Tabletop Tuesday — Replayability (Or, “Second Verse, oh, hey wait, this is different…”)

I realize I'm late with this post today, but in my defence, I had a bunch of my face torn out (on purpose, part of my bionic jaw went "sproing!") and I'm not eating solid foods yet and I also trucked my butt across the city to give a writing class a chat—via OC Transpo, …

Tabletop Tuesday — Pretty (Or, “Sorry, I was looking at the artwork, what was that?”)

The last time my husband and I sat down to play Wingspan—I lost, as usual, and I'm pretty sure I have zero understanding of the real strategy of winning the game, which doesn't seem to have anything to do with the round goals or hidden personal goals so much as just plonking down birds worth …

Tabletop Tuesday — Legacy (Or, “A permanent sticker? Are you mad?”)

We cracked this open last night! When we first got Gloomhaven, and there were little boxes to check off as the prosperity of the city of Gloomhaven was increased, I took a deep breath, found a pencil—yes, a pencil, because you can erase pencils!—and coloured in the squares... but it wasn't legible enough. I got …

Tabletop Tuesday — Two Players, Competition

Last week, I popped in with some of my best experiences of co-operative games with two players, and this week I figured I'd flip that and list the "versus" style games my husband and I have enjoyed on our trip through the gaming jar. The gaming jar was our way of trying out all our …