James Wolff – Board Game Quest

Rallyman Dirt Monte-Carlo Expansion Review

James Wolff — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:58:52 +0000

Rallyman Dirt was a game I had originally eyed on Kickstarter, but decided to hold off on backing. At the time, my kid was a little young for the game when I thought it would get delivered, and I also thought he might outgrow a love of racing. Unfortunately for the backers, Holy Grail Games […]

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Roll Player Adventures: Silver Threads of Fate Preview

James Wolff — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:13:18 +0000

Roll Player Adventures is one of the games I point to as being the closest to a role-playing game due to its combination of adventure, narrative, character building, and combat. It’s a game I’ve played quite a bit and always enjoy having played the base campaign one and half times through, and I’m on the […]

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Donald Duck in Happy Camper Review

James Wolff — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:58:26 +0000

As I sip coffee from my Donald Duck mug, I’m at a loss of where to start. I have my standard “I’m employed by Disney but am unaffiliated with anyone involved with this game” comment, but while I feel it’s important to note, it’s kind of bleh and not much fun. Maybe I need to […]

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Infinity Essentials Review

James Wolff — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:00:10 +0000

I enjoy a good science-fiction skirmish game. Technology replaces magic and super powers, allowing you to experience a world that can be as fantastical as any fantasy world, grim dark, political, or anywhere in between. I also like miniatures games and pushing dudes, dudettes, and monsters/mechs around a map. Infinity is a miniatures-based skirmish wargame […]

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Top 10 Shelf Hog Board Games

James Wolff — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:01:13 +0000

Something that gamers love more than great board games are deluxe and overproduced board games. Some of these are big box versions with a multitude of expansions all fitting in one box while others feature content from either crowdfunding or retail expansions. But both are shelf hogs. This could very easily be a Top 10 […]

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Hoplomachus Remastered Pandora’s Wake Expansion Review

James Wolff — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:09:47 +0000

This review is for the Pandora’s Wake expansion for Hoplomachus Remastered, which has solo and competitive play in a fantasy-based ancient Rome in which various factions battle in gladiatorial arenas. Wait, you’re probably asking yourself, didn’t Tony review that expansion a month or so earlier? Sort of. He reviewed Homplomachus Victorum’s Pandora’s Ruin. And I […]

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Hoplomachus Remastered Review

James Wolff — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:53:47 +0000

This review is for Hoplomachus Remastered, which has solo, cooperative, competitive, and team-based play in a fantasy-based ancient Rome in which various factions battle in gladiatorial arenas. Wait, you’re probably asking yourself, didn’t Tony review that a month or so earlier? Sort of. He reviewed Homplomachus Victorum, which translates to “Heavily Armed Victors”, which is, […]

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Blitz Bowl Ultimate Edition Review

James Wolff — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:07:56 +0000

One of the barriers to entry for many Games Workshop games is the price point with starter sets often being well over $100 for two small squads and some terrain. A few years ago, Barnes and Noble started carrying slimmed down versions of some games with Fire Team being a smaller version of Kill Team […]

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Mini Dinosaur Review

James Wolff — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:26:53 +0000

Dinosaurs ruled the earth for 165 million years and died out around 65 million years ago. To put that span into perspective, the dinosaurs in this image lived further apart in time than the Tyrannosaurus Rex does to our time. But did you know that they also liked racing? They also had marriage customs and […]

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Run! Run! Run! Review

James Wolff — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:06:51 +0000

What do River Valley Glassworks, Lands of Galzyr, and Everdell all have in common? Besides being crowdfunded, they’re all games with anthropomorphic animals living their best lives. That theme sometimes can feel a little tired. But what about cat archaeologists exploring an ancient pyramid and fighting various Anubis-like mummies? That’s a little different and that’s […]

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