Live your life one dice roll at a time
Live your life one dice roll at a time
I received a message from JC regarding Trajan, a boardgame Steven had picked up last November and they were just getting around to playing. “It is a really interesting Euro token game, so everyone is kept involved to the very…
Of all the things I’ve missed since our kid was born two years ago, I was surprised by how much I missed painting. I wasn’t particularly on a tear when Fi was born anyway, having ground to a halt on…
We played through Mansions of Madness 2 on Thursday and I’m going to lay down my first impressions. This isn’t a proper review because I think I’d need to play through it a bunch more times to figure it out…
The DM screen might have been the first clever bit of not-strictly-necessary prop usage ever inflicted on gaming groups and since then gaming groups have added more and more stuff, usually not as successfully, to make their gaming sessions better.…
There’s a real risk of me going totally fanboy crazy over Descent and the Fantasy Flight campaign-in-a-box games, so I’ll try to rein it in a bit. It’s just… after playing 40k, and pissing money away on that finding companies…
May 2015? Jesus Christ, was it really that long ago? Was it really just after I got Descent? Had we only tested the waters with Mansions of Madness? Woo boy. Well, that last post is kind of appropriate because with…
Spoilers: Only sort of… last week we played through the first Mansions of Madness scenario, The Fall of House Lynch. There are 12 possible permutations of this scenario: three choices of Objectives, with two choices of where Edith resides and…
Last Friday Carol reported a bonanza of legit board games that came through Goodwill and after calling me up and letting me know what was there, I directed her to buy as much of it as I thought she could…
A quick recap of what happened from the last time: After killing off some goblin assassins using the stab-parley-stab tactic, they were about to go try to find the bottle-headed goblin Mart and Beth had seen earlier. They were distracted…
I’m still working on a recap of the complicated situation the Echo Wood crew finds themselves in. In the meantime: brief notes of games I’ve enjoyed recently. FarCry4, I wish they’d never stop making these. In fact, I wish they’d…
