June is Game Time!

Ah, the blessings of being laid off AND having money! I've gotten in two more games of Vor and for father's day I got Tabula Rasa which I've been playing. It satisfies some of my shooter urges while at the same time is a MMORPG. Tabula Rasa is a sci-fi MMO that is first-person and set in a weird apocalyptic stargate type world. It isn't great, but it is a decent game and better than all the standard fantasy fare cluttering up the online market right now that is getting old and stale. If you're curious check it out at www.playtr.com

I recommend it, but not highly.

It is nice to scratch that computer game itch, but I look forward even more to moving to Seattle home of PAX and many game companies. I hope to be able to play Vor and/or Anima: Tactics on a regular basis. Time spent not being a husband/father or looking for work or a new place to live gets to be spent on gaming though. Hmm, or spending all day yesterday helping my parents move. So really I've had at least a couple days this week to play!

It is in my plans that with my wife I will get more of this in:

You weren't being a pervert were you? I'm a married man and I wouldn't think of such things...

There are currently two other Vor players on the VORmap (see older blog) and one in British Columbia. Plus there is PAX and plenty of opportunities to indoctrinate new players to the game! Plus I know that Anima: Tactics has more players up in the Seattle area so it might be possible to get games of my other miniatures game as well.

Meanwhile however, everything is getting packed up so it will be the occasional Tabula Rasa until we're settled in a new location. It is likely my next blog won't be until then either.

Game Time!

Well I managed to get laid off at work with a severance package! This means game time finally!!!

Got to play a game of Vor with Shard versus Razorback the friday I got laid off and came home early. I had fun writing a detailed Battle Report of our game on the Bioplazm website for Vor 2.0
You can read about my battle and see the detailed pictures for 3.75 turns of a game before interruption commenced. I'm also interesting in a painting competition "Golden Growler" through the Bioplazm website. I'll be sure to have a follow-up blog based on how myself and Kirara do.

On the other hand last night I got to play 1.5 complete games of Arkham Horror. I started off playing the board game by myself in a game shop and got 3 other people including the store owner to join in and we had a blast. 4 players trying to stop the awakening of Elder Lord from another dimension. It was actually a fairly easy game and we managed to dominate the streets of roaring 20s Arkham, Massachusetts so it was just a matter of enough of us making it through the other dimensions to come back and seal enough gates. Once enough gates are sealed it becomes difficult for the Ancient One to burst through in this basic version of the game. When Curse of the Dark Pharoah is restocked I intend to get that expansion and have at it again. I have high expectations that the expansion will make the game a little more difficult and a lot more interesting.

So while I'm job searching and hoping to move back to the Seattle area things are looking a lot better for me and a lot more fun!