{"id":880,"date":"2012-01-01T15:07:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T15:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2012-01-02T01:45:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T01:45:03","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucksurdu.com\/blog\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

In what has become a time-honored tradition, I hosted a New Years Eve game at Casa Surdu. \u00a0I’ve never really understood the fascination with New Years Eve, so rather than go out where a bunch of folks are getting sloppy drunk for little reason, I’ve been hosting a gaming night on New Years where will attempt to kill each other for little reason.<\/p>\n

Chris ran a reprise of his GASLIGHT goblin attack on the North pole inspired by Tolkien’s Father Christmas letters. \u00a0Although Santa died again<\/em> this year, I think the balance \u00a0was better than last year, and the game was more fun. \u00a0The goblins were trying to capture presents and take them off the table. \u00a0Our initial plan was to unhook the cargo cars from the train and have the troll pull the train away. \u00a0Santa was carrying the Elf Bomb when he was killed. \u00a0Yukon Cornelius climbed on the train to stop the goblins. \u00a0When he tried to throw the Elf bomb, he rolled a 20, exploding inside the train full of presents. \u00a0This scattered the presents all over the table.<\/p>\n

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Toy production facility on the North Pole just before the goblin attack<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The ineffectual charge of my goblin infantry against Sam Fuson’s toy soldier guard was our last chance of victory. \u00a0We quit the field, leaving the troll in hand-to-hand combat with two clockwork Santas. \u00a0See a more detailed writeup of the scenario on Chris’ blog (<\/p>\n\n\n\n