Protospiel San Jose [3 Days Of Board Game Play Testing!]

That's what I'm bringing. At least the paper versions of them. No pre-existing Shakespeare, lagomorph, or warrior depilation knowledge needed. As for pre-existing conditions--we're good with that too. Will be editing this post as my schedule becomes more defined and I update the events page. All under David Moskowitz.

Hops.
Howl. Howl. Howl.
(Something barbarian that begins with an H)

I played some more games-

Babble. A party game where cards with letters or letter combinations on them are dealt. Players then draw and spell words or make up words and another player assigns a meaning to the word, and there are back and forth talking using made up words to add points to a pot. Interesting, I kind of liked it but can see how others would love it. Was difficult to play in a loud game area.

Magical Menagerie. I loved this game. Play cards to gain bait to capture creatures that have abilities. Super fun. Great graphics on the cards. I liked that you could either capture a creature or use the other cards; it added a lot of tension hoping nobody takes the creature you want.

Wax the Barbarian. A game by our very own Mosker. I remember it from last year and it played better this year. Really fun dice rolling with secret guessing/betting. It is fun to have a pile of hairy body parts you have collected. The tracker for how close to waking the barbarian added tension and moved often, usually toward waking, but would swing back up to sound asleep.

Superbloom. A game I played last year and is refined and could be released now. A board with a grid with a marker in each square. Cards with color combinations are dealt and you replace the markers with colored flowers, while secretly betting on color combinations on the board. Really fun and one of the games for anyone years 5-95.

Overall a fantastic show. Everybody involved were friendly, helpful, and wanting to help. Some great games as raffle prizes and Sunday afternoon when it quieted down there was a giveaway of the games left over.

There is another one of these later in the year in Santa Clara and I look forward to it.

And a shout out to the host, Game Kastle. A great store with a few locations here in the bay area. A relatively small game/model supply store, while the bulk of the area is tables for gaming. I saw a new sign that they are now offering franchising if one wants to open a store.

On Friday in raffle I won/chose Flip it City, and the someone gave me their copy of Nerdy Inventions.
On Saturday I won/chose Mow Money, and was given a copy of Level 99's Noir card game.
Sunday I won/chose Captain Carcass, was given Dragon Slayer, and in the afternoon staff gave me Farmageddon, and later Jeremy gave away Booze Barons.

It has been a pretty rough past year and this show was what I needed to check out of life for a weekend. Sunday night I played Dragon Slayer by myself for a few hours, fun and simple game.
It looked like most raffle games were either by Mayday Games or Tasty Minstrel Games.
Print & Play once again provided sample bags of hex, diamond, square, etc, game pieces. I love these sample bags. It is a lot of fun to play with the shapes to see what can be made with that style of piece. Tasty Minstrel Games gave away bags of wooden game pieces, from people to houses of different sizes, to odd shapes (I'm guessing resources), to circles and squares, all in a variety of colors. It is very difficult to choose what to take and not to take a bunch of it all.