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A couple of weekends ago I was at HandyCon. I feel very lucky to have this really first rate con more or less on the doorstep (an hour's...

I have had mixed success introducing Cosmic Encounter to gamers who have never played it before. About 50% of the time it goes down really w...

I was recently featured on Actualol, Jon Purkis's excellent and long-running video channel. He had invited viewers to submit a shelfie a...

I spent the two weeks leading up to Christmas in the USA, visiting my son Phil who back in early 2024 moved to Richmond VA, taking my daught...

I have recently – over the last couple of years or so – been renewing my interest in 18xx games. This is  largely thanks to the 18xx.games w...

Last weekend I got together with a group of old boardgaming friends that I made (mostly) back in the 90s when I lived in Salisbury. We hired...

My squadron of X-Wings about to (unsuccessfully) take on the Mandalorian and his dodgy friends Last week I finally returned to our local Sta...

Actually not that much of a crisis. I've been playing Time of Crisis solo against the bot from the Iron and Rust expansion. The bot is c...

Marc Reichardt's recent article over on There Will Be Games, The Question of Consumption , hit a nerve for me, especially this sentence:...

Blogger informs me that nimrods boasts 1,482 posts! Reading back over my past writings is a bit cringe-making, actually. Many of my attempts...

My very first entry on nimrods was posted on Thursday, April 19, 2001. Two posts actually – the first was a session report on a weekend-lon...

I've just been playing Pax Renaissance, the latest masterwork from Phil Eklund at Sierra Madre games, playing it through solo to get t...