I happen to be very biteable, pal. I'm moist and delicious.

Xander ,'Bring On The Night'


Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue

A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.

PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.


billytea - Mar 01, 2010 11:26:50 am PST #5861 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

BSG

Ok, technically I haven't yet sent Apollo his Quorum cards, Zarek his Super Crisis nor Adama his card draw. I also don't recall offhand who still has an SP. However, even if this die roll fails it makes no difference to the outcome. I am therefore pleased to announce that, for the first time in this forum,

HUMANS WIN!!


Laga - Mar 01, 2010 11:29:13 am PST #5862 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

It's a frakking miracle.


NoiseDesign - Mar 01, 2010 11:30:49 am PST #5863 of 26134
Our wings are not tired

Woohoo!


DeathQuaker - Mar 01, 2010 12:26:08 pm PST #5864 of 26134
Illigitimi non carborundum

I'd just wanted to be clear on my intentions. It's easier to relieve the tension of the BSG board game when you're actually around the table chucking pretzels at each other.

Well done, y'all. Thanks for bringing me in.

That XKCD post up-thread was hilarious.


Laga - Mar 01, 2010 12:35:07 pm PST #5865 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

That XKCD post up-thread was hilarious.

I sent it to all my gamer friends with the subject line "thank goodness the pizza dice didn't get mixed in".


billytea - Mar 01, 2010 12:49:00 pm PST #5866 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

My favourite xkcd strip for BSG, which I think encapsulated Boomer's unfortunate situation quite well, is this: [link]


billytea - Mar 01, 2010 12:52:16 pm PST #5867 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

I'll contribute some thoughts about this game a little later. First, I encourage the players to chime in if they want, on how they saw the game.


Laga - Mar 01, 2010 1:08:20 pm PST #5868 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I'm definitely never playing Boomer again. How have previous Boomers (cylon or not) been able to talk their way out of the brig?

I wish I had used my once per game ability to fail the last check. I shouldn't have waited so long for the other cylon to reveal.

Unrelatedly... my favorite gaming xkcd


NoiseDesign - Mar 01, 2010 1:47:35 pm PST #5869 of 26134
Our wings are not tired

BSG

I truly didn't have a good idea of anyone to peg as a Cylon until the very end.


DeathQuaker - Mar 01, 2010 3:58:30 pm PST #5870 of 26134
Illigitimi non carborundum

BSG

I shouldn't have waited either. I have never been the Cylon before and it was hard coming in in the middle of the game, and I really had no idea what I was doing.

Ah well, the things we learn. Next game I play I will at least be more confident.

Yeah, Boomer's weakness seems broken and not in her favor. I was thinking, "Well, she can save up Purples to break out" and then remembered in the brig you can only put one card in a skill check. The best she could do would be to play a P5 and then hope someone would lower the difficulty for her--which I totally would have done had I ever been online when it was Laga's turn, and I feel like crap for that (and that's not something that would have happened in an actual tabletop game). I didn't even think Boomer was the other Cylon for awhile, I just felt bad that the player was stymied for half the game. Frak strategy, if it keeps the player from having fun, it's not a good rule.

The other part of the problem is that anyone who helps Boomer leave also puts that player under suspicion, so no one wants to help.

General thoughts on the game--hard to say since I was only in half of it, and I would have loved to have talked to my predecessor to understand what his strategy was before I took on the character (since Zarek was a Cylon the whole game). Seemed like people worked well together. There were some very lucky card draws and die rolls in there as a whole. Most of the crises seemed to be succeeded--which I have not seen before in BSG. A combination of really good team tactics and some good card draws.

For awhile I thought Apollo or Helo was the other Cylon. The latter because he was working the hardest to cast suspicion onto other players. Apollo because I suspected him of spiking the deck a few times, but they must have been Boomer's or Destiny's cards.

Laga: YES. Gary Gygax takes Death through the Tomb of Horrors. Most excellent.