Ten Games I Will Never Play Again

10. Bang!

What a snooze-fest.

9. Risk Legacy

Once the excitement of opening new packets is over, you’re stuck with regular Risk; it’s like spraying perfume on a turd.

8. Machi Koro

Snooze-fest.

7. Settlers of Catan

Snooze-fest.

6. Munchkin

Steve Jackson sucks.

5. Mansions of Madness

Being a Lovecraft fan, I wanted to like this one so much; you can’t always get what you want.

4. Imperial Settlers

Snooze-fest.

3. Firefly

A great show deserves a great game; that didn’t happen here.

2. Cards Against Humanity

Do people still play this? A couple of times playing is all that’s required for it to get old.

1. Werewolf

Worst party game ever invented.

Fantasy Flight Games: Fury of Dracula

Fantasy Flight Games is remaking Fury of Dracula:

The most notorious vampire of all rises again in this third edition of Fury of Dracula, a board game of deduction and gothic horror based on Bram Stoker’s classic novel. One player takes control of the legendary Count Dracula as he stealthily crosses Victorian-era Europe, spreading his diabolical vampirism everywhere he goes. Up to four other players govern Mina Harker and her determined companions as they try to locate and destroy the fiendish Count before he plunges Europe into horrific darkness. But in this heated game of cat and mouse, the hunted prey may also be preying on his hunters. Any day’s travel might bring the hunters to Dracula’s location. On any night the Count may attack.

This edition features all-new art and graphic design crafted to complement the game’s intuitive, thematic mechanics. Rounds are now broken into day and night: hunters take actions during both, but Dracula can only act at night. Combat is now more streamlined and decisive, and new rumor tokens allow Dracula to mislead hunters and extend the terrible reach of his influence. Count Dracula triumphs if he advances his influence track to thirteen; if the hunters can defeat him before then, they save the continent of Europe and win the game.

Fantasy Flight Games: Cave Troll

Fantasy Flight Games has announced an interesting-looking new game called Cave Troll. Not only do you control heroes seeking to gain treasure, but you also control monsters seeking to thwart your opponents’ heroes!

Your ultimate goal in Cave Troll is to claim more gold than any of your opponents, using the heroes and monsters at your command to control chambers throughout the dungeon. Each turn, you have four actions that you must use to strategically position your figures and claim control of crucial chambers.

Cave Troll is available for pre-order on Amazon.

Grogheads: Why I Love Diplomacy

Why I Love Diplomacy:

You have to cut deals, trust, deceive, support, abandon, and (usually) beg, all in one turn. […] You’re moving about a room like a stock trader on meth-amphetamines and you’re loving it.