Tag: Dragonflight
Posted on January 1, 2025
by whovian223
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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 August 31, 2024
by whovian223
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It’s funny how sometimes month end can sneak up on you. I was going to hold off on writing this post for a bit, until the weekend. Then I realized that my next game day is actually in September! Who would’ve thunk that? Not… Continue Reading “August 2024 Gaming”
Posted on August 23, 2024
by whovian223
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This past weekend was the Dragonflight boardgame convention in Bellevue, Washington. I’ve gone down the last couple of years and used to go down before the pandemic, but this was the first year where most of my Vancouver contingent didn’t go down too. Thankfully,… Continue Reading “Dragonflight 2024 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Adam Hill, Adrian Adamescu, Alexander Pfister, AllPlay, Ben Pinchback, Capstone Games, Card Games, Catch Up Games, Corentin Lebrat, Czech Games Edition, Daryl Andrews, Devir, Dragonflight, Economic Games, Faraway, First Fish Games, Jackie Fox, Johannes Goupy, Kutná Hora, Lunch Time Games, Matt Riddle, Mistwind, Ondřej Bystroň, OrcaCon, Pavel Jarosch, Petr Čáslava, Pick Up & Deliver, Pirates of Maracaibo, Ralph Bienert, River Valley Glassworks, Rock Hard 1977, Ryan Hendrickson, Sean Epperson, Tableau-building, Thing 12 Games, Worker Placement Games
Posted on January 1, 2024
by whovian223
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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 November 3, 2023
by whovian223
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Look at it out there! It’s dark and it’s only 5:00. But the bar is cozy, and it’s certainly airy with nobody but you in it. I hope you’re looking forward to a really nice weekend. I know I am! Have a seat and… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Con Anticipation”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Bottoscon, Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, Caylus, Commands & Colors: Medieval, Dominant Species, Dragonflight, Eldritch Horror, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, Obsession, Star Wars: Rebellion, Versailles 1919
Posted on September 29, 2023
by whovian223
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Welcome back for another week! I’ve been keeping the seat warm for you, since it’s starting to get a little colder out. Yes, I’ve added heaters! Hasn’t brought in anymore customers, though, which is too bad. Maybe I shouldn’t have started testing these heated… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Convention Game Behaviour”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Caesar: Rome vs Gaul, conventions, Dice Tower West, Dokmus, Dominant Species, Dragonflight, Gizmos, Great Western Trail: Argentina, Last Hundred Yards Volume 2: Airborne Over Europe, OrcaCon, Paladins of the West Kingdom, The Isle of Cats, Thing 12 Games, Wingspan
Posted on September 1, 2023
by whovian223
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It’s hard to believe August is over and we’re in September now! August was primed to be a big gaming month but it kind of sputtered with me getting sick. Missing a Sunday probably took 2-3 games (or at least plays) away from my… Continue Reading “August 2023 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Card Games, Combat Commander, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Dragonflight, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Grandpa Beck's, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Parade, Prodigals Club, The Barracks Emperors, Thurn and Taxis, Trick-taking games, Z-Man Games
Posted on August 31, 2023
by whovian223
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Dragonflight was my first convention ever, back in 2015 (I think). It’s held at the same hotel in Bellevue, Washington, as OrcaCon is held (though the hotel rooms are a lot more expensive, being in the Summer instead of January like OrcaCon). Thus, it… Continue Reading “Dragonflight 2023 Retrospective”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Archaeology - The New Expedition, Area Control, Artana Games, Capstone Games, Card Games, Cascadia, Cover Your A$$ets, Czech Games Edition, Deckbuilders, Deduction, Dice Placement, Dokmus, Dr. Finn's Games, Dragonflight, Ecos: First Continent, Eldritch Horror, Fantasy Flight Games, Flatout Games, Grandpa Beck's, Herbaceous, Indie Boards & Cards, John D Clair, Prodigals Club, Renegade Games Studios, Rio Grande Games, Rise, Route-building, Set Collection Games, Social Deduction Games, Space Cowboys, Speakeasy Blues, The Resistance, Thurn and Taxis, Tile-Laying Games, Unlock: Heroic Adventures, Valley of the Kings, Z-Man Games
Posted on January 17, 2022
by whovian223
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It’s that time again! Yes, it’s another installment of my Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 edition, all because I’ve now played over 400 games. The last edition was 3 years ago, so there are a bunch of new games in… Continue Reading “Top 25 Games Played of All Time – 2022 Edition (20-16)”
Category: Board Games, Top 10Tags: Asymmetric Games, Blood Bowl Team Manager, Board & Dice, Cole Wehrle, Daniele Tascini, Deckbuilders, Deep Water Games, Dice Placement, Dice Tower West, Dragonflight, Fantastic Factories, Fantasy Flight Games, Jason Little, Joseph Z Chen, Justin Faulkner, Keith Matejka, Leder Games, Lunch Time Games, OrcaCon, Roll Player, Root, Tableau-building, Teotihuacan
Posted on January 11, 2021
by whovian223
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This last weekend was the virtual edition of OrcaCon. Since I was spending the weekend doing things with my wife, I didn’t take part, but seeing the tweets and Discord messages from them just brought it all to mind. If it wasn’t for this… Continue Reading “Stories from Boardgame Cons”
Category: Board Games, conventions, PersonalTags: Alderac, Christian Kang, Dead Reckoning, Dice Tower West, Dragonflight, Fantastic Factories, John D Clair, Meeple Overboard, More Games Please, OrcaCon, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Paula Deming, SHUX, Suzanne Sheldon, Thing 12 Games