By Stonemaier Games, Paul Saloman I don’t know what it is with games which have really mundane themes, but something always appeals to me about them. Fantasy and science fiction are fine, I’ve got several games about Cthulhu and about zombies, but if you tell me there’s a game about a stamp convention, I’m in. […]
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Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Starter Set Review – Roll to Do a Starfleet!
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Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth
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After Us Review
Mike reviews the game of post-apocalyptic monkey tribe engine-building
Blades in the Dark Introduction – Welcome to Duskvol Eight hundred years ago the heavens and the world broke. Now we live in near-perpetual night on fragments of old worlds, floating on a sea which looks like the night sky. Ghosts roam the world, kept out of cities by electrical fields. That doesn’t stop ghosts […]
As its Oscar season we thought why not have a bit of an award show of our own! So here’s part 1 of our bumper look back at our best loved games from 2018. Covered in this episode is Ben’s picks including Turning Tumble, Ominoes Hieroglyphs and The Mind?? Charlie gets all arty over Sunset […]
We start the week (kind of) with a preview of Antler Games latest bit of Kickstarter goodness Shadow Tactics:Blades of the Shogun. Featuring an abundance of hidden movement, stealthy card programming and bumbling Ninja Warriors its a heady mix of interesting mechanisms and play styles and we liked it a lot. As you can see. […]
Let’s go paddling downriver in our canoes, fortunately, this involves very little duelling banjos and thankfully no pig squealing. We’re going way back to the expedition of 1804 that saw Meriwether Lewis and William Clark exploring the newly acquired Louisiana Territory. Lewis and Clark is a frothy milkshake of deck builder, worker placement and […]
Designed by Christopher Badell and Critical Hit Studios. Published by Greater Than Games. Sentinels of the Multiverse is a game I’m a massive fan of. It’s a co-operative superhero card game with an incredible amount of lore buried in the cute art and fun quotes. The heroes, villains and environments in the card game each […]
From my many years of following this hobby its clear there’s one thing a Board Game enthusiast loves above most other things is a promo. Well as luck would have it the fine people at Board Game Exposure and Board Game Spotlight have a Kickstarter running right now just chock to the gills with Promo’s […]
Masks Season One Rather than present a length Actual Play report of all ten of the adventures we faced in my Masks campaign, I thought I’d present you with a rundown of some of the stories we played through, the stats of some of the villains and hopefully some inspiration for your own games. The […]
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 […]