owlturdcomix:

I thought I would share with y’all something that I’ve been playing recently: a little action roguelike called Delver. The game first piqued my interest several months ago, when it was in very early alpha and didn’t yet have a website; I downloaded it then and was charmed by the Minecraft-esque visuals and simple, no-explanation-needed premise. It came to find again recently, so I decided to check out the progress. It’s been polished and expanded significantly from when I last played, and needless to say I’m very satisfied.

You start off looking into a mysterious hallway, just begging you to go in. What could await you there?

A HOST OF FEARSOME AND POWERFUL ENEMIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

SHANK-FELLOW

MAGIC ASSHOLE

DIRE BAT, AND ASSOCIATE

THE THING THAT I DIDN’T GO NEAR

DIRE SMURF

The dungeon is randomly generated, and your objective is to head deeper and deeper into it, finding increasingly powerful weapons and gear, fighting off hordes of monsters, and avoiding traps. As for what’s at the bottom…

I’ll leave that for you to find out. Not because I wanna tease, but because this is a game I don’t want to spoil for anyone. I’ve been playing the up-to-date version for the last few days, and while individual playthroughs don’t last all that long regardless of whether you win or lose, the randomly-generated aspect gives the game amazing replay value.

One more thing though: when you die, you die. As in, your save file is gone. It’s like Minecraft in hardcore mode.

So, while I wouldn’t say the game in actively difficult (although I have yet to beat it completely), I would still recommend treading carefully. You don’t wanna die to something stupid, like a Magic Asshole.

You can buy the game here (it’s just $5) and vote for it on Steam Greenlight here.

Personally, I expect very good things from this game in the future.

This game looks like a lot of fun, and it’s only five bucks!

seenontabletop:

Our 8 year old found the Pandemic box not put away in the storage room, so she took it upon herself to begin a solo mission. Here she is confirming the maximum hand size of 7 cards. (I had thought it was only 6. She was pretty sure it was 7 and knew to go to the rulebook to find out for certain. [She was right. A proud moment for Dad.])

Later, she came into the kitchen. “I’ve got bad news, Dad.” she began. “I ran out of turns and didn’t save the world.”

“The world’s already a much better place,” I thought to myself. “You’ve been ‘infected’ with a love of games, and it’s spreading uncontrollably.”

Thank you Wil and TableTop. May we never find a ‘cure’.

SO MANY FEELS.

seenontabletop:

Here is a behind the scenes photo of ME at a photo shoot for Last Night on Earth.  I was the model for UuuurrRRRRGGGhhhh.  For THIS shoot I look like a hillbilly sombie.

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Homemade brains tokens for Zombie Dice inspired by Tabletop

geekandsundry:

Chez Geek Gag Reel!

seenontabletop:

My brother is the Keeper of the Miniatures for our Pathfinder Game. He forgot them at one session. Luckily, I have four boys. Lego Minifigures and a plastic bug took care of that problem!

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Great way to celebrate New Year’s in Alaska! Defeated the mythos in Arkham Horror with four expansions, five players, eighteen points. Take that, Cthuga!

Fun as a long game that is still a one shot to play with family and friends as they visit for the holidays. I first played this visiting family overseas - and it was worth taking up some of the tour time!

I love this game so much. If it didn’t take 3 hours (when it’s quick, more like 5 in reality) to play, we’d put it on Tabletop.

seenontabletop:

When I first found out from Wil’s twitter that he was going to start a web show about gaming, I was incredibly happy. I watched them religiously and shortly after the casual games episode (Tsuro, Zombie Dice, and Get Bit) aired I had begun dating my girlfriend. She wasn’t really a gamer in the same sense that the show pushed for, she was a bit more of a video game geek who didn’t like to show her colors too often.

When I would hang out with her at one of our apartments, I would sometimes be watching the newest episode of Tabletop, which she became interested in. She is a long time TNG fan and thought that a show hosted by Wil would be worth watching. I think I got her hooked when we watched the episode with Ticket to Ride and Munchkin. The gaming bug was starting to bite and I even bought her the book “Confessions of a Part Time Sorceress” to help infect her more with tabletop gaming.

I’m just going to say that it worked. We now are a part of a fairly large gaming group that meets on Fridays. We started off playing Pathfinder and Munchkin, though we used my old, beat up copy of Munchkin (a third print copy that has seen at least ten years of wear and tear), and we also played other games, like Pandemic, Fluxx, Gloom, Say Anything, and Settlers of Catan.

I’m happy to say that the gaming bug has definitely settled into my girlfriend, and we can’t wait for new episodes of Tabletop to expand our gaming catalog.

seenontabletop:

Our first Pandemic expansion pack play-through - And WIN!  It was a great relief to pull it off with our final cure in the second-to-last turn of the game.  It really helped that we were able to cure and eradicate our virulent strain (Zombie plague) at the beginning, as otherwise the epidemic cards would have done us in for sure!

Can’t wait to try our luck again next time!

Love that the virulent strain was zombie plague.

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Everyone in the family got a game, plus Santa brought us the game Origins. Now if we could just get snowed in.