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Planning posting again - but what?

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I am starting to post again. Why not? I noticed some typos on some old posts,a and while correcting them I wondered where my momentum there went.

So why not???

My friends, family and I have been playing games for a few years, and definite preferences, opinions, likes and criticisms are emerging. We have played many games - at least 200 I'd say. Many of these I have upgraded, some I've made smaller for holidays ("vacations" for the non-Brits). 

We are at the lighter end of games generally - moving from "family" as my kids have grown up and "gateway" as we've got the hang of things, to what I would class as medium weight and no more. I have also co-erced some work colleagues into gaming. Non-gamers but smart people! Generally, if the game takes more than 2 minutes to understand the basics of ("Grok"?), 5 minutes to be able to play (often learn-by-playing), and 75 minutes to finish a game,then these people aren't interested.

So I plan to blog about two main topics: Some short game reviews, and ways that I have upgraded some of my games to make them more tactile.

I'm going to share some of the collected thoughts of these as short reviews.


The reviews will (I hope) be brief. Not full reviews, more "collected thoughts" with some angles that hobby-gamers may have missed. I usually check at least 3 reviews before purchasing a game, so it will be things I feel weren't mentioned and should have been.

The games will usually not be the latest hot items. As I've grown into the hobby I've shied away from these more. I used to be wary of "classics" thinking that these might be a bit "clunky" as the industry has developed over the last 20 years. However, some of these seem to be the ones that my "test-group" have loved the best! I am also not a reviewer per-say, so will have huge gaps in my knowledge and inventory. Just "thoughts on some games" as I said.

For other, fuller, reviews and game descriptions are available elsewhere. Reviewers I often look for (in order of how much I use them) are:



For How To Plays:

Watch It Played (for fuller teaches)

The Rules Girl (for shorter teaches)


(I'm linking here to their youtube pages.)


There are many other excellent Reviewers and Rules-Teachers! These are just my go-tos right now. I'll try to add links when I post.


I will also try to post describing some "upgrades" I have made to games I own. Most of my upgrades have been Epoxy Reson-ing pieces, but other more whimsical, upgrades have also crept in recently.  I assume I've been bored.


Finally, I have also printed out player aides: lots of short rules which fit nicely as reminders when travelling, some print-outs of the boards (again for travel, where taking various boards are just too heavy), and other little things that newbie players found helpful. Generally Powerpoint files (so you can tweak them if you like).

These are all available on this website under the "Resources" tab. 



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