You know what is always a little weird? First plays. Now I am going to look at this from the perspective of someone who has to not just know the game well enough to teach it and play it, they also have to be able to act as game police through most of the first … Read more
Oh boy, starting off strong with a topic here. Expansions baby! It’s not like this is a completely nebulous and exceedingly complex category. I guess the best place to start is as they say at the beginning. A tale of two expansions I recently had two very different mental experiences with some expansions and I … Read more
I am always intrigued by would you rather question. When set up well they really push people to question their values and what they truly desire. The problem is that people can often discuss and theorize what they want but as we know from a very large number of studies that what people say they … Read more
Oh man the weekly streak continues and what is this? A follow-up to last weeks post? I got to play Autobahn and there were two items of note. The first, and very obvious issue, was messing up a rule. What follows is me, for some reason, feeling the need to defend my bad rule teaching … Read more
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