Spiel Preview Thoughts

As everyone lucky enough to make the trip heads to Essen for the 2015 Spiel game fair, I quicly scanned through the incredibly extensive geeklist created by W. Eric Martin over at BoardGameGeek & despite the surface look, I still saw a ton of interesting things that I'll be waiting anxiously to see if they show up ion the various vlogs & podcasts I follow. Here's what I'd be looking to buy and looking to check out if I were actually lucky enough to be flying to Germany this month:

September Acquisitions

My attempts to slow down the number of new games coming in met with mixed success last month – while I still obtained more games for my shelves, I did also clear some space thanks to the flea market at TBGT. And luckily, the order I made on CoolStuffInc during September after winning a giftcard didn’t actually arrive until October 3rd which makes this list look a little better!

New Games Obtained in September
Arboretum (gift)
Chicago Express + expansion
Cyclades
Discoveries
Kigi (Chinese edition)
Legacy: Gears of Time
Mountains of Madness expansion for Eldritch Horror

Games Sold in September
Ascension base set (plus assorted promos)
Cubist
De Vulgari Eloquentia
Fresco
Ingenious
Lagoon
Quiddler
Skyline
Smallworld
Tiny Epic Kingdoms

Eldritch Horror Case - the Lower Workings

I was finally able to come back to this project, and start work on the lower level. Unfortunately while working on this part of the case, I realized I was going to end up only able to fit the Mountains of Madness components into my plan, and not the upcoming Pyramids release. But having the case able to store the base game, 2 small box expansions and 1 large box expansion seems pretty good to me, so it is what it is.

TBGT Numbers & Superlatives

The event is over & recapping is going to take a while, but here are some initial stats.

Twitter-sourced Gaming - Weekend Gaming Recap

Apparently this week was in fact destined for lots of gaming opportunities as multiple invitations were extended on Twitter for the weekend. As a result I got to game on both Friday night & Saturday afternoon. 

TBGT - Flea Market Prep

This Saturday morning at TBGT is the Flea Market, a chance to move out some games that have been sitting unplayed and hopefully snap up a few deals to replace them. I've been meaning to better curate my collection for a while, so these are the games I have that are hopefully destined for somewhere else:

Opened & Unpunched

• Dreaming Spires - $40
• De Vulgari Eloquentia - $25

Opened & Unplayed

• Cubist - $25
• Garden Dice (with Card Expansion  in box) - $25
• Island Fortress (with KS promos) - $20
• Lagoon (with KS wooden pieces) - SOLD
• Rise! - $5
• Skyline - $10
• Tessen (damaged box corners) - $5
• The Fittest - $5
• Tiny Epic Kingdoms - $5

Played - Condition Varies

• Ascension (good condition - 7 promo cards included) - $20
• Fluxx (beat up box - anyone need cards for protypes???) - $2
• Fresco (played once - has expansion modules 1,2, and 3) - $30
• Ingenious (box has shelf wear) - $10
• Oz Fluxx (played once) - $5
• Quiddler - SOLD

First dibs goes to locals & event attendees as I don't really want to deal with shipping. After the event, I may open it up if there's a bunch left over.

I may be adding more games later but we'll see how ruthless I'm prepared to be as I get ready for TBGT.

TBGT - Games I Want to Play

Next week is That Board Game Thing (TBGT), a 5 day invitational gaming event here in NC that offers a great opportunity to get a bunch of games to the table. The focus is just on playing games, this is the first year they'll have multiple (as in 3) vendors on-site, so I usually get a long list of titles played & learned during the event. The fun starts Wednesday so (partly as reference for myself) here's the list of games I'm hoping to get in: