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Tonight on GeekNights, we mostly complain about our troubles finding similarly invested board-gaming nerds. We also consider the upcoming Burning Wheel Gold and the Wii-U. We have Things of the Day, but due to Audition being an awesome and well-written program, the audio for that portion of the show is forever lost to time and space. Enjoy them below despite the lack of commentary. Also, Magical Drop V is coming.
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The best PMV Hell I've seen.
If you can keep this standard up, I will fellate you both to bring me another 5 years of Geeknights.
Wait... What????
I have a son!
*Hiding in plain sight*....
Nah, seriously, good episode. When Geeknights ends, I will commit Sepuku.
Probably...
One thing I have enjoyed running at Recess to fill up the 4 hour slots are multiple rounds of a 60-90 minute game. The last one I was at, I ran a Small World game where the first round was just teaching the base game to new players, but then we mixed in all of the expansion stuff for a second round. It was very enjoyable to watch people "get it" and start to implement some real strategy the second time around.
I think Rym hit the nail on the head that if you guys plan on retreating to this "friends only" approach, you still need to put yourself out there to actually meet people who want to play. Stepping up and saying "I'll be the one who will run the hardcore game" is a great way to do that. With baby on the way and the decreasing likelihood of me getting into NYC on a regular basis, I am very grateful that I have stumbled upon a quality local group!
I will run some games at the next Recess, so long as it isn't during a convention or vacation. We basically just have to transition to running content rather than consuming it, as we have with most of the other conventions and events we attend.
I was initially worried that Scott and Rym were ditching both Recess and Board Game Night. This is not the case and I'm glad because an absence of hard-core gamers at these events would be a shame. I'm always looking to learn from those who know more about these things than me and also keen to spread my knowledge too. I have found some aspects of Recess/Board game night problematic too.
I've sat out sessions in Recess because nothing appealing was left, but that is where their open-gaming concept comes in. I'm also not a fan of the majority of offerings (no a dungeon crawler for example). My solution is to run games and I will be running in both slots at Saturday's Recess. But that is a lot of prep work and not for everyone.
WRT Board game night, I find it difficult playing Carcassonne in the dark on a small table! But I don't see an easy solution to that. I also ate the worst sandwich of my life in Think Coffee (and I'm British so I know bad sandwiches). Also, finding people to play game-x is difficult. I really wanted to try out Agricola but no takers (the hardcore, ie Scott and Rym were already deeply invested in Le Havre I think).
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