In this article, I will be discussing a number of ways that board game designers can make their games easier to learn and teach. I feature a number of board game design tips all aimed at making boardgames more approachable.
Some board games can seem intimidating, with a thick rulebook, lots of components, or too many things to learn all at once. Sometimes though a boardgame will surprise you by looking complicated when in reality it isn't.
Today I am going to be talking about a variety of RPG artifacts. No, I'm not talking about the various body parts of Vecna, rather I'm going to be talking about physical things that are created before or during play that last long after the game they were created for is done and over with.
Every now and then you find a board game that takes you by surprise. One that shocks you by being so much more than you expected it to be.
Roger is going through something we all experience when new to the board game hobby and that is how our comfort level with both learning and playing new games changes over time. As we play more games and learn new mechanics, games we once found hard and complex seem easy and games we never thought we could understand become more approachable.
Why? "Why" is perhaps the most important question of all. Why do people play board games? That's the question I'm going to try to tackle today, based on one of the best Ask The Bellhop questions we've ever received.
Last week I talked about how to decide which games in your collection you should get rid of. This week I'm looking at the next step of actually getting rid of those games. Where to sell your board games and RPGs, how to determine the right price, alternatives to selling, like trading, and more.
When talking games a number of board game terms come up that can be confusing to people. A lot of these are board game mechanics that people may not be familiar with. Today I'm going to try to define some of the most common board game mechanics based on a question we received during our first live show.
Today we've got two questions that are both about deciding which game or games to remove from your tabletop game collection. In this article, I will be talking about a number of different ways to help you decide what board game to get rid of or when it's time to remove that RPG or module from your collection.
Our last live show recording just happened to fall on Canada Day. Due to that, we decided to spend some time taking a look at some of the best Canadian designed board games and RPGs.
