Boardgames Leaping Up At Me

[selenite0]

Steve Jackson is running a Kickstarter for the "Designer's Edition" of Ogre. I'm an Ogre fan from way back. I still have the counters from one of the $2.95 Microgames, even if the rules and map have vanished over the years. GEV was my favorite of the series--once infantry could fight from cover and make overruns I was hooked. I even sold Pyramid magazine an article with more rules and scenarios, naturally titled "Poor Bloody Infantry". So I'm in on the Kickstarter for a copy of the game. It's running wild. They'd originally wanted $20k to support printing and distributing (and to enable pre-orders). Now it's coming up on half-a-million dollars and Evil Stevie is frantically trying to come up with stretch goals to justify having this pile of money dumped on him. He's got some nice ones too, including a Tom Smith album of Ogre theme music. Which just got unlocked.

So I'm trying to get a boardgaming friend to make time to actually playtest some of the new scenarios. And I've signed up for Board Game Geek Con this year (made easier by the November drill being moved to a different weekend). And I'm coming up with an idea for the scenario contest.

Comments

[drwex]

Go you.

I've been thinking about getting it, but the problem is that if I get it the kids will want to play (with) it. At a $100 price tag that's not something I can play with the kids - it's a collector's item.

I do realize they're not making much money off it and the production values look superb. But if I bought one it'd just sit on the shelf for fear someone would spill a coke over it and I'd be out another $100.

I do still have the original in-bag but well used, around here somewhere...

[selenite.livejournal.com]

It looks pretty sturdy. And I don't mind my games getting scuffed. So I'll probably be getting the kids to play it when they're in their teens.