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I reference Uwe Rosenberg countless times in my reviews. Trying to write about board games without talking about Uwe is like trying to talk about movies without mentioning Stephen Spielberg. When it comes to making deep, thoughtful Euro games, nobody does it quite like this lovable German. As the creator of Agricola, Caverna, Le Havre,…
You can level a lot of complaints at the business model that Kickstarter encourages. Too many fingers in the pie of game production as backers demand their say? Sure, there’s plenty of that. Or how about all those utterly crap games that get produced on the promise of big miniatures and gorgeous artwork? Yup, there’s…
Newcomers to board games these days are met with such a variety of choices that it can be a little difficult to pick a starting point. But no matter their experience with gaming in the past; whether it’s just video games, or through RPGs, or from coming from card games like Magic: The Gathering, there’s…
If you’ve got even the slightest interest in heavier board games, than Uwe Rosenberg is already a familiar name to you. If not, then just know that he is the paragon of German board gaming sensibility. Farms, sheep, resources that need managed, and not a bit of aggression to find between the players. That’s not…
