Dread Realm 2 & 3

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My usual card-game colleague and I took another couple of cracks at The Dread Realm. It’s been a couple of months, and we forget which deck we were using. As a result, he went with one of my pre-built dwarf decks, and I used a Beorn deck he built for some previous quests.

I don’t recall the details, as it was a busy week and weekend, but here’s what I recall.

Game 2:376

Upshot on this game is we got smashed by sorceries, including on round 1 or 2, a shadow which took out my Galadriel. That’s a scoop.

Game 3:377

We attempted some attachment control on this game swapping in Power of Orthanc and Miner of the Iron Hills. We made it through most of Stage 1 before being overwhelmed.

I probably have some of the details mixed up between these two games, but we did feel like these decks would be capable of beating the quest.

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What to play next?

Deciding what to play next is always a tough call when faced with a closet full of games, all of which were purchased with intent to play. Here's one I'm dealing with the decision.

  • Something New: this means both something new to me and a game which has been published recently, within the last two or three years.
  • Something Classic: I've acquired a number of games properly considered "classic" which haven't yet been played. The current example would be PanzerGruppe Guderian.
  • Something Again: mastery requires constant practice, which means playing games many, many times to allow nuance to appear.
  • Something Vietnam: as I'm on a Vietnam binge. I don't have all the Vietnam games ever published, but I can say that I have a lot of them, and probably more than most people.
  • Something Obscure: as it's fun to poke around in the dustier corners of game design.
  • Something Different: break away from the same old publishers and try a game from one of the new kids on the block. Or, conversely, dip into legacy with a classic tried and true.
  • Something Light: once in a while it's nice to actually finish a game all the way through in one sitting, in an hour or two.
  • Something Heavy: if possible, it's nice to set up something big and complicated which can be left out for days or weeks or even months, for a leisurely stroll through a very large or long game.

There are surely many more ways to choose, but the above method keeps me busy enough, helps me get both breadth and depth into my play, and provides me with a sense of progress.

The odd man out

When there is an odd man out:

  • Have a solo game ready to play.
  • Keep score or advise on a game in progress.
  • Referee a game in progress.