State of the Games
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giftedericInspired by <lj user="gothwalk">, I too shall blog about my gaming, and in the same format too... (No shame here)
2008
Roleplaying suffered alot in 2008. I think I played in 1 ad hoc superhero session and 3 games of Star Wars. I ran 1 session of Star Wars but despite plans for running a Traveller game over the christmas, there was just no requirement for it. Computer gaming was mostly EVE. I achieved alot in EVE over the year, leaving myself in a very good position going into 2009. I have a super solid income stream almost completely divorced now from my main character Yoritomo Aleta. And I have trained ambitiously, and can now fly some of the more epic ships in the game with good technical ability. Experience of actual combat has been neglected, but hopefully that is about to change. Played an insane amount of boardgames this year, mostly in Vancouver, where I played a good 40+ games for the first time, catching up on years of games that I sold but never played. Only played 1 miniatures game, and whilst I played a reasonable amount of Versus, I would say that my interest in CCGs is at the lowest it has been since 1994.
2009
I should definitely run a regular space roleplaying game. It would just be something creative I could do, that I would get alot out of. Must give this more thought. I'd want to run it on a week night, which could be problematic. I am always trying to get <lj user="dualpurpose"> to run 'The Game', and I must redouble my efforts.
I'm actually feeling very good about EVE at the moment after going thru a period of boredom brought on by the very long training times for capital ship skills, and the succesful end of an epic trade war that I waged for the best part of last year. Now, morale is good, and everyone is ready to engage evil scummy pirates in pvp action. Over the next few weeks I hope to learn to use the ships that I have spent so long training for (since about last may) in various types of fleet action, both PvE and PvP. Trade and manufacturing will likely take a back seat, though my Freighter construction has only recently gone into production and the first one roles off the line in about 8 days after over 3 months of preparation. As you can see long lead times are the norm in EVE, and I will no doubt be looking toward other projects too, not least of which is my goal of being able to fly every ship in the game, Titans included, by the end of 2010.
Oh, and I have a RTS computer game there called Sins of a Solar Empire that I want to play too.
I want to host a regular boardgames evening every week (or as close as possible) this year. I will also be heading back to Vancouver for 2 weeks in the first quarter of the year, so that will be boardgametastic. And there is Warpcon and K2 both coming up which I am very much looking forward to, and at which I will play mostly boardgames. I've just ordered the Battlestar Galactica boardgame from my friendly local supplier, and I am very much looking forward to that.
I want to use the Star Wars Starship Battles miniatures that I have about a kazillion of, but I am stuck on what to do. I am not really in the humor at the moment to do anything obviously star warsy... I'll bring a fleet to K2 anyway to try and get revenge on <lj user="daceholenfor"> for last years shaming.
On CCGs, I am stumped. Versus is dead, and even if it somehow manages to survive, it will likely be Marvel only, and that just doesn't interest me. Its a great game however, so I will continue to draft it and play the odd constructed game, perhaps at warpcon, but it is taking up no brain cycles these days. I kinda want to replace it, and I kinda don't. CCGs are expensive to play competitively, but they have been a part of what I do for over 14 years, and I will miss it if I stop. I will definitely come out of semi retirement if they relaunch Legend of the Burning Sands as a CCG, or if someone redoes Lord of the Rings. I have fond memories of the Star Trek CCG too, but I am not confident that I can recapture that playing the 2nd ed of the game, despite it being really, really cheap. I guess I will just wait and see what happens. I would like to use the cards I have already of course. I have literally 10's of thousands of cards from a whole spectrum of games there, most nicely tidied away. Anyone for a game of Shadowfist?
2008
Roleplaying suffered alot in 2008. I think I played in 1 ad hoc superhero session and 3 games of Star Wars. I ran 1 session of Star Wars but despite plans for running a Traveller game over the christmas, there was just no requirement for it. Computer gaming was mostly EVE. I achieved alot in EVE over the year, leaving myself in a very good position going into 2009. I have a super solid income stream almost completely divorced now from my main character Yoritomo Aleta. And I have trained ambitiously, and can now fly some of the more epic ships in the game with good technical ability. Experience of actual combat has been neglected, but hopefully that is about to change. Played an insane amount of boardgames this year, mostly in Vancouver, where I played a good 40+ games for the first time, catching up on years of games that I sold but never played. Only played 1 miniatures game, and whilst I played a reasonable amount of Versus, I would say that my interest in CCGs is at the lowest it has been since 1994.
2009
I should definitely run a regular space roleplaying game. It would just be something creative I could do, that I would get alot out of. Must give this more thought. I'd want to run it on a week night, which could be problematic. I am always trying to get <lj user="dualpurpose"> to run 'The Game', and I must redouble my efforts.
I'm actually feeling very good about EVE at the moment after going thru a period of boredom brought on by the very long training times for capital ship skills, and the succesful end of an epic trade war that I waged for the best part of last year. Now, morale is good, and everyone is ready to engage evil scummy pirates in pvp action. Over the next few weeks I hope to learn to use the ships that I have spent so long training for (since about last may) in various types of fleet action, both PvE and PvP. Trade and manufacturing will likely take a back seat, though my Freighter construction has only recently gone into production and the first one roles off the line in about 8 days after over 3 months of preparation. As you can see long lead times are the norm in EVE, and I will no doubt be looking toward other projects too, not least of which is my goal of being able to fly every ship in the game, Titans included, by the end of 2010.
Oh, and I have a RTS computer game there called Sins of a Solar Empire that I want to play too.
I want to host a regular boardgames evening every week (or as close as possible) this year. I will also be heading back to Vancouver for 2 weeks in the first quarter of the year, so that will be boardgametastic. And there is Warpcon and K2 both coming up which I am very much looking forward to, and at which I will play mostly boardgames. I've just ordered the Battlestar Galactica boardgame from my friendly local supplier, and I am very much looking forward to that.
I want to use the Star Wars Starship Battles miniatures that I have about a kazillion of, but I am stuck on what to do. I am not really in the humor at the moment to do anything obviously star warsy... I'll bring a fleet to K2 anyway to try and get revenge on <lj user="daceholenfor"> for last years shaming.
On CCGs, I am stumped. Versus is dead, and even if it somehow manages to survive, it will likely be Marvel only, and that just doesn't interest me. Its a great game however, so I will continue to draft it and play the odd constructed game, perhaps at warpcon, but it is taking up no brain cycles these days. I kinda want to replace it, and I kinda don't. CCGs are expensive to play competitively, but they have been a part of what I do for over 14 years, and I will miss it if I stop. I will definitely come out of semi retirement if they relaunch Legend of the Burning Sands as a CCG, or if someone redoes Lord of the Rings. I have fond memories of the Star Trek CCG too, but I am not confident that I can recapture that playing the 2nd ed of the game, despite it being really, really cheap. I guess I will just wait and see what happens. I would like to use the cards I have already of course. I have literally 10's of thousands of cards from a whole spectrum of games there, most nicely tidied away. Anyone for a game of Shadowfist?
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