Anybody home?

[ororo]

I've been invited to try Kingdom Death: Monster this weekend and the reviews I've read haven't really given me an idea of the game play. The questions I don't see answering:

1. How long does a turn take?
2. Will I be bored when other people are taking their turns?
3. How challenging is it playing a civilization vs playing a single character in other games?
4. How much crap do I need to keep track of?
5. Is it truly cooperative or is it cooperative until it gets competitive?
6. If I fall behind, is it possible to catch up or am I genuinely and totally fucked?

Anyone played? Bueller? Bueller.......

Comments

[lassarina]

^ agreeing with this. I have not played, but periodically exist in a space where my husband is playing it, and. Well. There sure is a lot of math and things you can randomly die to and some very mean dice, and it's fucking great for my husband because he LOVES intricate resource management (a friend of ours described it as "KDM is the most [husband's full name] game I can conceive of" and having watched bits, I concur).

Turns are pretty long, but they're collaborative; nobody seemed bored when I poked my nose up out of Persona 5.