Games can be fun... and BEAUTIFUL!

Games can be fun... but they also can be BEAUTIFUL! Can you tell me what game this is? 

...It's a card game from Pencil First Games called Herbaceous. The game comes with these beautiful cards illustrated by artist Beth Sobel. There are 72 Herb cards, 16 container cards, and an Herb Biscuit Card, not to mention Game Markers and Quick reference cards for each player. It's a relaxing game of picking and potting herbs, with the winner having the most points awarded for certain combos of herb plants planted in certain containers. 

This just came in the mail today, so I'll be playing this tonight and give you a full review later in the week. For now, just look at these gorgeous cards!

*P.S. This game designed for 1 - 4 players! 

 

A Girl Walks into a ... Game Store

 It's been a long journey back to gaming for me. 30 years or so ago, I was a Dungeon Master with a warrior named Myla the Maurauder. I played some great bookcase games too, like Avalon Hill's Civilization and Rail Baron. My significant other, at the time, played The Third Reich, months at a time...

and then I didn't... life changed. Myla retired. I moved and the games didn't...

But then one day, I walked into my local bookstore. I wandered by rows and rows of these games. Wow, did they look amazing! There were so many different kinds. Games that reminded me of Dungeon & Dragons, games based on Horror and SciFi scenarios, Mars, and Dune and Star Trek and Train Rides. I felt this little stir of excitement... But how to choose?! Where to start?! 

...and that's when I started to search online about the gaming world that existed now. And this blog is about those discoveries from the view of the new gamer, because that's what I am now. 

Come along for the ride... Happy gaming, Suzanne