A frivolous afternoon...

[marsden_online]

I spent the after noon and early evening playing the Order of the Stick board game with morag_windstar and co. I was (randomly) playing Belkar, the psychotic little bastard.

OOTS is definately a game you need to play once just to get the hang of. Had I realised how much Belkar's success is aided by attacking the other players I think the game would have gone differently - ie I may not have come last :D. Instead we all played nice and concentrated on killing the monsters and taking their stuff while we learnt the rules, with practically no PVP action.

It'sa long running game - even with only 4 and then 3 of us it must have lasted 4+ hours. The book suggests 7-8 hours for a 6 player game. It speeds up some as you learn how things work, but not necessarily a lot.

I look forward to playing it again with this experience under my belt.

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Of course this meant that I didn't achieve several other things today.....

Comments

[niennahirilfea.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a cool game :D Are you going to bring it to Buckets, or would it be too long?

[marsden-online.livejournal.com]

Well it belongs to S's flatmate G and he's quite possessive of it so no, I don't think I will be bringing it to BoD.

Hell, I don't even know if I'll manage to put in an apearance at BoD at all at this point.

[niennahirilfea.livejournal.com]

Ah right, I thought it was one of yours for some reason :)

Since Buckets clashes with the 48 I'm undecided, since I don't really want to miss either thing.

[marsden-online.livejournal.com]

They're 5 minutes walk apart. A lot of people are planning on being at BoD during the day and at the party at night.

[niennahirilfea.livejournal.com]

This is true, I keep thinking Buckets is in town again. Oops :)