Happy Holidays

[misterecho]

Happy Holidays Monkeys.

[Rob Lang]

Seconded!

What are people doing for their holidays?

Due to a big chunk of work at, erm, work, I'll be in the office 28,29,30th December. That's a bit annoying but can't be helped. I'd rather be in the office getting things sorted rather than at home worrying about it! Our Christmas is a traditional fayre with songs, booze, watching Her Majesty The Queen tell us how hard everything is, a silly huge lunch no-one can finish and makes you feel pregnant, prezzies, kids running amock, a nap in the afternoon (fat chance with a toddler about), loads of family washing about and good times.

[misterecho]

I'm working Christmas eve, then spending Xmas day in the traditional manner of early rise, prezzies, off to the inlaws for Steak pie or Turkey, mild drunkenness, Queen's speech, nap, throw in a tantrum or argument and it'll be the perfect Christmas.

On the 27th Stuart, Peter and myself (The game-gr0up) will be having a game day, with aboard game (Tannhauser, Arkham horror or Mansions), cardgame (bloodbowl manager, eldar sign or munchkin) and an RPG (Warhammer fantasy 3e, Call of Cthulhu, Laundry or something else)
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[Evil Scientist]

Russia has X-mas in January, so I have exams and other university-related stuff for the following days. But then I'm traveling to Poland for New Year's Eve, that'a gonna be a fine time!

Oh, by the way, got any good ideas for transportable small and interesting boardgames one can play on the train, etc?

[misterecho]

С наступающим Новым Годом
Wesołych świąt i szczęśliwego Nowego Roku

Munchin would work on a train and is pretty awesome. Something like Eldar sign would work if you got a table seat.

[Evil Scientist]

Yeah, thought about that too. Munchkin is the ultimate answer to all boardgame-based questions

Any more tips, maybe some obscure or not well-known yet compact and fun games?
Also, we might just end up playing some diceless free-form RPGs in the train, it's a 30-hour journey.

[misterecho]

[Chainsaw Aardvark]

Happy Holidays everyone.

I'm spending them dead. Mostly for tax purposes. Also because I endured three weeks in India, spent the week after getting home unmoving with a migraine headache, strained my back helping a friend reorganize self-storage, and still have to re-stage Thanksgiving since we were out of town at the time.

Actually, its still a pretty good season - my friend is nearly licensed as an accountant, I've got a potential job offer, and a new games shop will be opening a few blocks away come January. Not bad at all really.

I don't know how much time you have to prepare for the train trip, but if you have a good printer has a few hundred free games - most of which have a fairly small foot-print. They cover topics from history to Sci-Fi and Fantasy settings, and other genres as well. However, most of them are card games, which means a lot of printing. The one I want to try simulates the build-up and then fighting of , so there are three sixty-five card decks to contend with. (A shared one for the first phase, and then NATO and Warsaw Pact ones for the open conflict.)

Oh, and I will probably begin a thread bombing campaign soon - as I respond to two months of posts.

[Rob Lang]