You sure you don’t mix it up between Legends of Andor (what the OP talks about) and Darkest Night (what your description sounds like)? There aren’t too many random monster spawns, most of them are spawned by legend cards and are static. And there are n…

There is no need for constantly rolling 5 and 6 – allthough of course it helps if you do 😉 (which makes the mage so powerful with a guaranteed 4 on his die). But the gist of the game is exactly the struggle of managing your limited (and diminishing!) …

My favorite board at the moment is the one from **Lord of the Ice Garden** – it just is beatiful work. Might look a bit busy on first look, but after the first play it makes sense and it is just great to look at – but the rest of the componemts are gre…

It is one of my favorites, too. I like how it works with the theme so well.

oh $deity. just think about him rambling on about what combination to start with :O

Ths is our choice, too. make the piles in the box top, collect the im tne trays per player in the insert and you don’t need much place. And you can easily stop and continue after eating, a single round goes fast enough, so you don’t end up with half a …

Well, Innovation is a typical Chudyk design – each and every card is crazy unbalanced and you constantly can (and will) screw over another player. I can imagine it being only moderately chaotic with two but more than that and you are in the land of cra…

and it doesn’t have random crazy illogic card powers thrown in and technologues actually build on each other as cost reduction and it has actual building costs. So, well, it is totally different from Innovation aside from the “tableau builder with ha dmanagement with tech dev as theme” 😉 Really, they play out very different. One goes well with a glas of wine, sitting in tne reclaining chair, philosophing about the world – the other is throwing each other cards into the face, hectically screaming and flipping the table at the end. 😉

oh yes, this one played itself uo into the heart of me and my wife very fast. I was astonished she likes it that muchm because it us on the heavier end of the spectrum if games we play, but she really enjoys it. The theme works great and it looks good …