The long game
If you have played a few tabletop games, you will have noticed how game length varies drastically.
Miniatures – worth the extra money?
A lot of recent game releases have done away with old fashioned, wooden game pieces or cardboard standees and replaced them with miniatures.
Boxes full of air?
If you have bought a number of tabletop games, you will have noticed how some games fill out every inch of space in the box, while other games are basically a large box of air.
Design your own game – you can do it!
With the advent of crowd funding sites like Kickstarter, it has become easier to fund a new project - and the tabletop games industry has been overrun by games designers launching their own games with the help of people willing to sponsor their ideas.
Chance or strategy
All games are a mixture of chance and strategy - Yahtzee is virtually pure chance, while Chess is virtually pure strategy, and there is a whole range in between of course.
Gateway games
Most of us will have played traditional tabletop games, such as Monopoly, Game of Life, Yahtzee or Risk.
How important is theme for tabletop games?
In my view, themes very often make or break a game.
A new take on "Choose Your Own Adventure" books
If you're of a certain age, you'll probably have had a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book, where you read a description of a situation, and then choose between a number of different options that take you to different sections of the book.
Games nights
Let's kick off this group with a conversation about games nights.