Author name: Paco G. Jaen

Born in Spain with a talent for dyslexia, I am gamer, player, graphic designer, photographer and psycotherapist. Also online magazine publisher and writer. Yep.. I do lead a busy life!

Merchants And Marauders

I was never much a fan of the old pirate stories, and I sure as hell don’t like the Somali scumbags that are boarding merchant vessels in the modern world today. That being said, the moment I heard about Z-Man’s Merchants and Marauders, I wanted it. I read a bit about it on the Z-Man website, read some rumours on the interwebz, and each new story made this seem like an amazing adventure game. While I am indeed usually optimistic, I simply had to get this to prove to myself that it may be the game to change my mind, forever, about pirates, and more specifically, pirate games.

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Thunderstone Dragonspire

I was very fortunate, once again, that the nice people at AEG sent me out a copy of Dragonspire to try out and, spoiler alert, I’m having a lot of fun with it. I’ve never played a deck building game before and to be honest the concept never really appealed to me but Thunderstone has hit the table every night this week.

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Mince Pies and Murder

Once a notorious crime-lord, Jimmy was sent to prison for a murder that involved, according to rumour, the Royal family. Released after just five years he retired to the USA a very rich man. In a much publicised move last year, he returned to Britain and bought a country house after being diagnosed with a terminal wasting disease.

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A la Carte

I wanted to get a new game and after watching Tom Vasel’s review of A La Carte, I knew which game I wanted… And yes, I do mean “I wanted”. I fell in love instantly with the components and I knew I wanted to own the game, so I used my little brother’s birthday as an excuse to obtain it…

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