I got my family to play Clank! this weekend. My younger daughter and I really liked it. My wife thought it was okay (she's kinda picky about games) and my older daughter wasn't very impressed (which is pretty much true for any game besides checkers)
You like ships. You don't seem to be looking at the destinations. What you care about is the ships, and mine's the nicest.
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
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Gudanov - Aug 17, 2020 6:20:52 am PDT #25713 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
chrismg - Aug 17, 2020 7:16:01 am PDT #25714 of 26133
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
I dibs Dispatcher this time. YOU ARE ALL MY PAWNS.
megan walker - Aug 17, 2020 8:42:25 am PDT #25715 of 26133
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Since in my day to day work as an editor people ignore my advice at their peril, I feel I should play the Scientist. However, it seems like the Quarantine Specialist might work better with the Dispatcher. I'm happy to play either. Is it usually at random?
Gudanov - Aug 17, 2020 8:47:53 am PDT #25716 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
Officially it's random, but I like letting people choose and the computer version I'm using is choose rather than random.
Gudanov - Aug 17, 2020 9:27:07 am PDT #25717 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
Do you want to do Medic again, bt?
Scientist and Quarantine Specialist are both good. As Scientist you'll be concentrating on gathering cards to make cures. As Quarantine Specialist you'll be going to hot spots to keep them under control. Sort of offensive vs. defensive.
megan walker - Aug 17, 2020 9:45:17 am PDT #25718 of 26133
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Scientist and Quarantine Specialist are both good. As Scientist you'll be concentrating on gathering cards to make cures. As Quarantine Specialist you'll be going to hot spots to keep them under control. Sort of offensive vs. defensive.
Well, as much as I'd like to be Kate Winslet, I think the reality is that I'm Elliot Gould. I choose Scientist.
chrismg - Aug 17, 2020 10:15:27 am PDT #25719 of 26133
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
*checks IMDB*
Man, Paltrow and Fishburne must have completely overwritten my memory of who else was in that movie.
megan walker - Aug 17, 2020 10:25:40 am PDT #25720 of 26133
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Man, Paltrow and Fishburne must have completely overwritten my memory of who else was in that movie.
We just watched it recently.
billytea - Aug 17, 2020 10:51:19 pm PDT #25721 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
PANDEMIC
I have consulted with the brains trust. Quarantine Specialist sounds very interesting, I'd like to give that a go sometime; but with Dispatcher and Scientist already in the game, we just can't go past the Researcher as our pick.
Oh! That reminds me, something I found was helpful when running games before. I found it helped to put all the official stuff in bold. It's probably less of an issue here, but in Battlestar Galactica especially, it helped distinguish between team discussion and final orders.
Gudanov - Aug 18, 2020 4:17:46 am PDT #25722 of 26133
Coding and Sleeping
That seems like a good idea. I'll take Medic because somebody needs to clean up messes.