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GamerDad's Boardgame Wrapup
The truly excellent site GamerDad has been featuring a good, hard look at recent releases to the boardgaming scene since Gen Con last month. Anything you might be interested in playing with little plastic pieces is covered in their great, family-focused coverage. "Publisher of the popular Settlers of Catan among other fine European imports, Mayfair Games was promoting the game Ragmortha with a giant game setup. Each player is a goblin sneaking into a wizard's lair in order to steal back the gold he owes them. Players rush around trying to gain gold and avoid the evil wizard by playing cards on each other. It is one of those silly family games where players can add to the rules making it more of an experience than a game. For example, a player might be required to begin playing while standing on one foot, and another player might not be allowed to say the word "card" anymore. Meanwhile everyone has to tap the table with their elbow whenever the word "turn" is said, and so on..." You may have also seen elsewhere that GamerDad recently suffered a heart attack. There's a way on the site to contribute something, if you can manage it.
It's a poorly done copy and paste troll. Seriously, the quality of trolls around here has really been declining. The GNAA guys used to change their stock copy and paste troll all the time to reflect the story or even just recent stories in the news. Now they can't even be bothered to change the name of the editor before posting. Trolling is truly a lost art.
The submitter failed to link to the second half of the article, in which games from Rio Grande and Wizards of the Coast. An interesting mention by GamerDad was The Battle for Hill 218, including a playable version here.
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