[NYE] oh I should also mention here that there's going to be a discord game night tonight starting at 6pm (eastern I think?)
we're going to start off with some good retro tabletop and see where the mood leads us after.
1992 Nightmare Game Commercial
we're going to start off with some good retro tabletop and see where the mood leads us after.
1992 Nightmare Game Commercial
we're going to run it in Tabletop Simulator, and I've got some extra gift godes in steam so it's ok if you don't already own it
we want your company, not your wallets 
maybe some jackbox after? other board games online? if we end up with a ton of people we might just say fuck it and throw on some Among Us
I've been obsessed with Blood on the Clocktower lately but that would take like 10 people to run
at some point shikki is probably going to demand some Talisman, at which point they will try to explain the game and I will just start narrating the character arcs of everyone's choices
never forget the frog priest
that man went on a fucking hero's journey
from bumbling outcast to oneshotting the devil
bumping this bc we're going to start getting ready in an hourish
ALL ARE WELCOME
Hope you have tons of fun.
a discord invite even though I haven't even confirmed that shikki is awake yet I should get on that
OKAY SO. things got a little pushed back because life happened BUT we're actually ready to go now
so if you wanted to hang out but it was too early/inconvenient before, we still haven't actually Nightmared yet
but we're ready and we playtested and IT'S ON.
May you slaughter them all.
LOL I appreciate this support
MAN SO now that it's all over, Nightmare was surprisingly fun?
like it's one of those PvE games that occasionally devolves into PvP (AKAI. :| )
so it's not super winnable but it got actually tense in a lot of interesting ways
i was only following my gatekeeper's instructions
I mean whenever we get around to playing the Elizabeth bathory game, that one has a mechanic where she turns people into vampires if they roll badly and then they spend the rest of the game fucking with people
you would do well in that expansion :|
lmaooooo bless
i generally really hate boardgames so rather than getting competitive i just like to watch the world burn a little
lol you were closest to winning so it fully worked out!
the whole "so and so gets ALL KEYS" kinda cinched it
lol yeah that was one of the things that people say make this a bad game
im glad that happened bc i'd realized later i took a key when i only got half of one via the card (i thought it meant take one) so i'd have gotten it anyway
they were also really harsh about the black hole stuff but I didn't think it killed the vibe that much?
no the black holes weren't bad. he lets people out often enough
more harsh was shikki missing five damn turns lmao
yeah it just felt like the game was fucking with us which was the point
its definitely the point!
pve is supposed to be hard to win
i think what made it hard was that there's not enough time for everyone to do what he asks
but man that last ten minutes
yeah especially then!! what a rush lol
he was like "and now there will be chaos" and there was
"roll your age. sucks for you if you're over ten years old"
sweats in 20s and 30s
and there's only one die so it's just like making the whole team suffer
yeah it would be good if maybe everyone had their own die 
I wonder if these are quality of life things that future expansions improve
but that might be part of the design. I think we would have completely lost track of turns if there wasn't a sense of "oh ok that person's rolling"
i definitely lost track of the turn multiple times
bc EVERYONE was rolling all the time
yeah. and I think some of that came from homerule-ing some stuff
like when it was like "you can't do anything until you roll this number" we kind of just politely fell into letting people roll a bunch of times in a row
but I think the intent was to roll once and then maintain turn order
but also that would have been less fun
yeah we already had a lot of turn-skipping
turns felt arbitrary and I wasn't upset about that
but things move so fast it's not like you can go do something else while you wait for your turn to come back either
it was mostly a matter of "stay aware of who's being yelled at right now"
so playing willynilly just became an understood norm that no one argued really lol
lol yeah
but I can see how it would chafe a hypercompetitive person
like if you play games to Win Games then the constant chaos would have been infuriating
thats where the table flipping comes in
lol that was one way to end the session!
"i don't know how to fix this let's play something else"
so began the Uno Saga
good game to fall asleep to