Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm going to play Successors (4th edition) this weekend, so I downloaded the rules.

They're 40 pages long and begin with a disclaimer that they're a reference, not a tutorial. "A better way to learn the game is to have someone teach you. Watch a video or two online if you can."

So I found the videos -- three parts. The first part, on victory conditions, is 20 minutes long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afMAknpZSbw

This video was quite well done. The game promises to be a wild ride of territory-conquering, heir-assassinating, and corpse-stealing.

#BoardGames #Successors #AlexanderTheGreat #wargames

Everyday office work now requires the level of security protocols previously seen only in spy headquarters ... and it's clearly not sufficient.

Seriously, how many passwords have you entered today?

@roguehireling More broadly, it's an open problem how to make interesting games where we practice doing the things we'll actually need to do to solve the world's problems rather than practicing for the fantasy where we solve our problems with personal violence.

How can we make de-escalation, maintenance, communication, and preventing crises as exciting as stopping the countdown timer at the last second?

Deactivated my Nextdoor account. It's just useless and the UI may, astonishingly, be even worse than Facebook's.

Played more AER Memories of Old. It appears that there are quests and a story arc; I've obtained one of the three items I need to save the world.

I was once again hit by a control mystery; if it was explained to me at some point, I blinked. Many locations silently can't be interacted with if you don't have your lantern in hand. Fortunately, I stumbled across the key (F) for toggling this.

#gaming

Me, arranging Bananagrams tiles to spell FNORD: Do you know this word?

Student: No?

Me: THAT'S RIGHT. YOU DON'T.

#illuminati #bananagrams