Over the years Husband and I have become occassionally-avid players of boardgames, favouring in particular those of a fantastic bent. Our first love was Talisman (1st edition* I think - the one where the expansion sets come in a wild variety of graphic styles and don't really fit together with the main board in any meaningful way) and we have enjoyed this in many locations with many different friends.
More recently we have become rather enamoured of Arkham Horror, a fabulously complex little beauty that has you battling co-operatively against a different one of H P Lovecraft's Great Old Ones each game. Yesterday we took on Nyarlathotep - a damned close-run thing in the end, what with one of us in the Assylum and two more barely clinging on to both sanity and stamina whilst battling hoards of nasties in the streets of Miskatonic University. With four of us in the game it took about 5 hours and many cups of tea to get the job done. Fortunately it all ended without loss of life, and a hearty and well-deserved curry was enjoyed by the victors.
* A fourth edition is due out in October - you can see an overblown and rather crap trailer for it, if you really want to waste eye-power in that way.
More recently we have become rather enamoured of Arkham Horror, a fabulously complex little beauty that has you battling co-operatively against a different one of H P Lovecraft's Great Old Ones each game. Yesterday we took on Nyarlathotep - a damned close-run thing in the end, what with one of us in the Assylum and two more barely clinging on to both sanity and stamina whilst battling hoards of nasties in the streets of Miskatonic University. With four of us in the game it took about 5 hours and many cups of tea to get the job done. Fortunately it all ended without loss of life, and a hearty and well-deserved curry was enjoyed by the victors.
* A fourth edition is due out in October - you can see an overblown and rather crap trailer for it, if you really want to waste eye-power in that way.
2 comments:
I think we have the second edition. Apparently there was a first edition with black and white cards. And the 3rd with the tower and plastic dragon. Not sure we need the 4th though - would ratehr get a completely new game, like Siena.
...best of all,seem like the game was invemted by Bob Harris! Nice!
http://www.harris-authors.com/talisman.html
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