The overtly inestimable Quinns of Shut Up and Sit Down fame put out some blog entries on why video gamers should be playing "analog games," IE. board games: Hard Copy

Not necessarily geared for the already initiated that frequent F:AT, but you probably have some friends that could use some instruction. It's an interesting take on evangelizing the hobby to those that already know they like playing games.

Quinns used to be a writer on RockPaperShotgun. For a time he babysitted Rab Florences weekly cardboard children column, which was basically boardgame evangelism to PC gamers. It worked, it convinced me to buy ascending Empires just under a year ago and launched me into this hobby (and look where i ended up, skint and on FAT). It's a shame Rabs column seems to have stopped.

DukeofChutney wrote:
Oh, I'm a regular reader of RPS and have been for a while. Both Rab's Cardboard Children and Quinns' Not Cardboard Children were primarily responsible for:

1) me getting into this hobby
2) steering me away from dry Euros that I had played at friend's houses (though, to be fair, I knew I hated Age of Steam after one play, confirmed after a second)
3) deciding to finally get my own game night together after life forced me to quit my D&D group
and
4) finding out about F:AT

I owe quite a bit to those guys.

Rabs later columns took some strange turns, some of which were bizarre and others that were hilarious. But I think his television career consumed all of his time and it really wasn't working when his column stopped.

But Duke, you make a good point that Quinns is basically continuing to do what he had previously done on RockPaperShotgun before he left. It's obviously his passion to convince others what a great pastime board gaming is, and it definitely worked on me.