Wrath of Ashardalon, You Don’t Know Jack, Mass Effect 2
Another attempt of the D&D board game, this one went a lot better. We were moving quickly and sneaking past monsters we didn’t want to kill, running for the chamber room on the far side of the dungeon (although the way the tiles landed, it ended up being adjacent to the entrance). The majority of the enemies are still too fat, and sentries are still the worst, but we eventually made it to the last room and had to kill four enemies, a simple task with dailies. The chamber mechanics are weird, since all it really does is replicate choosing which adventure you’re going to do by making it random instead, and I still don’t get the point of treasure tokens. They need to release a module to mix the two games soon, because at the moment they feel like two different games with similar mechanics.
I got floored in You Don’t Know Jack, just getting answers wrong left and right. It’s the Jack Attack that kills me, because I just am not fast enough on the trigger, so if my opponent knows the answer, I’m boned.
Also played some more Mass Effect. I got to the halfway point of the game, where you finally get to shoot at the big bad’s forces (and they are creeeeeepy), and then it’s back to the grind of finding some friends. The storytelling has improved, although the game puts a lot of import on a scene that I didn’t find all that engaging. I think the reason it fell apart is because it’s supposed to play out like two ex-lovers encountering each other once again, but because of my choices in the first game it doesn’t work out that way. (Are those details too specific? I’m not very good at spoilers.)
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