Reading the rules now.... for real!
...and now, a little story.
Once there was a man who wanted a game which he thought of as THE GAME. Every friday he went to an LGS to paint. At the LGS they stocked THE GAME he wanted.
Each friday the man looked with longing at THE GAME, which was VERY expensive. Each friday he went home from the LGS, thinking, \"Maybe next week I will buy THE GAME.\"
Each week, the next week came and still the man went home empty-handed.
\"One day I shall have THE GAME,\" the man thought to himself.
On one particular friday, the man entered the shop and said to himself, \"Today I shall have THE GAME,\" well-knowing he couldn\'t really afford the expensive game that particular week, having blown USD 70 on Reaper Werner Klocke miniature figures two days previously. No matter, on this day, THE GAME would be his.
Having sat down to paint, the man was pleasantly suprised to see one of the store proprietors enter, a woman on maternity leave. The woman, being a true board-game afficionado, was arranging a game festival to be held by the LGS less than two weeks in the future.
The man and the woman greeted each other warmly and conversed on the subject of the game festival.
\"Will you not have a Doom: The Boardgame event at the game festival?\" asked the man.
\"Yes,\" replied the woman, \"if you would consent to run it!\"
\"Of course!\" replied the man, shaken to his roots by this display of trust from the woman. \"But I have not The Doom: The Boardgame Expansion Set (THE GAME) with which to play the extra monsters and rule set.\"
\"But we still have one copy of that game on the shelf,\" the woman replied, \"and that copy you shall have at a special price for helping at the game festival.\" Upon uttering these words, the woman retrieve the lone copy of THE GAME from the shelf and put it into the trembling hands of the man.
He looked down, staring in disbelief at THE GAME that now was to be his. It was Fate, in the person
of the woman, who had placed it in his hands. \"I am a lucky man,\" he thought.
But Fate had not yet left the LGS.
\"Are you going to buy that?\" heard the man a voice say. He turned and saw his frien approach from the rear of the shop. \"Why don\'t you let them put that on my account,\" the friend suggested, \" then we can work it out later.\" (The friend, through arcane means, also gained a discount at the shop, so the burden of payment was lessened more. The friend also suggested that perhaps a trade in kind could be made, with caprentry work by the man as coin rather than the coin of the realm.)
\"I am a lucky man,\" thought the man. \"How can a man be so lucky in one day?\"
But Fate still had not left the shop.
The other proprietor fo the shop appeared with an opened Doom: The Boardgame box in his hands.
\"Can one use extra gaming tiles and monsters for an event?\" he asked the man. \"This copy of the game was returned as incomplete. I have no use for the pieces. Would you have them?\"
The man looked on, stunned, as an unopened set of board tiles and a just as unopened set of monsters were placed in his hands.
Fate looked on, smiled and left the store.
end of story.
Tonight, I, the man, will read the Doom: The Boardgame Expansion Set (THE GAME) rules.
