Smellavision

Bloomburrow is fun - made me pick up a copy of Duncton Wood for more mole action.

I like the little animal theme, feels on point for my type of fantasy, less so the demon planes and dimensional beings.

Also the power level of some of the cards has made some fun themed decks possible. I’m building a spider deck as we speak!

During my darkest grief filled days trying to make sense of life, my friends invited me out to a boardgame cafe to play Magic The Gathering.

Now, I’d played back in the mid 90’s, had some decks and unopened packs, but I’d been confident that the X-Files card game was the one horse to back… well.

My friends enticed me with a Baldurs Gate set, and then the Lord of The Rings set and now I’m on cardmarket every other day with long lists of wants!

We play about twice a month in real life and the same again online, I’m grinding for coins daily on Arena, all to the neglect of my other gaming habits.

Anyone else?

@Ninchilla - come and join our group in the new year!

The One Ring

My players are trying to get Imre to the West.

They spectacularly failed in getting her to Rivendell in the 1st edition 5e version we were playing years ago, and I thought I’d let them roll new characters and try again!

All they had to do was convince Ciardan to build a ship, but the pirates attacking the coast were distracting him.

He sent them off to find an artefact that enhances a Palantir by adding in voice communication.

Sauraman has one part, but they didn’t want to give him a ring to hand it over.

The Numenorian pirates have a part, and they’ve only just realised.

They tried to recruit Aragorn (as Thorongil) who just as he was about to lead them to sea on a fleet of ranger war ships, gets called away by Gandalf to find someone in Moria.

I’ve spent two years leading these guys a merry dance around Middle-earth, and have to leave them hanging for six months - my Thursday nights have become busy!

However, they’ve decided to captain the fleet themselves!

Now to roll up some doozy sea creatures, flooded wrecks, underwater caverns and sirens!

I mean it’s not all great, the only gaming I’m getting in is Magic The Gathering 🤓