Foamy Urine | New Health Guide

Foamy Urine | New Health Guide

Foamy Urine | New Health Guide

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Circus Train Review - Boardgame Reviews

Circus Train Review - Boardgame Reviews: " When I got swept away by the first wave of German import board games I had this peculiar vision that what I’d get was a tide of easily learned, fast playing games which were nevertheless strategically demanding and full of interaction. What I got mostly were bland, empty shells of games, bereft of  thrills and drama. Circus Train is the sort of game I was expecting, except it turned up a decade too late."

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Relic review from someone who never played Talisman | Relic | BoardGameGeek

Relic review from someone who never played Talisman | Relic | BoardGameGeek: Actually, "the Trader ended up being corrupted by chaos long before the end of the game due to a string of bad encounters" is the point. This is not a systems game where the art and theme are there to make the gears look cheery—Relic is the page numbers and paragraphs of a choose-your-own-adventure novel rolled out onto a board and stacked in decks of cards to be accessed by the roll of the die. The game is about the random, emergent narrative, no two alike. The story is the prize you leave the table with, win or lose. Some of my most cherished gaming memories are from years-old Talisman games where the absurdity and awfulness of the adventure dwarfed any feeling of "accomplishment" the winner might have felt. (It's important to note that I cannot recall who won which games; I have only the memory of my wretched circumstances. And those stories warm my heart.)

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