inconsequential ruminations

After around two years of no gaming, mainly due to excessive parental stress, Vanessa has started to play games with me again.

We started on Lost Cities, which was even better than I remembered. I cannot see anyone supplanting Reiner Knizia as my favourite designer.

We also played Carcassonne the Castle, another Knizia game, and it is very nice. It is my favourite Carcassonne so far, even better than Carcassonne the Discovery. Shannon Appelcline’s RPGnet review is excellent – if you skip the rules regurgitation and go straight to the Relationships to Other Games section. He summarises the differences between the basic game and the Castle better than I could.

I really want to try out Carcassonne the City at some point, which is apparently quite similar, but supports more players.