On our third Kickstarter, for the Rage of Montalbano deluxe expansion for SSO we decided to use a pledge manager for the first time. Engaging and using a pledge manager is not a simple or obvious decision, so I’ve decided to set out our experiences. Currently, since we have only used one pledge manager, I won’t be making too many statements about the platform we used specifically, since I don’t have personal experience of to what degree they vary. However, it should be not

Players: 2-4 Age: 10+ Teaching Time: 10 mins Playing Time: 60 mins Setup Time: 5 mins Value For Money: Low Luck: Low Complexity: Mid Strategy: Mid Price: £60 Recommended: Sure Website: Thurn and Taxis | Board Game | BoardGameGeek Firstly, a note on the price and value in the round up there. Thurn Und Taxis is currently out of print so prices are inevitably massively inflated when it is available on Amazon or Ebay, which is not often. As such, it’s value for money is practica

Recently on the YouTube channel that I operate myself and games designer Mike Hutchinson had a conversation about dice pools, which you can view here: https://youtu.be/_jRw3-WTF8A while it’s a great conversation, it doesn’t cover everything I wanted to say about dice pools as game design element (I know it didn’t cover everything Mike wanted to say either, but he has his own blog. As such, I thought I’d post this blog up to cover some of my further thoughts on the subject, a

Players: 2-7 Age: 8+ Teaching Time: 5 mins Playing Time: 30 mins Setup Time: 2 mins Value For Money: Mid Luck: Mid Complexity: Low Strategy: Mid Price: £30 Recommended: Yes Website: Top Secret Spies - Rio Grande Games : Rio Grande Games Wolfgang Kramer is a giant in games design, not least down to no less than three Spiel Des Jahres wins. On top of that, the scoring tracks around the edge of the board so ubiquitous in modern euro gaming are so associated with him that in Ger