![]() ![]() Above all else, Jim enjoyed spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren, Ethan and Owen. Jim was also active in his community and enjoyed his time as an EMT on the Lacona Fire Department. He was a handyman and was capable of fixing just about anything. He enjoyed mushroom hunting, camping, fishing, boating, and water skiing. Jim loved spending time in the great outdoors. He worked for Hy-Vee in the warehouses and as a truck driver for thirty-four years before retiring in 2011. Jim worked for South Central Coop for twelve years before taking a job at the Hy-Vee Distribution Center in Chariton. They raised their children in Lacona, Iowa. The couple was blessed with two children, Laura and Loren. On August 26, 1967, Jim was united in marriage to Linda Rhoads. Jim graduated from Southeast Warren High School in 1964.įrom 1966 until 1971, Jim served in the Army Reserves. ![]() During his childhood, Jim's family lived in Derby, Chariton, and Des Moines. Jim was raised alongside his sisters, Holly and Marsha. Scott was born Novemto Gail and Louise (Corder) Scott in Iowa City, Iowa. I could play it, and would not be upset that I was playing it (after all most any game is better than no game, right?), but I would choose other deck building games if they were available.Lacona - Jim Scott, 74, passed away December 8, 2019. You will also have no ability to end the game, as the end of game condition is based on running out of victory points. Are you the player that likes to play all of your games as the money monger that buys up all the awesome cards? You will find yourself in trouble in this game because after the deck reshuffles (once the deck of cards that goes in the middle has run out), there will be hardly any cards available for purchase, whereas there will be monsters galore for the monster slayer to slaughter mercilessly. Want to buy awesome new cards? Better hope that the person before you left some of them out at the end of their turn.Īnother aspect of Ascension that I consider to be a definite drawback is that the number of strategies that work in the game (keeping in mind how limited having a true strategy truly is - see previous paragraph) is quite limited. Did you want to kill lots of giant monsters? If there are no giant monsters out in play, then your out of luck. Whereas in most deck building games you have all of the cards available to you and you are able to plan out a strategy from the beginning, in Ascension you are at the mercy of what becomes available to you. ![]() This aspect is that the game winds up being more a game of reaction than a game of strategy. One aspect of Ascension some people will enjoy whereas others will hate. This thankfully prevents you from being at the complete mercy of the draw. Do you have 50 extra power somehow? You can kill 25 cultists for victory points. They have a "Cultist", which is always available. One introduction that Ascension made that I must count as a plus is the concept of a perpetual monster. This means that if you are counting on the victory points in your deck being how you win (some cards are worth victory points), you better hope that someone else is killing monsters, otherwise you will be in for a long game. Instead of ending once the deck of available cards has run out or once a certain monster has been killed as in most deck building games, the game ends once all of the victory points have been collected. These cards and the standard set of 4 cards are the only cards that the player is able to interact with.Īnother feature that Ascension introduced was victory point counters. ![]() Ascension does, however, introduce a new features of its own.įirst, in Ascension all of the different monsters and deck building cards are shuffled together, and at any given time there are 6 of them available in the middle of the board. I recently had the chance to try out Ascension Chronicle of the Godslayer a couple times, so I figured that it was about time for me to write a review.Īscension is a deck building game that heavily utilizes some of the mechanics that are introduced in Dominion and others that were introduced in Thunderstone Advance. ![]()
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