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Expat. Boardgame designer. Tabletop boardgame and roleplaying games. Football. Comics. Might post things that make me chuckle. YNWA
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@zillablitz.bsky.social was just watching an old vid from 3 years ago, and noticed you had a corner clipper on the shelf. Have you ever done a video talking about clipping counters?

Played a new prototype today, and revisited an older one last looked at in 2023. Today was a good day.

In games like I, Napoleon by @gmtgames.bsky.social cards are placed into different card locations on the (main) game board (specifically). Does this mechanism have a name, and does it have a category on bgg? @boardgamegeek.com

@blackmagiccraft.bsky.social do you still have your “homemade” gaming table? Did you produce blueprints/plans for it? If you were building one from scratch today what would you do differently, if anything? #itsbeenafewyears #iwanttobuildagamingtable

Q for solo boardgame players: Do you consider 1.5 hours too long for playing a solo eurogame? What’s your “sweet spot”? 🎲✂️

@beardedrogue.bsky.social I was trying to think of summit funny to say, but all that hit me was that it’s a lotta sumo!

Played the first iteration of a solo/bot system for Throne Of Allegoria this evening. Got absolutely slaughtered by it. But for a first play, I’m pretty happy with the mechanisms. #ThroneOfAllegoria 🎲✂️

January 2025 #bggstats

For the GMT crowd, I made a primer for getting started with one of the best dang games out there. Getting Started with Ironsworn & Starforged in 2025! youtu.be/xLZ2Tz14Il8

@bgstatsapp.bsky.social is there a way to manually sort the other of challenges as they appear on the mobile iOS app? Thanks

Do you have a favourite deck-builder game, and are there any deck-builders that you know of that combine other interesting mechanisms?

I’m sure there’s a page on BGG where you can see a list of games released by year, but I can’t for the life of me find it. Anyone got the direct link? Thanks #bgg #boardgamegeek

Updated 2024 #bgstats

@thebadspot.bsky.social what are your plans for The Bad Spot podcast in 2025?

Fewest games played in 12 years #2024

@thebadspot.bsky.social i’m two episodes behind. Has the vigilante’s (they/them) hidden identity been revealed yet? I’m wondering if they are the same person seen in the first Gideon flash back. (Who at the time was identified with female pronouns, I believe)

@thebadspot.bsky.social not gonna lie, hope you do a “shelfie” run soon, going through all the games on the shelves behind you, when you film. I can tell a number of them, from the boxes, but there are a couple (plus the “Stella Artois certificate” ???) that have me vexed. :-) Keep up the good work

Call-out to 2000AD friends. Tharg has failed me. I am missing my physical subscription copy of 2000AD #2408 The only issue I am missing since prog 1. His Subs/help droids tell me that there are no replacement copies available. Can anyone here help me locate a copy? Thanks UKDane #2000ad

My two biggest wishes for an improved Spotify experience are: 1) ability to select “country settings” to override the country I’m currently in 2) adding the year of track release to the song title and artist info on the current playing track. #spotify

Why would you not want to sell your product to a captive audience?

Slow Horses is top notch telly viewing.

I’m looking for recommendations for Substack, and for Patreon. Who do you recommend, and who do you pay to follow?

Do you use Substack, and if so do you have any recommendations?

Meanwhile, elsewhere…