D&D&FAIL + WIN!

[captain_slinky]

Game Night failed to result in any actual Dungeons & Dragons due mostly to my stoopid poopy-head computer refusing to let me see our printer till after Dan touched it with his magic fingers. SERIOUSLY! I couldn't even get a "My Network Places" to show up and then he just TOUCHED THE MOUSE and it magically showed up in the Start Menu!

Anywho, didn't get character sheets printed out till just after 9:30ish, so it was kinda silly to begin a game right then.

HOWEVER! aquatwo brought over Carcasonne and taught us all how to play a very very very simplified version of it. A good time was had by all :)

Then we busted out Munchkin. I can see why aquatwo has had issues with this game in the past. If you're playing with a bunch of "I MUST WIN" types of people, it could easily become the feel-bad game of The Year. Lots of back-stabbing, lots of screwing people over... if we hadn't had such a fun-loving group of misfits, it could have become VERY awkward VERY quickly. Lucky for us we're all the "Let's have fun and make the game as fun for everyone as we possibly can... AND THEN I WILL WIN!!!" types of gamers :)

The Halfling Thief is ridiculously over-powered. I didn't WIN with one, but I did make several people miserable with it :)

Doing this thing on Saturday was an awesome success (imho) giving us plenty of time to try different games, enjoy conversation and eat Chex Mix till we barf. Looking VERY forward to our next shin-dig, which will be on Saturday March 11 (that's the weekend AFTER Emerald City Comic Con, btw).

(And in case you were wondering? Here's a list of the first names of everybody who showed up: Tanya, Dane, Steve, Kayla, Dan, Aurelia, Troy and Kanani. Now you all know each others names... tyr to match them to the faces and/or the LJ Profiles!)

Comments

[firefly-pink.livejournal.com]

Oh! Carcasonne is so fun!! There's even a windows version of it.
My hubby and I used to battle each other via network. *lol*

[aquatwo.livejournal.com]

I had an awesome time. Thank you so much for the invite.
I'm sorry to hear D&D didn't work out. Hopefully next time...

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

Man I love Carcassonne. What a brilliant game. Munchkin is a lot of fun too. I have the Supers version of it.

I wonder if perhaps your D&D game would better survive if you dedicated a night to it and had a different night for board games. I know RPGs can take a lot of time. Just a thought you are welcome to ignore or embrace at your leisure.

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

the problem wasn't the game, it was the accursed printer. :D had it printed off the character sheets, even more fun would have been had by all.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

The beauty of D&D 4th Edition is that it's more geared towards these "Done in One" adventures. It's been restructured to be mor elike a cross of a Television Show and an MMORPG instead of the traditional model of sweepingly epic adventures like Lord Of The Rings. Oh, you can still string your adventures together to form a ginat epic, but it'll be an episodic epic.

An hour or two is the most you need now :)

[sasjhwa.livejournal.com]

That is sad in my opinion. :(

But that is why there are different kinds of games to appeal to different kinds of people, right? :D

[teegin.livejournal.com]

Umm since March 11th has all ready past and ECCC is on April 4+5 I assume you meant the next game night is April 11th.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

That is correct. I can't fool you, no sir!