Best of Board Games

The Tao of Gaming points us to a nicely presented War of the Ring variant, which balances things up a little in the direction of the Free Peoples.

I needn’t have worried. Chris Farrell is still writing (as well as podcasting), today about GMT’s new game Here I Stand. Best line: If the Protestants don’t know what else to do, they can always translate the Bible.

Ahh: New love. I wish, now, that I’d kept better notes during my time discovering Eurogames. A lot of trials…and errors. (By which I mean Konzern.) Luckily, K.S. from Vermont is taking notes, in blog form. Fun stuff!

Chris Farrell’s energies seem to be directed into producing podcasts these days - like his latest about the ASL module Armies of Oblivion. I’m not a huge fan of the podcast format, so I’m missing his writing.

Classic episode of Game Store Confidential this week, made me chuckle out loud.

Yehuda’s delightful Generic mainstream news articles, so you won’t have to read all those other ones delivers exactly what the title promises.

I love watching sausages in the making, don’t you? If you’re curious about how Worthington Games’s “Cowboys: Way of the Gun” game is coming along, check out the company’s new design blog. (Personally, I think it looks pretty spiffy.)

In Best of Blogging Yehuda analyzes the choices we’ve made here (and I’ll be first one to admit we’re an arbitrary bunch of people here; I would welcome another aggregator blog picking something else) and offers a big pile of links to the best of Coldfoot. Good stuff. And worry not, it is possible to criticize BoBG without getting an invitation to become an editor…

Jonathan Degann discusses scoring mechanisms in The Art of Scoring in his Journal of Boardgame Design. It’s a good article worth reading, and I recommend keeping an eye on the blog for further material; Degann is a keen writer.

Recent Geek of the Week threads over on BGG have been relatively sedate. Expect this to change now that this week’s Geek of the Week geek is Mister Cranky.