Raf Reviews - Guildball Assembly Every now and then I walk past the rows of miniatures at the FLGS and wonder about them. I like assembling and painting them, but committing to a game not called X-Wing has been tough because most of them haven’t appealed to me thematically. Enter Guild Ball, a miniature take on medieval mud ball. Mud ball is kind of like soccer. Except the rules were loose and people could get beaten up. Guild Ball pushes that to an extreme in a fantasy soccer-battle game that’s got me hooked. This is the 06/26/2016
Every now and then I walk past the rows of miniatures at the FLGS and wonder about them. I like assembling and painting them, but committing to a game not called X-Wing has been tough because most of them haven’t appealed to me thematically. Enter Guild Ball, a miniature take on medieval mud ball. Mud ball is kind of like soccer. Except the rules were loose and people could get beaten up. Guild Ball pushes that to an extreme in a fantasy soccer-battle game that’s got me hooked. This is the
Raf reviews - Tak "Tak is the best sort of game: simple in its rules, complex in its strategy.” These are the words Kvothe uses to describe Tak in The Wise Man’s Fear. At the time, Patrick Rothfuss hadn’t actually made the game of Tak so it was pretty easy to describe a beautiful brilliant game. It’s much harder to actually make one. Fortunately, Patrick and James Ernest have done just that; Tak is an excellent game. Tak in action. I am neither an abstract aficionado nor a Kingkiller Chronicles superfan. It’s 05/01/2016
"Tak is the best sort of game: simple in its rules, complex in its strategy.” These are the words Kvothe uses to describe Tak in The Wise Man’s Fear. At the time, Patrick Rothfuss hadn’t actually made the game of Tak so it was pretty easy to describe a beautiful brilliant game. It’s much harder to actually make one. Fortunately, Patrick and James Ernest have done just that; Tak is an excellent game. Tak in action. I am neither an abstract aficionado nor a Kingkiller Chronicles superfan. It’s
Raf reviews - Techno Bowl I’ll be the first to admit that American Football is not something I am very knowledgeable about. Being from a small Central American country and going to US school where the football team was somewhere worse than awful meant that my exposure was limited to Superbowl parties and NFL Blitz 64. That changed 5 years ago when I married into a Cowboys family, and since then I’ve grown to enjoy Sundays and have come to realize that there is far more to the game than people smashing into each other. 03/18/2016
I’ll be the first to admit that American Football is not something I am very knowledgeable about. Being from a small Central American country and going to US school where the football team was somewhere worse than awful meant that my exposure was limited to Superbowl parties and NFL Blitz 64. That changed 5 years ago when I married into a Cowboys family, and since then I’ve grown to enjoy Sundays and have come to realize that there is far more to the game than people smashing into each other.
Raf reviews King's Forge I’ll be the first to admit I have a soft spot in my heart for dice. They’re classic, enduring, and those little multi-faceted bastards have been responsible for some of my most elating and deflating moments in gaming. When the dice turn in your favor it’s amazing; when they don’t it can be very frustrating. Accordingly, as King’s Forge was set up in front of me, with it’s 90 something dice laid out on a beautiful board, I knew that I was either going to really like or really hate it. 02/29/2016
I’ll be the first to admit I have a soft spot in my heart for dice. They’re classic, enduring, and those little multi-faceted bastards have been responsible for some of my most elating and deflating moments in gaming. When the dice turn in your favor it’s amazing; when they don’t it can be very frustrating. Accordingly, as King’s Forge was set up in front of me, with it’s 90 something dice laid out on a beautiful board, I knew that I was either going to really like or really hate it.
Raf reviews Posthuman An exhausted looking woman with spiky black hair dragging a bloody baseball bat walked along the path. An old man and his son approached her. She was starving, having been hiking and camping the post-apocalyptic wasteland for days, but somehow they looked worse. They begged her for a few cans of food. She wrestled with her conscience for a moment; there was no telling how far away The Fortress was. Digging through her pack, she found her last two cans and handed them over. The man smiled as he 02/11/2016
An exhausted looking woman with spiky black hair dragging a bloody baseball bat walked along the path. An old man and his son approached her. She was starving, having been hiking and camping the post-apocalyptic wasteland for days, but somehow they looked worse. They begged her for a few cans of food. She wrestled with her conscience for a moment; there was no telling how far away The Fortress was. Digging through her pack, she found her last two cans and handed them over. The man smiled as he