Used to be West Karana and now it's not
Back in the Before Times, when we only had a small number of board games, Game Night would rotate between Magic the Gathering, Vast and Terraforming Mars. Now we have dozens of games to play, but Terraforming Mars is still on our rotation. When the local game store opened as part of Connecticut’s post-pandemic reopening, … Read more
First meeting of the full game group since the pandemic started! The governor of our state recently allowed family groups of up to ten people, but we only needed eight 🙂 In those lonely weeks and months stranded at home, Wizards of the Coast managed to release the new Ikoria set for Magic: the Gathering, … Read more
I’m not really sure what kind of game someone would expect to play if they were told its name was “Kingdom Death”. Is… a kingdom dying? Is it Death’s kingdom? Kingdom Death is a the most fantastically successful survival cooperative board game that you’ve never heard of. You and up to three friends play a … Read more
It won’t be any sort of surprise that a family that has weekly board game nights plays one of the most popular board games on this planet or any other (as far as we know). Terraforming Mars is a long time staple of ours. It’s easy and fun to play, can take as many people … Read more
Last year for my birthday, Kasul got me a huge, mysteriously heavy box and refused to say what was inside. Anticipation was killing me. When my birthday came, I opened it up and it was absolutely full of Fantasy Flight Games’ Game of Thrones, the Card Game stuff. The base game, custom card holders for … Read more