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Tabletop Season 4 Day 4: Dragon Farkle

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IMG_20160427_101542Did I choose a dice game that’s pretty much entirely about luck? Yes, I did. Am I nuts? Maybe a little bit, yeah. This game is just silly and occasionally stupid, and always fun. Justifying why you lost thousands of soldiers and only scratched the dragon, or why you had a thousand soldiers ready to join your army but then lost all of them seconds later is a big part of why I like this game.

I played with Derek Mio, Neil Grayston, and Brandon Routh.

I wanted to mix up what we usually play on the show, and since we did so many heavier games last year, this is a great way to provide some balance and casual silliness to the lineup. A game like this also helps us learn how to make our own fun when we play, because the dice aren’t always going to do what we want, so if you’re just being competitive or getting super serious about strategy, you’re gonna have a bad time.

Because Dragon Farkle is 100% about luck and being silly, I don’t mind the randomness of the dice. There is just no strategy involved at all, here, so you either accept that and let the dice fall where they may, or you play something else. There are other games that have a lot of strategy in them, or other mechanics that should reward clever thinking, but then they put dice into the mix and if you don’t get lucky, all that strategy and clever thinking is wasted. Games like that are annoying to me, and make me feel disempowered. But Dragon Farkle? You roll the dice, press your luck, make a bunch of dumb noises, and then get on with it.

I shouldn’t like this game, but I have fun every time I play it. Maybe you will, too.

 

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27 April, 2016 Wil

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12 thoughts on “Tabletop Season 4 Day 4: Dragon Farkle”

  1. Bryan Knutson says:
    27 April, 2016 at 6:58 pm

    Along the same line as playing different types of games on the show, I would enjoy seeing you and your friends play cribbage or something old school, yet very fun, like Risk.

  2. emelle28 says:
    27 April, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    This game, with its inherent silliness and complete lack of strategy, sounds like it is just up my alley. Can’t wait to watch the episode (even if for no other reason than Wesley Crusher plus SUPERMAN)… pant, pant, siiiiiiigh.

  3. Jason says:
    28 April, 2016 at 11:04 am

    Is there a pool for guessing how many times someone accidentally calls it “Dargon Farkle”/”Dragon Frackle”? (Seriously, I have trouble even reading it without turning it into one of those.)

    Although “Dragon Fraggle” does have possibilities…

  4. Mary Wolcott (@EwmMary) says:
    28 April, 2016 at 9:16 pm

    You should seek out an old game called Bermuda Triangle, stupidly hilarious.

  5. Terry Mitchell says:
    29 April, 2016 at 2:25 am

    Try Dice Living 🙂 Taking real life chances by rolling dice. Its fun and you never know where you will be led next! I practice it but I am a bit insane!

  6. White says:
    29 April, 2016 at 4:04 am

    It is quite OK;-)

  7. Tony says:
    29 April, 2016 at 7:56 am

    Hey Wil, will you be shooting the second season of TitansGrave when TableTop is done?

    1. Wil says:
      29 April, 2016 at 11:28 am

      Yeah, but not for a few months.

      1. Tony says:
        29 April, 2016 at 2:02 pm

        what if I offered you 5 Gold and a Party? A really good party!
        as long as it’s coming, I’m happy.

  8. Jack Pennington (Tell Change) says:
    29 April, 2016 at 6:21 pm

    Thought you might like this. An LotR/Monty Python mashup trailer about the frustration of being a DM with players who won’t take the game seriously: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WXt9CotIy8

  9. Kathleen Trisdale says:
    1 May, 2016 at 12:29 pm

    I saw this table top tech video and thought of you. https://www.facebook.com/ScienceNaturePage/videos/821807864618140/

  10. Wade Kuehnast says:
    11 May, 2016 at 10:00 am

    I love the diversity of games on the show.

    Also, the suggestion of playing one old school game is great. You could play it one time through with the original rules and then jazz it up with a bunch of ‘house’ rules (to make it more entertaining) and play it again.

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