FUSE - Encyclopedia Brown In Real-Time FUSE is an interesting game where players COOPERATE in REAL-TIME to defuse a whole gaggle of EXPLOSIVE bombs that have been planted on their otherwise serene spaceship (why are we shouting? I DON'T know!). Facilitated by a free proprietary app, the 10 minutes tick away like an F-15 slicing through a clear sky. The table is full of terse shouting and backhanded vocal jabs as you try to muddle your way through bomb defusal via rolling handfuls of dice. Oh those damn multi-colored dice. Forget the 04/28/2016
FUSE is an interesting game where players COOPERATE in REAL-TIME to defuse a whole gaggle of EXPLOSIVE bombs that have been planted on their otherwise serene spaceship (why are we shouting? I DON'T know!). Facilitated by a free proprietary app, the 10 minutes tick away like an F-15 slicing through a clear sky. The table is full of terse shouting and backhanded vocal jabs as you try to muddle your way through bomb defusal via rolling handfuls of dice. Oh those damn multi-colored dice. Forget the
Calvin's Corner - Gateway-keeping: How to introduce people to boardgaming. If you’re reading this, it’s pretty good odds that you think board games are amazing (spoiler alert: they are) and are on a mission to share them with as many people as you can! In the past I have, while introducing muggles to our wonderful hobby, may have accidentally scared some off. So you don’t repeat my mistakes, here are some tips to making sure your gaming introductions get off to a wonderful start. Give them a few options. Emphasis on FEW. Throwing a dozen games at them is a bad idea 04/26/2016
If you’re reading this, it’s pretty good odds that you think board games are amazing (spoiler alert: they are) and are on a mission to share them with as many people as you can! In the past I have, while introducing muggles to our wonderful hobby, may have accidentally scared some off. So you don’t repeat my mistakes, here are some tips to making sure your gaming introductions get off to a wonderful start. Give them a few options. Emphasis on FEW. Throwing a dozen games at them is a bad idea
Kingdom Death: Monster - Hommlet Chapter 2 Hommlet, A Light In The Darkness Chapter 2 – A Pound Of Flesh Many moons had passed since Beth had passed away. The frail village had subsided on equal parts lion pabulum and unrelenting stubbornness. Hardship was the common tongue and all the gnashing of teeth and philosophical squabbling of Elijah and his brothers could not solve the simplest of problems. They were trapped in this penumbra cell and the key had been swallowed. Sara was the one who let out a scream to break the monotony. Her 04/03/2016
Hommlet, A Light In The Darkness Chapter 2 – A Pound Of Flesh Many moons had passed since Beth had passed away. The frail village had subsided on equal parts lion pabulum and unrelenting stubbornness. Hardship was the common tongue and all the gnashing of teeth and philosophical squabbling of Elijah and his brothers could not solve the simplest of problems. They were trapped in this penumbra cell and the key had been swallowed. Sara was the one who let out a scream to break the monotony. Her
Calvin's Corner - Morels My girlfriend and I are standing in the middle of a forest, and we currently both hate each other. ‘You took my fairy ring!’ she accuses me. ‘You took the butter!’ I shout back. ‘You know I needed that butter!’ We’re playing Morels, a whimsical and adorable card game about picking mushrooms and cooking them. And yet, this is one of the most difficult games I’ve ever played. In Morels, both players must pick mushrooms and add them to their hand before playing them to the table as sets in 03/28/2016
My girlfriend and I are standing in the middle of a forest, and we currently both hate each other. ‘You took my fairy ring!’ she accuses me. ‘You took the butter!’ I shout back. ‘You know I needed that butter!’ We’re playing Morels, a whimsical and adorable card game about picking mushrooms and cooking them. And yet, this is one of the most difficult games I’ve ever played. In Morels, both players must pick mushrooms and add them to their hand before playing them to the table as sets in
Kingdom Death: Monster - Hommlet: Chapter 1 Hommlet, A Light In The Darkness Chapter 1 – With A Faint Spark Prologue This is the beginning of a series of articles chronicling my first Kingdom Death Monster campaign, a solo endeavor into one of the most mind-bending thematic games to exist. Kingdom Death is a cooperative game featuring three phases of play – The Hunt, The Showdown, and The Settlement. On The Hunt, players track a quarry, a nightmare beast inhabiting this dark alien realm. You encounter strange happenings and risk 03/22/2016
Hommlet, A Light In The Darkness Chapter 1 – With A Faint Spark Prologue This is the beginning of a series of articles chronicling my first Kingdom Death Monster campaign, a solo endeavor into one of the most mind-bending thematic games to exist. Kingdom Death is a cooperative game featuring three phases of play – The Hunt, The Showdown, and The Settlement. On The Hunt, players track a quarry, a nightmare beast inhabiting this dark alien realm. You encounter strange happenings and risk
Cardboard Combat - Mage Knight Vs Runebound (3rd Ed) There are thousands of games out there - which deserve to grace your table? Welcome to Cardboard Combat, where games get dinged and dented by our hosts in order to see if they’re right for your group! Today on Cardboard Combat: Mage Knight Vs Runebound (3rd edition!) Mage Knight (1-4 players) is a fantasy adventure RPG board game, and depending on who you ask, is the greatest of its genre, or akin to doing your taxes. Mixing deck building, hand management, and tile exploration into an epic 03/21/2016
There are thousands of games out there - which deserve to grace your table? Welcome to Cardboard Combat, where games get dinged and dented by our hosts in order to see if they’re right for your group! Today on Cardboard Combat: Mage Knight Vs Runebound (3rd edition!) Mage Knight (1-4 players) is a fantasy adventure RPG board game, and depending on who you ask, is the greatest of its genre, or akin to doing your taxes. Mixing deck building, hand management, and tile exploration into an epic
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.
Calvin's Corner - Gaming With The Kids Over Chinese New Year, I was invited to my friend Irene's house for dinner. 'Bring a board game,' she'd told me. 'The kids want to play one of yours.' Being the mother of two children with a rather large age gap (6 and 12), Irene liked having activities that her whole family could join in, and upon my recommendation had taken up board games. While obviously not a traditional CNY activity, I nevertheless selected a co-operative game from my collection and headed over. After dinner, we opened 03/11/2016
Over Chinese New Year, I was invited to my friend Irene's house for dinner. 'Bring a board game,' she'd told me. 'The kids want to play one of yours.' Being the mother of two children with a rather large age gap (6 and 12), Irene liked having activities that her whole family could join in, and upon my recommendation had taken up board games. While obviously not a traditional CNY activity, I nevertheless selected a co-operative game from my collection and headed over. After dinner, we opened
