Gen Con 2017: Spirit Island
Spirit Island is a cooperative game that answers the question, what if the island in→
Tagged: settlers of catan
The Village Square: March 30, 2017
It’s not the years, it’s the mileage Even after more than 20 years, the trans-formative→
Review: Concordia
The Mediterranean! It’s a perfect place to trade goods. And sail. And set up merchant→
The Village Square: June 9, 2016
I played The Downfall of Pompeii the other night and it was appropriate, given the→
Review: Catan: Explorers and Pirates
Catan? That place is old news. The island’s been settled up and down, left and→
The Village Square: March 3, 2016
Tomorrow is March 4th, which is known to word geeks everywhere as National Grammar Day.→
Review: King Chocolate
Making chocolate is complicated. You’ve got six steps in the production chain, cubes to manage,→
Review: Settlers of Catan
Despite all the wood that has been traded for sheep and the wheat for brick→
9 Things Only Ticket to Ride Would Understand
Life isn’t all fun and games just because you’re a board game.  These are all→
Why, Why, Why?! #3: Expansions are Bad
Why, Why, Why?! is a series of highly subjective, perhaps personally charged, and often provocative→
News Bits: 2/17/2014
Not a lot of NEWS this week, but here’s what we’ve got: Days of Wonder→
Ten Reasons Your Game Console Has 4 Legs
In honor of today’s release of the new Xbox One and last week’s debut of→
News Bits: 10/14/2013
This week’s NEWS: Terra Mystica, Le Havre: Inland Port win International Gamers Awards [Link] The→
To Get This Train Rolling We’ll Have To Build Some Tracks (A Guide To Network Building)
Now a days whenever you hear the word network you may think more about social→
News Bits: 7/29/2013
The big news this week was a failed Kickstarter campaign and the discussion surrounding it.→
Counterpoint: Is Catan REALLY a Worker Placement Game: The 4th Rule
Let me put something out there right away so that you’ll read the rest of→
Point: Is Settlers of Catan a Worker Placement Game?
As I was thinking my thoughts the other day, something occurred to me regarding the→
Guide to Gaming: Ameritrash vs. Eurostyle–What’s the Difference?
When you enter the world of hobby board gaming, even for a quick visit, you→
FDQ: What Was Your Best Trade?
Board games are expensive, and many gamers don’t get a chance to play every game→
FDQ: What Comes after 7 Wonders?
Here at iSlaytheDragon, we sometimes receive correspondence from our readers (which we love!). Usually we→
Shut Up and Play!
Have you ever been to a concert where the band onstage, instead of doing what→
Joining In…?
Saturday night should have been an ideal time to game. My wife was having several→
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→
A Two Part Post, Part II: Expansive
Today I played a good game of Dominion Intrigue with my arch-nemesis. Fortunately I ended→
Call it Lumber! *angryface*
While most American games have resources in the form of currency, many games on the→
Anybody got wheat? I got two logs!
Catan can be a very frustrating game sometimes. Despite the statistics and probabilities, sometimes the→
It’s a Christmas gift list!
Are you interested in trying some new board games but not sure where to start?→
Run for your Life, Candyman
As you may or may not have garnered from a recent post, I am working→
Depression! Monopoly! Settling in Catan!
Here’s a link to an interesting article from the Washington Post about Settlers of Catan→
Monopoly Might Be The Worst Game Ever
I’d like to start of early in this blog by establishing some things that I→