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Tom P
United Kingdom
We could've been anything that we wanted to be
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I thought I'd join this blogging malarky. Not that I have anything particularly useful or interesting to say about boardgames - it's more a way to help with one of my new year resolutions: to write more
Christmas is usually a good time for gaming in our house. All my siblings enjoy boardgames; in fact it was my brother who started my obsession - and it has become an obsession, which perhaps accounts for the signs of gaming fatigue creeping in to my family as the arrive hoping to play their favourite only to be faced with a fistful of new rulesets to learn and the stress of my exasperation when I am asked to clarify a point I made at the start but they were tailing to someone out of the room and...
Well it's probably my fault. I had a bit of pre-Christmas splurge both at boardgameguru and The Works (who were doing a sale), so I ended up with a pile of unplayed games and I was a little too keen to see them lose their punchinity when everyone was here.
Nevermind, you live and learn. And what I learnt was:
Fast Flowing Forest Fellers is a great, quick, easy to learn family game that benefits from a not-quite-unlimited set up so games are (almost) never the same. A big hit.
My mum and my brother LOVED Nuns on the Run although my sister-in-law hated it (not enough interaction), and I need to a) clarify some rules and b) get better at explaining it (and c) don't get so exasperated when I do )
Just because a game is cheap doesn't mean I should buy it (I'm looking at you, Burger Joint.
Next time my dad wants to play Pictionary Mania, either refuse point blank or compromise with paper and pens - that magnetic board almost ruined Christmas.
Hopefully they'll still want to play games next time we're together. I think I'll just ask what they are up for next time
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