Game Review: A Game of Thrones: The Board Game (2nd Edition)
True to the nature of George R.R. Martin’s most famous work, A Game of Thrones: The Board Game is epic, complex, and will soak up a lot of your free time. At its most basic it’s a war game that sees you trying to control the castles and strongholds scattered among the territories of Westeros, but there’s a delightful amount of backstabbing, false alliances, and just generally screwing your friends over. It’s a good game for groups of friends that like to argue with each other loudly and often, preferably while drinking copious amounts of beer.
The Game of Thrones: Living Card Game that Fantasy Flight Games put out is incredibly fun, so you can bet that I’m dying to get my hands on their board game. This game’s been out of print for years and they have this second edition on the way in the next couple of months. It apparently has some improvements to the original title, like new art and elements from the two expansions.
After being disappointed by Feast for Crows I’m finally diving into A Dance With Dragons, as well as playing A Game of Thrones: Genesis whenever I’ve been able to. Definitely been on a George R.R. Martin kick these past few months. Dying for that HBO series to finally hit dvd so I can watch it, too.
Even better though, a good friend of mine is currently reading Storm of Swords and texting me everything something eventful happens. Anyone who’s read the book knows this means that she’s constantly barraging me with OMGs and THE FUCK!?!s, while I just keep replying “Just keep reading…” like an asshole. Such a great book.
This is something I’d been talking about doing for weeks with my buddy Luke while we played the Game of Thrones: Living Card Game. (Excellent game, by the way.)
Originally it was just a text file but today I had the inspiration of scanning in the heraldic crests from the beginning of every chapter and printing the thing out, for authenticity. Then I gave it to my 14 month old daughter who proceeded to rip it, crush it, and even chew on a corner.
Perfect.
I scanned it back in and it was good to go. Hope you enjoy.
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