Whimsical Times

I'll admit straight away that I'm one of those people who liked Cards Against Humanity. It appealed to my dark sense of human and worked in my group who aren't as into strategy games as I am and prefer something lighter.

Top 10 League Champs Part 1 - Support

This is the first of my top ten champ blogs, each will focus on one of the different positions: Top, Jungle, Mid, Bot and Support.

Of the five positions you can play support is probably my favourite. You might not get the flashy kills of the other positions but helping secure kills for your carry or keeping them alive can be just as thrilling.

My favourite champs and why I hate meta’s

I like League of Legends and I play many different champs. I am in no way a pro at the game but neither would I consider myself a complete noob.

I have not yet reached the level to play ranked matches, so I can pretty much get away with using any champ in a normal match.

Once you reached ranked you have to play the meta (mostly) and this I see as a problem, as some of my favourite champs and items are not really viable at that level.

I hope that the next season will provide some balance so that less utilised champs can be played without being flamed out of a game.

Halloween Game Night 2014

As it is Halloween I thought I would do something horror related for my blog.

As you may have noticed I play a lot of board games. Amongst my collection are several horror themed games.

So we are planning a horror board game night while some of our favourite horror movies play in the back ground.

I would love to stream this event but sadly I don’t have access to a decent enough camera, yet!

My thoughts on League of Legends

I've been playing, and more importantly enjoying League of Legends (LoL) recently.

I'm only at level 12 and mostly been plying against bots. I feel that this is necessary until you find the champions that you're good at.

I realised in a recent game that I'm not that bad as I went against real players and had my teams highest damage output, most assists and second highest kills by 1. I was playing as Soraka who is a healer so was shocked to get that much. After the game I found I was the least experienced vs human opponents and I put my win down to honing my skills against the AI.

Enough bragging about my skills ;-P

A new card game (to me) that captures the feel of a video game - Anima

While there are a few board games out that are based on video games there are also those that feel like you are playing a video game.

We have Gears of War, Bioshock Infinite and the upcoming XCom and Witcher, which in some ways capture those games they are based on, we also have games that feel like a video game. Be it either their theme or even their mechanics.

My inspiration for this is due to playing a very JRPG game called Anima the Card Game, my hopefully soon arrival of the Video Game High School board game and the fantastic beat-em style game system Battlecon (another backed KickStarter project I should have before Christmas).

I'll talk about Anima a bit as it's not a new game, in fact the card game originally came out in 2006 with a revised edition a few years later and two follow up standalone add-ons.

Update of my nerdy purchases

Things have got busy in my life but my buying of all things nerdy has increased.