Games on the table

2026-08-10 — Mage Knight Board Game (2011) 4/5
2026-07-08 — Blood Rage (2015) 4/5
2026-07-02 — Forbidden Stars (2015) 4/5
2026-06-16 — Townsfolk Tussle (2020) 4/5
2026-06-09 — Nemesis (2018) 5/5
2026-05-14 — Cloudspire (2019) 3/5
2026-01-14 — Marvel Champions: The Card Game (2019) 4/5
2025-12-08 — Twilight Imperium (Fourth Edition, 2017) 5/5
2025-12-05 — Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure (2016) 4/5
2025-11-15 — Guards of Atlantis II (2022) 5/5

I work as a freelance legal transcriptionist, mostly depositions and the occasional arbitration hearing, which means my job is to sit with dense, unbroken, often difficult language for hours at a stretch and get every word of it exactly right. I think that's why I don't scare off the way some readers do when a book asks for real patience, four hundred pages of invented anthropology, a biology monograph nobody assigned me, a novel with no quotation marks at all. I read across genres on purpose, literary fiction one week, hard science fiction the next, a piece of theory or popular science after that, because staying in one lane bores me fast. Board games are the other half of this blog, mostly the heavier end of the shelf, long strategy games and co-op horror and the odd MOBA-in-a-box, played with a rotating group of friends who are far more patient with my rules explanations than they should be.