Boardom is the regular blog feature in which Mary geeks out on table top games. Carcassonne was one of my own “gateway” games that got me into Euro board games and it remains one of my favorites. It’s an easy-to-learn tile laying game named after a medieval French town. You lay down one randomly drawn [...]
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DnD vs WoW
By maryvarn on June 17th, 2010Posted In: Boardom,NPC Blog,Table Top Games,World of Warcraft
My DnD group just finished our first campaign together. For a couple of us, myself included, it was our first tabletop RPG experience ever. Hopefully our rag tag crew of level 4 heroes will go on new adventures soon, but until then, I had some thoughts regarding the different gaming experiences I get from DnD [...]
Boardom is the regular blog feature in which Mary geeks out on table top games. RoboRally is a hilarious robot race through a dangerous factory. It’s possibly the last thing I’d expect from the creator of Magic: The Gathering. Each player has to race to different check points in a certain order and the winner [...]
Boardom: Wise and Otherwise
By maryvarn on April 29th, 2010Posted In: Boardom,NPC Blog,Table Top Games
Boardom is the regular blog feature in which Mary geeks out on table top games. Wise and Otherwise is the intellectual elite big brother of party game Balderdash. But instead of words, you deal with proverbs. One designated Reader each round reads the first few words of a proverb, along with the country of origin. [...]
Boardom is the regular blog feature in which Mary geeks out on table top games. Pandemic is a cooperative game in which you and your fellow players team up to eradicate the threat of four deadly global diseases. Each teammate plays one of 5 randomly chosen characters, each with their own unique abilities: Dispatcher, Scientist, [...]
Boardom is the regular blog feature in which Mary geeks out on table top games. Small World is a beautiful and fun civilization game that I was first introduced to at the 2009 Gen Con Indy. It has some fantasy RPG elements I found appealing, and the art is so gorgeous, I often find myself [...]
Boardom: Eat Poop, You Cat!
By maryvarn on February 2nd, 2010Posted In: Boardom,NPC Blog,Table Top Games
Boardom is the regular blog feature in which Mary geeks out on table top games. Eat poop, you cat! is my new favorite party game. I played it two Saturday nights in a row, the first at a friend’s birthday gathering, and the second at our place for a board game night. It requires only [...]
