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Stories within stories

I just spent the last hour or so trying to figure out how I ended up becoming fascinated by the 1001 Arabian Nights stories many, many years ago. I'm pretty sure it was to impress a girl. We...

Alchemical Deduction

I think it took me 2 games to wrap my head around Alchemists, but now that I think I've got some basic strategies down, I can say I've developed a deep respect for it. I'm really not a big f...

Solo Gaming

I never set out to make a solo game with Forge War. That was probably clearly evident from the fact that it took a lot of Kickstarter backer encouragement for me to even consider it. But, be...

1st Annual Cephalofair Awards for Origins 2015

I must admit that I feel like my recap for Geekway to the West a few weeks ago lacked a little punch, so I decided that for Origins I would fall back on the tried and true method of giving out ...

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The State of the Gloomhaven Address

Well, it has been about 3 months since I announced Gloomhaven, and I'm still hoping to get a Kickstarter for it launched in another 3 months, so as we approach the half-way point of this pre-Ki...

The spatial reasoning mechanic

A while back I decided to stop doing board game reviews for various reasons, but I also wanted to still talk about board games that did cool things. In a non-review-type setting, of course. ...