gaming

According to Andrew and Kristen Looney Looney Labs has signed a contract with Universal Studios to publish a card game based on the movie "Back to the Future." As both a Looney Labs and as a fan of the movie I am really excited. Currently it's planned to come out in September. I have requested a review copy so hopefully I will be able to review it here.

I had played Chrononauts a bit when I used to live in Eau Claire but I never really got a chance to play it a lot. Still it caught my interest back then so when I heard that Looney Labs was releasing a new version I asked if they would send me a copy to review. As what most often happens when I make a request like this I did receive said game.

The changes for 1.4 are very minor so I think I will review the game as a whole an not compare it to older versions. They added four cards, nothing major. I do know that a lot of people even Looney Labs fans have not played this game so I think now is a good time to introduce people to the game.

Chrononauts is pretty much unlike any other game you have ever played. I believe the introduction on the back sums up the awesomeness well. "So, you want to be a Time Traveler? Messing with history can have it's consequences. For starters, your reality no longer exists. Then there are the Paradoxes - holes in the Space-Time Continuum that threatens to destroy the Entire Universe. Can't find your way back to your original reality? Then maybe you can win by collection the right collecting the right combination of amazing artifacts that only a chrononaut could acquire. So shuffle up this time-machine-in-a-box and start changing history!"

So yeah I was pulling an all nighter over at my friend Max's house as we are apt to doing, and we decided that this would be a good time for me to learn how to play the Shadowrun Tabletop system. The character creation system was a bit hard but once we got past that it was really fun. I may actually start playing Shadowrun as my main tabletop system.

EcoFluxx was another game sent to me by Looney Labs. I quite enjoyed this nature themed version of Fluxx and am glad they sent it. Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to play the first version of this game so I will not be able to point out the differences between the two.

One thing I quite enjoyed was that Looney Labs sent with it a promo postcard for the card "Recycling." Recycling is a new rule card that says "Once per turn you may discard a Keeper you have on the table and Draw 3 extra cards."

What's really nice is that Looney Labs is using a new system for their postcards that uses a peel off sheet that holds the card to the post card. This means the cards don't have those punch out edges any more and can actually be used in the game. Allison from Looney Labs recommended that you peel from the side and not the corner with the new postcards to prevent possible splitting.

I have always been a huge Aquarius fan so when I heard that Looney Labs was coming out with an updated version I was giddy with happiness. Looney Labs sent me a review copy of Aquarius but it got lost in the mail so they sent me another one. Luckily this time I received it.

For those who don't know Aquarius is a neat game that's sort like a hippie version of dominoes. Basically you have a secret goal that you try to keep people from knowing. This goal is one of five elements. Then you use the element cards that connect in various ways like dominoes to connect seven element cards together. The first person to get seven panels connected via their element wins. Some nice added fun and complexity is the action cards mixed in like "Zap a Card" that allows you to pick any element card off the table and put it into your hand. Or cards like shuffle goals that allow you to change someones goal. Let me tell you it really stinks when you get one turn away from making your seventh connection and someone plays "Trade Goals" on you.

Moving on to what makes this version better then the original version. The game is still pretty much the same basic premise, that have just added a couple of things that make it interesting. One great addition to the game is diagonal cards. In these cards the elements are split on the card in triangles instead of in squares. This adds new way to grow your connections.

If you are living in Wausau and you are into tabletop gaming, a friend and I have founded a pretty neat website WausauGaming.org. The basic idea behind this site is simple... To unite people who want to play games. If you have a weekly game and need more members, or want to find other people to play a game with you, you can set that up using wausau gaming. if you'd like to run a game or event, you can post it here to let people know about it.

have created a wiki for all forms of open source tabletop. By that I mean everything from homebrew feats for D&D 3.5 to entire homebew tabletop systems. Currently what's up there is largely unfinished buy if anyone else wants to move their project to there or start a new project there they are welcome to. Feel free to check it out at OpenSourceTabletop.org

Quite obviously, I have had an obsession with avatar sites ever since I first found Gaia when I was pregnant with Sakura.

I found a page somewhere with virtually every avatar site in existence listed. .... I joined them all.... well, at least all the English-speaking ones.

Yes, it all started with Gaia Online. Recently, though, I've been head-over-heels for one that's called Avariciarpg.com I liked their larger avatars to start and even though they're completely redoing the avi system there, I doubt I'll ever leave. The community is great.

As was probably inevitable, I now have plans to run my own avatar site.

So yeah I haven't forgotten about SU, I have just been a bit distracted with OtakuBB.org but I'm back now that everything there is set up and doing pretty well. So yeah I am currently working on writing my own open source tabletop system. Unlike games like D&D this system will be based much more around skills. It is designed to allow you to create a character in five minutes but still provide a geme that I think will eventually be more detailed than that of D&D.

I've long had these complicated plots ongoing in my head usually
involving some one with special powers here are a few of my favorites
and some what explanation of there powers for no good reason. sorry if
some of these seem to be ripp offs of other tv/movie characters powers.

Name: Accelerate
Powers: Repulse, Trajectory alteration, Accelerate
Explanations:
(Repulse)
can rapidly repel anything from him at high speeds usually used to