OOTS Adventure Game
I bought the Order of the Stick Adventure Game last Tuesday, and we got together to play it Saturday night. We had Bobo, Kolvedic, Craing, Jhianna, Jasmine, and myself playing. I had read the quick start rules (actually, it was a comic, which was kind of funny), but that didn’t really give me a firm grasp on the rules. I read the rules while we were setting up the game, and we had to refer to them quite often. Fortunately, Bobo is a quick learner, and he helped with the rules.
We played the shortest game possible (supposed to run 3-4 hours,) but it took us close to 6 hours to finish the game up. I think this was mainly because we were unfamiliar with the rules. It didn’t help that the rules were a little convoluted, and hard to follow. About 2 hours into the game Kolvedic gave up on it and walked away. I don’t blame him one bit. I was about ready to do the same, but since I had shelled out $40 on the game, I wanted to see at least one game finished.
I had a hard time killing monsters without help. I was playing Elan the bard, and he really sucks in combat. The schticks that I started out with made me a great support character, but it wasn’t until the end that I really got to kill something to earn more schticks. By that time, it was really too late for me to try to win the game.
Bobo ended up killing Xykon the lich, and the dungeon started to collapse, so we all ran to the dungeon entrance (per the rules.) We all made it out of the dungeon, and counted up our points. I came in last (but only 4 points out of the lead, somehow.) Jhianna was next, then Craing. Bobo and Jasmine tied for first place, but then Jasmine recounted her Loot, and she came out 1 point ahead of Bobo. Go Jasmine!
When I got home with the game, I threw it into the closet with the rest of our board games, and it will probably stay there until the end of time. If I’m going to get together with my friends to play a card game, it will either be Munchkin or Illuminati. However, I will say that the game was amusing all the way through to the end. Rich Burlew did a wonderful job with keeping the comedy in the game. I was kind of worried about that. Regardless, the game is barely above average, and will probably not be played again by this group of people.
