17 weeks ago today, my friend and fraternity brother Mike called me. I'm pretty sure I can count on one hands the number of times Mike has called me unsolicited in my entire life, so my immediate assumption was that he'd gotten a job offer or something else he wanted to confer about. I wish I'd been right. Instead, he was calling to tell me that ( Read more... )

I continue to spend a substantial amount of time on Board Game Arena. Since I reviewed Kingdom Builder I've even played against a few people I'm actually friends with. One of them is my fraternity brother Bybluk, who introduced me to Kingdomino. Apparently I like board games with "King" in the name somewhere ( Read more... )

When I signed up on Board Game Arena, I largely envisioned playing against friends. A month later, I have not played a single game against friends but have enjoyed playing against actual humans instead of terrible AIs like the Ticket to Ride app provides. While I suspect that AI via machine learning will one day make computer opponents for any ( Read more... )

Football is not usually the main focus of the fraternity Super Bowl party that I try to attend in Philadelphia every year. While we always do watch the big game, the more so this year with the Eagles playing in it, what usually happens is something like this ( Read more... )

Ostensibly I’m here in Philadelphia for the Super Bowl party Joe throws every year (my 9th year in attendance), and for a small siblings weekend, but pragmatically I spent most of two days playing board games with my host Mike and his family. That's been the status quo for the last 4 or 5 years or so.

- Mechs vs Minions - 3 rounds (not including ( Read more... )

For gaming night we take turns arranging for dinner. Tonight's my night. Right now my slow cooker has some delicious beef stew in it for tonight's gaming session. I'm going to take the virtually unprecedented step of posting the recipe before I've actually tried it. Hopefully it tastes good. It was certainly well reviewed. I found it on All Recipes ( Read more... )

Assuming nothing happens today that would otherwise cancel it, tonight my gaming group moves into single-shot adventures instead of ongoing campaigns. This is the first time since I started doing role-playing games that it hasn't focused on an extensive campaign. Here's a list, because I love lists.

My first campaign was a D&D 3.5 adventure run by ( Read more... )

Because khiron1416 sent me this teaser for the next session of the gaming campaign I'm joining ( Read more... )