last night at board game night got to try one of the weirder games I've ever played (after a game of Railways of the World).
It was called Catacombs and at first glance seems utterly pedestrian: party of generic fantasy adventurers tries to get through a dungeon to kill a big baddie with all the monsters controlled by a DM-ish player. Sounds exactly like Descent / Hero Quest / many others. But its so much stranger than that.
everything in the game (players, monsters, projectiles etc...) is made of wooden discs of different sizes. You move / attack by flicking the discs at each other on the board (which has physical obstacles)
so if my barbarian wants to hit that skeleton I have to flick the disc for the character into the one for the skele. If my mage casts fireball I put a little orange disc next to him and flick it at an enemy etc....
It was pretty fun but the game by default seems a bit long. My left middle finger still hurts
...You... you played a LARPing boardgame...?
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At The Olive Garden, all the chairs are double wide, on wheels, and fitted with a fart-proof plastic cushion.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
last night at board game night got to try one of the weirder games I've ever played (after a game of Railways of the World).
It was called Catacombs and at first glance seems utterly pedestrian: party of generic fantasy adventurers tries to get through a dungeon to kill a big baddie with all the monsters controlled by a DM-ish player. Sounds exactly like Descent / Hero Quest / many others. But its so much stranger than that.
everything in the game (players, monsters, projectiles etc...) is made of wooden discs of different sizes. You move / attack by flicking the discs at each other on the board (which has physical obstacles)
so if my barbarian wants to hit that skeleton I have to flick the disc for the character into the one for the skele. If my mage casts fireball I put a little orange disc next to him and flick it at an enemy etc....
It was pretty fun but the game by default seems a bit long. My left middle finger still hurts
...You... you played a LARPing boardgame...?
no idea what you mean.
These little discs are like 3/4" in size.
Attacked by tweeeeeeees!
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last night at board game night got to try one of the weirder games I've ever played (after a game of Railways of the World).
It was called Catacombs and at first glance seems utterly pedestrian: party of generic fantasy adventurers tries to get through a dungeon to kill a big baddie with all the monsters controlled by a DM-ish player. Sounds exactly like Descent / Hero Quest / many others. But its so much stranger than that.
everything in the game (players, monsters, projectiles etc...) is made of wooden discs of different sizes. You move / attack by flicking the discs at each other on the board (which has physical obstacles)
so if my barbarian wants to hit that skeleton I have to flick the disc for the character into the one for the skele. If my mage casts fireball I put a little orange disc next to him and flick it at an enemy etc....
It was pretty fun but the game by default seems a bit long. My left middle finger still hurts
...You... you played a LARPing boardgame...?
If I remember right it's basically like Descent meets paper football
I think if someone wants to determine damage in White Wolf they just don't invite you to Alien Sex Fiend night at the club because you fucked that bitch Absinthia after the last game
There was a huge white-wolfy larpish crowd that the wizards of the coast games center when I worked there. The thought of all those wankers standing around the UW campus at night in their cloaks furiously playing rock paper scissors at each other is going to keep me amused for days.
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Grats.
...You... you played a LARPing boardgame...?
no idea what you mean.
These little discs are like 3/4" in size.
How is it that Daniel Radcliffe makes double what Emma Watson earns?
THE PATRIARCHY
If I remember right it's basically like Descent meets paper football
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more like crokinole (which was the last round of the omegathon at PAX east this year!) but yeah.
LARPers who use projectiles, like daggers or spells, generally lob stuff at each other while shouting "Fireball" or "Lightning Bolt" or whatever.
Exhuberant "Main Character" contracts with Warner Brothers? Or maybe Equus was a runaway success.
hehehe. Seriously?
What do those damn White Wolf people do? Throw their eyeliner sticks?
Is "Power Word Kill" a gun?
I believe that White Wolf stuff is usually resolved by rock-paper-scissors while just kind of standing around.
It's called the Harry Potter franchise, not the Hermione Wotsit series.
Choose Your Own Chat 1 Choose Your Own Chat 2 Choose Your Own Chat 3
Undead undead undead :whistle:
"Hermione, quick! Tell me the incantation for the spell that will stop the basilisk!"
"Equalus workum quo equalus payum."
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
"Great job at using that spell, Harry!"
Hand signs.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I still remember the very first youtube video I ever saw. 2005. Huh.
disgustingly sexy
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
retta rauå
Lies
shit on Debra's desk
:^:
stage a bomb threat
no, wait
stage a bombing
Schedule a meeting for that time before they do.