I got a feeling
Playing tabletop games is something we all enjoy in this hobby.
Playing tabletop games is something we all enjoy in this hobby.
In a future where mankind has resolved to abandon war and replace it with virtual battles, teams of nine elite fighters selected by their nations face each other in pairs to win a precious new energy source that promises to bring the world back from the ashes.
The stage is prepared: a dusty old tome in the middle, a silver dagger encrusted with rubies across the open pages marking a specific section in the ancient text, a goblet in front of the book filled with the blood of thirteen poor souls, and five candles arranged in a pentagon around the periphery of the white marble pedestal.
Focus your mind on this life, and prepare your soul for the next.
Clans of Caledonia by Karma Games comes with a lot of wooden pieces, cardboard tokens, player boards and the modular game board.
You're on the phone to the real estate agent talking about this great piece of land near a school and park, which would be ideal to develop into modern housing.
Chess, draughts, cribbage, bridge and many other traditional games are completely abstract in nature.
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.
I think for many in the hobby, playing games is about having fun with other people - and that is no more so true when it comes to enjoying a game with the family.
The rain is relentless, pouring down in heavy sheets, making the city outside your office window appear like it is behind net curtains.