Holiday Gaming Traditions
Greetings everyone! I love this time of year. The months of October - December are my favorite, full of good nostalgic memories and fun times.
I have a couple of gaming traditions surrounding the holidays.
The first is that I spend most of Thanksgiving playing video games all day. It's something I did as a kid, and I still do that today. This past Thanksgiving was super low-key, due to COVID, so I got to play video games almost the entire weekend. I spent most of the time continuing my exploration of the absolutely gorgeous world of Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Yes, I'm still playing that game! It's the only AC game I've ever liked, and I absolutely love the world. So much art in the game! It's truly a marvelous creation; just thinking of the amount of work that went into this game kind of boggles my mind.
Around Christmas I usually play a game of Talisman, for some reason. Not sure why. It's not like the game has any special Christmas meaning to me. Maybe it's just because it reminds me of a simpler time in life.
Speaking of that, I think it would be cool to have some holiday-themed expansions for games that we could enjoy during these times of the year.
What about you? Any special gaming traditions? Any thoughts on holiday-themed expansions?
Have a great week, everyone!
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Over the holidays, often a big game of Arkham Horror 2e (up until recently my wife's favorite, replaced by Mysterium, LNOE is in their too - when we can/could play with a large group of friends), or Descent 2e (my oldest's favorite - we've played through pretty much all of it, though just the boys and I play this over the holidays 1vsMany).
The last couple of years I've played Descent during the holidays, just kind of leaving it setup to slow crawl and amble in. The classic monsters kind of fit the holiday, as do the Fighting Fantasy books. Talisman is definitely on tap this year, I hope, and also HeroQuest.
Touch of Evil has that Krampus villian but I don't think I've ever played it. Shamefully, I will admit I resubscribed to WOW for the new expansion.
Nothing wrong with WOW! That world is super fun to explore. Is the Krampus villain a fan-made thing?
Wow! I guess Talisman is the official Holiday Game of the Dungeon Dive! LOL. :)
Every year around Christmas (except this year 😒) we visit extended family and always get in a game of Talisman. It's a comfortable game that everybody knows and no one takes too seriously.
Ironically enough, I play Talisman a lot during this time of year too, a bit of nostalgia and I tend to bring it out an play it. A frustrating and rewarding game. I tend to play a lot more fantasy type games, also LOTR type games, as I have read the LOTR (all 3 books) and even the hobbit at times, over the last few decades around Nov/Dec, so it gets me in the mood -- I just got finished with LOTR books, and in my mind going over all the differences between the movies and books, even the little things. Even though the movies happened in December these last several years, I started my own tradition way back when on the books. I guess I have more time during the holidays :D
I don't have any real gaming traditions during the holidays, myself. I do usually find a few hours to get some time in for some videogames, or mini painting during my time off. This year I'm going to try and spend some time with Silent Victory, the solo submarine board game.