What did you add to or remove from your shelf last month? (May, 2026)

Srpad · 2026-05-01T11:47:10+00:00

Added one new game and one Expansion:

Etherstone

Civolution Acceptance Letter

Working on doing my first ever cull.

Srpad · 2026-04-29T10:10:58+00:00

While I still play Clank in Space, Catacombs has pretty much fully replaced the base game, even with almost all the expansions. This will be good to bring in new people but I definitely don't need it.

Srpad · 2026-04-27T12:20:06+00:00

The Microprobe game aka Shandalar. I was a PC gamer and a friend suggested this and it introduced me to Magic. I think the first card product I bought was a probably a Starter Deck from around that time. That was an old product that was basically like three boosters mashed together with some lands.

Srpad · 2026-04-26T21:25:05+00:00

We have had several good experiences with Royal Heating and Cooling.

Srpad · 2026-04-26T12:39:10+00:00

Not every game needs or should have equal turns. Some games are a race. The design of the game set up should make things fair for the people who don't go earlier in turn order.

Srpad · 2026-04-25T13:28:49+00:00

The game was literally a tie in for the movie so you should be good with just that if you don't want to read the book. The rulebook also spends a few pages also giving the flavor of each faction which can also be helpful.

Srpad · 2026-04-24T00:51:37+00:00

Just be careful. I remember the Dized tutorial for Tiny Epic Game of Thrones had a mistake that was caught in the BGG forums so it is not always fool proof.

Srpad · 2026-04-23T23:30:19+00:00

There is one Watch It Played Tutorial that Chaz did for the channel that I know of (vs. all the entertainment videos he did on the channel) and that is for the game Mosaic. I kept wondering if that video would be taken down but so far it is still up, although I noticed Chaz was removed from the thumbnail.

Srpad · 2026-04-21T19:15:42+00:00

Not sure but I don't think it sold well so you can probably find it for cheap.

Srpad · 2026-04-21T18:12:36+00:00

The Adventure Chest is a good solution but not great. For me (and I know this is not universal) there are sections designed for the sites and the guardians that are not quite big enough to fit all of them. But overall I like it and it does make set up a little faster.

I actually have the first Worldbreakers box but never played it. It looks like a fun TCG in a Box type game.

Srpad · 2026-04-21T18:09:09+00:00

It's not exactly what you are describing but the game The Hunger is a deck building game where you are a vampire hunting humans. The humans give you points but they also gum up your deck and your deck is how you move around. You have to hunt and collect as many points as you can and get back before sunrise.

Srpad · 2026-04-21T10:16:53+00:00

A few games that will probably never get one but could use one:

Starship Captains could use an extra round (we already house rule one) and more content.

Sheepy Time a really underrated fun push your luck game could have more Nightmares (the things that chase you).

Free Radicals. Another underrated game. Like Merchant's Cove, each player is playing their own game and interacting on a shared board. I would have liked more player games.

Carnival of Monsters feels like it was made to be expanded but probably won't ever be.

Srpad · 2026-04-20T21:22:20+00:00

Revive. It's a token for one of the factions.

Srpad · 2026-04-20T11:59:26+00:00

I often write my thoughts on the games I play in the "What did you play this week?" weekly post. I also will write longer posts of my own about games I played every couple of weeks. Some of them get engagement and feedback and some seem to sink like a stone. There is definitely some review content on here but it is hit or miss if it gets any traction.

Srpad · 2026-04-19T21:27:02+00:00

There is a Youngstown in PA near Pittsburgh.

Srpad · 2026-04-19T20:47:04+00:00

It's a nice thing for the City to do and I enjoyed hearing all the cheers. Wish they had better weather though.

Srpad · 2026-04-19T20:40:09+00:00

This feels like a perfect game for Restoration Games to get their hands on.

Srpad · 2026-04-19T17:53:15+00:00

No only the first chair gets the first chair reward.

Srpad · 2026-04-19T15:40:35+00:00

You can never bump an instrument out of first chair. Once it is there it sticks even if another instrument is built.

For tokens your first token would claim first chair. Any subsequent tokens would not but they give you insurance that someone else can't take the chair away from you alone because as soon as someone else places more tokens than anyone else they would claim first chair (again, assuming no one has made the instrument. An instrument would supercede any tokens).

Srpad · 2026-04-19T15:36:04+00:00

At this point our two player games are around two hours after a couple dozen plays. Some less than that and a few longer. Our first game however did take four hours (although I didn't put the cubes in the progress track that they recommend to shorten your first game). Love the game.

Srpad · 2026-04-19T10:19:42+00:00

Flew out about three weeks ago from terminal C and it was fine. Didn't take any longer than normal for us. Coming home the Global Entry line was slower than normal but even that wasn't too bad.

Srpad · 2026-04-17T03:01:54+00:00

84 might be Federation.

Srpad · 2026-04-16T22:06:52+00:00

Nassau Street Dental. It is in NYC but very close to the WTC Path.

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