orangerful: (kristen bell)


February was a really fun month for gaming at the table.

We visited friends we hadn’t seen in ages and I brought along ‘Decorum’ which is quickly becoming one of my favorite game to play with people who are new to the hobby and you want to keep them engaged with some player interaction. Yes, I splurged and got the deluxe edition with the acrylic pieces because they just make this already tactile game more fun.

We continued to play ‘Three Sisters’ as our lunch break game at work for the first half of the month, but then my coworker picked up ‘Sagrada’ at Barnes & Noble so we ended the month learning to play that game. It scratches that same itch as ‘Azul’ but with even more variation and I love it’s tiny little dice. Plus, it’s one of those games that is so aesthetically pleasing, everyone else in the lunch room would stop and ask us what we were doing.

We also played a couple games of ‘TEN’ at lunch, though I think that one is a more fun with 3+ players. 2 still works but the bidding isn’t quite as tense when there is just two of you going for a card.

I had some other friends over for an evening of games where I taught them ‘Point Salad’, ‘Splitter’ and ‘Viticulture’. This was probably not the correct order to present these games – getting ‘Viticulture’ on the table after 8pm wasn’t a good idea since we all had to work the next day. But they enjoyed it and asked to play it again next time, just earlier in the evening.

Games and Stuff (my FLGS) hosted a Dice Throne Event the last weekend of the month. As I expected, I didn’t win but I had a really fun time playing with other fans of the game. It was a really great afternoon! I’m bummed I’m missing out on the ‘Unmatched’ game weekend but I will be around for April’s Root game! I can finally play Root ON THE TABLE!!



Several solo games in the mix too: I enjoyed another monthly challenge of ‘Super Dice Heroes Saga‘ which is FREE to print and play at home, you just need some six-sided dice. I got ‘Votes for Women’ and ‘So, You’ve Been Eaten’ on the table too and both were really fun solo games that I want to play again soon.

I also played ‘Mirroring of Mary King’ sort of solo – I pretended to be both players to try to learn the rules but I counted it in my stats because it was a full game! And somehow this is fitting since the plot of the game is Mary trying to fight against being taken over by her ancestor’s ghost haha.

And our online board game group continued to meet up this month – we got a game in of ‘Marvel United’ (though we didn’t not defeat Magneto…perhaps he wasn’t the best to start with haha) and ‘Quacks of Quedlinburg’ which is quickly moving up my list of games I want to own.

And, of course, I was still chugging along on Board Game Arena – 143 games this month. Last month’s obsession with ‘Castles of Burgundy’ kept on going but I have now also learned ‘7 Wonders Duel’ and have been playing that a LOT.



What did you play in February? Let me know in the comments or link me to your post!

Want to know more about any of the games mentioned above? Let me know in the comments too!
orangerful: (avasarala)
Challenge #4

In your own space, create some goals.


In 2020, I dived into the world of tabletop and roleplaying games headfirst but I haven’t actually played that many yet though, so for 2021, I want to play the games I bought last year.



(that…isn’t all of them…)

I went a little wild on Kickstarter while I was working from home so I will have even more games arriving over the next few months. My goal is to play them all and then blog about the experience here.


Small selection of my Kickstarter Backed Projects

I also got into painting miniatures. I’m not actually using them for games, just enjoying the chill times of painting for fun. One of my Christmas presents was a nice paint set for minis so I am committed to it now. I backed the Kickstarter for Sea of Legends and…yeah, that has a LOT of minis so that should keep me busy once it arrives (hopefully February!).



I’m setting my GoodReads goal for 2021 at 50 books. I had a lot of trouble focusing last year, but I am hoping that this will change as the months go on. I have binged a few graphic novels already though so my goal has some padding to start. If I feel like I can read like I was before 2020, I might up that number but 50 seems good to start.



I also want to do a rewatch of my movie collection. It has been awhile since I revisted a lot of those films and many of them I saw in the theater, LOVED, bought the disc…and then never bothered watching again. I want to see if they have withstood the test of time. I’ll try to post about them on here, or at the very least update my Letterboxd on a regular basis.

When I first saw this “challenge”, I didn’t think I would have any goals, but now that I have typed these out, I’m feeling pretty good about the nerdy, fandom part of my soul having plenty to do this year. Do you have any fandom goals for 2021?

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