Jennerosity

Had our monthly games night last night.  In addition to the usual crew of awesome, we had extra awesome, because our friends brought some of their friends.  And when the friends you have are awesome already, it stands a good chance that their other friends are awesome too!¹  Anyway, in addition to the usual Rock Band and arcade cabinet, we also played some more of my new favourite game: Dominion.

I first heard about the game on one of the GeeksOn podcasts².  I knew right from the start that it was right up our alley.  The game is a card game where you build the deck that you play with throughout the course of the game.  You use your treasure cards to buy land and actions.  You ultimately want to be the player with the most land in the game.  The different action cards are what really spice it up though.  It comes with a large selection³ but then you select 10 to actually play with.  Depending on the cards that are selected and the random draw that each player gets each hand, each game is really different and interesting.  You also have to be adaptable.  There is no single strategy that is going to win every time.

My only (very small) criticism is that it’s only a 4 player game and I hate people being excluded.  However, I also enjoy watching other people play this game much more than our other standard tabletop games, so it isn’t really terrible.  Plus, we will be picking up the Intrigue expansion sooner or later and that’ll essentially let us run 2 games simultaneously.

1. Everyone was so awesome that we gamed until 2am.  It’s been quite a while since I’ve stayed up that late on purpose! [↩]
2. I’m way too lazy to look up the exact show so you’ll just have to listen to all the episodes if you really must know [↩]
3. which you can expand upon by purchasing the expansions [↩]

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