The cool scent of dusk hovers, the sun will soon retire to silent slumber. The forest grows dark, but you are not fooled — under shadow lies life, and with breathe comes probable danger. You will ascend to the tower in the distance this midnight. Silhouette firm but ever fading, you know not what lies within its walls…it does not matter, it is no match for you, it is no match for a Mage Knight. One of the most rewarding moments for me as a fairly new board game enthusiast is infecting long...

"I just love the snow!" she giggled. "My office called and said we didn't have to come in because the roads are slippery so I can go make snow angels and then later I'll have a cup of hot cocoa with marsh mellows!" Her eyes scrunched up and a childish grin spread across her face. The tragedy was that, while she basked in a return to youth brought on by the frozen precipitation,  she was completely oblivious to the doom hurtling directly at her face. A doom in the form of a fist attached to the end...

  Played two games of Hansa Teutonica (or Hanzesteden, as it´s called here). It's not a bad game, it's well designed. But it is sorely lacking in ideas.   Can you see the difference between this and the Thurn & Taxis board? The board looks like that of Thurn und Taxis. Not just because it's the same area, but also in design...

This week it will be four month since the fire and we still don't have a written itemization of what is getting torn out and rebuilt on the interior of our house. Four fucking months! If you have ever had your car wreaked you know how this works. You can't take the car into a shop to get it repaired until an adjuster takes a look at it. Imagine it took four months for the adjuster to get out and look at your car. I've called our adjuster every week since Thanksgiving, and every week he...

  I love cartoons. Comics, animation, graphic novels, posters — whatever. If its imaginative and intriguing I want to visually devour it, greedily examining every detail until my hunger for colorful, humorous,and often bizarre ideas is satiated. But until fairly recently I overlooked a prime source for such cool immersive art: games.  Sure, as a kid I spent countless hours organizing my MTG collection, but never did Wizards of the Coast capture my imagination with their illustrations more than Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side, or Marvel Comics. But now, a...