Great games made better

Fundamental Truth One: Tabletop games (like pen and paper DnD and board games) are an excuse for good friends to sit around and talk rubbish for a good few hours. The games fill up the gaps when everyone has run out of rubbish to say. And lets face it: it’s good entertainment.

That means that the games should be good enough to provide a hook so that said friends will come back for more (provided those friends don’t know about Fundamental Truth One). A good start is a good board game. Carcassonne aka “The farmer game” is such a good game. (Ok, I used up my quota of the word “good”.) The point of the game is to get the most points (groan now). I am usually against point gathering games but this one is so fun that part can be overlooked. One gets points by placing your farmers as early as possible and make lots of little cities for the win. Some say that you should go for points by claiming roads, cities and cloisters and completing them in a timely fashion but they are delusional rule-lawyers. This is not called “The farmer game” for nothing. And if you do decide to get some points from cities, make sure you have a share in every other players cities, sometimes even usurping their cities and taking all the points for yourself. I am usually against competitive games (preferring cooperative ones) but I enjoy this one mainly because its very hard to lose a claim (Very passive-aggressive). It happens but kudos to the player that can pull it off.

If the above made any sense to you then you have played Carcassonne (or read the wiki) and either loved it or hated it. I choose to go back to it every now and then because its a relatively short game (1 hour max) and its good fun. Non-violent, land grabbing is your friend.

Until next time: Keep on making deities disappear in puffs of logic.

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