To me, this has been a weak year for boardgaming (only 50 different ones) and a strong one for role-playing. I skipped both LinCon and my buddy’s November weekend boardgaming retreat, which would have brought up my boardgame numbers.
Role-playing games are a big thing for me these days. I ran six sessions of Delta Green for three missions,* thirteen sessions of Mutant Year Zero, and eight sessions of Drakar och Demoner for the original 1987 Svavelvinter mini-campaign in Fantasy Iceland. Also I ran a session each of Drakar och Demoner and Delta Green at the ÅbyCon gaming convention in March. Total 29 sessions!
(* Reverberations and Extremophilia from the 2018 collection A Night at the Opera. Ex Oblivione from the 2020 collection Black Sites.)
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Below are the boardgames that I played more than twice this year. Can’t Stop, a short Sid Sackson classic, was new to me. Brass and Hansa T are longer games. All seven are highly recommended!
- Can’t Stop (1980)
- Brass: Birmingham (2018)
- Coloretto (2003)
- Keltis (2008)
- Hansa Teutonica (2009)
- High Society (1995)
- The Grizzled (2015)
Dear Reader, what was your biggest table-top gaming hit of 2023?
Stats courtesy of Boardgame Geek. And here’s my gaming year of 2022.
Aardvarchaeology - by Dr. Martin Rundkvist 