{"id":6691,"date":"2025-06-22T07:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T06:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2025-06-24T22:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:00:35","slug":"origins-game-fair-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=6691","title":{"rendered":"Origins Game Fair Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Things were a lot more crowded today, which makes sense because it’s the weekend. That said<\/em>, it still wasn’t Gen Con levels of crowded; It was never difficult to move around the halls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tried out the hotel buffet for breakfast, just because I woke up earlier than I’d really intended to and I figured I should try it at least once during the con. It was pretty good, and I even had some oatmeal in an attempt to convince myself that I was having a healthy diet. Or something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gaming Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The person telling us about this one had extremely firm views on what makes a s’more; Cracker\/Marshmallow\/Chocolate\/Cracker. The weird variants shown on some of those cards, in her view, do not count as an actual real world s’more, and I can appreciate the depth of feeling on the matter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The game has rules about manipulating the cards in your hand to assemble a s’more. Or a not-s’more, in the case of things that you’d need to eat with a spoon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I did have what claimed to be a s’more from a kiosk in a hotel in Las Vegas, but it seemed very large & extremely unweildy. Further conversations with Tom backed this up; Much like “biscuits & gravy” from a hotel buffet doesn’t count, neither does a s’more that’s not made on a campfire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Didn’t buy it, but the artwork looked nice and the hope punk concept is interesting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You are repeatedly carving the cake into blocks of four tiles for the other person to choose, and the point goes to whoever has the most berries in the chosen slice; So you’re trying to force the situation where the opponent has to choose something that benefits you.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On a late night wander through the gaming hall, I saw a gumball machine loaded with dice, and since I don’t think I’ve ever actually used one of those things and I had a quarter on me, I bought some dice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Accidentally triggered a long-form spiel on this historical wargame. It took a long while to escape; He was very enthusiastic.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wandering through the vendor bits of the gaming halls in the evening (not entirely sure why there is a vendor hall and vendor areas of the gaming hall, but that’s how it worked), it was very easy to accidentally trigger a sales pitch from slightly punch-drunk people. Sometimes it was an interesting pitch, sometimes an interesting game; And sometimes it was a nonstop recitation of the rules & gameplay of a wargame from someone who clearly wasn’t going to stop talking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday, at the raffle in the Arcane Wonders booth, I was one ticket number off winning an absolutely enormous board game, Foundations of Rome: Maximus Sundrop Edition – Basically a boxed set of a bunch of stuff for the base game, as I understand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I went back for the next day’s raffle, and ended up winning that same game bundle. It’s nearly $300 of game, and weighs 20lb. Couldn’t look at the box without laughing at how ridiculous it looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Someone carrying the Maximus Edition of Foundations of Rome <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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