Sagrilarius put some interesting questions in his blog " The Culture of Gaming, and Vice Versa" last week. I was struck especially by one point he made, in that "western" society doesn't accept hierarchical games. " Games with binding contracts or hierarchical player roles are simply unheard of in the genre, not because they aren't fundamentally sound, but because they simply don't occur to the usual suspects that drive boardgaming's technological progress. Not just a eurogame thing, this a western game thing." Not to leave my thought in the comments section,...

Been a bit since i wrote one of these.  The new game, per week thing failed. Sigh. Like one of those New Years fad diets, where have an epiphany one day with a spoon wrist deep in a tub of chocolate ice cream....    That I do most of my gaming at work was complicating things. It's not just MY idea of what would be fun, we've had several game leagues float in and out, deadlines (Stop working and come play games!) only works so often, and random other crap.    I'm still trying...

First game play with just Arkham + Innsmouth.  Chtuta Fauga (whatever that one's called) is the GOO.  7 players First mythos card puts a gate on the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Second mythos card monster surges that gate plus cuts off travel to Innsmouth.  All seven monsters areground-based, three of them Fast. Over the next four turns, the monsters to the mambo into the Innsmouth vortex without the travel restriction being lifted.  Only gate that gets closed (Dreamlands) doesn't remove any monsters.  The Astronomer (can chage the sign on gate he closes) gets lost in time...

If you've read previous posts and entries of mine, you will know that an elusive goal of mine is a game that captures the essence of airlines.  Air Baron is a pretty decent game but it doesn't feel like I'm running an Airline.  Airline might be that game, but it sucks ass.  You guys gave me a link to an Airline game that was on the Nintendo and that was pretty close to what I was looking for.   If someone would translate that into a boardgame, I would be a happy camper.  I've been thinking of some mechanics for...

Okay, blatant self promotion. This month's Small Publisher Contest prize is for God Dice .   Contest is open to everybody - I will ship for free in Canada, if the winner is an international customer, I will deduct shipping of the same amount.  Generally if you are in the US that means payig between $3 to 4.  Oh and Max has kindly agreed to judge the contest. Self promotion off.