so the more resources you'll need, but also the more points they are possibly worth during an exhibit or to a potential buyer. I messed up around turn three, getting caught with a crap hand full of disease, which will drop a lot of negative points on your pet, and managed to accidentally mutate one of my pets out of existence, so that was a waste, and I lost. But everyone seemed to get what was going down pretty quickly, and I like the crunchiness of this a lot.
Then a boring old game of Endeavor. I won again, because I always win Endeavor, because I'm just that good. It's all about the cards, guys. You need to get those cards.
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