Badgers and Mushrooms of Catan

[dr4b]

Today, there was a games party at the House of Slack. I played a game of "Candamir, the First Settlers" which is a variation on the Catan games. It was interesting, and I'd play again, but my only issue with it was a vague lack of interaction between players. It was sort of amusing since there's these potion components... honey, mushrooms, and well, um... badgers. See, Josh couldn't figure out what they were, so I said that as a joke, and it stuck. It worked, especially since they also had parts of the game where you'd kill snakes! And bears and wolves, but mostly it was like "Okay, I move that way and get a badger. And this way and I kill a snaaaaaake!"

I won the game a half turn before Josh would have, by sheer luck (I managed to get into the fields and find a cow.) Heidi and Luca also played, and Luca left 3/4 of the way through so Chris took over for him.

After that, we played... we played Betrayal At The House of Slack, and somehow we managed to have a big game full of rules disputes, which I wasn't used to. Infact, I died in the very first turn of the game, but everyone decided that was lame and let me live. Then we ended up with a dopplegangers scenario which suuuuuuuuuuucked. (Surprisingly, Cory wasn't the traitor for once, though he was the first character dead and as such hunted people with his doppleganger.) It came down to Colleen vs. Megan's doppleganger and the doppleganger won, so we all lost.

Before the party, I stopped by Tower and spent the gift certificate card I had, so I picked up the new Great Big Sea album, the OCR of Sweeney Todd, and the full version of Handel's Messiah as performed by the Robert Shaw Chorale. I previously had the RSC CD of just the choruses, but I wanted a full version, and I'm pretty loyal to Robert Shaw. I blame my high school choir director for that.

Also, the Marines swept the Konami Cup series as predicted. Fun stuff. I can't wait to get back to Chiba next summer.

Comments

[gootmu.livejournal.com]

In Betrayal, I don't think anyone is allowed to die before the haunt starts.

[mg4h.livejournal.com]

==gootmu

What he said. It says that in the rules, even.

[dr4b]

The first turn of the game, I drew an Omen card. It was Bite. It said, "the player to your right makes a might 5 attack against you."

Megan rolled like a 5 and I rolled a 0. Technically, I would take 5 points of physical damage, which I couldn't do, so I was dead. What else was I supposed to do?

Though yes, I didn't think you could die until the haunting either.

[gootmu.livejournal.com]

As I recall from the rules, you take as much damage as you can without dying, and then ignore the rest. This has led to the scene of the Professor bravely hobbling through the Junk Room while shouting "No man can stop me!"

[bayareajenn.livejournal.com]

Gootmu is correct. Betrayal is my all-time favorite game, btw. So fun. More so when you know all the rules. Make sure you download the FAQ if you haven't yet, though. It clears up a lot of things.