• In addition to my regular gaming tables, I started off 2025 visiting my brother and his kids. We gamed a marathon, including many games that were new to me. New games with the Nephews Added Bonus, I got to replay a number of games that I hadn’t played for awhile but also got to teach… Read more

  • Little did I know that Taskmaster Series 2 contestant Richard Osman was a mystery writer, author of The Thursday Murder Club. With the recent television adaptation, I went looking for the source material and discovered many more works by Osman. The pitch – Amy, a talented bodyguard, gets targeted for assassination and finds herself on… Read more

  • Resolution #1 – Play 10+ Board Games that were new to me Success! Between new games in my collection, new games in the collections of friends, and even games that had sat there for months being neglected, I managed to get at least fourteen games played and I would be willing to play them again. Read more

  • Years ago my long time gamer group decided that we should do a gift exchange, but gosh darn it, we had to make it something special geeky. Given our tendency to have long drawn out discussions over house rule resolutions, so we would do so for our version of a White Elephant Gift Exchange. The… Read more

  • TLDR – if you liked the first Knives Out, check out Knives Out – Wake Up Dead Man. Overall, enjoyed it. I was happy to see all the pieces on the board addressed and used appropriately. Currently, for minor reasons I’m going to rank it as second best of the three (though others I saw… Read more

  • Item – Cold Iron Club “Crudely fashioned, but it worked. With each blow of that club, nails of cold iron stabbed into the eldritch flesh, eliciting burbling howls from it’s gaping orifices. Once I had used it against a Spaniard who trafficked in dark arts and watched his face catch fire from the mere touch… Read more