Whose Turn 2019: In Summary

I may not have been able to attend the first day of Whose Turn but that doesn’t mean I didn’t make the most of this local gaming weekend. here’s how it all shook out for me: 3 days involving 17 plays of 16 games With 15 different players, consisting of 6 new-to-me titles, and 7…

Wednesday Night Gaming – Nov 7th

Last night was our weekly game night. Kit was out in his shop building furniture with a friend and so we ended up with four or five people as the night went on, creating a perfect scenario to get some new games to the table that could accommodate all present. First up, Eric pulled out…

Wednesday Night Gaming – August

Back on August 1st, my work dramatically changed our work schedules in addition to making changes to the pharmacy hours in general. Part of this was that my hours were cut from 40 to 32 hours a week on average which was quite the financial worry coming, as it did, with just a few weeks…

Origins 2018 – The Board Games

Another Origins is over and I find myself laying on the couch with coffee, my laptop, and a hefty dose of Con Crud. I normally only get sick after cons where I flew so wasn’t expecting this, but given that I had a nasty cold shortly before leaving for Ohio, I guess the odds were…

Classic Game Day – Recap

Last weekend I had a bunch of friends over for a day of gaming where, with one exception, we played games published prior to 1990. It also gave us the opportunity to celebrate Eric’s birthday with cake and awkward singing. In the end, some of the games were fun, some were fun despite their terribleness,…

UnPub 8: A Mixed Bag

Last week I attended UnPub 8, four days dedicated to improving currently unpublished games through playtesting in Baltimore, MD. Games can be in any state of “unpublished” from an initial prototype to games that while under contract are still in a stage of development where playtester feedback is still valuable (ie. not already in production/on…

Granite Game Summit: In Review

Awesome photo from Sunday night dinner courtesy of Kimberly Well, I had grand plans to recap my time at the Granite Game Summit in a blog post full of stories and my impressions of the games played. However, the day I traveled back was well, hellish and then the days after that were spent getting…

Whose Turn January 2018 – Event Recap

I spent a very enjoyable Friday through Saturday at the Durham Convention Center playing games with a ton of great friends at the latest Whose Turn Is It Anyway. This is a smallish but ever-growing convention where the focus is purely on playing games – there’s a local NC game FLGS, Cape Fear Games, that…

TBGT 2017 Recap

I have the rest of my Top 100 posts to write and have gotten pretty far behind thanks to the last 5 days of amazing TBGT gaming. So for now I’m posting a quick recap of TBGT 2017 in the form of stats and superlatives. I may eventually recap some of the games played in…

A Few Things You Might Have Missed While at Gen Con 50

Wednesday saw the release of Episode 15 of The Five By which covered a lot of really good games – listen in your favourite podcast app or using the links on our website and then read my thoughts here. The last part of The Adventure Zone finale released on Thursday prompting a metric fuckton of…

Pathfinder Adventure Card Game – the Adventure Continues

Last Sunday, our motley band of heroes got together to continue their adventures in Varisia. This is what happened (WARNING: spoilers for Rise of the Runelords and long not-so-great storytelling follow the cat photo): Rimeskull Our adventurers entered the rocky, snow-covered circle hoping to figure out how to disable the fabled stone heads that would…

Board Games at the Beach 2017 – Recap

Last weekend was the third annual Board Games at the Beach, an event I talked about earlier. Now that it’s over, it’s time to quickly recap what went on in Wilmington. And I mean “quickly”, work’s ramping up as I’m combining my regular duties with training new techs and teaching a new student, so you’re…