Joining In…?
Saturday night should have been an ideal time to game. My wife was having several→
Browsing: Discussion
Friday Question of the Day: What is your favorite game, and why?
Everybody likes to talk about their favorite things, and today we satisfy that urge with→
A Game By Any Other Theme…
Over at the iSlaytheDragon headquarters, the topic of Theme often surfaces in our conversation. Essentially→
Gaming Gestalt
I appreciated this post by John Garcia on telling newbies about hobby board games. He says→
My Rules for Games
As my first post for I Slay the Dragon, I thought it might be a→
It’s friday. How about a question for y’all!
In the spirit of “expanding the conversation” and all those fun marketing terms, today’s question→
My Brain Hurts Part 1
This weekend, I attend a board game convention that had absolutely nothing to do with→
Fri Day Game Day
Work weeks are long. especially when your work does not involve inventing board games and→
Entering Narnia
I like my “local” game store a lot. I say “local” in quotation marks because→
The Longest Yard
I don’t come from a big gaming family. I didn’t pick up boardgaming from my→
Cold Turkey: The Art of Learning Board Games
I’ll start off this post by admitting that I’m comparably new to board games. Some→
Evil Robot Overlords
A new edition of Monopoly has been announced, involving an evil robotic Sauron tower that→
Anybody got wheat? I got two logs!
Catan can be a very frustrating game sometimes. Despite the statistics and probabilities, sometimes the→
RPG Reflections Part 1: The Story So Far.
Last night, I started my new, original DnD/Pathfinder campaign, entitled “Fallen Heroes.” I should also→
Let’s Make ‘Em Dance!
It’s been on hiatus during the holiday season, but this weekend my DnD group is→
A Two Part Post, Part II: Expansive
Today I played a good game of Dominion Intrigue with my arch-nemesis. Fortunately I ended→
A Two Part Post, Part I: Bloated
One of the challenges of writing a story or creating a film is coming up→
Call it Lumber! *angryface*
While most American games have resources in the form of currency, many games on the→
FDQ: Conventional Thinking
So, the world’s largest hobby gaming convention is currently going on right now. And I’m→
FDQ: When a Group Regular Says, "Good-bye."
My wife and I are foster parents. And my gaming group consists of my kids. →
Replayability
When board games (and video games) are reviewed or critiqued, its “replayability factor” is→
Interpreting Icons and other nonsense
I played “Race for the Galaxy” for the first time today over lunch. I→
Friday QOTD: Do you play more RPGs or Board Games?
So what is it? Which hit the table more often, RPGs or Board games? Do→
Strategery of the winning variety
I play a lot of games. I know, big surprise, right? As I play games→
The Other Jon
Allow me to introduce you all to a new character in my life: The Other→
Playing the Character: Not So Flawless (pt 2)
My Apologies for the delay. My current schedule doesn’t really permit a regular time for→
Building Characters: Not So Flawless (pt 1)
When you think of RPGs (and I’m referring here to pen-and-paper roleplaying, not the stats-building→
Finding the Character: What Would Obre Do?
One of the things that makes DnD (and other roleplaying games) so interesting is the→
Patching Board Games
As board gamers we have varied expectations for what it looks like to be a→