Blog Retrospective

Well this is it. The end of the semester and perhaps the final post of this blog. It has certainly been an interesting semester with some fun new games. The whole purpose of this blog was to learn how to present myself through both a blog and social media, and I have to say it was a great way to utilize the concept.

My twitter has seen an increase of followers due to this hear blog, and I’m sure the widget feature down at the bottom helped out a bit. The Media feature on WordPress is another particular favorite of mine. Made it very easy to include photos and video on here.

However, I do wish the dashboard was a little easier to access. My first few posts took me a while just because I couldn’t find the darn thing. Forgetting that I needed to access the Admin button.

I also think that this blog may have benefitted from more videos. The topic of this blog being board games probably should have had more visual representation than I gave it.

As for the data of this blog, looks like March 21st was the day I got my most views. 12 people checked out my post about Seasons. I am curious about the one person from the United Kingdom who viewed that particular post. I guess you can say that this blog has officially gone global!

Ultimately, I can see the benefit of blogging in the professional world. This digital era is requiring people to know the ins and outs of social media and the blog-o-sphere. I may not continue this blog, but I am considering checking out different topics that may benefit me in a professional environment.

 

 

 

Kingdom Death pt.2

In my last post, I sat down with my friend Andrew to talk a little bit about Kingdom Death. But I didn’t really say anything about our own experiences playing it.

This has got to be one of the hardest games we have ever played as a group. Andrew, our friend Scott and I sat down to play a new game the other day and it was a very bitter sweet game. We had all created our new characters and were ready to go out for the first hunt. Everything is determined by rolling a 10 sided dice, and my rolls were on fire! Making critical hit after critical hit on our enemies. But Kingdom Death is a very fickle game. You can be rolling like crazy and the game will find a way to get back at you. My first character took a bad hit and I had to roll to see if he’d live. Unfortunately, i couldn’t roll well enough to save him.

This happened to me two more times that night. As good as my rolls were, I just couldn’t keep anyone alive. We ended our game after the first nemesis fight against the monstrous Butcher.

The Butcher

We barely made it out. Battered and not in good shape, our characters immediately encountered the Kingsman. A knight who took one look at our civilization, and decided to kill half of our people. We had two choices, sit back and take it, or fight back. We ended it there that night. Still debating over the two choices. Or, to just start over.

Check out Kingdom Death for yourself at their website.

Or what others are saying at the Kingdom Death reddit!

Kingdom Death with Andrew

Kingdom Death is currently the big obsession of my friends and I. It’s a product of a very successful Kickstarter campaign that my buddy Andrew decided to participate in. It’s a terrific table top RPG. I sat down with Andrew and a couple of other buddies to play. Andrew was even willing to explain the game a bit down in the video below.