Okay I've got one child. My precious baby girl. I have cared for her, bonded with her, and pretty much been over protective her entire life. This will not change. EVER. or at least till death do us...no that's the other one...what I mean is. She's 17 year old now and despite the numerous convent sug...

Thinking about the Spiel des Jahres winners I haven't played, I became curious about which ones folks have actually played - and how much. While I can get the total play data from BGG, (1) many people - myself included - don't record plays here, (2) it's not easy to see how much the plays vary acro...

Dear friends,first of all, let me briefly intrduce myself. I am Peter Struijf, born and currently living in Holland, although my real life (working in humanitarian aid) has taken me all over the world in the past 12 years. I am also the game designer and self-publisher of "Kraków 1325 AD", which yo...

Not by my wife, but by my gaming group! One of them spoke up and said "You own a lot of great games, but every other week you have a new one, no time to play the great ones you have! Knock it off!"I don't know what to do, I mean I could slow down, but wouldn't the shakes set in after a month? ...

Because it's fun, has some rather nice components, it's rather cheap, and it looks pretty on the shelf. That's it, review over. Nice of you to come by, and remember the green thumb icon on your way out! Cheerio!...What? You're still here? OK, even though I said all that needs to be said in a nutshel...

Hi everyone, I thought I'd share the story of self-publishing my third game, Cannonball Colony. I hope you find it an interesting read!Designing the gameCannonball Colony was one of the first ideas that came to me when I decided to jump into hobby game design in 2006. It began simply with an idea fo...

Exactly one year ago today I started tipping people regularly. During that time I've tipped 591 different users a total of 1054 times! I basically tip a post when a simple thumb isn't enough to cover the awesomeness of said post. Maybe it's something funny, something insightful, something useful, or...

I have no affiliation with Z-Man Games, but I have noticed that they make some pretty good games. So here are their games I've played, and what I think of them. There are many more that you can add and comment on if you like. ...

Hi all,I've been mulling on an idea of creating an E-Magazine that focuses 'solely' on board games (euro games especially). It will be a free downloadable .pdf, it will be my small contribution to this community. Since I was introduced to board games, it has really brought lots of joy and fun to my ...

Having been a fairly regular user (regular = visiting the site at least once an hour) in the past year, I've caught on to a few things the users here, myself included, just can't get a handle accepting....

The skinny version? Rejoice! This is a great expansion.In a little more detail, the Memoir 44 community over on the Days of Wonder forums have long requested this expansion, primarily via a thread with 381 posts and 33648 views (and still rising, amazingly!), and at last the Brits are here. The expa...

To all of you still down because you must play with cubes instead of cute little animeeples, now there's finally a cheap and efficent solution. Presenting: papereeples. To create papereeples you need: - a piece of white paper - a pen- some scissors Assembly time: - 5-10 minutes Enjoy your papery Ag...

My first plays of Agricola didn't really impress me. I figured it would grow on me, based merely on all the positive buzz on the geek, but it hasn't. Perhaps the first thing to notice is this game takes a lot of space. 4 boards in the middle make a large board, but everyone also has a personal boa...

My copy of Agricola arrived from MilSims today, hooray! I've played the German version before, but there's nothing like actually owning a game you like, especially one as good as this one. It really helps that Agricola has a pretty good solo game in it as well; so, brushing aside any plans of playin...

Next five games are up in my list of favorite 100 games.http://www.thedicetower.com/thedicetower/index.php?page=76-8...1/4 of the way finished!...

This is the 1st installment of Gaming with a 5 Year-Old - a series of ten-point hybrid reviews/session reports from CLS Games that focus on reviewing games from the perspective of a father who plays games with his 5 year-old son. After speaking with countless fathers, we have learned that many are ...

I was going to post this in the thread of the same topic, but I found I had several points that would suggest a review format...Combat Commander is one of my top two favorite games (the other being Close Action).I have really obsessed over CoH since finding out about it, trying to get a preorder fro...