OD's SoB Prep Blog

[Old Dwarf]

I know, I signed off & you thought it was safe to return to the Shadows of Brimstone
Board-but life does things like this-get over it.

OD did not ride happily off into that Western Sunset to play his first Game, instead he faced
the Game Boxes .In my desire to get the Miniatures assembled & painted sort of blinded me
to the Game Boxes content. Yes I pulled out the Rule & Adventure Books, looked at the Hero Sheets
but the other stuff really didn't register once I checked to see if it was all there.

So after finishing the fig. bases I went up to my Game Room & found a half finished
Thieves of Cadwallon set up So I had to take around 15 minutes to box it up. Then in a
plastic tray I keep Game counters for the game I'm playing I find a small hex shaped
counter showing bullets-it's not from Cadwallon? Ok before that I was playing Dead Wood
that had bullet counters so I pull the Game & it's bullet counters but they are bigger so
it ain't Dead Wood. Thinking hard I did play Walking Dead Board Game The Best Defense.
taking that Game out ( from under 2 pizza size boxes of 20mm scale Union & CSA
painted armies) I find the counter is a match . This has nothing to do with SoB of
course but it eats up another 30 minutes.

Returning to my now empty Game Table I start taking Cards from the Swamp of
Death Box & keep taking : Mine Artifacts ,Swamp Artifacts, Threat Cards in 4
flavors, Gear Cards, Starting Gear, Personal Items, Darkness Cards ,Mine Map
Cards, Swamp Map Cards, Mine Encounter Cards,Swamp Encounter Cards,Blessing
Cards,Scavenge/ Loot Cards,Hero Starting Upgrade Cards, Side Bag Cards,
Growing Dread Cards, Other World Threat Cards.

Then I get to do it all again for the Targa Plateau-I got 3/4 of my Game Table full of Card
stacks. I of course make it harder by going through & bagging the Encounter, Darkness,
and Threat Cards that occur in Portal Mines (per my Brimstone Mine Users Guide)
and both the Swamp & Targa Map, Encounter,& Artifacts Cards. The Scavenge
Cards both bagged Separate as well.

So I shuffle the remaining Decks from both sets together & it's past Noon-a
Heineken Break is in order before I face punching out & bagging all the
counters. The first Game will not start today.