(from Brendan) I have never done improv comedy, except for one sad day that I attended the improv comedy club at my college. To my personal disappointment, I wasn’t Whose Line Is It Anyway?’s Colin Mochrie (in body type and
attempt to move to a new tile
(from Brendan) Mice and Mystics, a dungeon crawler with a family theme, has surprisingly complicated rules for a game about mice with swords. There are several actions players can take during their turn, including “Explore,” which essentially means “leave one
Is It Luck?
(from Brendan) As I started to get more serious about the board game hobby, I learned a number of amusing terms for different kind of games. One that I enjoy quite a bit is “Ameritrash,” a seemingly-derogatory phrase for games
You Gotta Spend Money to Make Money
(from Brendan) One of my favorite things a game can do is to make spending money (or currency) draw from your victory pool. Some examples: Smallworld requires you to spend victory points to bypass races you don’t want to play.
Little bits from Rattlebox Games Headquarters
Rattlebox Games springs from our shared love of the Board Gaming hobby. On this blog, we’ll offer some insights into the kinds of games we play, the things that inspire us, and the developments in the gaming world that have