Still no new test of Nobel Intentions I’m afraid, but I have been fiddling around with some other ideas and playing some interesting games.
Old School D&D
I picked up a copy of ‘Swords & Wizardry’ complete at Games Expo and my weekly gaming group have been enjoying delving into some old school dungeons. We have been running in a way that allows for quite a lot of player input. For instance the first time the players came across elves I asked ‘What are elves like?” and their responses are fed back in to the gameworld.
The dungeons I am running are also totally randomly generated, using the AD&D GMs guide no less, which means there is a level of discovery in play for me as well as the players. I am finding this hugely enjoyable the characters are now setting out into the wilderness bound for some city adventures!
Survive
A fantastic reprint of an older game, survive is great fun forcing your hand to screw over other players as you try and race your own meeples away from an ever shrinking Atlantis. It hasn’t gone over with my entire group, but I think enough of them like it that it will be seeing its way to the table.
Death Angel
The recent expansions to this fantastic cooperative game, have seen it hit the table a couple of times over the last month. FFG are doing POD expansions for some of their range, allowing them to do smaller expansions, that are pretty reasonably priced.
The expansions in this case give you 2 new teams and a bunch of new mission possibilities. We made it through the first time, but got eaten to bits the second time through. I don’t think I have written a review of this yet, too lazy to check at the moment. I’ll try and chuck one up soon as I personally think it is the best coop game out there at the moment and that it should be in every gamers collection.
Smallworld
My wife and I sat down to a two player game of Smallworld when the flat was being torn apart by electricians. We have a nice new kitchen! Anyway, where was I. Ah yes, Smallworld. Excellent game for which I have every expansion, and one my wife doesn’t mind playing with me. We had good fun trying out some of the new combinations the expanded game provides, and am hoping to get a larger game in sometime soon. If anyone has played the Underground version of the game let me know if it is worth picking up.
and the other projects
Whilst I await a chance to get Nobel Intentions another shot I am working on a card game called ‘Eyes in the Dark’ about being chased by large monsters, toying with Police Procedural games and trying to find the time to lay out Reel Adventures. Hoping to get it all laid out for the end of October.
Happy gaming
Iain
