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So I think the title and description says most of it. However I want to give a bit of history to this and sharethe journey.
So from Ticket to Ride I went to Small World and then Memoir 44 which is still one of my favourite games. (Massive kudos to Days of Wonder for creating an online version of this. I currently live away from home and being able to play with friends across the globe is a real bonus).We also bought Shadows Over Camelot. I never knew that games existed where you actually cooperated against the game itself! Brilliant!
We also had been playing Magic for a little while. I started playing online and bought a couple of decks for my wife and I to play. Surprisingly she enjoyed it. We really had never done anything like that before and it was quite fun. Much more fun than playing online. I kept beating her though and she wanted to develop her deck. So we were on holiday once and came across a game shop. She was quite nervous about going in because a) she didn't know what she was doing and b)basement comic/game/collectible card game shops weren't really our scene.
Never the less we went in and entered a world that we didn't even know existed.
Looking back there weren't that many games in stock but what there were got us so excited. We forgot about Magic (sorry all fans) and really struggled to actually decide what to buy. We were drawn in by the way the games looked. The artwork. The designs. The promise of adventure. The boxes felt weighty- heavy with other worlds and monsters. Satisfying is a good way to describe it.
I was allowed to buy one game so in the end I went for Talisman (oh and the Frostmarch Expansion - and the Dungeon expansion too  ). I was hooked! We were actually in a small campervan for the vacation and the board fitted the table perfectly. We had some long nights in the countryside playing Talisman by a couple of light bulbs. It was great!
I'm going to leave it there for now. Having never blogged before I'm not sure how much to write. Talisman was a big milestone in my journey and it seems a good place to draw breath.
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