So, last summer when Minneyar and I went to A-kon, we got several card games that we thought would be fun to play with our gaming group. Well, a couple of our members got busy with school in the fall (one of our friends was in his final semester of getting his master's, so all he basically did for about 3 months was eat, sleep (sometimes), work, and study. He passed, though, and now he has a masters of mathematics!) and we never got around to playing any of the games...until last weekend.
The two that we tried were Bang! and Killer Bunnies. Minneyar has played Bang! before and I've played Killer Bunnies, but it had been years since either of us had played either of them so we were basically starting fresh.
Bang! is sort of a spaghetti-western themed game. Everyone starts by drawing a "role" card. There are 4 of them: Sheriff, Deputy, Outlaw, and Renegade. There's only ever one Sheriff and one Renegade, but there can be multiple Outlaws and Deputies (but there has to be at least one of each role to play, so you need 4 players minimum.) Basically, everyone takes turns trying to kill each other. The sheriff is trying to kill the outlaws and the renegade. The deputy is trying to protect the sheriff (the game ends if the sheriff dies) while helping catch the outlaws and renegade. The outlaws are trying to kill the sheriff. And the renegade wants to kill everyone and be the last man standing. Of course, no one knows what roles any of the other players are playing as, except for the sheriff.
Killer Bunnies is a little more complex. It took us about half an hour to go through the rule book and figure out how to set up the table. But once we got set up and played for a couple of rounds it started going pretty quick. Basically, everyone is trying to keep their bunnies alive and collect carrots. One of the carrots is the "magic" carrot which will win you the game if you're holding it when the game ends. But the magic carrot changes every game so no one knows which one it is until the game is over. There are a lot of crazy and evil things people can do to each other in that game. For instance, you can collect money which you can use to buy supplies and carrots from the general store. I got a card that doubled my money, so I spent most of it on supplies and carrots right away. Then Minneyar played a card on me that made me spend money to keep any carrots I had in my hand...and I had spent almost all of my money just before so I lost all of my carrots. There's also a "Heavenly Halo" card that basically protects one of your bunnies from anything and everything bad that can happen to it (you can get weapon cards which you can play against other player's bunnies to kill them -- the halo protects a bunny from all weapons, and almost all other random bad things that can happen to it.) It's really annoying for those of us who don't actually have it!
But, both games were hilarious and fun. We're hopefully going to get together with a bunch of friends again on Thursday to play.
Anyone else have some obscure or whacky games they like to play?
The two that we tried were Bang! and Killer Bunnies. Minneyar has played Bang! before and I've played Killer Bunnies, but it had been years since either of us had played either of them so we were basically starting fresh.
Bang! is sort of a spaghetti-western themed game. Everyone starts by drawing a "role" card. There are 4 of them: Sheriff, Deputy, Outlaw, and Renegade. There's only ever one Sheriff and one Renegade, but there can be multiple Outlaws and Deputies (but there has to be at least one of each role to play, so you need 4 players minimum.) Basically, everyone takes turns trying to kill each other. The sheriff is trying to kill the outlaws and the renegade. The deputy is trying to protect the sheriff (the game ends if the sheriff dies) while helping catch the outlaws and renegade. The outlaws are trying to kill the sheriff. And the renegade wants to kill everyone and be the last man standing. Of course, no one knows what roles any of the other players are playing as, except for the sheriff.
Killer Bunnies is a little more complex. It took us about half an hour to go through the rule book and figure out how to set up the table. But once we got set up and played for a couple of rounds it started going pretty quick. Basically, everyone is trying to keep their bunnies alive and collect carrots. One of the carrots is the "magic" carrot which will win you the game if you're holding it when the game ends. But the magic carrot changes every game so no one knows which one it is until the game is over. There are a lot of crazy and evil things people can do to each other in that game. For instance, you can collect money which you can use to buy supplies and carrots from the general store. I got a card that doubled my money, so I spent most of it on supplies and carrots right away. Then Minneyar played a card on me that made me spend money to keep any carrots I had in my hand...and I had spent almost all of my money just before so I lost all of my carrots. There's also a "Heavenly Halo" card that basically protects one of your bunnies from anything and everything bad that can happen to it (you can get weapon cards which you can play against other player's bunnies to kill them -- the halo protects a bunny from all weapons, and almost all other random bad things that can happen to it.) It's really annoying for those of us who don't actually have it!
But, both games were hilarious and fun. We're hopefully going to get together with a bunch of friends again on Thursday to play.
Anyone else have some obscure or whacky games they like to play?
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