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Starting to get into Clans of Caledonia. Game designers seem to be obsessed with Scotland. #worldofcardboard
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The Sad Sorry Tale of Mr. Card Game
Mr. Card Game is a loving homage, a novel deck-building game, a Kickstarter debacle, and a cautionary tale about crowdfunding. It’s also a story about me winning and losing a t-shirt (not the one I was wearing), and paying too much for the privilege. Let me tell you the story. It all begins with The Kingdom of […]
Five Life Lessons From Magic: The Gathering
I spent the better part of a decade with my head deep in Magic: The Gathering. I spent all my spare money on M:TG cards, I went to tournaments, I crafted decks, and I woke up in the middle of the night with ideas about possible combos. I never did particularly well. Although I’m a competent player, I […]
Why You SHould Play Dominion
Not long from now, Donald X. Vaccarino’s Dominion will hit it’s 10th anniversary. It’s sold more than 2.9 million copies worldwide, generated eleven expansions, amassed a stack of awards including the 2009 German Spiel des Jahres, generating a new award category in the process.* In the process, it created an entire genre of board games known as […]
Why You Should Play Century: Golem Edition
I have a new favourite game. It’s colourful, delightful, strategic and fun, and lets me live out my wildest fantasies: collecting beautiful beautiful gems, and marshalling golems to do my bidding.
Century: Golem Edition, designed by Emerson Masuuchi and published by Plan B Games, is a simple, elegant and subtle deck-building, engine-building game.
Strong Bad’s Trodgor Gets Its Own Board Game
One of the Strongbad’s finest creations — because it was post-modern enough to have shows within shows within the email reply on the show — was Trogdor, the S-shaped dragon drawn with burly arms and consummate Vs.
Fifteen years later, Trodgor makes an appearance in the flesh in the just-released Kickstarter campaign.
The Do’s And Don’ts Of Kickstarter Board Games
My name is Haoran and I am a board game addict.
You probably already knew that.
But I’m just as addicted to something else: to the seductive appeal of the Kickstarter board game.
Don’t Buy Board Game Expansions
As surely as night follows day, a successful board game will be followed by an expansion. Expansions, however, are rarely worth your time. Ticket to Ride added Ticket to Ride: Europe, Ticket to Ride: Märklin, Ticket to Ride: Asia. Settlers of Catan followed with Seafarers of Catan, and Knights and Cities. Caracassone added Inns and Cathedrals, Traders and Builders, The Dragon and the Princess, and many more. Agricola added Farmers of […]