Let's do it again, when it's cooler

[avram]

The Games Club folks have just left. We had mnemex, Dvd, Beth, and Mark (who may not count since he’s staying over anyway). We played Citadels, a pretty cool role-taking game (these are games like Verräter, or Meuterer or Puerto Rico, where there are a bunch of roles that determine what a player can do, and each player chooses a role each round) that supports from two to eight players. I think it’s the simplest of the role-taking games I’ve seen so far, and may server as a good introduction to the mechanic. It’s also fun. I’m looking forward to playing with the variant roles.

We also played a five-hand game of Too Many Cooks, which I might have won if I hadn’t made a stupid move in the fourth round due to forgetting that Mnemex and I were going for the same goal. I actually managed to pull off a successful No Soup For You round even with akawil sitting to my right going for the same goal. I think this is my third or fourth time playing Too Many Cooks, and I keep liking it.

Comments

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

The Assassin works moderately well if it is well-targeted. It completely sucks for everyone if the Assassin guesses wrong about what role his intended target takes. (Well, it doesn't suck for the intended target; in fact, it's a huge benefit.) This happens, of course, a lot--the Assassin wastes his power, the accidental target gets completely screwed for a turn, and the intended target gets away clean.