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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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Free Play 2
For our last week of class, we had a free play week. We used this free play session to play Among Us, which went okay. This game is accessible on Steam and on smart phones. We had four people from class in our session, and we played a few games with just us four. After…
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Ladies And Gentlemen
In this week of class, we played Ladies and Gentlemen in Tabletop Simulator. Setting up the game was a bit hard because the rules were a bit confusing. We spent quite a bit of time going through the rules and understanding how to play the game. We did manage to get through one game, but…
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D&D Week 3
For our ninth week of class, we finished up our D&D game. The session brought us to the end of the cave and got us to what was essentially was the final boss. We got into combat with the character and eventually killed him along with others in the cave. We lost one of our…
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D&D Week 2
For this week, we continued our session of D&D. The session was less of introducing our characters like last week and more about continuing our previously established story. The game session consisted of us coming up with ways to sneak into a cave and make progress through the cave. We had a battle and a…
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D&D Week 1
For this week, we did our first session of Dungeons & Dragons. I have past experience with the game, but it had been a while since I last played it, so I was excited for this game coming up. Our session started off by introducing everybody and their characters and getting a good understanding of…
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Free Play 1
For our free play week, we decided to play Incan Gold to make up for the previous week where we did not get to play it. We played the game in Tabletop Simulator, and the session went pretty smooth. We were able to set up the game pretty quickly, and we were able to play…
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