First, though, a bit of an announcement that has only reached this humble podcaster in the last 48 hours. G*M*S Magazine and the G*M*S Magazine Podcast have been awarded with the Game Genius Gold Awards for the best Game Blog Company and Best Game Podcast.
It doesn’t matter if it wants to destroy everything around him and the world around us and basically enslave us. We love Cthulhu. I think it’s the eyes. For that reason I love Arkham Horror, I like the Cthulhu card game and I even like Mansions of Madness with its flaky mechanics and rather silly adventures. Yes, it is sometimes about the atmosphere than it is about the game.
Medieval times sucked. Make no mistake. Living in the middle ages was horrible horrible horrible. For starters you didn’t have boardgames, role playing games and barely a few card games. Social Security was a joke. Public transport was atrocious. The tax system total chaos. Oh, and Internet connection was just not right. Not nice!
I first spotted this Agricola-style worker-placement game in my local gaming store, David’s in Brighton. I really liked the cover art, which was very thematically earthy in its colour scheme and text style, and the blurb on the back of the box sounded intriguing too (“With a balance of luck and planning, the players compete for food in this pre-historic time”).
Takenoko in Essen, yes indeed ! Essen is approaching… In collaboration with Asmodee and Bombyx, Matagot organised you a nice
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This pdf from Purple Duck Games is 7 pages long, 1 page front cover and comes with an extra pdf for SRD and a 1-page extra containing tokens.
Now I will state up front that I’m not a huge fan of many Martin Wallace games as for the most part they are too “EuroGamey” for me. It’s a game style preference issue, nothing to do with the quality of his games. But I certainly bow to his obvious creativity and talent in board game design without question and interestingly, when I interviewed him at this year’s UK Expo, I found out that he is a long time war gamer.
Evolution is a English translation of a Russian Card Game from Right Games, which they were kind enough to send to me.
Lets take a look inside…
This pdf from Purple Duck Games is 28 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page credits, 5 pages SRD, leaving 21 pages of content, so let’s take a look at what we get, shall we?
This pdf from Necromancers of the Northwest is 33 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page advertisements, 1 page SRD and 1 page back cover, leaving 28 pages of content, so let’s check them out!
