This year I, dad, am joining in the Extra Life event and I’d love your support!
It’s no Ice Bucket challenge, so you won’t see a video of me dumping water on me head.
Instead it’s a drive to help Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. All the money raised for Extra Life 2014 will go directly to a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital.
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While we may be down 1 board game player, 1 board game reviewer, and our board game reviews video editor, that won’t stop our drive to tell everyone how great family game time can be.
Regardless of what grade your kids are heading into this year, there are plenty of fantastic board games and card games for you to play with them. Check out our short list of great games for different age ranges.
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A few months ago we posted a card game review for Boss Monster, a dungeon-delving game from the bad guy’s perspective. In the game you build out deadly dungeon rooms to lure and defeat the heroes from the village. Defeat the most valuable heroes and you’ll win the game.
All the artwork in the game is old-school, 8-bit video game style – just like the side-scrolling dungeon delving games from yesteryear.
Well, now it’s going digital!
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The announcement from GenCon that we’re most excited for came from Fantasy Flight Games about Star Wars Imperial Assault.
Star Wars Imperial Assault is going to be awesome!
The format of the game is just like another hit board game that the boys and I love playing – Descent: Journeys in the Dark 2nd Edition.
Descent is set in a fantasy world where a group of heroes ventures out on a series of quests against a mighty overlord. As the campaigns progress, our characters and abilities become more powerful and we enjoy a lot of great strategic battles in dynamic quest maps.
So when we heard we’ll soon be able to battle in a similar manner in the Star Wars universe, how could we not get excited!
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I don’t think I’ve anticipated working on a merit badge with as much enthusiasm as I have for the one we began tonight – Game Design!
Boy are these scouts in for a treat!
The Boy Scouts of America added the Game Design merit badge to the mix in March 2013. And I’ve been waiting for the chance to work on it with our scouts ever since.
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It’s not often you see a family board game blog with “Appendix” in the title. But our board game family of 6 is now short 1 appendix.
Let’s just say it was quite the memorable 4th of July this year.
But let’s start at the beginning.
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The best board games, card games, dice games, family games, and party games of 2013 have now been awarded!
With more than 3,000+ new games published in 2013, there were a ton to choose from.
But the 40+ top board game reviewers around the world were up to the challenge.
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This week we’re having a family reunion and I’m in charge of supplying the games.
Of course, supplying board games to play for the occasion isn’t a big surprise. It’s really something I do anyway whenever we get together with family.
The toughest question is which games to take…
Read moreWay to go Dads!
We commend all fathers in the world taking an active role in the lives of their children.
Huge kudos to you.
It’s not an easy task. Yet, you’ve taken on the responsibility and not shirked.
The positive impact you have on your children will last for generations.
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This Friday – June 6 – is the 70th anniversary of D-Day and the Normandy invasion of WWII.
To mark the occasion, many commemorative events are happening around the world.
But since we’re not traveling to be a part of such events, we’ll commemorate this pivotal moment of WWII in a way that will help us reflect on the battles that day – by playing Memoir ’44 with friends.
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