![]() Still, I was intrigued enough to try Rex when it came out in 2012, since it promised streamlined gameplay and a shorter play time. The other problem was that it really needed a full complement of six to really shine, and that just wasn’t happening very often. I suck at negotiation games in general, being a very bad liar and therefore incapable of the decisive stab in the back which is almost always necessary at some point. In those days, people had longer attention spans and were willing (or expected, or forced) to put up with a fair bit of downtime between turns. However, like many games of its vintage, it draaaaaaagged quite a bit. Turns out that Dune and Cosmic Encounter had the same designers–I was today years old when I found that out, having just looked it up on BGG. My favorite was the Bene Gesserit, who got to secretly pick a winner and a turn, and if they manage to make it happen they win instead! Each of the six factions had unique special powers that mirrored their fictional counterparts: the Emperor got plenty of gold the Fremen could fight like madmen the Harkonnen got lots more Treachery cards, and so on. It did live up to the hype: it reminded me of Cosmic Encounter but with much less wacky randomness and a real sense of being in the action. I knew I had to try it, so beloved had it become. So when it came to Dune the tabletop game, it will probably not surprise you that I also gave it a pass I played it for the first time maybe about ten years ago right after I finally got around to reading the book. ![]() Mind you, I did find the Jodorowsky’s Dune documentary fascinating as a window into what might have been. ![]() Never saw it, don’t plan to–even though it’s got Kyle MacLachlan and Sting in it. Same goes for the movie–I mean, lots of people avoided the movie. I didn’t hate it or look down on it–I just wasn’t interested. Dune (the book) was too space-opera-ish and fantasy for my taste. The “hard” kind: Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Haldeman, Blish…Never Herbert. Of course I was a science fiction nerd growing up.
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