Double post day today, but I didn't remember that the Garphill Games announcement Youtube was going live today. There was some really exciting news in this one, especially the new East Empire game! There are some other announcements, like a couple of card games, the Spirited expansions and the like. But two big ones are the ones I want to talk about.

Last week, I talked about people intentionally breaking a game by doing something that doesn't change the game state. In the post, I referenced everybody in a game of Terraforming Mars just passing as their first action, which doesn't do anything to make the game advance. That made me think about games that actually have some benefit when you "pass" or end your round or something.

Era of Experts is the expansion for the really long and intricate, but still quite good Inventors of the South Tigris game from Garphill Games. It has taken a while to actually get enough plays of this expansion in order to do a review. That's because the base game itself is quite long and has been difficult to get to the table since I was able to review it.

The loyal allies of Stephen siege against Empress Matilda's rebellion.

This story takes place in the game Architects of the West Kingdom. The letter below was found in a church and was translated by somebody very talented yet also very vindictive. He modernized the la…

A brand new play mat for Scholars, and reprints of all base games and expansions

This post took me a lot less time than last month's did. That's because there were no conventions in April! Instead of 10+ new to me games, there are only four in this month's post, but they are all pretty good! The Cult of the New to Me was very happy to see a 1999 game on there. So happy that they didn't seem to care that the other three games were from 2025 and 2026.