settlers of catan!

the friends got together today and played the german award winning board game settlers of catan. it is really quite grand. a simple family game (+5bp)where the aim is to expand across the island of catan gathering the elements, raising armies, buiding cities and roads, and bargaining amungst challenger settlers (+5bp). a player wins (by home rules) by being the first to obtain 12 points- which often takes anywhere from 1-3 hours (+1-3bp).

here at the game piece emporium we got all your game piece needs! we got colors: white, yellow, green, red, blue and brown. we got roads:14-15 per player (we’ve lost some (-5pb)). we got settlements: 5 per player (blue has 4 and a lego brick (-5bp)). we got cities: 4 per player. we got element cards: wheat, sheep, brick, rock and wood. we got development cards: soldiers, knights, buildings and such. we got hexagonal board pieces, some are blue. we got round number pegs. we got two 6 sided dice. we got a thief too (+5bp).

the game is real easy to play (+5bp), quick to learn (+10bp), and has a warm pace that lets the game roll on without requiring all the attention in the room (+10bp). i’ve got the 5-6 player expansion wich was a little pricey (-10bp)- but there are many other expansions still to buy (+5bp).

settlers of catan is very much worth looking into, it can be found only where other awesome things are sold.

settlers of catan brownie points: 26-29!

“the dialup” and: waiting to surf

i’ve actually come to embrace my lousy er- loud internet surfing board. it’s homey. while all of you are probably surfing five to six waves at once, while listening to still downloading music: the hip and the pop- i am taking my sweet time (-5bp), and rather enjoying it. see- as i see it, you can’t just spring up five to six waves to surf from out of the blue… it isn’t natural. my brainchild al gore would certainly not approve. no, the waves aught to be welcomed at first, spotted from afar, have gathered a croud around you to see the wave’s progress (+5bp), spoken to (+5bp), sung to (+10bp), begged to (-5bp)- “hurry up you infernal wave!” -and again begged to (-10bp), fed, refreshed (-10bp), and given your fullest attention (+7bp). no downloading the lime wire or burning the track is recomended by any means (-10bp). this would almost certainly slow the wave to even lesser of a crawl… but uh, i insist- the longer you await the wave to come, the more satisfying it is to surf (+10bp), and the more irritating it is to read “page could not be found.” after twelve minutes waiting to watch the 9 comercial with the ragdoll and the robot… those are twelve minutes i won’t soon get back (-12bp).

“the dialup” brownie points: -15!

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