Talisman as NaBloPoMo Ends

The night before Thanksgiving
Instead of the same
Watching old movies
We wanted a game.

OK, that's enough. I can't rhyme anything with Talisman.

Sarah & Troy had never played before, but Sherry suggested it, so we pulled the box out of my closet and played. One of the drawbacks of Talisman is that it typically takes a very long time to play. On this particular evening, though, we taught the game and finished in under 2:45.

Sherry played as the Sprite, and won. This despite the fact that Troy was the Monk (the most powerful of the original characters) and I was the Sorceress (the second-most powerful.)


Talisman was once a weekly game around our house, but that was almost two decades ago. It was fun to pull this game out again. The box contained some of the old characters that Lucas & Adam drew when they were little kids. Very nostalgic! It still has some rule problems, but it's very flavorful, and if you're playing with people who aren't taking things too seriously, it's way fun.

Ultimately, in the Crown of Command, Sherry rolled a 4, 5 or 6 nine times out of ten to force us all out of the game. (Sarah's Spy ultimately was the last to go, and she admitted defeat rather than lose her last life -- exactly as an Evil Spy would!)

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And that marks the last blog entry of the 2009 NaBloPoMo. I wonder if I will do it again next year. The few extra posts tired me out, and I really doubt anyone read "Snippets and Wisps" just because I was posting every single day instead of the normal "every working day."

On the other hand (OTOH), it made me think of "Things I've Never Done" and "My Life's Soundtrack" and even "Favorite Foto Fridays," so maybe I'll get even more good ideas next year.

OTOOH -- If I'm ever going to write that novel (or that collection of connected short stories) perhaps I should participate in NaNoWriMo in November of 2010. I like my blog, but ultimately, I want to get published, and since I will keep my day job, a motivator like NaNoWriMo could be just the thing....

Ah well, I have eleven months to decide.