Coming in 2019
Let me start by wishing you a Happy New Year.
Let me start by wishing you a Happy New Year.
Yes, it is nearly the end of 2018, so it is time to list Tabletop Games Blog's top 5 games of the year.
It has been a couple of months since I last updated my tabletop player profile, as per Quantic Foundry's online form.
Christmas is just around the corner, in case you hadn't noticed, and soon it will be time to visit family and be merry together.
Inspired by a recent, and very brief, discussion on Twitter (nod to Kathleen Mercury and Paul Grogan), I decided to investigate the age old question of what makes a role-playing game a role-playing game.
Rise of Tribes by Breaking Games looks like your normal area control game with the usual random terrain made out of hexagonal tiles.

Get yourself a wooden Tabletop Games Blog dice tray.
Each tray is the perfect size to roll your dice, and with the soft mat, it’s really quiet, while the wooden frame makes it wonderfully sturdy.
Tabletop games tend to encourage people to come together and enjoy some time together.
Card games come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from the traditional games played for centuries throughout Europe to the modern card collecting, card drafting and deck building games.
A lot of games now come with an option to play against an artifical oponent - often called an AI, or automa.
Haspelknecht: The Story of Early Coal Mining, to give it its full title, is a kind of action selection game by Quined Games set in the Ruhr region of Germany.