As I wrote last year in My Life in Gaming, I’ve had quite a few gaming interests over the years, prime among them roleplaying, board gaming, and computer gaming, in approximately that order. Roleplaying had been at a low ebb for several years, but in the last year or so I’ve been growing more enthusiastic for it, and as a result I’ve started doing something that I hadn’t done seriously in about a decade: writing for the RPG industry.
Currently I’ve got two different major RPG projects on my plate, a book for RuneQuest and a book about the history of the RPG industry. As you might expect, this is taking up a lot of my free time. It’s one of the reasons I’ve dropped back to biweekly here, and it’s also caused me to drop back the frequency of my board game reviews to about one a week.
The downside of that is that I’m not reviewing a lot of the coolest board games that are coming out. So, I’m going to try and correct that in brief this week (and probably again in the future) by writing some mini-reviews.
Following are discussions of three of the best games that I’ve played over the last few months. They’ve just got two plays each, and so I haven’t come to a final decision on them, but nonetheless after two plays enthusiasm remains high. Continue reading