Last night marked a successful game night at the office, wherein four of us joined forces for two games of Sentinels of the Multiverse, my favorite comic book superhero themed card game. (There is at least one other that is decidedly not my favorite.) All three of my coworkers—two of them pictured, one hiding—were new to the game, so I once again had the pleasure of introducing friends to a game that I love.
One of Amazon’s daily deals recently was a set of discounts on a handful of board games, some of which I owned, but most of which I didn’t and hadn’t heard much about. One of the ones I had heard nothing about was the DC Comics Deck Building Game, which I promptly snatched up for a very reasonable price. I was skeptical, for some reason, about anything licensed by DC, maybe because they license a lot of crap, and because it stank of something that was not a labor of love created by an independent game designer nor a project benefitting from the expertise an established game studio with a proven track record, but its odor was instead of capitalization on the popularity of deck building games.Read More »
My good friends Cari and Mason invited me over this afternoon to play board games with them. The opportunities to see them are quickly becoming ever more scarce, so I set aside all the things I need to do in preparation for my move this afternoon to head over. Our friend Tom also came to play with us. It turns out that Cari and Mason’s dastardly plans to thwart my feeble packing attempts were more advanced than I anticipated: not only did they give me yet another game, Sentinels of the Multiverse, as a going away present, they even cooked me dinner after I borrowed their car to pick up boxes from Home Depot!Read More »
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