Had another great roleplaying/gaming weekend down in Austin with Naji & Marcia, Jon, and Vic. As always I had a blast. We continued in Naji’s GURPS 4E campaign, and managed to get a few games in of Formula De, Carcassone, Bang! and Survive.

The game designer in me loves Carcassone. Incredibly simplistic mechanics (you lay a tile down and possibly a unit), but the complexity of possibilities raises it to the realm of chess-like games in how much you have to think about placement and strategy.

Bang! was a really fun Spaghetti Western card game.The mechanics were just so that it took a moment to learn the more complex elements, then the game quickly resolved itself into a quick-paced, easy game.