Gaming and food was good...

[dagibbs]

Had a good afternoon of gaming -- peaked at 3 tables of gaming. I think we had ironphoenix, metawidget, rottenfruit, shyska, beable, ragnhildr, lj-less Steve, jagash, lj-less Eve, and me. (Did I forget anyone?)

I played 5 games of Bananagrams, Lowenherz, 2 games of Set (or was it 3?), and Acquire. Also played was (at least) Ticket to Ride, more than one game of Tsuro, more than one game of Dominion, Ca$h 'n' Gun$, and Cockroach Poker.

I got thoroughly crushed at both Acquire and Lowenherz.

6 of us went out to a northern Chinese restaurant that jagash suggested, and the food was good. Then back for the game of Acquire, and some Port and chocolate.

Comments

[shyska.livejournal.com]

Cash and Guns and Cockroach Poker were also played a few times each.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Thanks. A few times each? There were actually multiple games of Cockroach poker? Wow.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thanks for hosting; it was lots of fun, and good to see such a turnout!

I think we need a tighter time limit on negotiations in Löwenherz, especially when we get into the full game with initial placement of castles.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yes, was nice to get a good turn out this time. It really seems to randomly vary.

And, yes, we need an egg-timer for Löwenherz. I wonder if any of my games has one. Could steal it from Ricochet Robots.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

I think 1 minute (which I think is what the RR timer gives) is short. 3 minutes is probably about right, but it would have to be spelled out before starting the game.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one minute is, probably, too short. I'm sure there must be 3-minute egg timers around, somewhere. Does Roborally use an egg-timer? How long does it give?

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

I use my watch, which has a countdown timer.

For Roborally, I usually start with about 5 or 6 minutes for the first few turns, then work the time down to 3 minutes as players get familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the board.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Works fine if you're GMing. If you're playing, using your watch doesn't work quite as well.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Well, I could take it off so that other players could use it too.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

We'd have to learn how to work it, and it doesn't give a good visual indication of how much time is left the way an egg timer does. That visual indication is useful, let's you know how tight to the end of negotiations you are.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

True. I also have game-timer clocks (basically, a fancy digital chess clock with multiple modes) that can work for this.