Dungeons & Dragons-ish on My Last Day of Work

On my last day of work at Sure, the insurance tech company I’ve worked at for the last year and change, I ran a very impromptu game of Dungeons & Dragons for some people on my team. And by “impromptu,” I mean I had literally nothing prepared save for an idea of how to design a set of rules simple enough to be explained in under ten minutes and some character builds based on those rules. I got that together in roughly thirty minutes before we were scheduled to play.

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“Friday” Solo on a Thursday Night

My good friends Ben and Lizzy got me a copy of a game called Friday for my birthday recently. I think it’s my first single player tabletop game aside from the various forms of solitaire you can play with a poker deck. This is a deck building game themed off of Robinson Crusoe, with you as the player trying to toughen up Robinson before he gets himself killed. I’ve played it five times now, and I’ve lost every single time. But I’ve played enough to have some thoughts on the game.

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