{"id":5171,"date":"2015-12-07T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2015-12-07T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T15:23:12","slug":"bgg-con-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottking.info\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/bgg-con-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"BGG.Con Wrap-up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLisa and I had an amazing time during our weekend away seeing Fredericksburg, TX and then had even more fun when we spent a week in Dallas at BGG.Con.<\/p>\n

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\nI had a one day booth. It was both good and bad. The BGG folks did a bad job of advertising that the layout of the convention, which was different this year. Instead of one big exhibitors hall there were two of them on the opposite sides of the convention. So during the first day no one knew about the second hall and it was DEAD.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until around three thirty until people discovered that there was a second hall. We were basically busy the last two and a half hours of the day but the first half was a waste. For most of the retailers it wasn\u2019t a big deal cause they were going to be there all week, but since I had a one day booth it made a big difference.<\/p>\n

That being said, we sold crazy amounts of my books! I had no idea we would sell so many books. I figured the calendar would be popular. I was totally wrong. A lot of parents bought my Zimmah Chronicles trilogy for their kids and a lot of adults bought The Eye of Hastur for themselves. So all in all it ended up going well, just wish the folks running BGG.con had made it clear that there were two halls.<\/p>\n

Best Games I Played!<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Dinotwist<\/strong>
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\nThis was the winner for both Lisa and myself. We LOVED it. It\u2019s a French game that came out at Essen. It\u2019s not available in the US, but the convention library had a copy. We tried it two player, three player, and six player. It worked with all three player counts and for such a small light game, it was a bunch of fun.<\/p>\n

Basically there is an island called Twist Island and it\u2019s going to be destroyed. Every player then has their own island and what they are trying to do is to recruit dinosaurs to come live on their island. Each dino has a point score and the person with the highest score wins.
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\nWhat\u2019s cool though is that it has simultaneous gameplay so that a six player game went almost as fast as a two player game. It was a lot of fun and a US publisher seriously needs to pick it up!<\/p>\n

Super Rhino Hero<\/strong>
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\nWe love Rhino Hero. It\u2019s a great card stacking game that\u2019s perfect for a light filler or for playing with people new to gaming. Because Lisa enjoys it so much she had her heart set on playing SUPER RHINO HERO which is basically just a giant version of the game.
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\nFrom Wednesday to Saturday we tried to get a copy of Super Rhino Hero from the library but it was always out. I mean we went and were checking like every two hours, because she wanted to play it so badly, and then finally on Saturday afternoon we scored a copy!
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