Discover Costa Rica
Costa Rican rainforests are just waiting to be explored. Discover the incredible wildlife that calls these verdant lands home, toucans, jaguars, monkeys, and more!
Costa Rica is a push your luck tile exploration game. The game starts with each player …
Great Small Games: Hanabi
So you like card games, eh? You like collecting different sets of cards and then playing them? Does it make you feel good when you’re able t o put together a really good combination of cards? Well, you know what’s …
Welcome to the 51st State
The world as you know it is gone. The United States has crumbled and those that survived its fall are starting to rebuild in what is left. Four factions are struggling to carve out their own little place in the …
Perception Check: Stranger Things and Games on TV
Spoilers Ahead!
This post will contain minor spoilers for Netflix’s recently released show Stranger Things. If you don’t want anything given away, stop reading now.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve become thoroughly addicted to the most recent Netflix …
Setting the Table: The Hunters’ Guild
Back to the Guild Ball pitch we go! Season 2 has brought a lot to the game: new captains, mascots, models, and even plot cards. But one of the most exciting things to be introduced was the new team, the …
Games for Two: Patchwork
Although board games are undergoing something of a renaissance right now, it’s still hard to find good games that are strictly for two players. As most contemporary board games rely on variants and different rule sets in order to accommodate …
Barrister Glenn Conquers the True Dungeon
Gen Con has come and gone once again, dice were rolled, monsters were slain, and many dollars were spent. There are so many events happening in the span of those four days that picking the ones that will give you …
Setting the Table: The Butchers’ Guild
Even after a few blog posts and a ton of time spent playing the game, I still have an appetite both for talking about and playing Guild Ball. So I’m getting right back into it, both to spread the word …
Why It’s Awesome: Mystic Vale
You’ve probably heard of deckbuilding games, the genre that was made popular all the back in 2008 by a little game called Dominion. But have you heard of “card crafting” games? In an attempt to shake up the genre, …
Setting the Table: The Brewers’ Guild
Who among us hasn’t run into some person somewhere who’s been out to the bars a bit too late and had a few too many to drink? Just about all of us. Some of us may have even been that …