Category: Blogging
Posted on January 1, 2026
by whovian223
4 Comments
Happy New Year, everybody! I hope you had a wonderful and safe holiday season and new year’s celebration last night. Maybe you were out celebrating, or just having drinks with friends? Or maybe you were even asleep? Whichever it was, I hope it was… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2025”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: 1989: Dawn of Freedom, Architects of the West Kingdom, Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Ark Nova digital, Assyria 2nd Edition, Berlin Wartime Thriller, Boardgame Arena, Bomb Busters, Bottoscon, Bottoscon Spring, Cascadia, Combat Commander: Europe, Cover Your A$$ets, Doomlings, Final Girl, Forest Shuffle, Friedrich, Grand Austria Hotel, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Raiders of the North Sea, Rally the Troops, Simon Scarrow, Skara Brae, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Time of Crisis, Vale of Eternity, Vijayanagara, Wingspan, Wingspan: Asia, Yucata
Posted on October 29, 2025
by whovian223
19 Comments
This blog started back in March 2017 and has been a going concern (sometimes very concerned!) for over 8 years now. As my mental health has changed and my motivation has lagged sometimes, the post count has gone up and down, but I’ve consistently… Continue Reading “1000 Posts and Counting”
Posted on March 10, 2025
by whovian223
8 Comments
Sometimes you go on a journey and at the beginning you can’t even contemplate how far you will have travelled by the time you get to the end of it. Especially when the journey seems to be a never-ending, yet incredibly fulfilling, one. Today… Continue Reading “Dude Take Your Turn – 8 Years and Counting”
Posted on January 1, 2025
by whovian223
7 Comments
Happy New Year, everybody! I hope you had a safe and happy New Year’s Eve celebration last night, or at least just spent the changeover with your loved ones. Some of you may even have been asleep! As I did last year and for… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2024”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Ark Nova, Ark Nova - Marine Worlds, Boardgames Chronicle, Bottoscon, Clio's Board Games, Combat Commander, Combat Commander: Europe, Dragonflight, Dune Imperium, Dune Imperium - Rise of Ix, Earth, Friedrich, Harmonies, Heavy Cardboard, I Found Bigfoot, Oh My Goods, OrcaCon, Our Family Plays Games, Plantagenet: Cousins' War for England, Players' Aid, Raiders of the North Sea, Space-Biff Reviews, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Thing 12 Games, Time of Crisis, Wingspan, Zilla Blitz
Posted on January 1, 2024
by whovian223
16 Comments
It’s Monday and 2024 is upon us, almost sneaking up on us like a wily coyote hunting a roadrunner. As is my tradition over the past 4 years or so, I wanted to do an update on how this blog, and my gaming, is… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2023”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Andean Abyss, Ark Nova, Boardgames Chronicle, Bottoscon, Clio's Board Games, COIN Games, Combat Commander, Dragonflight, Earth, Jump Drive, Marvel Legendary, OrcaCon, Players' Aid, Rally the Troops, Roll to Review, Terminal City Tabletop Convention, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Prelude 2, The Last Hundred Yards, Time of Crisis, Wingspan, Zilla Blitz
Posted on January 1, 2023
by whovian223
11 Comments
It’s the new year and welcome to 2023! As has been my tradition for the past 3 years, here is my annual post about the year that was, 2022 in this case. Unlike last year, where I talked about how 2021 really should be… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2022”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Ark Nova, Bayonets & Tomahawks, Boardgame Arena, Boardgames Chronicle, Capstone Games, Cat Lady, Combat Commander: Europe, GMT Games, Jump Drive, Marvel Legendary, Monster Couch, Rio Grande Games, Space Base, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Wingspan
Posted on January 1, 2022
by whovian223
6 Comments
As much as 2020 sucked for long periods of time (mainly due to COVID and the lockdowns/health issues that dominated the world), 2021 was predicted to be a year where things would start looking up. Vaccines for COVID were becoming available and people could… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2021”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Boardgames Chronicle, Combat Commander, COVID-19, Marvel Legendary, Renegade Games Studios, Stephen Buonocore, Terraforming Mars: Ares Expedition, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Wingspan
Posted on March 15, 2021
by whovian223
13 Comments
I sometimes lose track of when I started this blog. Over the weekend, I realized that Saturday was the 4-year anniversary, with my first post going out on March 13, 2017. It was a review of a wonderful little game called World’s Fair 1893,… Continue Reading “4 Years and Counting”
Category: Blogging, Board GamesTags: Asmodee Digital, Boardgames Chronicle, Bookmark Games, Clio's Board Games, Dan Thurot, GMT Games, Incorrigible Party, Kiki Aimerito, Pavlov's House, Players' Aid, Space-Biff Reviews, Terraforming Mars Prelude, Wingspan, Worlds Fair 1893
Posted on January 1, 2021
by whovian223
9 Comments
Welcome to 2021! 2020 was a very hard year, not just as a boardgamer but as a person in general. The arrival of COVID-19 and extreme measures taken to counteract it have really taken a toll on me and Dude Take Your Turn in… Continue Reading “Blog in Review – 2020”
Category: Blogging, Board Games, PersonalTags: CascadeCon, COVID-19, Dice Tower, Dice Tower West, Elder Sign, Eric Summerer, Fantasy Flight Games, Kiki Aimerito, Monster Couch, OrcaCon, Roll Player, Shards of Infinity, Stephen Buonocore, Stone Blade Entertainment, Stonemaier Games, Stronghold Games, Terraforming Mars: Big Box, Thunderworks Games, Wingspan
Posted on February 22, 2019
by whovian223
2 Comments
It’s Friday! You know what that means, right? That’s right, it’s roundup day! (Editor – You started this last week. People may not remember) This is the weekly post where I tell you about some cool people to check out. This week, instead of… Continue Reading “Friday Blog Roundup – 2/22/19”