Cumbersome

The significance of the Largest Network is an idea that I think drives a lot of interesting stuff in Reading Railroad - you get more tiles f...

Last Friday I was thinking about Area Control mechanics , and a game idea snuck into my head. I just re-read it, and here's a couple thi...

I finally got a chance to try out the latest version of Reading Railroad! Tyler, Lowski, Michael and I played a game of it last night (befor...

I was thinking about Reiner Kinizia's upcoming release Municipium (which I don't know much about) and an old favorite of mine In th...

I settled on the following for endgame scoring, at least for a first try: Things I like about it: * Good distribution of word sizes: 3/3/4/4...

Jay Tummelson of Rio Grande Games took a copy of Homesteaders to The Gathering of Friends with him to test out. That's pretty exciting ...

There have been a number of different schema discussed or suggested for endgame scoring in Reading Railroad. The "current" scheme,...

I updated the "official" rules doc. for Reading Railroad in anticipation of the next playtest - which will be who-knows-when. Here...

I had a good test of Reading Railroad on Friday in which I got some good suggestions from players and cemented an opinion about the Investor...

I just watched a movie with Nicholas Cage called Next , a wholly unspectacular movie about an exceptionally cool character who constantly se...

Comment on this blog post if you caught the Reading Rainbow reference in my previous post.

Scott finally got a chance to playtest his build of Reading Railroad , and since it worked I finally got off my ass and finished my prototy...

Culdcept Before the convention I played a game of Culdcept Saga on the X-box with Jeremy. We had some fun with Culdcept on Playstation a few...

Last Wednesday I flew to Portland to visit my friend Jeremy from college and to attend GameStorm . GameStorm is a convention with lots of st...

At 9:30 this morning the first guest arrived for my "Birthday BBQ," and at 1am the last guest left. After a round of disc golf wit...

I always thought that the Knights Templar could offer a strong theme for a medium/heavy eurogame about building up power and influence. The...

SAGA's Ides of Gaming event occurred on March 15th this month, the Ides of March. It was also the 1st anniversary of the event, so it wa...

I don't generally do full fledged reviews of games, but once in a while there's a game which attracts a lot of my attention. I'v...

Odysseus: Winds of Fate was originally to be about "betting" on whether Odysseus and his crew would make it safely to Ithaca or n...

I usually don't buy games, but I decided to get 2 games at the convention last weekend. One of them I ended up getting for about 30% off...