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Side Quest

by Mike Bon November 2, 2015

The dungeon crawling card game genre has proved popular of late the excellent Welcome to the Dungeon and riotous Cutthroat Caverns both spring to mind. They’ve proved hugely successful by each having a great hook. Welcome is a silly push your luck filler whereas Cutthroat is all about screwage of your fellow dungeon companions. These […]

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Artic Scavengers

by Mike Bon July 3, 2014

WDR Silver

In some funky alternative timeline Arctic Scavengers upon release became a roaring hit, ushering in a new age of deck builders and spawned a series of brilliant expansions. So it sucks that we’re stuck here in this poopy timeline where none of that amazingly cool stuff occurred. There’s a depressing history to what occurred […]

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Dominion

by Mike Bon July 3, 2014

Friends we are travelling back to the golden hued times of bygone gaming, well five years anyway. Released in 2008 Dominion ushered the hugely popular Deck Building mechanic onto the face of modern board gaming, and has since spawned numerous imitators some brilliant and others not so. Its easy to forget now quite what a […]

Well, this February sees the launch of the Kickstarter for Good Society, a Powered by the Apocalypse Jane Austen game. I am about literally everything in that phrase. Storybrewers made the fascinating-looking Alas for the Awful Sea, which shows their love of their subject matter and the research which took place. I can’t wait to see what this is like.

As part of the Kickstarter for Grant Howitt’s Goblin Quest, he promised a hack of it called “Regency Ladies”, which ended up becoming its own different game in the book. He’s also talked about an Unbound setting where regency ladies come out to society and are given their families warmechs. I want to see a print version of this one day.