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More Birthday Celebrations and a Board Game

 Hello. C J here. Have you ever heard of Chronicles of Drunagor – Age of Darkness? I have. I have a new copy now of the massive several kilogram game box from a wonderful early birthday I just got back from. My father’s side of the family and I had a nice day and some very rich buttery cake. I am going to see if some of my friends in the city want to come over and play the 30 or so session long board game on a regular basis.

Oh, right, the social life thing I’ve been looking into is meeting new people online. I wanted to know how to broaden my friend group. I have some board game friends but we needed a new board game to play. I’m going to have them track down the full five players it can handle. It’s a strange game that I’ve been looking into for about a year and it has about eight expansions. I might do some news here about playing it if the team agree.

It’s been a wonderful birthday so far and I’ve got an actual birthday day planned for the actual day the 22nd of July. I’m also playing this game to learn something. It has themes of the characters facing moral and physical corruption if they fail certain game tasks. I wanted a story driven game to inspire my depiction of my setting’s Hell region for eventually making my video game Duskbringer. I’m looking to Chronicles of Drunagor – Age of Darkness for inspiration about Hell and Duskbringer because the themes and story really line up. You can’t make a novel without reading a ton of them and the same is true for games. Happy Sunday. Now time to unbox it.

C J Mcpherson

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