2-14-09

The ten-sided die (d10) is the only die used in Dungeons & Dragons that is not a Platonic solid.

2-9-09

Romans played with d20's.

1-1-09

4th edition D&D is pretty sweet. I hope somebody makes a computer game out of it.

12-31-08

I went to a new year's party that didn't feature board games of any kind! However, David and Sam invited me over to pregame in the afternoon. I got to try Nexus Ops, which was remarkably mediocre.

12-14-08

Zertz is a pretty cool board game.

11-22-08

Paul had an awesome party at his apartment tonight. I got to play Caylus, Puerto Rico, Magic, and Rock Band 2, all in the same evening!

10-27-08

PALIN: Hi folks! Sorry I'm late! I brought caribou burgers.

HILARY: Who the HELL is this?

MCCAIN: It's cool, she's with me.

HILARY: No! No, it's not cool! Every time you bring one of your rodeo-queen girlfriends in here she ends up playing some succubus infiltrator and killing the whole party!

MCCAIN: Now, that is patently untrue.

BIDEN: He has a point. Cindy turned out to be a vampire.

There's much more.

10-15-08

Keira Knightley plays backgammon.

8-30-08

Today I played Agricola, the new #1 game on BGG. It's well deserving of the hype. It has the same depth and freeform nature as Caylus, but with much simpler rules and a shorter playing time. This is a game I hope to play many times.

8-17-08

I played A Game of Thrones today. I liked the game when I played it a year ago, but today I was sufficiently unimpressed. The diplomacy and battle elements are great, but the event cards at the start of each turn have a significant impact on the players' fates and, what's worse, usually favor some players over others. I'm terrible at wargames and probably would have lost even if the event cards hadn't screwed me over every single turn, but it was decidedly unpleasant to feel tossed about by random chance in major ways in a game that takes eight hours.

7-25-08

Tonight I played Extreme Jenga. It's like regular Jenga but with parallelograms.

7-12-08

"Fuck Apples to Apples."

-- David

6-29-08

Ticket to Ride came out on Live Arcade. If you own a 360, you need to check it out. It's well done.

6-22-08

Yinsh is a good game, for an abstract.

5-13-08

5-3-08

For the first time in a little over a year, I played Die Macher again today. This time it was with the full five players, and man is it an awesome game. Who knew German politics were so exciting?

5-2-08

Great moments in Apples to Apples.

The adjective: Tempting

The winning noun: Day-Care Centers

3-27-08

MushMouth -- that classic board game!

3-7-08

"My other D&D story involves a girl I was infatuated with who decided that D&D was of the devil, and I should immediately throw away all my stuff. Hmmm. The girl or the D&D? Which should I choose?

I chose the girl. She chose my best friend. But by then all my D&D stuff was ashes in the trash burner."

Favorite Dungeons and Dragons Moments.

3-5-08

Gary Gygax, co-creator of D&D, died yesterday. Also:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/03/04