As witches fly overhead, giants stomp around the wastelands, swarmlings huddle in swamps, chaos magicians cause, well, chaos, halflings burrow the plains and engineers build their bridges from their mountains, you roll up your carpet and prepare to continue through the desert in your nomad way.
Strolling along the parterres, taking in the view of the stepped garden to one side and the water garden on the other, you relax and try to fully appreciate the immensity of this Wonder of the world.
As you will know by now, UK Games Expo 2019 is just around the corner - a week on Friday, to be precise.
The rain is relentless, pouring down in heavy sheets, making the city outside your office window appear like it is behind net curtains.
Imagine the asteroid field scene from Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, where our heroes risk their lives to try to get away by entering an asteroid field, then add the AI HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which has gone mad and taken over the spaceship, forcing the crew to try and outwit it - and you basically end up with the gameplay of Sensor Ghosts, the new game by Wren Games, due to launch on Kickstarter on 28 May.
UK Games Expo 2019 is around the corner now.
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.
In my second review of online gaming platforms I look at Yucata, a free website that is all about a great, friendly community of people who love playing modern German-style tabletop games.
In a new type of review, I talk about Happy Meeple in this article, a free to join website where you can play tabletop games online against other people as well as AIs.
Instead of looking at a particular game, this week I want to look at a number of games that are great to have with you when you're out and about.
As you can tell from my previous reviews of subQuark's games (Mint Tin Mini Skulduggery, Mint Tin Mini Apocalypse and Mint Tin Aliens), I love mint tin games.
