OotS board game!
Jun. 21st, 2013 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
barnabas_trumanLast weekend we picked up a copy of the Order of the Stick board game. We've been playing it for hours every night this week... and we're almost done with our first game!
Seriously though, it takes a long time but it's a really fun game. I was a bit surprised at first to find no "board" in the box until I realized that players assemble the dungeon map from "room cards" as the game progresses. The combat mechanics seem to borrow a lot of the best aspects of Munchkin while making them both more streamlined and more flexible. The notion of each character having his/her own deck of "schticks" reminds me a lot of Red Dragon Inn. Neat system. I look forward to trying it out again with different characters.
Seriously though, it takes a long time but it's a really fun game. I was a bit surprised at first to find no "board" in the box until I realized that players assemble the dungeon map from "room cards" as the game progresses. The combat mechanics seem to borrow a lot of the best aspects of Munchkin while making them both more streamlined and more flexible. The notion of each character having his/her own deck of "schticks" reminds me a lot of Red Dragon Inn. Neat system. I look forward to trying it out again with different characters.
