Weekends Are Made For Friends

Busy Friday and Saturday. I ran around like a wild man getting ready for having some friends over for an afternoon of boardgames and dinner on Saturday. It was silly stuff mostly, getting a little food processor and a larger mixing bowl for the kitchen, as well as the makings for my friend, Katyia's guacamole. (Who knew that they call cilantro, coriander here.)

Then I had to clean the apartment, run to the library and the post office (not necessarily in that order), before everyone showed up.

We played the Order of the Stick game, showing once again that I tend to try games based on web comics that I like, no matter how they rarely live up to the comic.

(So far, the only successful game based on a web comic is the Girl Genius game, but I keep hoping to add more to that list.)

This is a fun game, the players play characters from the Order of the Stick (OOTS), as they dungeon dive in pursuit of the Big Bad, Xykon. It's fairly standard: find rooms, beat monsters and pick up loot, skills (or schticks) as you go. The players get to play what monsters the other players will have to face, as well as zapping them with 'Screw You' cards that make them less capable.

All in all, it's simple to pick up, playable and fun. The downside is that it is a very long game. We played the short game and that still took almost six hours. Now granted, that was three players playing for the first time. I'm willing to admit that after the first hour or so, game play got much faster. But it did tend to go on a little long.