Weekender XLBS: Having Fun Gaming In The Dark!
May 8, 2016 by dignity
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happy sunday!
Congratulations to Warren and Andrea! May your ups and downs come only from the bedroom. All the best to you and your family.
Happy Sunday and congrats Warzan & Wifezan!
Another fine day in the Corps
I’m with @lloyd on the look of DoW3
Would love to see @warzan & @dignity play dungeon saga “in the dark”! As for playing in the dark, when I was running games of Aliens rpg with some mates, when they went into any new locations/Ships/Facilities. Unless they got engingeering and the power on, the light where we play were always muted/turned down very low and they were only allowed small torches to see the map. If they seperated from the group, then they were put in a seperate room with a headset to communicate until the rejoined to group (meant a lot of running around for me during… Read more »
Happy Sunday! Thanks for the shout out. Picture Warren playing as the monsters in The Depths of Durangar. Lloyd said he wouldn’t feel as connected to the other players, but imagine Warren narrating the whole time by taunting and mocking and laughing maniacally “You’ve Fallen Into My Trap!” They also mention different scenarios/objectives for different games. So in addition to the map being random each time, the objectives can be changed each time as well. Then by switching who is playing the monsters and who are the heroes, that alone adds a ton of replayability. As for the mucking about… Read more »
I think Lloyd should be responsible for pronouncing ALL names/words that are considered even remotely difficult to get right!
Also…
Lloyd: “grab your wee man….NO, that’s the wrong one!” =D
From a practical point of view, I can’t see how I’ll be able to get my house dark enough to effectively ‘game in the dark’. At least not until waiting until very late at night and then I’m at risk of dozing off… And I’m not going into my attic, it’s cold up there and full of Christmas decorations.
I do like the use of technology, with the night sight scope, to enhance games. Technology has a lot to offer gaming without crossing the boundary into computer gaming.
@redvers that’s a good point. Ben couldn’t get any room in his house dark enough for the cover photo so it needed to be darkend way down in Photoshop.
Happy Sunday!
Congratulations to Warren and Andrea – may your years together be many and happy!
I’m with Lloyd on the game in the dark – I don’t see the novelty hanging around long. I also don’t think I could get any room in my flat or any of the places we play dark enough to get the most out of this.
Is the depths of Durangrar just a way to make gamers eat more carrots?
Oh just what in the actual hell. 🙂
You people are having way to much fun with this episode.
happy sunday
I want “Justin Plays Extreme!”
Happy Sunday!
I would totally watch Justin Plays Extreme.
Lol remember it became “Justin plays not so extreme” 🙂
Andy Chambers did the rules for Starship Troopers. It was made by Mongoose but its been oop since about 2008.
Seafall is for 3-5 players. The rules are up as a PDF on the Plaid Hat website is anyone wants to know more.
@redben, cool thanks for the heads up
http://www.plaidhatgames.com/games/seafall
F&F would get my vote too. Gaming in the dark is a gimmick but the game has to stand or fall on its merits as a game. It might be a good game, but it looked like a fairly common or garden dungeon crawler to me.
Happy Sunday. The sun is out and like any self respecting wargamer iam going to be inside playimg DzC today
Happy Sunday!
Like the idea of “in the dark” gaming, but from my point of view would be a pain in the backside to set up each time. After all it is just trying to simulate Fog of War. I do think it would be a good event game though.
And Lloyd seems to be in need of some dried frog pills..
The picture you used for that looks like an old dr who title sequence with your faces in the stars.
Happy Sunday, folks- and a very enjoyable XLBS guys, thanks for that!
Wait… Will there not be a CORE faction video to round out Dark Age week?! Love me some homicidal mechanoids!..
I’ve some good news for you – but you’ve probably seen that already 🙂
Happy Sunday!
Am sat here painting my WWX stuff with you guys talking about Bloodstone….
Fantastic show guys. A right laugh.
While the idea of playing in the dark is cool, I don’t know that any guys that I play with would be interested in it more than as a novelty. Though playing Space Hulk in the dark would be cool occasionally. Heh, I used to do that with the original PC version.