After seeing the kickstarter for the Teburu game system, I started thinking a lot about app driven games and the integration of digital technology into board games. Specifically, I wondered whether it was something I wanted and how much? Is there a line beyond which integration of technology is too much?
As I started to think through this for myself, I thought about the games that I have, where the app integration happens, and what that means to me.
It’s not my intent to make my blog into a bunch of game lists, but I have been thinking about that a lot more lately, and so I’ve come up with another list of games. These are all games that I want to play to find out if they are something I’m interested in, but I don’t want to take the effort of getting them and being the first person in my group to learn them. A lot of the games on this list are ones that I’m not sure that I would like, or would necessarily make the time to play, while others I think I would like, but want to find out more so I can decide whether the expense and/or difficulty to acquire would be worth it.
With that, here are my top five games that I want to play before I decide whether to get them or not: Continue reading Top 5 Games I Want to Play Before Getting
It’s likely no surprise that I play a lot of tabletop games, and, as I’ve learned more about what games I like and gotten a better pulse on what games are coming out, I’ve found that there are games that I get excited about. To push this forward a bit, I wanted to do a post about the games that I’m most excited about getting in-hand. Some of these are games that I have played once or twice, while others I’ve only seen previews of, but look like they’re in my wheelhouse. To be honest, most of them I’ve backed on Kickstarter and I’m just waiting for them to ship!
So, here are the top five games I’m most excited about getting to the table: Continue reading Top 5 Games I’m Most Excited About Getting
I haven’t been writing quite as much lately, as I’ve been using that time to do some painting. I’ve got a longer post coming about what I’ve been working on, but since I haven’t completed my project, the post has been delayed. Check back here next week, and in the meantime, here’s a preview:
I’ve recently been backing a number of 3d printing kickstarters. From 3d printable terrain (Hexhog Tabletops: Hinterland Hills, and Fantastic Plants and Rocks), to miscellaneous models (The Graveyard Collection and Pillars of Stone), all the way to full 3d printable games (Pocket Tactics, Chibi-tech SD, and Star Scrappers: Battledrill). One of the things I’m most excited about though, is building a full terrain table – I want to have a modular terrain system that fits into the game vault of my gaming table. Continue reading Building a Terrain Table
Over the last couple of months, I have been playing Sword and Sorcery with a couple of my friends as part of a weekly game night. Sword and Sorcery is a fully-cooperative fantasy campaign game of heroes taking on hordes of enemies with some light role-playing elements. Since it’s a campaign game, it fits right into what I want to be doing, and I was really excited to have some folks who were interested in regularly meeting up to play. Though the initial campaign (Immortal Souls) was only six sessions, we are planning on continuing on to additional content in the coming weeks.
My spoiler-free thoughts on the game after the jump. Continue reading Sword and Sorcery – Immortal Souls
When week two of the league came around, I decided I wanted to experiment a bit more. Notably, we were on a planet where the open terrain was hostile, but only to non-characters. So, to gain a strategic advantage, I built a list consisting only of characters, and ran a Supreme Command Detachment. Continue reading Warhammer League – Week 2
This Winter, a friend of mine at The Rogue’s Roost is running a narrative Warhammer league. I was excited for this league because it set out to be new-person friendly and because we would be creating our own character model over the course of the league. I was also excited about the prospect of playing some 8th edition Warhammer, as, so far, I like it a bit better than 7th (that’s not to say it’s perfect, but on-the-whole I like it more). Continue reading Warhammer League – Week 1
This time of year is always a time for me to look back and figure out how the year went. When I think about it, there’s always the stuff that I intended to do, and the stuff that I did in the in-between. I’ll write about my resolutions in the next post, but here I just wanted to write about how everything that wasn’t what I was planning at the turn of the year. Continue reading Looking Back at 2018 – In General
A while back, my brother gave me an Eldar Dire Avenger to assemble and paint for his army. It took me longer than it should have to get it back to him, but I did manage it in early January. I, of course, took pictures, but for some reason I’m just now getting around to getting them here on my blog: Continue reading A Lone Dire Avenger