…there are only 10 days before the release of The Force Awakens. Granted that’s if you’re going to the midnight showing on the 17th, which in all likelihood I’m not. But the movie WILL be out so that’s good enough for me. I’m trying not to get my hopes too high for the movie, but I’m still pretty excited for the release.
But speaking of the number of shopping days before Christmas, that’s also dwindling down and I have next to nothing ready. I see some wild internet shopping going on in the next few days.
I didn’t have game night this past weekend so I had to make due with the board games I bought on Steam. I played a fair bit of Splendor but more than that I’m getting the hang of the Witcher Adventure Game which, as my friend Mike pointed out, is a video game port of a board game of a video game. After playing a few games, I can’t imagine playing the tabletop version as the digital port is so smooth. In the board game, you and up to three other players take on the roles of one of four available characters and try to complete quests and subquests for victory points. The game ends at the end of the round where a player has completed the requisite number of main quests (1, 3 or 5 depending on the length of game desired).
Players have two actions per round which can be used to travel, develop (gain abilities/spells), investigate, heal or a special ability unique to each character. By traveling and investigating, the players will collect 3 different types of hint tokens. These players can trade use the hint tokens to complete subquests or to get investigation tokens which are required to complete the quests. Each character requires a different number of hints to get investigation tokens. Triss for example, only needs 3 blue hint tokens to get a blue invetigation token, but she needs five purple hints and seven red hints to get the respective investigations tokens for those colours. In addition, Geralt has more character dice at his disposal, Triss is good at recharging spells, Dandelion is good at amassing money and Yarpen can take more hits before he loses access to his abilities so each character really has a different feel. I’ve only tried Triss so far as I wanted to get an idea of how she works before trying another character. I’m going to try Dandelion next because he’s a bard and bards are cool.
I guess that’s all for now. I have one more overtime session ahead of me next Saturday. It’s subtle but I can feel an extra bit of fatigue starting to build so it’ll be none too soon. Anyhoo, have a good seven and we’ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.