| November 3, 2008 14:10 - I'm Dreaming of a Red Christmas: a Christmas Mystery - This was a really fun game and is a great way to celebrate Christmas with company staff or for group christmas parties.
Looking for some light-hearted party fun this Christmas? Then check out this mystery game! I'm Dreaming of a Red Christmas: a Christmas Mystery The classic "Christmas Characters" are amusing. The plot is pretty straight forward, and when the solution is revealed it's simple and makes sense.
Residents of the North Pole are accustomed to keeping secrets. They swear never to disclose the location of Santa’s Workshop, and they keep Santa’s identity anonymous. A Santa Claus serves for a term. When he retires, he appoints his successor. Most retired Santas then leave the North Pole and travel the world with their spouses. The current Santa showed no signs of retiring. In recent years, he bewildered the sweet Pole folk with what can only be described as “poor choices;" he even bordered on being bad-listed! Somebody decided that enough was enough and laced his eggnog with poison at the Annual Christmas Eve party. His death comes as a guilty relief to most, but now there’s no Santa to deliver the gifts at midnight. The Pole Folk must discover the killer, in order to convince someone else to step up to be Santa and save Christmas! For once, the North Pole has a secret that is too big to keep.
A scripted Christmas mystery set on Christmas Eve, at the North Pole. The game is great. Although the script is short, it is perfect for a Christmas Party where you need time for other things such as opening presents or other games in between scripts.
November 17, 2008 11:58 - TALISMAN - THE MAGICAL QUEST GAME - Only with strength, courage, wisdom and a few good dice rolls will players be able to survive the ultimate test and beat their opponents to victory.
Talisman - The Magical Quest Game was first published in the early to mid 1980's, when fantasy role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons were quite popular. 
Talisman is a fantasy board game where each player takes up the role of a hero seeking to rule the world. Heroes battle monsters, and each other, to be the first to travel through the three regions of the board (Outer, Middle, and Inner) and place the Crown of Command upon their head. Once someone wears the crown, the other players can swear fealty (i.e., concede victory) or attempt to brave the killing power of the crown to eventually wrest it for themselves. The random nature of the adventure deck and the numerous different hero types results in no two Talisman games ever being the same. This makes the game exciting and creates a sense of adventure.
Roll a die, move your character (each with his own special abilities), and draw a card which could be a monster, a treasure, or a follower, or attack one of the other players, should he or she be unlucky enough to be there.
Talisman is a great game and well worth the time investment it takes to play (at least two hours). We have yet to play a fantasy themed board game that does as good a job of creating a sense of adventure and role-playing as Talisman.
The game appeals to many for the simplicity, and yet exciting ever changing gameplay, that it will always have great replay value. The cards change the outcome and you can never play the same game twice. This game is must have item for every die hard, stay up all night, eating cold pizza, drinking Mt Dew, game playing fanatic.
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