Tabletop Leadership

This week we presented our game design ideas. My game was Darkest Seas and I really like the idea of it. I was really encouraged by the notes and suggestions that our professors had on the game as well as with the suggestions they had as to what games we could play to get ideas…

This week we played the game Ladies and Gentlemen. This game places you into teams of two and has a very sort of endearing way of encouraging you to roleplay during the game. By often having the opposite gender roles on each side of the team, it is intentionally paradoxical, and funny how disregarding it…

This week’s game was great fun. Me and Samantha had a great time messing around and creating our own rules. The hardest part this time was probably staying serious. That may not necessarily be a bad thing because I think I enjoyed this game much more than many of the others. We started off following…

This week we played Mysterium a relatively abstract game where you play as either a psychic murder investigator or a ghost who sends dreams to the investigators in order to help them determine the circumstances of the murder. The hardest part was I think the whole point of the game, trying to figure out what…

The hardest part of the game was probably the somewhat ambiguous interpretation of the rules at times. This isn’t an insurmountable challenge but one has to wonder if the designers encountered this issue in playtesting. The game has some ties to leadership with the group who does not become traitors. They in all cases need…

Although the game was launched very early, I really like this game. The rules of the game are simple and easy to understand. There are no long manuals, and the players are very good at getting started. The hard part is that you need to combine your strategies and escape by working with others. The…

Mysterium has some similarities to a board game I have played before also rely on cards to guess ideas. Although the mysterium theme is horrifying, it is a joy to play. Players will continue to use the card to solve the case, find the connection between the ghost and the real people, and infer who…

Below is the character sheet I designed for myself as well as the image I was intending to use as the picture of ‘my character’ because D&D Beyond wasn’t cooperating with me.

Hanabi was probably my least favorite game so far because to me it was not a very interesting concept. While I do enjoy cooperative games usually this one just held so little to keep it interesting that I can not even begin to understand why it got the game of the year award in 2013.…

Ultimate Werewolf was a fun game on its own but I think the diverse group really made it fun. At first there was no real direction it seemed and frankly I was getting bored so I just decided unilaterally to start the voting while knowing full well that it was likely to end up getting…