by Ryan | May 23, 2025 | Game, How to Play
Don’t have time to commit to a multi-game campaign across 3 acts and a prologue? i don’t blame you! The Battles expansion for Stars of Akarios supplies you with a book of one-shot encounters that you can just choose from at random. Minor rules...
by Ryan | May 23, 2025 | Game, How to Play
The Drones expansion for Stars of Akarios adds a sub-mission between the Prologue and Act I that introduces helper robots. These robots occupy some of the upgrade slots on your player board, in exchange for a variety of abilities to give you advantage in your outer...
by Ryan | May 23, 2025 | Game, How to Play
If you are possessed of the 1) disposable income 2) free time and 3) dedicated friend group required to play a multi-session campaign game the details a series of outer space dogfights, i am well jells. Stars of Akarios has two modes: the aforementioned space spats...
by Ryan | May 23, 2025 | Game, How to Play
Five Crowns is a rummy-style game where the goal is to get rid of all your cards. It adds a suit called “stars” to the usual clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades. You have to get rid of all of your cards in a single go, instead of in batches, by forming...
by Ryan | Apr 22, 2025 | Game, How to Play
Trickerion. It’s a game i keep going back to, whether to teach its big expansion Dahlgaard’s Acadenmy, one of its little expansions, or to livestream it on my birthday. Mindclash Games invited me to talk about the latest expansion, coming an incredible 10...
by Ryan | Jan 25, 2025 | Game, Livestream, Unboxing
The very first game i taught viewers how to play on this channel when it began in schmiggedy-aught-something was The Castles of Burgundy. Later, i told you what i actually thought of it in a Find the Fun segment. Now, along comes this churched-up version with all its...