Trying really hard not to order a copy of Obsession. Finally got a play in over the weekend after listening to my friend go on about it for the past couple months. Sure it's yet another MPS euro, but it's just so damn charming.
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I'm eyeing Faiyum, the new Friedman Friese game, real hard. It looks like a combination of Concordia style hand/deck building and Splottery communal infrastructure building. You get a drip of points for building up the board infrastructure, but the real points seem to come from building card combos that best capitalize on the communally built infrastructure. It looks really interesting to me. Anyway, it's not available in the US yet. The first print run well be sold through the BGG store, and is expected to be available early next month. We'll see if I resist or not!
southernman wrote: (although I am thinking of buying a selection of tools, including both these sets, for my lad's birthday present to give him a decent toolbox ... and some of the longnose pliers may migrate to my toolbox )
I've reached the crochety old man phase of life when I want a good set of tools, a roll of duct tape, and a flashlight IN EVERY ROOM OF THE DAMNED HOUSE because life is too precious to waste looking for tools just to fix some small thing.
Every trip to the home improvement store is an exercise in temptation....
And damn, another new FF game? Gonna have to look into it, though those mathy games are hard to get to the table in my circle.
Someone on bgg pointed out that ordering Faiyum from France is like $8 more than I'm expecting it to be in the bgg store (in guessing $50+15 shipping, based on the other 2F game they're selling there), so I figured hey $8 is probably worth getting the game a month+ early right? Anyway long story short I didn't resist this one so much
I'm on Harbor Freight's mailing list, and every old-fashioned catalog that comes in the mail has a coupon for a free flashlight. I have about a dozen of them now.
Shockingly, I keep getting targeted FB ads for the liquidation sale on the Tables of Ultimate Gaming. We have fantasies of redoing our basement and adding in a gaming table, but the virtues of a "gaming" table versus, say, a table are tenuous at best, especially as, I fear, my passion for board/miniature gaming is on the wane anyway. (Plus, I may never get my adult stepson out of the basement to redo it anyway. We've considered just moving and not telling him. I kid. Mostly.)
Resisted the Kickstarter for TORCHBEARER 2e. I was all-in on 1e, pledged all-in on 2e, then the designer started being weird (which helped push me over the edge). My pledge had already been collected, but I asked for (and received) a refund.
It's a good dungeon crawling game, but (a) I already have plenty of those, and (b) one of my group members would absolutely hate the metagaming part of the mechanics.
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