Hello everyone, today we are talking about playing Mice and Mystics for the first time!
Please, do come in and make yourself confortable. There are still some seats at the front here.
The Boardgame Review Room is open!
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Kickstarter has open the door to countless games companies and games (literally countless… I can’t many) and it’s both very good and very interesting to see how some companies have gone over the hurdle of not having a bank account in either the USA or the UK in order to start their projects and see them succeed.
Fable Smith is one of those companies. Based in The Netherlands, Joost Das is the brain (and I literally mean brain… wait until you hear in the podcast what he used to do before he went into game design) behind Ortus.
Podcast episode–The Board Game Interview Room: Ortus Kickstarter with Joost Das Read Post »
The first episode of our new podcast show in which some experienced gamers take a look at a game and
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The Amityville Project: Phobos is finally ready after one year full of changes and playtesting. The game is moving at
I’ve been a bad blogger. I haven’t written anything for this blog since January 15, and here it the last day of March. My sponsor, GMS Magazine, tried to jog me into action a month ago, and it almost worked, but I got busy or lazy or both. It isn’t hard for me to get lazy–I was born that way. And I was working like crazy on Deluxe Tunnels and Trolls in January and February. I’m still working like crazy on that game, but I could have found time to say something about other games I’ve played or liked.
By Mario T. Lanza There is a guiding principle in the world of strategy games by which all players should
Germantown is a hex-and-counter war game for 2 players. The game only has one scenario, and it takes about 2-3 hours to play. Mark Miklos designed it and GMT published it in 2010.
Small World was one of this year’s Meeple’s Choice Awards, and with good reason. This game, similar to Days of Wonder’s other juggernaut, Ticket to Ride, combines simple rules with a focus on strategy to create a game that’s easy to learn, but provides a challenge each time.
The Hobbit is a light “roll and move” game with simple conditional ”success vs. failure” mechanics. There is very little player interaction to speak of, reducing the game to little more than a race to the finish line.
Incursion – Is It Wrong To Love Crushing Nazi Zombie Skulls? by =+=SuperflyTNT=+= I heard about this game on Fortress:Ameritrash
