Thursday, January 31, 2019

The Third Bear is a book that rewards us with mysteries

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The Third Bear by Jeff Vandermeer reads like what would happen if the ghost of Franz Kafka possessed Neil Gaiman.  Published in 2010, th...

Vague but happy memories of the Big Cheese

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When I spend time ruminating on the start of me becoming a dedicated board gamer, two companies tend to feature heavily in my memories: Loon...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Playing Dante’s Inferno felt like being there

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Take a simple dungeon crawl. Now, set it in Dante’s version of Hell. Finally, add the Catan economic system. That might sound cool but what ...
Sunday, January 27, 2019

The Mysterious Benedict Society solves its mysteries

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The Mysterious Benedict Society is a series of books about four extraordinary kids who are recruited by an eccentric but benevolent genius ...
Friday, January 25, 2019

My ongoing adventures with micro games - Slicer

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Slicer is 1) a free PnP game 2) a solitaire 3) just nine cards with some dice and tokens 4) an incredibly abstract interpretation of compute...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

The guilty pleasure of Prince of Tennis

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It has been said that the only genre of sports movies is the scrappy underdogs overcoming the odds. I really want to know who said that but ...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

What will we pay for free?

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One of the selling points of Print and Play is that it’s a way to get ‘free’ games. Which is, of course, patently untrue. You always have ma...