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Jun. 30th, 2015 04:01 pm
Unwed games
It's been a long time since I did any gaming on a Monday night--since I regretfully left ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
princeofcairo's longrunning RPG, in fact. I'm just not good with late nights during the week, and that's without starting out still recovering from whatever fun I had on the weekend (which due to Pride was considerable). But JB was having us all over for a little distraction during his Bachelor Week and I couldn't refuse.
He'd originally planned a one-shot, but was himself too tired to pull it off, so we settled for card games. Now that I think about it, they were the same two games I played in the last time he had me over: 7 Wonders and slash. And I did about as good this time around as I did then, which is to say not well at all. I had an early coup in slash with Jaws/50-ft Woman, but whatever I learned in the way of strategy the last time I played the building game I managed to forget completely and wound up dead last.
But the point isn't to win, it's to have fun (as JB's husband reminded him per telephone during the proceedings, prompting us to punctuate every decision with, "But will it be more fun for JB?"). Which, by god, we did. JB "crossed the streams" by inviting a player from one of his other games. He's in an opposite-sex marriage, so everyone read him as straight, to the point that we joked he was "insurance" to prevent an orgy from breaking out. We stayed guarded only for a short while until it became clear he could hold his own at a game whose raison d'être is kinky non-hetero matchups.
The champion of these, however, was Grergory. Later, when the rump of us were dishing the alternative Sunday game we play it, we lamented that he didn't bring the same commitment and creativity to Necessary Evil, instead playing an aggressively one-dimensional character and resisting my attempts in particular to give him some depth. Ifvianegativa goes ahead with the notion of D&D3.75 for the next game, that will definitely split the group, which as it stands is an unstable coalition of serious roleplayers and more munchkinny types.
I feel less bad about that than I once would have since I'm seeing more of the guys outside of gaming sessions. More than half of us were at the Big Bear Barbecue on Sunday, leading to the usual "long time no see" yestreen. I'm eager to host some more game nights at my place and dig deeper into JB's hoard of un- or little-played games. And who knows? Maybe without a token Kinsey 1 around, that orgy will break out after all.
princeofcairo's longrunning RPG, in fact. I'm just not good with late nights during the week, and that's without starting out still recovering from whatever fun I had on the weekend (which due to Pride was considerable). But JB was having us all over for a little distraction during his Bachelor Week and I couldn't refuse.He'd originally planned a one-shot, but was himself too tired to pull it off, so we settled for card games. Now that I think about it, they were the same two games I played in the last time he had me over: 7 Wonders and slash. And I did about as good this time around as I did then, which is to say not well at all. I had an early coup in slash with Jaws/50-ft Woman, but whatever I learned in the way of strategy the last time I played the building game I managed to forget completely and wound up dead last.
But the point isn't to win, it's to have fun (as JB's husband reminded him per telephone during the proceedings, prompting us to punctuate every decision with, "But will it be more fun for JB?"). Which, by god, we did. JB "crossed the streams" by inviting a player from one of his other games. He's in an opposite-sex marriage, so everyone read him as straight, to the point that we joked he was "insurance" to prevent an orgy from breaking out. We stayed guarded only for a short while until it became clear he could hold his own at a game whose raison d'être is kinky non-hetero matchups.
The champion of these, however, was Grergory. Later, when the rump of us were dishing the alternative Sunday game we play it, we lamented that he didn't bring the same commitment and creativity to Necessary Evil, instead playing an aggressively one-dimensional character and resisting my attempts in particular to give him some depth. If
vianegativa goes ahead with the notion of D&D3.75 for the next game, that will definitely split the group, which as it stands is an unstable coalition of serious roleplayers and more munchkinny types.I feel less bad about that than I once would have since I'm seeing more of the guys outside of gaming sessions. More than half of us were at the Big Bear Barbecue on Sunday, leading to the usual "long time no see" yestreen. I'm eager to host some more game nights at my place and dig deeper into JB's hoard of un- or little-played games. And who knows? Maybe without a token Kinsey 1 around, that orgy will break out after all.