True to my last post, "I Must Enjoy Making Things More Complicated", Matt and I have finally undone my habit of making one of our favourite games ridiculously impossible! I think I introduced this game before -
- and now that I've paused to review the very few games I've listed in my blog, it seems that I haven't... So the game that I have never before blogged about, Ghost Stories, has been near impossible for us to win, even on initiate level. Now, it wasn't always this way. A number of years ago, Matt and I replayed Ghost Stories until it was a science, even on nightmare and hell level. Then the number of years went by in which we did not play, leading us to buying our own version just a couple of years ago, remembering how much we loved it, buying all of the expansions, and then not playing. We've tried pulling it back out sporadically over this past year, but it's been driving us nuts because we know that we're good at this game. Yet, every time we play, we get overrun and dead. Finally broke down in frustration today and watched a tutorial. Clearly how I interpret the rules - which, you must understand, are set up like an IKEA manual only more cryptic and less helpful. Like "insert shield symbol here" with no explanation about what that means, but we are supposed to understand that that means you cannot roll the dice to kill that ghost. Shield means "block the dice". Granted, we figured that one out pretty quickly, and it's a very minor thing, but still, instructions assume that all symbols are to be universally understood. Even the written instructions are very scarce, and they only include the self-evident parts of turn sequence, and, once again, being very general about what they actually mean. Such as, neutral boards play only the Yin phase, not the Yang. So looking at all of the components of the Yin phase, we've been doing all of them for the Yin phase of the neutral board... rather than JUST part 1. So now we are not overrun within the first round and can actually move around the board.
I know this makes no sense, and if I had realized that I didn't actually blog about this game before, I would have totally been taking pictures as we played, but I do intend on putting up more game posts, simply because I intend on us playing more games. In short, this is a pointless rant, but I already ranted to my husband and the only other person who would understand my frustration - and hate me for teaching the game wrong - is in England... and Julianne, but I don't have your number so we aren't at the spontaneous Ashley rants stage yet.... you have been warned that this may occur in the near future...
So more games WITH PICTURES to come. In the meantime, I will continue to post misspelled tweets that make only partial sense....
- and now that I've paused to review the very few games I've listed in my blog, it seems that I haven't... So the game that I have never before blogged about, Ghost Stories, has been near impossible for us to win, even on initiate level. Now, it wasn't always this way. A number of years ago, Matt and I replayed Ghost Stories until it was a science, even on nightmare and hell level. Then the number of years went by in which we did not play, leading us to buying our own version just a couple of years ago, remembering how much we loved it, buying all of the expansions, and then not playing. We've tried pulling it back out sporadically over this past year, but it's been driving us nuts because we know that we're good at this game. Yet, every time we play, we get overrun and dead. Finally broke down in frustration today and watched a tutorial. Clearly how I interpret the rules - which, you must understand, are set up like an IKEA manual only more cryptic and less helpful. Like "insert shield symbol here" with no explanation about what that means, but we are supposed to understand that that means you cannot roll the dice to kill that ghost. Shield means "block the dice". Granted, we figured that one out pretty quickly, and it's a very minor thing, but still, instructions assume that all symbols are to be universally understood. Even the written instructions are very scarce, and they only include the self-evident parts of turn sequence, and, once again, being very general about what they actually mean. Such as, neutral boards play only the Yin phase, not the Yang. So looking at all of the components of the Yin phase, we've been doing all of them for the Yin phase of the neutral board... rather than JUST part 1. So now we are not overrun within the first round and can actually move around the board.
I know this makes no sense, and if I had realized that I didn't actually blog about this game before, I would have totally been taking pictures as we played, but I do intend on putting up more game posts, simply because I intend on us playing more games. In short, this is a pointless rant, but I already ranted to my husband and the only other person who would understand my frustration - and hate me for teaching the game wrong - is in England... and Julianne, but I don't have your number so we aren't at the spontaneous Ashley rants stage yet.... you have been warned that this may occur in the near future...
So more games WITH PICTURES to come. In the meantime, I will continue to post misspelled tweets that make only partial sense....
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