Tag: Garphill Games
Posted on March 31, 2025
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I knew March was going to be a big month for gaming, considering the Terminal City Tabletop Convention weekend. However, I had no idea how big it would be! Last month, I had 20 plays of 14 different games, and I thought it was… Continue Reading “March 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Action Selection, Alderac, Ark Nova, BG Stats, Brotherwise Games, Capstone Games, Civolution, Empire's End, Garphill Games, Lunch Time Games, Pegasus Spiele, Santa Monica, Scholars of the South Tigris, Viscounts of the West Kingdom
Posted on March 20, 2025
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Last weekend was the 10th (maybe 11th?) annual Terminal City Tabletop Convention (though I guess it was interrupted by COVID so not actually 11?). I have to say it was probably the best yet. In previous years, the people running it didn’t do the… Continue Reading “Terminal City Tabletop Convention Retrospective – 2025”
Category: Board Games, conventionsTags: 2-Player Games, Auction Games, Bombyx, Brotherwise Games, Card Games, Card-Shedding Games, Catch Up Games, CMYK, Cooperative Games, CuBirds, Czech Games Edition, Deduction, Dice Placement, Empire's End, Fantastic Factories, Faraway, Finspan, Firestarter Games, Fives, Garphill Games, Huch & Friends, Kosmos, Living Forest, Ludonaute, Lunch Time Games, Metafactory Games, Mighty Boards, Multi-use cards, Oink Games, Orapa Mine, Pandasaurus Games, Playte, Push Your Luck Games, Rajas of the Ganges: Cards & Karma, Rebirth, Reforest, Repos Games, Resource Management, Scholars of the South Tigris, SCOUT, Sea Salt & Paper, Secrets, Set Collection Games, SETI, Social Deduction Games, Stonemaier Games, The Gang, Tile-Laying Games, Toy Battle, Trick-taking games
Posted on February 7, 2025
by whovian223
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Hey there! Welcome back to the bar. It’s been a long month and a half, hasn’t it? It’s been under renovations, but we’re back! Until everything breaks down again. I’m going to try and do these posts much more regularly than they have been… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – What Does “Solving” a Game Mean?”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: Action Selection, Civolution, Cranio Creations, Devir, Dice Drafting, Dice Placement, Flaminia Brasini, Garphill Games, Isra C, Lorenzo il Magnifico, Pegasus Spiele, Scholars of the South Tigris, Shei S, Shem Phillips, Simone Luciani, SJ MacDonald, Stefan Feld, The White Castle, Virginio Gigli
Posted on January 31, 2025
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It’s a new year! And already we’re 1/12 of the way through it. Who would have thought it would go that fast? It’s also a new year of boardgaming, which means everything I played this month is actually unique to 2025! Unless I played… Continue Reading “January 2025 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Arboretum, Bezier Games, Card Games, Civolution, Dice Placement, Garphill Games, Inventors of the South Tigris, Kosmos, Lunch Time Games, Pegasus Spiele, Renegade Games Studios, Sandbag, The Gang, Trick-taking games
Posted on January 28, 2025
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Yes, I know what you’re thinking. “Oh, another Garphill Games post by Dave…it must be Tuesday.” But this is big news for me! And anybody else who likes the South Tigris trilogy of games from Garphill, or even if you just like one or… Continue Reading “South Tigris Trilogy Expansions from Garphill Games – On Kickstarter Now!”
Posted on January 21, 2025
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Necessity is the mother of invention, but is it the mother of a game about inventing things? Things to ponder. That’s what I am always thinking when I play Inventors of the South Tigris, the latest (and last) of the South Tigris trilogy of… Continue Reading “Who Wants a Fragrant Clock? – Inventors of the South Tigris Review”
Posted on December 9, 2024
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This story takes place in the game Architects of the West Kingdom. The letter below was found in a church and was translated by somebody very talented yet also very vindictive. He modernized the language of the letter and, when reprimanded for that, destroyed… Continue Reading “Working in the West Kingdom”
Posted on December 1, 2024
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With Bottoscon at the beginning of the month, you knew that November would be chock full of gaming goodness. And it was! Maybe not quite as much as might have been otherwise, since we missed a Sunday game day and the next one had… Continue Reading “November 2024 Gaming”
Category: Board Games, PersonalTags: Alderac, Avalon Hill, BG Stats, Devir, Ecos: First Continent, Garphill Games, Merchant of Venus, Paladins of the West Kingdom, Schadenfreude, The White Castle
Posted on November 19, 2024
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(Edit: It appears that the promos in the 5-Year Anniversary Pack for Shipwrights of the North Sea are direct reprints and not compatible with Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux. Still, it’s only 9 cards and the rest of the promos in that batch… Continue Reading “New Garphill Games Kickstarter – Cards! And Other Things”
Posted on October 18, 2024
by whovian223
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I know what you’re thinking. Two Friday Night Shots posts in a row? That must mean Dave got the jukebox fixed! It’s amazing what paying your work people can actually do. Maybe that’s why I can’t keep a bartender? Anyway, welcome back! Pull up… Continue Reading “Friday Night Shots – Top 1000 BGG Games”
Category: Board Games, Friday Night ShotsTags: 1960: The Making of a President, Arboretum, Ark Nova, Capstone Games, Combat Commander: Pacific, Cosmodrome Games, Czech Games Edition, Deep Water Games, Fantastic Factories, First Rat, Formal Ferret Games, Garphill Games, GMT Games, Last Will, Metafactory Games, Pegasus Spiele, Renegade Games Studios, Smartphone Inc, Spyrium, The Networks, Viscounts of the West Kingdom, Ystari Games