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July 06, 2003
Game Store Pilgrimage
Spare time over the holiday weekend allowed me to make a trip into Boston and Cambridge to stock up on some new titles...
Not much of a pilgrimage, really, as it's mostly just a trek along Mass Ave... But that's more than enough challenge for me. I don't exactly like city driving.
Still... new games are now on hand.
RPG Purchases:
Tri-Stat dX. Yes, I know it comes out in PDF for free on the 10th, but for under $10, I'm willing to support the people who founded ACN (plus BESM and SAS are good RPGs, so the generic engine backed out from them should be worth a read). Functional, art-free layout to maximize the information in its 90-ish pages, but it looks to be a very promising latecomer to the generic system "wars".
Testament. d20 gaming in the Old Testament biblical era. Bought more just to see if they really can do it (and to get some nice bronze-age details for other projects). A quick flip-through shows interesting-looking treatments of the different peoples/cultures of the region and some promising mass combat rules. And there aren't many RPGs where temple prostitute or desert hermit are major PC classes.
Board Game Purchases:
Balloon Cup. Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) nominee card game of balloon racing.
Queen's Necklace. Card game of jewelers seeking royal influence in pre-revolutionary France.
Message to the Czar. Board game of messengers trying to squeeze into crowded inns while getting a message from their village to the Czar.
Der Weisse Lotus (The White Lotus). Game of Chinese political unrest in the 14th century, as recommended to me in comments to my Favorite Games reviews by Scott.
Atlanteon. A new Knizia abstract game of Atlantean civil war (or of tile-placing to optimize total forces, ala Samurai but with a simpler overall structure and an optional touch of Battle Line in the mix as well). I do hope finding this isn't a warning of things to come, though.
Should keep me in reading materials and neat new passtime options for a while.
Posted by ghoul at July 6, 2003 01:57 PM
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