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On the FSPA slack gaming channel, I've offered to host at my place
in Odenton, MD (near<br>
Fort Meade) on 10/28, though I could also host 11/4 if more people
could make it. Still<br>
not a great location for anyone coming from Virginia, but better
than Bel Air.<br>
<br>
The second season of Pandemic Legacy is due out later this week; the
rulebook is now<br>
online at the Z-Man site
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.zmangames.com/en/products/pandemic-legacy-season-2/">https://www.zmangames.com/en/products/pandemic-legacy-season-2/</a>).<br>
It's a standalone, not dependent on Season 1, and looks to be quite
different. <br>
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-- Rich<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/18/2017 9:29 PM, William F. Wulf
II via Gaming wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="1">Location</font></div>
<div><font size="1">Attendees</font></div>
<div><font size="1">Announcements</font></div>
<div><font size="1">Next Meeting</font></div>
<div><font size="1">Games played</font></div>
<div><font size="1">Game analysis</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">Location: </font></div>
<div><font size="1">"Talisman Annex" William Wulf's townhouse in
Columbia</font></div>
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<div><font size="1">Attendees:</font></div>
<div><font size="1">Rich A., Steve and Emmett J., Wulf</font></div>
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<div><font size="1"><b>Announcements:</b></font></div>
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<li><font size="1">This was the first of several sessions
attempting to clear one "season" of <a
href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-season-1"
moz-do-not-send="true">Pandemic: Legacy</a>.<br>
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<ul>
<li><font size="1">Pandemic: Legacy only allows for a
maximum of 4 players, thus this was not a regular
open-meeting</font></li>
</ul>
<li><font size="1">Reminder that there is a Slack server
used by FSPA members, and within that there is a
channel just for gaming discussions.</font></li>
<ul>
<li><font size="1">use the @here or @channel commands if
you would like to invite people for group gaming. </font></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<div><font size="1"><b>Next Meeting:</b><br>
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<ul>
<li><font size="1">Next open-gaming meeting date is to be
determined. </font></li>
<ul>
<li><font size="1">Someone closer to Virginia should
probably host soon, to help include more of our </font></li>
</ul>
<li><font size="1">Next Pandemic: Legacy meeting is
scheduled for Friday, Oct. 27th (which is the Friday
before Halloween, and also the day Stranger Things 2
is supposed to debut on Netflix).</font></li>
<ul>
<li><font size="1">If anyone from the first session
cannot show up to the second (aside from Rich, who
owns the game) we will probably try to find a
temporary replacement</font></li>
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<div><font size="1"><b>Games played:</b></font></div>
<div><font size="1">Wulf's Wing Challenge: Seeing if the four
attendees could finish off a family pack of whole chicken
wings (thigh and drumstick). Result: loss. There were
still enough wings for Wulf to feed his brother leftovers
the next day. But it was also a win, because the recipe
from the <a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Cooks-Illustrated-Meat-Book-Game-Changing/dp/1936493861"
moz-do-not-send="true">Cooks' Illustrated Meat Book</a>
was phenomenal. Who knew baking powder could do that to
chicken?</font></div>
<div><font size="1"><a
href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-season-1"
moz-do-not-send="true">Pandemic: Legacy</a>, for the
month of January, though it took two attempts to complete
the month. The first attempt was lost due to a sudden
mutation of the black-colored disease, and several
epidemic cards drawn early on, thus outbreaks chained
across the middle-east and Asia. We also failed to
properly utilize the special abilities of all of the
characters, in order to move about the board and prevent
outbreaks. </font></div>
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<div><font size="1"><b>Game analysis:</b></font></div>
<div><font size="1">Pandemic: Legacy uses the basic Pandemic
set, but with additional rules, cards, and accessories.
Legacy refers to effects that last between sessions of the
game, as well as meta-effects that occur between
sessions r are triggered during sessions. The box comes
with stickers that get applied to the board and to
character cards, boxes of new pieces that get opened as
events trigger them, cards that are revealed only when
triggered by events or other cards, cards that have
scratch-off panels revealed depending on triggers, and
even instructions to completed destroy cards after their
use had been negated. </font></div>
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<div style="font-size:19.2px">One season consists of 12
months. Teams get two attempts to clear each month. There
are rewards earned between sessions depending on the outcome
of the session, including bonuses for clearing the session
and for eradicating a disease. </div>
<div style="font-size:19.2px">One of the legacy effects is
that cities that suffer outbreaks--exceeding 3 counters of
the same color--gain permanent counters that represent the
unrest in those cities. As these counters increase, those
cities become less and less accessible. Another legacy
effect is the mutation of diseases, both beneficial and
harmful. The black disease, mutated in the first month, is
currently unable to be cured, and is more difficult to treat
(takes 2 treatment actions in a turn to remove a counter).
We were able to beat the second round, because there were
many beneficial rewards even for failure, just by making it
through so much of the game before we lost. </div>
<div style="font-size:19.2px">Much of what will happen in
further months is currently still sealed within their
containers. It is hard to say how well it will play after
several sessions, and since you only get two attempts at
each month before you have to move on, if the difficulty is
raised too high there won't be enough rewards to
compensate. </div>
<div style="font-size:19.2px">Another thing to consider about
Pandemic: Legacy is that it is only playable once, through a
season. There are many effects in the game that permanently
alter or destroy cards--in that they tell you to tear them
up when you use them, or have scratch-off panels. Also,
there are stickers that affix to the game board and cards to
represent the legacy effects. Despite this, it is still
ranked #1 on BoardGameGeek.com</div>
<div style="font-size:19.2px">There is a <a
href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/221107/pandemic-legacy-season-2"
moz-do-not-send="true">second season scheduled</a>. I do
not know if that will use the first season as a base, or
provide an entirely new game board, sets of cards, and
accessories. It does sound like it's set in the future,
though, some 71 years after civilization ended, from the
linked description. </div>
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<div class="gmail_signature"><font size="1"><i>William Wulf<br>
Lunaria, Ltd. Consulting<br>
<a href="mailto:psyque@gmail.com" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">psyque@gmail.com</a><br>
410-428-0070</i></font></div>
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