Speedrunners, One Night Werewolf, The Last Banquet, Avalon
There was a game night! I went and ate some pizza and had fun. Speedrunners was being played pretty much throughout the evening. The game is fine. You run. Although now that the game is more popular, there are user-made levels you can choose from, and guess what, they are all terrible. Just universally not very good. And of course the most popular one involves a dick joke, because gamers are the worst.
A couple of games of One Night Werewolf, one of which I lost because a revealer saw me and I happened to be a werewolf, and one in which I THOUGHT someone was definitely a werewolf, only to find out that the robber just kinda lied their way out of the whole mess. I did manage to find the Tanner pretty easily though.
Then I finally got to try The Last Banquet, which everyone except me ended up liking! The Last Banquet is a large party game where everyone splits up into two teams and tries to position their assassin next to the king using any number of powers that move people around. For what it is, the game is fine, a fun party game with a lot of movement and some goofy roleplaying. As a game, there is not enough substance. There's very little that the king can do to prevent getting killed, every person can take at most one or two actions, and everyone seemed to take a long time figuring out which one of two actions they were going to do. It also is a pain to play at a real table, since there is so much motion. I think it's best suited to be played with a circle of chairs, so that motion through the middle is easily handled. But, for people who don't play a lot of games, this is a really good bet, I think. If you happen to run icebreakers for a company, consider The Last Banquet.
Then a fretfully stupid 5-player game of Avalon. I figured out what the badguy pairing HAD to be to make sense, but for some reason didn't act on it in the final turn, because I got confused, so the spies won. As they always do in a five player game. Never play Avalon with five players.
There was a game night! I went and ate some pizza and had fun. Speedrunners was being played pretty much throughout the evening. The game is fine. You run. Although now that the game is more popular, there are user-made levels you can choose from, and guess what, they are all terrible. Just universally not very good. And of course the most popular one involves a dick joke, because gamers are the worst.
A couple of games of One Night Werewolf, one of which I lost because a revealer saw me and I happened to be a werewolf, and one in which I THOUGHT someone was definitely a werewolf, only to find out that the robber just kinda lied their way out of the whole mess. I did manage to find the Tanner pretty easily though.
Then I finally got to try The Last Banquet, which everyone except me ended up liking! The Last Banquet is a large party game where everyone splits up into two teams and tries to position their assassin next to the king using any number of powers that move people around. For what it is, the game is fine, a fun party game with a lot of movement and some goofy roleplaying. As a game, there is not enough substance. There's very little that the king can do to prevent getting killed, every person can take at most one or two actions, and everyone seemed to take a long time figuring out which one of two actions they were going to do. It also is a pain to play at a real table, since there is so much motion. I think it's best suited to be played with a circle of chairs, so that motion through the middle is easily handled. But, for people who don't play a lot of games, this is a really good bet, I think. If you happen to run icebreakers for a company, consider The Last Banquet.
Then a fretfully stupid 5-player game of Avalon. I figured out what the badguy pairing HAD to be to make sense, but for some reason didn't act on it in the final turn, because I got confused, so the spies won. As they always do in a five player game. Never play Avalon with five players.
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