Some of my best times-with-friends memories are playing Cosmic with a group of my college buddies (originally when we were in college, and a few times we've gotten most of us together since then). Sadly, I find that our group's unique way of playing the game pretty much spoils it for me if I try to play it with other people. For starters, we always play with at least 3 alien powers per player -- generally dealing seven powers to each player and letting them choose 3. Plus, about a dozen of the powers were alternate ones I cooked up back in the day, replacing some of the ones that the group had decided never to play with. Then we'd shuffle in a third to half of the flares for powers that weren't in the game, and start the game, with ritual in-jokes and silliness. Sometimes it would take half an hour to complete a challenge; sometimes someone got a degenerate combo and got five bases in half an hour. Eventually, one or more players would have five bases, so the game would end. The winner, however, was not the player who had the most bases, but rather the player who was (by consensus) most amused by the whole undertaking.
Playing with normal people by the actual rules is somewhat like trying to drink Bud Light after becoming accustomed to 20 year old single malts.
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Date: 2012-01-16 01:27 am (UTC)Playing with normal people by the actual rules is somewhat like trying to drink Bud Light after becoming accustomed to 20 year old single malts.