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Every $200+ game at Pax Unplugged 2022 (that I found)

ByEli RichmanDecember 7, 2022

It wasn't so long ago that the idea of paying even $100 for a board game seemed a little outrageous. But at Pax Unplugged this year, I found a dozen projects that breached the $200 mark.

ByEli RichmanNovember 10, 2022

It’s a controversial and, some might say, blasphemous sentiment, I know. But some games require so much bookkeeping or have such a wide variety of rules that keeping track of it all requires serious mental bandwidth. Which leaves you with less bandwidth to focus on

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Every Lovecraft-inspired game ever made, as ranked by BoardGameGeek

ByEli RichmanJune 8, 2022

It’s hard to overstate the impact H.P. Lovecraft’s work has had on the board game industry. Maybe the reason for that is as simple as it’s a theme in the public domain that people are familiar with. Or maybe the kinds of people who enjoy board games have

ByEli RichmanAugust 11, 2021

Digital board game adaptations generally fall into one of two categories: emulator programs and publisher-supported apps. Whereas publisher-supported applications often have original animations and come at a premium for each game, emulators are, broadly speaking, a more

ByEli RichmanJune 25, 2021

The events in Prophecy of Kings—which for the purposes of this article occurred consecutively exactly five minutes ago—began with a Ghost-led expedition to a dead planet called Acheron. On Acheron they found a dormant portal, and like all responsible horror protagonists,

ByEli RichmanMarch 5, 2021

To help better organize a complicated game's components, an industry of aftermarket insert designers has cropped up. Here are some pros and cons of the product lines I am aware of.

ByEli RichmanFebruary 26, 2021

In a fit of masochism, I studied the lore behind the 17 base factions in Twilight Imperium 4, and to put it in context, I accused each faction of various violations of the Geneva Convention. This is what I managed to track down, from least war crimes to most.

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Every Marvel board game ever published, as ranked by BoardGameGeek

ByEli RichmanFebruary 18, 2021

Marvel has licensed its name to so many companies and projects over the years that we can find literally hundreds of unique games bearing some form of the Marvel brand. Here are all of them.

ByEli RichmanFebruary 8, 2021

The quirk of these collector's boxes is that they are, well, empty. But because of all the materials and printing that go into production of a collector's box, they are often priced approximately the same as another large expansion.

Category: Lists

Every $200+ game at Pax Unplugged 2022 (that I found)

5 board games that work better as apps

Every Lovecraft-inspired game ever made, as ranked by BoardGameGeek

A semi-comprehensive list of all third-party board game emulators

War crimes in the Imperium: Prophecy of Kings addendum

Boardgame insert and organizer roundup

All 17 base Twilight Imperium factions, ranked by number of war crimes (Updated)

Every Marvel board game ever published, as ranked by BoardGameGeek

Ranking the most expensive empty boxes in board gaming