Author: Anthony

I know what kinds of board games teens would play.1 You see, I used to be a teen, long, long ago. And to my experience I can add that of another game-loving teen, my older brother. We were raised in a typical postwar 2-child family. Growing up on the knife’s edge between rural & suburban communities, we had plenty of options for outdoor activity, but at a good bike ride’s distance. When we weren’t playing sandlot baseball, running around with water pistols or playing hide-and-seek at dusk, we were squirreled away in our unfinished basement, trying to gain the upper…

You may have noticed that our campaign of the day segment got a little less daily sometime last week, and that is because we have decided to change up our format a bit. Instead of posting a campaign every weekday, I will give you 3-5 campaigns to follow every Tuesday, and follow up on their progress on Sunday. So let’s see what I have for you this week. Maha Yodha First up this week is Maha Yodha, a strategic card game featuring characters and weapons from ancient Hindu mythology. Maha Yodha features two factions – the Aditya  and the Asura – as…

A card game meant to reflect the modification of species through natural selection, Evolution is played by assembling sets of up to three cards for each species that represents the traits they employ as they compete for the food they need to survive. Direct player interaction is limited – that is, until someone plays the Carnivore trait and starts hunting your species to extinction. With eighteen trait cards and a constantly changing field of play, Evolution promises to be a game with a great deal of flexibility. Evolution is the first strategy game produced by North Star Games, most famous…

Note: The product reviewed is part of an ongoing Kickstarter campaign, and may be incomplete. The project may change before it hits the market, and so this review should not be taken as a comment on the quality of any complete products.  We will do our best to update this review to reflect changes in the product, but we may lag behind.  Introduction The first product review for Kicking the Habit – our spin-off Kickstarter focused article/podcast series– is Dubious Alliance, a fantasy bluffing card game by independent designer Brandon Raasch. We’ve already had a quick look at Dubious Alliance’s ongoing Kickstarter…

Note: This is a look at an ongoing Kickstarter campaign, and I expect that the product will change over the course of the campaign.  Models are prototypes, and the posing and anatomy of the models are constantly being refined. In other words, nothing is set and stone, and expect the models to be continuously refined. All images belong to ADW Games. This Thursday (2014-06-05), ADW Games plans to launch a new Kickstarter campaign – Miniature Ice Age Mammal Adventure Set – to fund high-quality 28mm miniatures of prehistoric creatures like the Wooly Mammoth, the Smilodon (a.k.a. Sabertooth Tiger), and some of their less…

Part of the new Kicking the Habit spin-off, the campaign of the day features one Kickstarter campaign related to tabletop gaming every weekday. These campaigns are ones that I think are worth taking the time to look at, but the campaigns of the day are not full reviews (which I only do once I have had a chance to thoroughly play a copy of the game). Some will be campaigns backed by big companies (like Ares Games’s massively successful ‘Galaxy Defenders – The Earth Strikes Back’), while others – like our first campaign of the day, ‘Dubious Alliance’ – will…

It’s been a long month of gaming thus far and we’re excited to discuss what has hit our table. The big feature this episode is Lewis and Clark: The Expedition. In our review, we’ll discuss the game, it’s unique features, the effectiveness of the race mechanic, and how deck building works when combined with a robust worker placement element. We’ll also dive into recent play throughs of Betrayal at the House on the Hill, Hotel Samoa, Evolution, and Can’t Stop – with some interesting opinions on each game. At the Table At the table this week, we bring a number…

You’ve been waiting for weeks for your package to show up in the mail. THE hottest game of the year finally came back in stock and now you have a copy of the crunchiest, heaviest hitting game of the year. You already have three sessions lined up with friends – entire blocks of your weekend set aside to play variants of the game and get a real feel for it. There’s just one problem. After months of waiting, weeks of delays, and days of planning, you still have to learn the rules, and there are LOT of them. This is…

Mere minutes after Ares Games (Wings of Glory, Aztlan, et. al.) launched their Kickstarter campaign ‘Galaxy Defenders – The Earth Strikes Back’, they had already met their funding goal of $40,000. The project was fully funded in less than five minutes, which means that they pulled in more than $8,000 per minute. Their amazing success shows no sign of stopping there, with the campaign having gathered nearly $200,000 in pledges ( almost five times their original goal) within 48 hours. They’ve had to start making new stretch goals to accommodate the surge of support. The campaign backs two expansions to…

One of the main segments of the BGA podcast has been the segment ‘Kicking the Habit’, where we discuss Kickstarter news relating to tabletop gaming. However, Kickstarter changes too quickly for us to provide good coverage under our current podcasting schedule. To try and get you better news faster, we have decided to spin-off ‘Kicking the Habit’ into its own series of  articles, audio, and video content here on the site. The final format is still being worked out, but we are very excited to be giving special attention to the increasingly influential role of Kickstarter campaigns on tabletop gaming. The…