🦸 I! Am! That! Hero! Heads up, this post is about tabletop gaming and programming. It's gonna get hella nerdy up in here. You have been warned. Sentinels of the Multiverse: Definitive Edition is my favorite tabletop game, full-stop, no qualifiers. I routinely played it two or three nights a week, sometimes two or three times in a single night. It's a game with high replayability because there's a lot of variability in set up. It involves selecting five-to-seven decks of cards and some associated character cards, and there is a large pool to choose from. At present (in the latest edition of the game and its expansions) there are twenty-four hero decks, with three-to-four character variants each; twenty-four villain decks, with two character variants each; and sixteen environment decks. One villain plus one environment plus three-to-five heroes makes for a lot of options that need to be worked through any time you sit down to play. You can easily spend more time making deci...
🎲 It Just Takes a Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That... This last weekend was Geekway Mini, one of the board game conventions I attend every year in which I hang out with friends and play a bunch of new games. The main draw is the Play-and-Win event, in which you try out new games and get registered for a chance to win a copy. There were quite a few heavier games this year, and several popular games that were quite cozy. On the whole it was a very chill con. Anyway, here's what I played! Star Wars: Battle of Hoth I knew I was going to have to play this one because it's exactly the sort of thing my 14-year-old would love. I was a little wary because I don't really get into these kinds of dice-based tactical combat games and because IP-based games can be very hit-or-miss, but I was pleasantly surprised. There's a decent amount of depth of gameplay here, including 17 different scenarios and 4 different campaigns. The units are interesting and the gameplay is pretty ...