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Deseret News Game Review: “The Ancient World” is a fun strategic game of city-building and titans
By Ryan Morgenegg, Deseret News: “The Ancient World board game is a journey of city-building, worker placement and set collection. The game is set in a world filled with growing civilizations and dangerous titans.
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Stuka Joe’s Video Review of “Dawn of the Zeds” (Third Edition)
(Now with new and improved spelling ! – Fred)
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NPR: After 40 Years, Dungeons & Dragons Still Brings Players To The Table
NPR Staff: “If you play today’s massively multiplayer online role-playing games — World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy,for example — you have a 1970s tabletop game to thank, says author Michael Witwer. Witwer has
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New (Third) Edition of “Fury of Dracula” Coming From Fantasy Flight Games
From Fantasy Flight Games: Devils or No Devils, Or All the Devils At Once, It Matters Not; We Fight Him All the Same. Dr Abraham Van Helsing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRRfmyvpx6Y&feature=youtu.be
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The Hobbit: The Defeat of the Evil Dragon Smaug – A Boardgaming Way Review
Review by Mitchell Freedman Game by Michael Stern and Keith Meyers Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games (2001) Once upon a time, in the golden age of war gaming, a company called Simulation Publications, Inc., created
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Discworld – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Mitch Freedman Discworld: Ankh-Morpork Sometimes you buy a game thinking you will really enjoy it, but when you start playing, you find that the mechanics don’t work right, or the rules are too cumbersome
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Darkest Night – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Mitch Freedman Designed by Jeremy LennertDeveloped by Noelle Le Bienvenu Published by Victory Point Games (VPG) There is a whole class of games that deal with a world of fantasy, with demons and trolls
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Kingsburg – A Boardgaming Way Review
By Fred Manzo Designers: Andrea Chiavesio and Luca Iennaco Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games (2007) Kingsburg is a good, light, family game, especially for those people who enjoy fiddling with numbers. Although, it almost totally
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A Game of Thrones Board Game (First Edition) – And the question of “What is Fun?”
By Fred Manzo A Game of Thrones James Dunnigan once said “movement equals fun.” I’d say “Interaction equals fun,” movement being just one way players interact. For example, a typical Euro “multi-player solitaire” game
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By Fred Manzo A Game of Thrones A few months ago we played the first edition of A Game of Thrones. It was designed by Christian T Petersen and Kevin Wilson and published in
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