All the Games on Our Shelves

 Caleb gave this game to David for his birthday last week.  We opened it Saturday and played the first round.  It is a legacy game - in other words, a game that will be built as we play over a series of gaming sessions.  As a family we've played one other legacy game, Pandemic Legacy .  That game was cooperative; this one is competitive.  I prefer cooperative games, but a nice feature of this game is that once we build the board (the village) in our first play-through, we will have created a game that we can continue to play in the future.  With Pandemic Legacy , that wasn't the case; once we played through it, it was just done and unable to be played again.  It was a great game - one of my absolute favorite gaming experiences ever - but it's certainly a bummer that we can't play it again.  There are pros and cons to everything, I guess.  With Charterstone , we have only played the first round, which seems to be mostly intended to jus...

 As we continue to enjoy our time with two sons at home, Caleb introduced us to Pandemic Legacy, his gift to the family.  He's been playing this with friends in Michigan and has really liked it.  I've heard great things from others who have played it as well.  Today we played the prologue phase, and we lost.  We could have won if we had reversed a couple of decisions, but I insisted we couldn't time travel and what was done was done.  The prologue feels very much like standard Pandemic - a game I love but which Caleb isn't a fan of, and which is why, after 82 game postings, it is still not one I've blogged about!  We'll be playing more phases of this in upcoming days, so for now I'm mostly just posting pictures of it without much more commentary.  One thing about the game is that you really individualize it.  For instance, we named the havens and wrote the names in permanent marker on the board.  We also choose and name our own char...