Legendary, everyone left speechless, stars in their eyes! It finally happened. After an unknown number of plays, mostly online, my brother and I played a perfect game of Hanabi. This was one of my goals for the year. Playing online makes the incidental...

I've been thinking quite a bit about theme lately. We have reviewed quite a few games so far on the podcast, and I’m always the one who cares the most about the theme, but I don’t think that I've quite articulated exactly why I feel the way I do.   To me the...

Just a reminder that you can find games everywhere. Work ugly sweater contest! I won the "Just Too Pretty" award with a cool $25 prize. Maybe I'm a little too competitive. Can't leave a contest/game without a go. Except for BSG.

I've been gaming for a long time now, but I've never consciously set goals for gaming. I’ve never really thought about it, probably because I naturally play enough games to meet my internal expectation. But I’ve recently discovered that many people do. By people I...

I love trading card games, and I have played many, many different games over the years. The random boosters can be a turn of for some, and it is never fun to open dud packs or boxes, but that feeling of pulling "that card" from a booster pack feels so good. Today, I'm...

After completing the Rise of the Runelords, our group has moved on to the Skull & Shackles adventure path. I decided to play Damiel, the alchemist from the Character Add-On Deck. He's the one on the left in the picture above. I chose him because I like the idea of...

So, we finished. The last adventure presented some difficulties that had some players in our six-player game left with no cards at the start of their turn. The few lucky players that had cards left were able to make up the difference though, but it wasn't the most fun...