Pour yourself a beer and join me at the gaming table as I played Aeon’s End live last night over on Malts and Meeples. Live streams at 8 PM Central Time on Wednesdays and then every other Monday at 8:30 PM. Last night I took two mages up against the nemesis Rageborne in the 2nd edition of Aeon’s End, see how it went.

The Game

Aeon’s End is a cooperative deck building game with a couple of twists that I will talk about. In the game you are taking a group of mages (though you can play true solo if you want) up against a nemesis who is threatening the town of Gravehold. You have a few ways to lose, if your mages die or if Gravehold ends up at 0 points. But you also have two ways to win. You can either defeat the nemesis or outlast the nemesis.

It is a pretty traditional deck building game in a lot of ways, but there are two unique things that I want to talk about. First is how you build your deck. Now, I just said it was fairly normal, and well, it is minus the fact that you don’t shuffle your deck. You have a fixed market, meaning you know what will be available, and you buy from that. But as you use cards on your turn, you determine the order they go into the discard pile. That means that you can kind of guess the hand that you are going to be getting when you flip the deck.

The other thing is the turn order. Normally games have you go in a set turn order. If I go first the person to the left of me goes next. Or, the person who is furthest back gets the next turn. Here, it is truly random. In a two player game you have two player one cards, two player two, and two nemesis cards that make up the deck. With a bad shuffle you could have the nemesis going 4 turns in a row as you reshuffle every time you go through all six cards. It gives you some great runs of turns and some bad.

The Beer

Of course there was a beer last night. This time from Tin Whiskers in St. Paul, MN. A Pink Lemonade Dream State, a cream ale with pink lemonade and vanilla. I think that it’s okay, when I bought it, I bought it for the Pink Lemonade in the title, however, it tends to lean more into the vanilla. That works well with a cream ale, but really it’s too sweet for what I want. Cream ales already lean a little bit sweeter than I like in general.

Upcoming Streams

So next Monday we are back at 8:30 Central Time. The plan is to stream the Top 10 Games I Haven’t Played on my game shelf. The goal will to then get these games to the table this summer, or this year at least.

Then on next Wednesday we’ll be doing some more gaming. If people liked Aeon’s End, I might use the streams as an excuse to get in a lot of Aeon’s End and really dive into the variety of nemesis that are in the game and the different mages to eventually start streaming Aeon’s End Legacy, the legacy game version. Let me know what you think in the comments below.

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