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
Morning and here we are at another week standing on the brink awaiting news of more gaming delights, let me take you by the hand and gently usher you through the twinkly joy of this weeks news and tiptoe gently around the Swamp of Board Game Sorrow awaiting to suck you into its depths that […]
A new year and a new episode. In this we discuss and delve into Fantasy Flights new Star Wars themed dungeon crawler Star Wars Imperial Assault. Discussed are Roll For The Galaxy,Imperial Settlers, Son’s Of Anarchy and Larping! We un-box a game that only Ben could find interesting Primo the game of prime numberszzzz. Ugh […]
Just a few short weeks ago I sat in the company of the gaming hive mind of Nigel and Lloyd Pyne (more on that in a moment) and lamented that Ghostbusters would make an excellent board game and that I was surprised nobody had thought of it yet. In my fevered eldritch tinged imaginations I […]
A competitive role-playing game of the terrible things men do in war for 3-4 players. I know I shall take this letter to the grave with me. My wife and children, my grandchildren… they must never know what I did, but as I get older, the ghosts of those I knew in the Civil […]
Greetings Greg’s Been a while since we did one of these and as Stuff! has occurred or is about to, I thought it was a suitable calm in the storm of the gaming teacup to stop for a quiet moment of contemplation and hit you all up with whats new and what we have coming […]
THE FINAL ACCOUNT OF PRIVATE ROBERT SHANKS OF THE FIRST NC CAVALRY, SCOFFLAW AND DESERTER Starring: Steve as Isaac Maybank Lee as Pembroke Eager Vinnie as Henry Dunham And Charlie as Robert Shanks I know I shall take this letter to the grave with me. My wife and children, my grandchildren… they must […]
Howdy Greg’s, I’m here to quickly (i.e. not rubbish up with my interesting use of grammar and the written word) introduce our most recent new edition to the Who Dares Rolls family Mr Charles Etheridge-Nunn. Charlie is going to be covering RPG’s and other goodness for us, so without further ado let me hand you over to […]
My first introduction to Civ games was the granddaddy of em all Sid Meir’s Civilization. And oh my! have I whiled away countless hours chasing that next wonder or shiny new tech, its like historical crack. I’ve circled Fantasy Flights lavish board game adaptation like a seagull over a ham sandwich but I just couldn’t […]
In January I made some bold (read foolish) proclamations of intent to run a series of articles relating to how the hobby game industry functions within the UK, the intent is to take a peek at all levels from distributors, designers to us lowly bloggers. I thought it would be an interesting topic to cover, […]
What is this you may ask. Well its the D12 challenge isn’t it. “So what is it?” Its the brain child of that gaming Adonis Mr Nate Brett creator of and the driving force behind Board Game Hour (Mondays at 7pm GMT @BoardGameHour). The challenge is to help 12 new people DISCOVER the modern tabletop […]