ScottVee Gaming

Just a few days after seeing Wyrmspan in Barnes & Noble and trying to explain all the offshoots and clones and add-ons of Wingspan ... and then trying to explain Wingspan itself ... I found myself at a table with three strangers actually playing the game. We were at EsCon, our local board gaming con that I had never heard about even though it has been around for 10 years.  Anne did her own thing while I sat down with Adam and Kristen and {unknown woman} and got a good introduction to the game. There are resources, cave cards, dragon cards, a player mat, a guild mat, and some other bits and bobs.  Basically, you are trying to extend the caves on your game mat from left to right, and invite dragons to each cave, then run through the cave with your little explorer meeple.  As you place a dragon card, it covers up the little stop sign that would end your exploration. You spend a coin (and sometimes eggs) to either EXCAVATE (play a cave card) or ENTICE (play a dragon card ...

Sunday was busy.  We started off at the local Kitten Adoption event at PetSmart, where we semi-volunteer semi-regularly, and we got to meet Toast, the rescue of the season.  She was found seriously burned in a homeless camp up north somewhere but after a few months of rehab and some surgeries, she's a bouncy little cat who doesn't seem to mind the remaining handicaps. After that, we went over to EsCon, which is a board gaming convention right here in Escondido, run by a guy named Steve who has a collection rumored to be 4000-5000 board games and bring a few shelves of games to the Escondido Charter School auditorium so everyone can get together and play.  Basically, pick a few games, pick a table and grab a sign saying "Players Wanted", and there's a fair chance that people will sit down and start gaming with you. I was planning to just try some new games with Anne, since the setup was just perfect for grabbing any game off the shelf and seeing how it works ... bu...