Journey.Adventure.Quest or JAQ is one of my favorite board games that I have gotten to try in October. This game has changed my perspective on board games as a whole and added a whole new layer to this hobby for me. So kick your boots back, take off
Drybrushing isn’t a new technique in the miniature painting hobby. For years, hobbyists have done the same technique, where they use a brush with a flat tip, grab some paint, wipe off a ton of it on a paper towel, which is aimed at removing moisture from the paint,
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 great foundation for a collection of cardboard with no stakes. Problem is, most of them live in the hellscape of
Within the hobby of role playing games these days, there are a lot of monster books. There are also a lot of books loaded with magic items and loot. Rarely are the two combined. It seems a natural fit: here are the monsters, and here is what the monsters have.
When you read through as many TTRPG books as I have, you start to see some patterns emerge. Things that may set an expectation or opinion before you fully recognize the whole work. Castles and Crusades is a good example of a game that seems to follow some patterns I’
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 I’m enchanted by the idea of expanding my cooking skills, my style is more going with my gut and
In 2019, Stonemeier Games released Wingspan. Wingspan was an event in board gaming, selling over 1.4 million copies over the course of its first 3 years, meaning most people in the board game scene have at least heard of the game. More and more have played it, dropped its
Aqua is a mechanically simple 2-player card placement game, where your goal is to create sets of matching icons and numbers within either the rows or columns of the shared grid. On your turn, all you have to do is place one of the three cards in hand, then draw
