Gaming Friday

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Game one was Seasons, with four players using the basic component set. It's a drafting-based game, though not so purely drafting as 7 Wonders. Players compete to achieve the highest combined value of crystals scored and cards played over the course of three four-season years. They also constantly collect and use elements, which are needed to pay

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[rowyn]

Seasons has a "teaching" version, where you don't draft cards but get preidetermined ones for your starting nine. Drafting in your first game is pretty rough. x.x

I've been playing a lot of Seasons with terrycloth and alinsa on boardgamearena.com, and like it pretty well. With all the expansions thereks a good amount of replayability to it. Card interaction is *not* well-defined. So spoiled by Dominion.

[quarrel]

According to strategy guides, the two cards I mentioned are on the weak side. More influential were the card that gave me a free element of my choice every season and the one that lets me change the clock by up to three months forward or back -- the latter of which I played three times over the course of the game. The second two plays were back-to-back and triggered endgame half a year early in an attempt to disrupt everyone else's late-game plans, since I was otherwise out of things to do. That may, in fact, be the hidden reason why I lost by only a few points instead of a ton: I really did succeed in hurting everyone else's scoring potential, but I was much farther behind than I thought and it turns out it didn't matter.