Best board game week I ever had ended with a broken table

Last March I took a week off work to finally play through the entire Gloomhaven campaign with my group. We got through 8 scenarios in 5 days, which felt amazing. But on the last night, we were playing a really tense final round and my buddy Bob got so excited he leaned back in his chair, tipped over, and landed right on the corner of my oak dining table. Splintered the leg clean off. We finished the game on the floor with the board balanced on a stack of pizza boxes. Has anyone else had a session that went great until something broke?

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joel28020d ago

The "Mike-shaped hole in the drywall" line killed me. That's the kind of thing that becomes a legend in the group. We still have a faint crack in the floor from Bob's chair landing. Every time someone mentions Gloomhaven now, someone points at it and we all groan. But honestly, that night on the floor with pizza boxes as a table was more fun than half the "proper" sessions we've had since.

diana_bell7427d ago

Man that story hurts because I totally get it. Last year my group had this epic four day Catan tournament where we played like 15 games. The final match was down to the wire and my friend Jen got so hyped she threw her hands up and knocked over my entire bookshelf. Books everywhere, a couple shelves cracked right off. We just sat there in silence for a second then laughed so hard I almost peed. We finished the game with the board on the floor too, using a frisbee as a dice tray. Good times but man my wall still has a dent from where the shelf hit.

kevin_murray8827d ago

Diana that bookshelf story is bringing it all back... we had a game of Risk get so heated one time that my buddy Mike jumped up to celebrate and his elbow went straight through the drywall behind him. Just a perfect Mike-shaped hole in the wall. We patched it up with spackle and a pizza box cutout but you can still see the outline if the light hits it right. The table thing though... that's rough. Oak is expensive to fix and now every time Bob leans back in his chair you can feel the whole room tense up like a bomb is about to go off.

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