Aaron, Tom, and I traveled down to Texas for PAX South 2018 and we had a blast! I finally got to play True Dungeon and we tried out multiple games that weekend like:
- True Dungeon: An escape room with LARPing and pog collecting (kind of). It’s got it all!
- Wild West Exodus: A new weird western themed skirmish game with great models and interesting rules
- Tokaido: An excellent board game about traveling to Edo, in style.
- 4 The Birds: a board game about getting your birds in a row (or square).
- Tonight We Riot: An upcoming video game about fighting The Man.
- Deep Sky Derelicts: A sci-fi dungeon crawling game, similar in structure to Darkest Dungeon.
We also listened to a bunch of great podcasts like:
- The Bald Knobbers episode of Dollop
- Blaster Master and Level 26 of I Don’t Even Own A Television
- Way of the Shadow Wolves on El Chapo Trap House.
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Hey, just wanted to chime in and say wild west exodus has books, the game has been around for 5 or 6 years I think. I never read any of the books I’ve heard they are good. One of the main author’s is a host on D6 Generation podcast. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/author/ref=mw_dp_a_ap?_encoding=UTF8&author=Craig Gallant&searchAlias=books&asin=B00J3NJBXW
Ah, thanks for the clarification! I had never heard of it until last Gen Con.
I saw a skirmish game called Mythos by Paranoia Minis which is Lovecraft themed. Seemed interesting.
I was wincing in sympathy at Ross’ description of the “limited overwatch” in the wierd west game, I’ve seen that kind of thing before.
There was a minis wargame I used to play which had a simple & straignforward “snap fire” rule which made charging across open ground dangerous & made players choose between closing quickly with their opponent or moving more safely around or through covering terrain. Until a new edition came out, and new players (who were used to games where such choices are meaningless) complained that the snap fire rule was “OP”, and so it was nerfed.
I wonder if there’s a similar story behind that wierd west game’s overwatch rule.