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Tabletop Thursdays, Week 7: Dungeons and Dragons Week 2
This week in EDL 290T, our class started a three-part Dungeons & Dragons campaign. As discussed in my previous post, Dungeons & Dragons is a role-playing game that allows for players to create their own characters from a variety of classes, races, and backgrounds. A Dungeon Master, or DM, guides players through their journey as…
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Free Play Week 1 (Incan Gold)
This week we played Incan gold, a game about taking risk in an attempt to obtain treasure hidden in the Incan pyramids. The game addresses risk taking as you are an explorer who while searching for gems and treasure has to also avoid multiple dangers. Risk taking is how this game connects to leadership. In…
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Tabletop Thursdays, Week 6: Dungeons and Dragons Week 1
This week in EDL 290T, our class started a three-part Dungeons & Dragons campaign. The assigned groups were stable throughout the campaign. Dungeons & Dragons is a role-playing game that allows for players to create their own characters from a variety of classes, races, and backgrounds. A Dungeon Master, or DM, guides players through their…
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Tabletop Thursdays, Week 5: Free Play Week.
This week in EDL 290T, our class had a Free Play week. I joined a group that decided to play Incan Gold. Incan Gold is a card game where players dole out treasure gems as they explore an Incan Temple, with the option to leave the temple at any time. If multiple players leave the…
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Game of the Week: Fiasco (Weeks 1 and 2)
For these couple of weeks, we played the game Fiasco. Fiasco is a role-playing game where your character can be whoever you want them to be, as long as it fits under the conditions that you roll for at the beginning. There are four main categories you roll for: relationships (between you and the 2…
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Tabletop Thursdays, Week 4: Incan Gold & Can’t Stop
This week in EDL 290T, our class played two risk-taking games: Incan Gold and Can’t Stop. Incan Gold is a card game where players dole out treasure as they explore an Incan Temple, with the option to bow out once they feel confident on their treasure intake. However, if the players encounter two of the…
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Can’t stop
This week we only get to play Can’t stop. At the first, we were unfamiliar with how the game goes, but as soon as we started to play, we figured out the game rule and what to get and to give up. The game was overall pretty fun, and the hardest part of the game…
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Game of the Week: Dungeons and Dragons
I play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. Over the 4 years I’ve been playing (a fifth of my life, if you want to feel old), I’ve played with many different groups and been Dungeon Master more often than not. Getting to play it for college credit? A dream come true. For my character I…
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Game of the Week: Lasers and Feelings
When JS told us that we would be in charge of choosing our own game for this week, I knew exactly what I wanted to play. I consider myself something of a connoisseur of role-playing games, and my favorites are the ones that are simple to pick up and play – one-page RPGs being the…
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Game of the Week: Can’t Stop/Incan Gold
This week we played two board games in class. The first one is a classic game called Can’t Stop, with very simple rules. You roll dice and advance on the board based on the sum of the dice you roll. After each roll, you can choose to stop and secure your progress or roll again.…
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