Last Friday, Brett, Julie and Jimi, Clyde and Todd came over to playtest games, in our second playfest session. We're going to have to get a name and make these a regular thing, as it's very helpful and the people are really cool. We first played Ultra-violets, Brett went for being the Club President all the time, which worked too well. He brought out the pests for all the other players and hindered what they could do while constantly buying back his high-valued plant. It was good to test out the pests, as no one had gone for that strategy yet, and it needs to be changed. Either make the pests weaker, or change up the play order, I think those might work. We then played Brett's two-player bonfire game again, it's getting better each time, while Jimi and Clyde played Gene Pool. We finished up the evening with some games from Protospielers, Metamemes, a brainstorming game where you use word cards to inspire new ideas then vote on the best, and Why did the Chicken?, a game where you complete riddles to make everyone laugh. Our best ideas for Metamemes turned out to be a first-person Doom-like full-size pinball game and a Tamagochi Civilization, and you can read my session report for WdtC on the geek.

(Enter Laura) Last Friday I continued with my horseriding lessons. It is still a thrill to go to the hoofers stables. I love the smell and the sounds of all the stabled horses. This time started riding Shadow- a rather slow little paint with a round tummy. But half way through the lesson I switched to Copper- a perky chestnut. There were lots of people working their horses in the arena so it was really difficult to direct any horse around collision free. While Shadow could care less about any other horse- Copper hates other horses. Therefore, the end of the lesson was a bit tense as my muscles got progressively tired and Copper more and more irritated with the other horses. But I did enjoy riding Copper much more than Shadow- hopefully we will ride together again!