The plot A friend sent me a link to Chris Farrell's * Illuminating Games * Substack recently. He ha…

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A thread popped up on BGG recently asking a deceptively simple question: is the decay mechanic already a thing in bo…

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I t's only March, and the board game industry has already had quite a bit to digest. Between publisher shake-ups, d…

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I f you've spent some time in the hobby, you know by now that we're in the middle of a renaissance that starte…