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Which games have you been playing this week? (to 29th August)
Sorry Tabletiddles, couple of days late with the thread as I've been busy on the bank holiday weekend here in UK.
What boardgames have you all been playing this week? Please share your experiences,.no matter what you've been playing.
This week my group played Oath again, which was the third game in this particular campaign. Three player game where I was the only exile.
The chancellor took some early turns using his cards to dominate the money supply which then meant I found it really hard to get my engine going. My plan going into the game was to amass a huge army, but this was impossible with no cash. Searching the world deck also got nixed as there was a vision as the top card twice, which meant it would be a largely wasted turn.
So we all scratched around a very limited card supply in the discard piles trying to get the right suits to access the remaining pennies. This turned out to be disastrous strategy as the chancellor rolled a six on the first check and won the game. To be honest I wasn't all that disappointed by that point, as it had been a frustrating game.
After Oath we played Cosmic Encounter which ended up being hilarious as I played the Locust and my power allowed me to gobble up planets. I managed to consume two and then some planets were destroyed by another mechanism, which I forget. The crux bring it was then impossible for one player to even win because of how few foreign planets were left. (To win you need colonies on five foreign planet and we had four between us.)
Me and my family have been playing a lot of Too Many Bones recently just finishing our 3rd tyrant The Goblin King last night. Which if you can get past the initial $150 price tag it's definitely worth the money for how high quality the game components are, the different tyrants that you can pick from, and a selection of 4 characters that you start with each with different skills.
Currently running Odyssey of the Dragonlords, a fantastic 3rd party campaign for D&D 5e (in my opinion it's the best campaign for 5e).
Running it for two groups but the first group is on hold at the moment due to a birth so give them a couple months and we can maybe have a session or two per month again.
The second group are a weekly affair though, they're currently travelling through an ancient, forgotten mine to reignite a mythical forge to allow Volkan, God of the Forge to start making powerful weapons and armour for the group. They came across the current inhabitants of the mine, including their regal and flamboyant leader, the Troglodyte King, His Royal Highness, King Reginald Trogsworth, a troglodyte brute who wears a headband of intellect.
We've been playing using Foundry VTT for a few years now and I'm only now starting to really dig into what Foundry can do outside of the usual mods. Properly setting up classes and subclasses, races and backgrounds for my players to almost fully automate levelling up is great and really seems to be giving us more time to actually play the game. Really can't recommend Foundry enough, it's fantastic.
Sorry, meant to put boardgames in the title.