Nick plays and reviews board games to kill time while it cultivates the requisite mystique to become a cryptid that warns small towns of impending doom.
I’m absolutely obsessed with economic games. Turns out, as much as capitalism is a deeply flawed system that humanity will either abandon or be destroyed by, it’s a
I’m garbage at baking. It probably doesn’t help that I never dabbled until I lived at altitude, making the learning curve that much steeper, but as much as
Making a dungeon crawler that both appeals to and is actually viable for everyone is the game design philosopher’s stone: a hypothetical ideal to strive for, accepting you’ll
Convention season was very intense in 2024, with GamingTrend attending more tabletop cons than any other year prior. In fact, we went to so many conventions this year we still
To me, “thematic” is a borderline dirty word. Playing too many early American designs that favored turning you into the DiCaprio pointing meme over fun or interesting gameplay has given
It used to be that asymmetrical wargames were a niche part of the hobby, a subcategory of weird kids right next to those that played 18xx train games. To some
In the near future, Silicon Valley has continued to only succeed in driving demand for their ideas, not actually bringing them to fruition. This is where the players of Tech
