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[kmusser]

A follow-up on Miskatonic School for Girls, I did get a chance to play it on Saturday. It's a card game where the theme is a girls school where the staff/faculty are various Mythos creatures and the object is to be the last one with any sanity left. It's a deck building game, but without a whole lot of choices. You purchase students to build up your own deck, and faculty to go in your opponents deck, and then the students and faculty duke it out and if the students lose so does your sanity. Your choice each turn boils down to either help yourself or hurt your opponent. Overall feel of the game was kind of like Ascension mixed with a "take that" game like Munchkin or Red Dragon Inn. I am kind of meh on it, it was ok, but very random - from the publisher description I was hoping for a little more depth there. This is based on just one play, I'll give it a few more and see if it grows on me. My initial impression is that fans of Munchkin-type games will probably like it, but those hoping for more in the deck building genre will probably be disappointed.

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[russell-moore.livejournal.com]

"and the object is to be the last one with any sanity left"

hmmmm ... well now it appears I know where the powers that be got their idea for our never ending re-orgnization

do they have a logo for this game? I might want to start adding it to the more ridiculous e-mails

[kmusser]

Tis the object of pretty much any game based on the books of H.P. Lovecraft, do any image search on Miskatonic and there is all sorts of fun stuff.

[russell-moore.livejournal.com]

cool

wonder if any of them will get any subtle references to this? or when I look at one of them in the meeting and say 'ah, so you're not the last one'?