I have a very strong competitive streak that has, at times, soured our casual games in the past.

About 2 years ago I decided that I’d be competitive in tournaments and ‘friendlier’ in our casual groups.

Add a few beers and I become everyone’s favorite overly-talkative Jedi Mind Trick target

Anyway, at today’s pre-release, I ended up in 1st place out of 45 participants. Which seems to prove… well nothing really except that by not caring so much about winning, I might have been able to keep my cool and a tighter rein on my emotions…

Oh and I had an unfair deck, one of those you dream of opening every time you do a sealed deck.

Good times!

False modesty alert… From my experience, our ChattyDM is much better than he admits. He’s just too damn nice for his own good.

He’s always sharing his experience by giving very good pointers to his enemies (except maybe to Yan) and always giving us all the details of his mistakes as he plays them.

It’s like a general sending a reluctant herald to the enemy saying.. “Guys, I’ve left a big breach on my southern flank. That was such as stupid move I thought I’d let you know…” The herald then returns to his army sobbing.

Some might think this is a classic ambush scenario… ok… Sometime it is, but you can usually see it right in his face.

Your sure you want to kill me?

That was Yan’s answer to ChattyDM enforcing his rule #1. Kill Yan first. Turns out, doing this gave the victory to somebody else in the following turn.

Your sure you want to kill me?