darth_ender said:

When this game does end, are you still up for another game? Like I said, I'd like to try the other three player game version, as well as this one with an alliance in the beginning, just to see how the dynamics play out. I know Ric is always up for a game.

You have a really good son, by the way. I immensely pleased with his maturity and wish I were such an intelligent and spiritual young man when 15.

Thank you, though his cleverosity seemingly is of his own making...mind you I am sure I must have paid for it...

It is hoped that he shall retain his spirituality of his own accord, for truly I have none with which to supplement or support him. Somewhere along the path of lighting his candle I blew mine out...probably from speaking too much (or perhaps from sheer draftiness, I suppose).

As for his maturity...he did that to himself when I wasn't looking...though I did suspect something was up when he became more responsible than his father...but I wrote that off to the follies of youth...I do nod at him once in a while, but little more than that.

It would be my preference to play this same version in this same way (with the odd change--such as my winning, I suppose) at least one more time before branching out. Familiarity and all that.