It’s always fun when I can make it out to my Friendly Local Game Store (FLGS). Normally I go because there’s a new expansion coming out for Marvel Champions, which means that I go there about once a month. This past weekend Wasp was the newest release, so I ran out to pick her up.

Wasp – Marvel Champions

After no new hero or villain in December, Wasp finally came out. The second half to go with Ant-Man as they team-up against villains. I’m basically collecting Marvel Champions at this point, and it makes sense, I love all Marvel stuff, generally. But I really do love Marvel Champions a lot. The game play is a ton of fun, and the heroes feel like the hero that you are playing. In particular the flipping between the hero side and the alter-ego side works really well and thematically.

Deadly Doodles

It’s a draw and draw game, and by that, I mean it’s a flip and write game. This game has you going through a dungeon, picking up weapons, fighting monsters, getting treasure and maybe even befriending a dragon. I like this game a lot because it’s very simple. You flip over four cards and that’s your run into the dungeon for the day. You can continue off of one that you’d already started, or you can pick a new spot to go in. If you find weapon A, that means you get a point, you go across monster A (and have Weapon A) you kill the monster and get 4 points. If you don’t have the weapon and you go across the monster, you lose two points. The game is really easy to follow and all the scoring is done at the end and made so that you can track it really easily. But I’ll do a review of it very soon.

Call to Adventure: Stormlight Archive

Call to Adventure was a game that I’d pick up and look at on the shelf all the time. I like the theme of going through and creating your heroes quest and exploits over a few different time periods of their life. Basically you are creating an epic heroes journey. However, the generic fantasy one, while having great artwork didn’t interesting as much as knowing there was a Stormlight Archive version coming out. Stormlight Archive is a four book (currently) series by Brandon Sanderson who is my favorite author. These are massive and epic books with a really cool world in them and so much depth. I’m hoping that I, as a fan of the series, will get to feel a lot of that heroic feeling in the game that you get in the book and the grand epicness.

Those were the three purchases. I will be doing a follow-up to this as I traded in two games as well that I’ll be getting store credit for at some point in time coming up here which will mean another purchase. A shout out to All Systems Go who will buy used games, sells used games, I was temped by Merchants and Marauders as well as Clank! A Deck Building Adventure Game while I was in there, and less so but slightly by the $560 almost all in bundle of Joan of Arc. I hope that all of you have great FLGS that you can go to, trade in games, get used games, or that just have a great game collection.

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