The Resistance, Quarriors, Lifeboat
(sigh) Last game night with the old group. They had a very nice party for me, and I had a really good time seeing everyone again. Before the party kicked off, I forced a bunch of people to play The Resistance. Of course, the good guys lost again, because of the stupid requirement of having to bring along all the good guys on the final mission, so if you don't have that figured out you're pretty screwed. I was able to identify one of the traitors easily, but the second eluded me...one of the players was acting weird, so it threw me off.
Then a couple of games of Quarriors, which I also lost. I was just having no luck with the dice. In the second game, there was this ogre that really just screwed with the field too much, forcing players to downgrade their dice and throwing all their basic dice back into the bag, so all your good stuff just sat useless in the discard. It was a jerky guy, and somehow his ability was used every turn.
After that, a game called Lifeboat, which is different than I thought it would be. It's a multiplayer game of cutthroat actions, in which the board is slowly draining you and everyone wants certain people to die and certain people to stay alive. So...it's makes for some interesting scenarios where you don't know who has it in for you or who wants to protect you. I had one of the weakest characters, who had the inherent ability to piss off everyone at the table, i.e., steal all their stuff. I spent a couple of rounds just taking whatever I could, knowing that if worse came to worse, while I didn't have the size to win any fights, I at least would have resources. In a round, the inherent leader, who was using his considerable size to force everyone to do what he wanted, challenged me and wanted some of my stuff, and because I was a bit of an idiot, I said no and played enough cards from my little stockpile to beat him. It was a gambit, but as long as no one interfered, it would be fine. Well...someone interfered, nearly everyone on the table deciding they were done with me, and I got knocked out, and then thrown off the lifeboat, completely getting kicked out of the game. Whoops.
(sigh) Last game night with the old group. They had a very nice party for me, and I had a really good time seeing everyone again. Before the party kicked off, I forced a bunch of people to play The Resistance. Of course, the good guys lost again, because of the stupid requirement of having to bring along all the good guys on the final mission, so if you don't have that figured out you're pretty screwed. I was able to identify one of the traitors easily, but the second eluded me...one of the players was acting weird, so it threw me off.
Then a couple of games of Quarriors, which I also lost. I was just having no luck with the dice. In the second game, there was this ogre that really just screwed with the field too much, forcing players to downgrade their dice and throwing all their basic dice back into the bag, so all your good stuff just sat useless in the discard. It was a jerky guy, and somehow his ability was used every turn.
After that, a game called Lifeboat, which is different than I thought it would be. It's a multiplayer game of cutthroat actions, in which the board is slowly draining you and everyone wants certain people to die and certain people to stay alive. So...it's makes for some interesting scenarios where you don't know who has it in for you or who wants to protect you. I had one of the weakest characters, who had the inherent ability to piss off everyone at the table, i.e., steal all their stuff. I spent a couple of rounds just taking whatever I could, knowing that if worse came to worse, while I didn't have the size to win any fights, I at least would have resources. In a round, the inherent leader, who was using his considerable size to force everyone to do what he wanted, challenged me and wanted some of my stuff, and because I was a bit of an idiot, I said no and played enough cards from my little stockpile to beat him. It was a gambit, but as long as no one interfered, it would be fine. Well...someone interfered, nearly everyone on the table deciding they were done with me, and I got knocked out, and then thrown off the lifeboat, completely getting kicked out of the game. Whoops.
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