I fly around the circus looking for the necromancer. It doesn’t take long to find him as he is the one who is raising dead bandits to attack Wolfmount. I land near him and start the ritual dance with the vial of fairy dust. I gyrate and flutter to the best of my ability. I’m able to do the dance amazingly because at one point the vial of dust transforms into a large funnel cloud and sucks the necromancer up into the funnel. He screams something as he is sucked away. Unfortunately, this doesn’t stop his zombies.

I love birds. I love watching them, listening to them, finding them, counting them, and more. I am a birder. So when Be Like a Crow was selected for the Lone Wolf Discord Server’s March Book Club game I was super excited and interested in checking the game out.

In Be Like a Crow you play as one of a number of species of corvid. The game is fairly straightforward. Each time you move a hexagon you draw a normal playing card, check a table, and react to the prompt. It is similar when you land. In the base set you can play in four different genres, each of which have their own prompts that are specific to that genre and the map that goes with them.

I played a number of sessions but started to get bored after a while. The prompts for flight and landing are the same for all of the genres, it is the other details which are different. And I was bad about ensuring that I kept my drawn cards from my undrawn pile, so I ended up getting some prompts more than once.

Further, there weren’t a lot of decisions to be made. Go to this location with this object and dance. Get in a fight with this other bird or escape. It just didn’t feel like it had a ton of depth.

This, though, is one of the main reasons I liked the game. If you are looking for something light to play, that doesn’t take a lot of rules or stuff, then this is a good choice. I could easily see myself taking this game with me on a trip, for example.

There are a number of expansions that go with the game, which I believe provide other genres.

Sorry for the short one this week, I’ve been under the weather and wanted to get something out there rather than nothing.