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• Post #4364406

  Won our first full game of LotR FotF but played it wrong. Didn't turn over enough cards during the Shadow part of the turn until near the end. Played with Rick, Shawn and @StuartWood@mastodon.social

• Post #4136352

  #boardgames #wdypm Played my first game of Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship yesterday. @PlaidInvader@mstdn.ca and I got through set-up and maybe 5 rounds. Next time will be faster, now that we know the flow, the map and the components.. We lost a hope point in the first turn. We forgot to do the bad-guy turn (each round) until after the 2nd round. It grew on me pretty quickly. We can update the Pandemic section of our CVs.

• Post #4095708

  Questionable pet activity du jour: tug of war with the poo bag roll. No. No, p please don't bite that. Please don't claw that. No No No. Stop.

• Post #3971397

  Rodney Smith is a national treasure. He and his team are a wonderful resource for board game rules. I was looking for instructions on LotR:FotF even though I've played a lot of Pandemic style games, some very recently. When I saw that Watch It Played had a video for it I choose that first. #boardgames I've added a link to the video. It starts a few phrases in at my favourite part. He's cheerfully telling you how the characters are doomed and the threat is real but, https://www.you...

• Post #3968078

  After a short bike ride I have a loaned copy of the game Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship. If you haven't heard it uses Pandemic mechanics. I see @EOGamers@tabletop.vip has a set of notes about it so I'll try that. My friend was kind enough to loan it to me for a while so other friends can learn to play. #boardgames I started to say that I would return the game in once piece. The Contents panel on the box has 22 lines. 3 of those lines mention 48 or 50 pieces.

• Post #3684021

  Learning to play a game called Fame and Fable. We like the art and the play. Apparently it caused a fuss during crowd funding. This is my first time out to a #boardgames club over in the next town. It's called The Order of the Bear.

• Post #3680321

  Synaptic Symphony A board game were you work together to link synapses in Jay's brain. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theresilientbrainco/synaptic-symphony-co-op-strategy-game-for-mental-resilience #boardgames

• Post #3470744

  Played Galactic Cruise for the first time. So complicated. Came in last place but not by much. Good patient teachers. Also good hosts. New friends with whom I can play more games more often. Played outside under large umbrellas. Great day for it. #BoardGames

• Post #2535634

  "Bone marrow donors can expect to experience fatigue after donating. Some donors have described soreness and bruising where the needle was inserted, like the soreness that comes from a hard workout or a fall on ice. Donors may also experience mild discomfort from the breathing tube used during the procedure." "A fall on ice" feels like a little bit of Canadian context. #FuckCancer

• Post #2535633

  Solar Calicoes is the name of my new renewable baklava recipe. #CatsOfMastodon #Nonsense

• Post #2535631

  Played 2 games of Moon Colony Bloodbath yesterday with some friends. It was fun despite the fact that I was the one who lost all my colonists first and ended the games. The player with the most surviving colonists at the end wins. It's an engine builder with cards and tokens. You spend a lot of time getting and returning tokens. I gather some don't like the losing-everything-you-just-made aspect but the hint is in the title. I feel like if you know it's coming it'...

• Post #2535628

  #Guelph treasure James Gordon has a song in a video to cheer you up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHRFg47WQ_A

• Post #1857071

  The next instalment of the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells is called Platform Decay. It comes out in Canada on May 5th. So more quotes for @murderbotbot