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I’m home from the exhaustingly fun GenCon. So exhausting in fact, that I neglected to post about the last two days on their respective evenings as I had originally planned. So here goes: the last two days! We got up bright and early to wait in line for Hickman’s Killer Breakfast, an event in which [...]

We started day 2 of “the best four days in gaming” with a workshop on making a chainmail dice bag. I’m not a super crafty person, and I’ve never made chainmail before, but I really enjoyed this. It was very zen to sit there making a little pattern of rings. But hard enough to not [...]

It’s the end of Day 1 and I’m already delightfully exhausted. We started the day at 8am with a match of giant Settlers of Catan. Which I won – It’s all about the longest road! Then we moved into the dealer’s hall at opening, where I bought the first Looking For Group book from the [...]

We arrived in hot and sticky downtown Indianapolis around 2pm on Wednesday, in anticipation of one of the biggest table-top gaming conventions in the world: GenCon Indy. Since the con hasn’t officially started yet, we didn’t do any actual gaming yet, beyond Plants vs Zombies and Phoenix Wright on our iPhones while travelling. But soon! [...]

You may recall that this also happened back in March when I went over the three levels of nerd stigma. Well it’s here again, for the second time this year! Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be able to participate this time. I have a job at home this week along with preparing to go out [...]

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 [...]

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 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. [...]