by B K
So Saturday, I'll be attempting to have another game night. Should be 6 of us plus my 8 year old daughter joining in for a couple games so the game choices should be plentiful, but now I face the daunting task of either trying to teach numerous small/mid size games or one giant game(Eclipse).I kind of like the idea of doing a few smaller games throughout the night but I'm not sure how well that will hold everyone's attention, last time we did A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) and it took forever for us to play, but everyone stuck with it and was focused on the game and we had a really good time. With smaller games I hope that this promotes more conversation and such, but I worry about everyone expecting a BIG game.
In my head, I am figuring on bringing out:
7 Wonders
King of Tokyo
Tsuro
Zombie Dice
Small World
Toc Toc Woodman and Caveman Curling
Those can support 6 as far as I know really easy and I won't have to worry about asking people to team up for games. But I'd really like to get a few others to the table that only support 4-5, just basically because I know that folks will like those games:
Lords of Waterdeep
Kingdom Builder with Kingdom Builder: Nomads
Takenoko
So, either all that or I focus on learning Battlestar Galactica or Eclipse and going with those. Or heck, we could try A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (Second Edition) with the full six players this time and see what happens.
I'm probably over-thinking everything here and I should just let everyone pick the games as we go and I should maybe be more worried about what I am going to grill for folks and whether or not I actually have to start a fire in the grill to do so(might be able to just sit them in the grill and let the sun cook them this weekend, 102 on Saturday, haha). I just don't want to be the guy that isn't prepared to teach a game so I try to plan ahead as much as possible, read the rule books and try to make sure that I can teach a game and have it be fun.
Boy, I got a lot of reading to do. The How to Play Podcast, don't fail me now. :D