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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HellHound" data-source="post: 2380187" data-attributes="member: 3397">Just a quick addendum about some of the games I played / picked up at Origins:Had a great time, although we only stuck it out for 2 of the four days. I didn't play any acutal RPGs at the con (as usual), but played a bunch of card games, mini game demos, and spent a lot of time in the dealer room schoozing and picking up stuff. Crothian was an awesome host, and it was great to hang out with LrdApoc and Crothian and a few others for the two days we were there.<a href="http://wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Fluxx/Default.html" target="_blank">FLUXX</a>I'm an old hand at the IceHouse games from Looney Labs, but this year I spent a lot of time in the Big Experiment, and learned a bunch of games from Looney that I hadn't played before, and got completely hooked on "FLUXX" (a card game), bought a copy, and collected 6 promotional cards for the game too. Thus began the Box O Loot.<a href="http://wunderland.com/icehouse/IceTowers/Default.html" target="_blank">ICE TOWERS</a>I also got to play Giant IceTowers with the Looney Labs crew, which was a lot of fun, especially since its the first time I've played IceTowers outside of my family, and playing with the big cardboard pieces makes it almost a physical sport instead of an abstract boardgame. (The giant icehouse pieces are really cool - <a href="http://wunderland.com/icehouse/Icehouse.html#Giant" target="_blank">here's a link to see what it's like</a>)<a href="http://www.rezolutiondt.com/" target="_blank">REZOLUTION: A DARK TOMORROW</a>I demod a minis game called Rezolution from Aberrant Games. It's a very cool CyberPunk-y minis game with great sculpts and very clean playability, designed for skirmish level combat (10-15 models per side, tops). The rule book is drop-dead gorgeous, I must add... the art is killer and my wife and I drooled over it for 15 minutes before playing the demo. Sadly, I cannot afford another minis game, and Rezolution did not make it into the Box O Loot, although I sorely want it, as does my wife.<a href="http://www.trolllord.com/candc.htm" target="_blank">CASTLES & CRUSADES</a>Denise played in a 4 hour C&C game and loved it. Very Convention-friendly as the rules set is a highly simplified d20 set, with a disctinct OD&D feel. While I don't have the love that some others do for this game, we do have the player's handbook for it in the Box o Loot.<a href="http://www.beatpeopleup.com/" target="_blank">BRAWL</a>The name of the website says it all... BeatPeopleUp.com.Brawl is a card game released five years ago by Cheapass games (one of my fave companies). The were giving away a deck in each convention bag, and Denise and I played a few fun games. So I went to the cheapass booth and picked up a few more decks. It's fun because it is a no turn sequence game. A game takes roughly a minute and a half for us now, and the tournament games are usually over in 40 seconds. I have most of the Club Foglio and Catfight decks, but none of the other two sets (I think they are sold out). So I have a bunch of these in the Box o Loot.<a href="http://www.crystalcaste.com/" target="_blank">DICE</a>Denise picked up a fresh set of the classic Crystal dice from Crystal Caste, the ones with the weird angles instead of standard dice. I picked up a very large set of white dice with black inking to loan to the player who cheats the most at the table, so I can see what he rolls. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Oh, and there is a VERY nice large brushed brass d20 in the Box o Loot too, very sexy.<a href="http://www.atlas-games.com/product_tables/AG1250.php" target="_blank">GLOOM</a>Back to the card game obsession - we checked out Gloom which is an awesome design for a card game, using clear plastic cards so that the cards overlay one another as you play them to produce different effects. VERY cool. And the theme rocks too. "you assume control of the fate of an eccentric family of misfits and misanthropes. The goal of the game is sad, but simple: you want your characters to suffer the greatest tragedies possible before passing on to the well-deserved respite of death. You'll play horrible mishaps like Pursued by Poodles or Mocked by Midgets on your own characters to lower their Self-Worth scores, while trying to cheer your opponents' characters with marriages and other happy occasions that pile on positive points. The player with the lowest total Family Value wins. ". What's also cool, is the game was created by Keith Baker of Eberon fame. Welcome to the Box o Loot, Gloom!<a href="http://www.greendragonstudio.com/rollerstamps.htm" target="_blank">INSTANT WALLS!</a>While walking apst the Green Dragon Studios booth, I looked at the Dungeon Stamps once again and decided to pass on them, until I saw one of the booth babes drawing out a dungeon very rapidly using the wall roller. I was hooked right there. I only bought the one wall roller and the ink pad for it, since I don't mind drawing doors and other scenery by hand, but the wall roller is awesome and makes for nice, easy to look at walls without burning through my wet-erase markers on the battle mat. Heck, I may actually resurrect the use of minis in my D&D game because of this (my wife loves using minis, I don't bother 99% of the time). Welcome to the Box O Loot, Green Dragon Studios!. . .The Box O Loot contains much more, but I have to run off and do some work before I keep on blabbering about Origins. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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