If I trust in you, would you let me down?

[venta]

OK, so a little while back I asked you lovely, helpful people for some boardgame recommendations. I was after a present for some friends, and the suggestions were many and varied.

In the end, I took myself off to see beckyl. I was more-or-less decided, from the suggestions I'd had, that I was going to go for Libertalia. It's reasonably new, it looked interesting and it's got pirates. Everyone likes pirates, right?

BeckyL and grumblesmurf were both in the shop, and they sat me down and addressed me on the topic at length. They listened to my requirements, made a few more enquiries, and started trotting out suggestions.

After a while, BeckyL correctly identified that I had developed crippling choice-agoraphobia and was in danger of dithering myself to a standstill. She took a large, shiny box from the shelf, handed it to me, and said "buy this".

I respond well to firm instructions, so I bought it.

"It" turned out to be Tzolk'in, and it seems it has gone down extremely well with its recipients. I hope to make its acquaintance properly next time I'm visiting.

(Grumblesmurf can clearly identify an impressionable shopper, and flogged me a copy of Coup as well before I made it out the door. I commend it to your attention, if you have not yet met it.)

I also bring to my own attention: games make excellent presents, as they are almost invariably cuboid. Next year, try not to give so many people things in bottles as presents. They are a bugger to wrap.

Anyway, the short version: thank you all for your assistance, Tzolk'in appears to be a winner, and Eclectic Games is an excellent emporium staffed by helpful people :)

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, I myself got a copy of Libertalia for Christmas. Having now played it, I can recommend it unreservedly. Not only does it contain a boatload of piratical goodness, the actual gameplay is pretty ingenious.

(I'm going to write about it on my own LJ evenutally, but the day I had plenty of time to blog featured no LJ uptime whatsoever. I should have just written it in a text file somewhere to post later.)

[maviscruet.livejournal.com]

Somehow I missed that entry....

But a good choice - the cog based game play is interesting and new and it's a fundamentally well made game. I got given a copy for my 40th......

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Yes, I liked Eclectic too, although I've still never bought anything from them because I never have the car with me in Reading.

And I'm amazed no-one else has noticed that that's the name of the game. Now I shall take my earworm and go to bed.