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January 2025 Gaming @bgstatsapp.bsky.social @beziergames.bsky.social @pegasusspiele.bsky.social

It’s a new year! And already we’re 1/12 of the way through it. Who would have thought it would go that fast? It’s also a new year of boardgaming, which means everything I played this month is actually unique to 2025! Unless I played it more than once, of course. Even missing a Sunday game day, it managed to be a good month, too. It wasn’t quite as good as December, but it was close. Here’s…

Who Wants a Fragrant Clock? - Inventors of the South Tigris Review

Necessity is the mother of invention, but is it the mother of a game about inventing things? Things to ponder. That’s what I am always thinking when I play Inventors of the South Tigris, the latest (and last) of the South Tigris trilogy of games from Garphill Games. (Ok, not really, as that’s much to philosophical for me) Inventors of the South Tigris (it’s just “Inventors” from now on, ok?)…

First Impressions - Civolution @pegasusspiele.bsky.social

Welcome to another First Impressions post, this time about Stefan Feld’s latest point salad monstrosity (I say that with affection), Civolution. As I mentioned in my Friday Night Shots post about doing first impressions posts, this isn’t a review because I’ve only played the game one time. My feelings may change, especially if I had an especially good/bad experience the first time. These are…

Inventors of the South Tigris Coming to Kickstarter March 12 @garphillgames

In my sick doldrums last week, I missed the announcement from Garphill Games that the next (and final) entry in the South Tigris trilogy of games, Inventors of the South Tigris, is coming to Kickstarter on March 12! Blurbing from Boardgame Geek here: “Inventors of the South Tigris is set during the height of the Abbasid Caliphate, circa 850 AD. Over the past decades, Baghdad has become home to…

Review - Scholars of the South Tigris @PlayRenegade @garphillgames

If you’ve been following this blog for more than a fortnight, then you know that I’m a big fan of many Garphill games, especially those designed by Shem Phillips and S J MacDonald. They seem to be a fan of trilogies, with the North Sea trilogy (from just Shem) and the West Kingdom trilogies already complete (and the East somethings coming out in 2025-27 maybe?). Scholars of the South Tigris is…

Review - Fantastic Factories @fanfactories @DeepWaterGames

One game mechanism I really like is dice rolling and engine building (ok, that’s two mechanisms). Who doesn’t like chucking a bunch of dice? Ok, Len in the back, maybe. But otherwise, who doesn’t? Fantastic Factories doesn’t let you chuck a ton of dice, but it lets you chuck a few and it also lets you build an engine to use those dice! Fantastic Factories was designed by Joseph Z Chen and…