Game Night

It won’t be any sort of surprise that a family that has weekly board game nights plays one of the most popular board games on this planet or any other (as far as we know). Terraforming Mars is a long time staple of ours. It’s easy and fun to play, can take as many people as you can throw at it, and is pretty fast moving to boot. We hadn’t played it for awhile, but at one time we would alternate between Terraforming Mars, Vast and Magic: the Gathering. We’ve since gone much, much deeper into board gaming, but we still make time for the old favorites. ...

Last year for my birthday, Kasul got me a huge, mysteriously heavy box and refused to say what was inside. Anticipation was killing me. When my birthday came, I opened it up and it was absolutely full of Fantasy Flight Games’ Game of Thrones, the Card Game stuff. The base game, custom card holders for each noble house, every expansion, box after box of stuff. It was more than a little overwhelming. We were, at the time, working our way through the Gloomhaven main campaign and didn’t have time for new games. Just after we finished with Gloomhaven, the pandemic happened, crushing our family game night for months. ...

We’ve been doing a family game night where my boyfriend and myself, my son, my daughter and her family all get together to play board games once or twice a week. We recently finished an epic, year-long Gloomhaven campaign. If you have been following my Instagram, you’re probably really familiar with our game nights… That all ended when the pandemic struck. We haven’t had a game night with more than just us three since March. ...