boardgames

I backed two boardgames last year on Kickstarter (ok, there might be more than two in total, but these were the big ones). The first one: Altar Quest during the first half of the year and the second: Etherfields towards the end of the year. They were both promising delivery during this year.

Over the weekend we broke out from the lockdown and headed out to another locked room. It's been a while since my last escape room so it was nice getting to one again with the family. Well, almost the whole family. Son had s rough week of work and was too tired to join us there. Luckily he joined us afterwards as we were about to celebrate my wife's birthday and play the latest season of Pandemic which had just arrived.

While there hasn't been shortage of great boardgame publishers in recent years there is still room for more. That's why today was a great day for boardgsme enthusiasts as there not only one but two big announcement in the industry.

Legendary game designer Chris Metzen who was the visionary behind Blizzards big hits like Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft just announced his new tabletop game company. There was also announcement from Critical role, the D&D live play show by talented voice actors turned internet phenomenon, who announced their entry to the market as well.

Kickstarter has become a great source of board games in recent years. Nowadays I get almost all my games there. It's nice not only to get those games way before they hit the shelves of retailers but also being part of making those games happen in the first place.

Just received the latest addition to my modest boardgame collection today. A Kickstarter campaign by Awaken Realms delivered it's first wave of shipments, the game Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon.

Upon opening the package I was already impressed. A lot of material with a nice added bonus for the backers. Everything seems to be of good quality, and the game itself appears to be interesting as well.

We finally started it, the Pandemic season 2. Almost after a year of getting it. To be exact, this was our second game after the prologue we played ten months ago. Now, we finally managed to get the campaign started.

Our son was visiting us and naturally, we wanted to play something together. We might have way too many games as the decision to choose the game that would have suited everybody wasn't easy. In the end, it was still a compromise.

The purpose of boardgames is having fun. At least for me. Sure there are people that play them just for the competitive factor. And while that can also be fun at the times, at least when done with moderation I still like the cooperative games more.