Back from PAX Unplugged! I learned 20 new #boardgames!
Highlights were Symphony No. 9, TOKYO METRO, Pyramid Poker, and Res Arcana. Symphony I want to play despite losing by a factor of two because the teacher skipped an important rule, so I'm confident in its quality.
First Contact had an interesting concept that I want to like but I'm not sure whether it has a degenerate strategy that renders the game too straightforward.
What did you think of Symphony 9? Was also at PAX -- what a great event!
@novaobserver I thought it was pretty good! The teacher unfortunately omitted the rule that winning a Composition also costs you half your patronage cubes, so we hit a runaway leader problem in each color (and I ended up not in any of the colors, so...).
Even so I thought the game had some good decision points without being too heavy, once we figured out the procedure for everything. Figuring out how to plan around the randomized setup looks interesting.
17M d20s in a Trenchcoat
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