I’m quite aware of the many, um, dynamic arguments about the concept of Hit Points in the various Dungeons and Dragons games. Are they physical injury (the answer seems to be ‘mostly not’)? Are they a good way to represent injury (jury out, but very, very heated)? Are they realistic (clearly not, nor are they…
I’m a sucker for games with cooperative play, and have enjoyed the heck out of Pandemic. When I saw Dead Men Tell No Tales on the G+ feed, I decided to pitch in. Because hey . . . pirates.
We started with the usual hour of random banter, which is frankly utterly awesome. We also discovered that our two fighters have the lowest Armor Class. Peter and I happened (or DID we?) to both wear red shirts. We felt it was apropos. Seriously – there’s absolutely no replacing the banter and bulls**t that happens…