Over the last few weeks I've had the chance to play a few boardgames that are new to me, and this post is a roundup of my thoughts on them. Parenthetically, I'll have material for a similar post by the middle of next week. Gil Hova and his lovely wife, Heather, are touring the Maritimes, and [...]...

A few weeks ago, Seth and I were chatting over Google Talk, and discussion inevitably turned to Dirty Secrets. Just as inevitably, I started pontificating on the genre of detective fiction. At one point, Seth asked me how well I thought Dirty Secrets would do stories in the vein of James Ellroy's Los Angeles quartet of [...]...

I see Melissa was nice enough to post a link here to the "BGG down" Google group. Welcome new readers All of my extant writings on this blog on boardgames. If you like what you read, please subscribe to my RSS feed. Don't panic. The Gathering only lasts until Sunday [...]...

Contrary to my original expectations, I have been playing a lot of two-player Race for the Galaxy (using the advanced rules, where each player selects two roles every round, of course), starting a couple of weeks ago. In fact, I have average about three-quarters of a game per day in that time. What i didn't foresee [...]...

In part one of No Man is an Island, I discussed how characters that have relationships can make a roleplaying campaign more fun, and I gave some guidelines for creating relationships that are good at generating drama in an RPG. Now, in part two, I will expand on how to make dramatically interesting relationships by [...]...