I think that just about any board gamer can agree that rules are hard. Learning games, reading through rule books, and ensuring you don’t miss edge cases is challenging. Even when the rule book is perfectly laid out, has an excellent index, is completely coherent, and leaves nothing open to interpretation, it depends on the … Read more
Before I start, let’s add an aside, you probably can’t tell this (because imaginary people don’t read blogs), but I keep trying to write these longer blog posts with something resembling a cohesive structure and a thesis. Unfortunately, I am horrible at doing that so what I end up with is a bunch of drafts … Read more
Well another year and another stack of stats. Going to be playing around with the format just a little bit, though its not like anyone is noticing: Feels before Reals So I felt like I definitely played less games, with less people, less often this year. Could be that I just took on other big … Read more
I’ve always found board games to be an interesting area of study. They are generally contain some mechanisms of engagement and interaction between players. Some games are effectively the sum of their parts. For example, a simple worker placement game has a mechanism where you put workers down and then instantly get the “effects” of … Read more
Many people have many opinions about themes of board games. Some will swear off a game completely because the theme just doesn’t click with them even though the rules are great, some will flock to a game just because they love the theme and overlook any shortcomings the rules may have. Personally I like to … Read more