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Spring Game Market Anticipation Post (ゲームマーケット2019春プレビュー)
I’m not attending Tokyo Game Market and never have, but wanted to highlight some titles that are being released and other things about the convention. Some of these will be ones I have my eye on acquiring, and others will … Continue reading
Age of Steam Con: Day Three
Whew! That was a lot of Age of Steam (and chocolate cookies). Let’s dig into one last day. I started off the morning with The Human Body. Yeah, that’s a map. Red and blue going to the heart and lungs. … Continue reading
Age of Steam Con: Day Two
Here’s where we’ve been playing. Last year, the con was at one of our hosts’ houses, but this year we have this nice space with some kitchen facilities, and a beautiful bank of windows through which we’ve enjoyed thunderstorms, snow, … Continue reading
Age of Steam Con: Day One
At one point today, this was my chair for a game. Ok, in several games. It used to be like this frequently, but it hasn’t been in many years. It’s not that I was relegated to the corner or wasn’t … Continue reading
Age of Steam Con: Day Zero
I’ll never forget the first time I learned of Age of Steam. I had moved back to the Cincinnati area after discovering modern board games elsewhere, and at a public game night, Mike brought two games: Age of Steam and … Continue reading
Jonathan Franklin – Notes from T5 (That Terrific Trick Taking Thing)
T5 Notes I spent an incredible weekend in Covington, KY playing over 30 different trick-taking games. Instead of rehashing them all and repeating what James Nathan has covered in his wonderful daily diary, The major elements were the location, a … Continue reading
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T5: Day Four & これはトリテなのか？
I think we ended up with 22 folks being able to attend for some period of time, and here are a few of us prior to some folks taking off Sunday afternoon. I’m so grateful for those that came and … Continue reading
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T5: Day Three
I think my view of the roll of pastries in other adults’ lives is probably skewed by watching too many episodes of The West Wing where there was inevitably a plate of pastries in the center of every table at … Continue reading
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T5: Day Two
Today we’ll start out with a short tour of part of the library people have brought. Luke has set his up on the ledge here. In alphabetical order, of course. And here’s a list of what I saw played in … Continue reading
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Dale/JaNate: Roll With It – the Opinionated Gamers’ Roll and Write Decathlon
As some of you may have seen on Twitter, this past weekend, Dale and James Nathan brought together a wacky idea that actually ended up with a pretty darn good result… James Nathan had been toying with the idea of … Continue reading →