We played a good set of games yesterday despite limited time for a full table of four. And this included some relatively newer games for friends, so that also helped progress things for the Geeky Guide, in a way.
The first game for the night was Bohemians, a deck-building game published by Portal Games. We're still breaking into this one, but I got to introduce the game to more friends after a first playthrough last month. In the interests of time, we stuck to a game we already knew to avoid needing to explain more rules and ended up with Clank! but used an alternate map to keep things interesting. And our final game before one of the other players had to leave was Splendor: Pokémon, because that's always a good game to get to the table.
Of course, this didn't quite represent the end of the game night, as we still felt like we could tackle a new game with just 3 players left. It's a good enough mode for learning a new game before introducing it to other friends during bigger game nights. So we ended up tackling Scarface 1920, which is a game from some time after we moved to the South but has yet to see actual play. I knew it was going to be a really big game, and that was kinda daunting, so I kept deferring hunkering down to learn it. But as we had survived our first playthrough of Speakeasy, another Prohibition-era strategy game, I felt a bit more confident that we could handle this, too. The game had a lot of rules and systems to understand, but by the end of the session, I think we all had a decent sense of things and a good taste for what future games might be like. Scarface 1920 definitely feels more gangster-ish, while Speakeasy felt a bit more economic. So they're fun in different ways.
Despite staying up late for board games, we still had to drag ourselves out of the Sietch for Tobie's comic book signing schedule at the Manila International Boof Fair. Traffic wasn't that bad getting to the general area, but we got bogged down once the SM Arena was in sight. Then the next big challenge was finding parking, and we ended up using the open lot at the corner of the property farthest away from SMX. Despite the hassle, we weren't late for Tobie's schedule, and he got to sign a fair number of copies of his book. I also made the rounds of the event and (1) didn't buy anything and (2) just barely survived the stress of being in a venue with so many people. I'm glad that attendance for a book fair.
That certainly felt like a full weekend. I hope you all had a good time as well.
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