How to Play Concordia

How to Play Concordia

Concordia is a colonization board game set in ancient Rome. Ryan runs down how to play in this handy video: (click to view transcript) Hi! It’s Ryan from Nights Around a Table, and this is Concordia, a deck-building strategy game set in ancient Rome, starring...
T.I.M.E. Stories Unboxing (spoiler-free!)

T.I.M.E. Stories Unboxing (spoiler-free!)

T.I.M.E. Stories purports to be a game system that allows for different story modules to be plugged into it. How does that even work? Open the box with me and find out: Get Your Own Copy of T.I.M.E. Stories It’s the game that keeps on giving. T.I.M.E. Stories is...
Find the Fun: Agricola Review

Find the Fun: Agricola Review

Released in 2007, Agricola is a multiplayer strategy board game where every player competes to build the best farm. The pressure and tension the game creates are surprising for such a mundane theme. Here, Ryan reviews the best and worst of it all, and finds the fun in...
i make board game videos now.

i make board game videos now.

i lost my position as a creative writer and puzzle designer at the Mysterious Package Company last Christmas when the company nigh-imploded. Through Spring, i contracted as a game designer and business consultant for a kids’ augmented reality startup, and that...
The 7th Continent Unboxing (spoiler-free!)

The 7th Continent Unboxing (spoiler-free!)

After a bad experience with Alien Frontiers: 4th Edition, i vowed never to back another Kickstarter campaign. A few years later, i was in the thick of it again. i fell for slick marketing and warnings that a hot new game, The 7th Continent, wouldn’t be available...