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Boardgames at Origins 2008
I took quite a few photos at Origins 2008, both to document some of the more interesting things I saw and to share with those who couldn’t or didn’t attend the convention a sense of what they missed.
As you walk around Origins, you’ll find gamers setting up everywhere, at all hours of the day and night. Pick-up games, demos, and planned events can be found everywhere, like these tables in the walkway between the convention center and hotel:
Here are a couple of players setting up a Heroscape table:
And here are just a few of the board games in progress as I walked around the convention center:
It’s possible to check out games from the Origins library to play, even if there is no specific instance of that game scheduled at the time:
If you’re into train-oriented board games, you can join in the fun and even win some awards:
At the back of the room were some intense CCG championships:
In the Mayfair Games room you could play a “giant” Settlers of Catan game:
You could also have joined in on any of these other games:
As you look at these photos, you should notice that Origins attracts young and old, tall and short, slim and “not so slim”, men and women, the costumed and the plainclothed, etc. It’s a pretty good cross section of society, all in one place to have fun.
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New Titles from Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG)
Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) has announced on their web site some new titles for August 2008:
Tomb - Tomb pits opponents against one another in a fast paced board game of monsters, traps, and treasures. After assembling your party from a plethora of random characters in the Inn, you set out into the Tomb. The Tomb is created as the game begins, with each player hiding treasure, traps, and monsters in each crypt, unknown to the other players. Do you remember where you left the chest of gold? Better hope your opponent didn’t put a Pain Eater in the same crypt! No rogues at the Inn today? Hope you don’t run into a poison dart trap! Tomb captures the fast-paced feel of a dungeon crawl without the hours of set up before hand. Just grab your party and go.
Straw - Will you be the one who breaks the Camel’s back?
It’s been a bountiful day at the bazaar. The caravan is leaving, and you must quickly pack your items onto the back of the Camel. But beware; even beasts of burden have their breaking point! Straw is a light-hearted family game where the players try to pack as many item cards as they can on top of the Camel without breaking its back. Be careful not to load the Camel too close to its limit, though. If your card breaks the Camel’s back, you lose! But if you can break the Camel’s back with the Straw card, you win!Legend of the Five Rings RPG 3rd Edition Revised – In its triumphant third printing, the Legend of the Five Rings RPG Third Edition receives a major update! Now including material such as the Spider Clan, more intuitive combat rules, and more, the Third Edition Revised is everything players both new and old need to jump into the world of the Emerald Empire.
Legend of the Burning Sands RPG – The Burning Sands setting has exerted a powerful pull on the imagination of gamers since the 1998 debut of the Legend of the Burning Sands Collectible Card Game. As in the Legend of the Five Rings Roleplaying Game, this book allows you the chance to live out all-new adventures in a land of mystery and magic.
