Edgy Games (oh so edgy)
For no real reason, here are some edgy role-playing games which may or may not feature vampires I heard the cool kids like their games edgy, and they like them featuring vampires. That’s cool, I grew up with Buffy as a major fandom. I played collectible card games featuring vampires and even role-playing games where […]
The Best Dogs in Board Games
Dogs are great and personally I miss having a dog, so to celebrate the existence of dogs everywhere, I’ve decided to make a list in no particular order, of the best dogs I’ve encountered in board games. The usual disclaimers apply; this is my list, it only covers games I’ve played where there are dogs […]
Can board games scare you?
Halloween is my favourite time of year it’s like Christmas for us horror nuts. Inevitably the assortment of TV and movies rolled out to honour this grimly fun holiday are as disappointing as a wet fart in a pair of white undercrackers. Yet despite this every October there’s always a tantalising bit of excitement hoping […]
The Joy of Opening a Booster Pack
I’ve been playing a single-player game called Hostage Negotiator and writing about it on my blog. I’ve had a few delays in playing it and in publishing my thoughts, but I’ve recently got back into it. This is a solo game which I first got into shortly before the Kickstarter for Hostage Negotiator: Crime Wave. […]
The Best Bears in Tabletop Games
I recently wrote about Bärenpark, which was a fantastic board game entirely about bears. It isn’t the only one though, as the noble bear has had a role in several games we all know and love. I thought I’d give a shout out to bears in board games. A quick disclaimer, I may have a […]
The Tabletop Retailer’s View of 2017
In the world of tabletop journalism, it’s easy to focus too much on the games themselves and the designers. Something I’ve been wondering about lately has been the retailers. They tend not to grasp a massive amount of the headlines unless it’s something like Tom Vasel’s massive rant against bricks and mortar retailers, which was […]
The Best Components to Stack Up While You’re Playing a Board Game
Board games can be marvellous things, with cardboard, plastic and wood replicating vineyards, wars, civilisations and more. They are a wonderful experience and something I always heartily recommend to people as a social experience to have with friends (or sometimes solo, if you’ve read any of my ‘playing with ourselves’ articles . There’s one aspect of […]
Stuff we encountered in 2017.
I’ve never been one for list making I have a general aversion to them. It is my experience they exist to get me off my arse and doing chores like digging up a rose bush or hoovering something the dog left behind. There you are on your day off, a wealth of possibilities ahead of […]
2017 and all that…
Next year Who Dares Rolls will be celebrating its sixth birthday. Yes, unbelievably we’ve been around that long, by the law of averages just by existing we should have a bigger audience than we have. It has to be said we’ve managed with no real effort, to stay firmly below the radar. And you know […]
The Horror!
The witching hour nearly being upon us, Chris from unboxed the board game blog and my goodself decided to settle around the campfire and pick some suitably horrific games you should play this Halloween. That’s horrific in scary as well.. Not shite. Horror in board games is a tricky proposition, how to capture that feeling […]
