Rants & Raves

My four-year old daughter has always been tremendously curious about my games, so when she was old enough to start playing some of them I was obviously delighted to indulge her. Some of her favourites include Carcassonne, which we play without the Farmers rule, Castle Ravenloft, although I have to draw all the monster and event cards as they’re “too scary” and Pitchcar, a game at which she can quite legitimately beat me most of the time. However I’m sure you’ll be amazed to learn that her absolute top rated game is the 3-4 hour, 24-pages of rules epic...

I was indulging in some serious spring cleaning over the weekend, including sorting through the contents of my “important stuff” box. In there I found, to my surprise, this tube of polyhedral dice. They’re cool dice: nice design, and I particularly like the way it includes two D10’s in different yet complementary colours, one printed with 0-9 and the other with 00-90 so you never need get confused about those D100 rolls ever again. The tube is also sealed: those dice have never been rolled in anger. Finding them I was torn between pleasure at...