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Month: October 2019

Growl

October 31, 2019 theratholereviews

It’s the day! It’s Halloween! It’s time to get your howl on. It’s time to get your GROWL on! At…

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Posted in: Card Game, Halloween Games, Party Games, Review by David Chapman, Social Deduction Games Filed under: Card Games, Growl, Halloween, Joey Vigour, Secret Role Games, Social Deduction Games, Vigour Games, Werewolf

Campy Creatures (Expansion 1)

October 29, 2019 theratholereviews

I’m going to start this review with the same statement I opened with a year ago, in my review of…

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Posted in: Card Game, Halloween Games, Review by David Chapman Filed under: Campy Creatures, Card Games, Keymaster Games

Top Three Fantasy Worlds I’d Live In

October 28, 2019 theratholereviews

Today is a bad brain day, courtesy of my old friend Seasonally Activated Depression. It would be easy to give…

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Posted in: Column, Renaissance Gamer Filed under: Column, Renaissance Gamer

Pitchstorm (Creature Feature)

October 26, 2019 theratholereviews

When the Rat Hole launched we began the monthly tradition of looking at different expansions for Skybound Games’ runaway hit…

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Posted in: Card Game, Halloween Games, Party Games, Review by David Chapman, Skybound Saturday Filed under: Halloween, Pitchstorm, Red Flags, Skybound Games, Skybound Saturday, Superfight, Superfight Saturday

Clades Prehistoric

October 24, 2019 theratholereviews

“A clade is a section of the evolutionary tree – basically any branch, including all its sub-branches. A clade is…

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Posted in: Card Game, Family Games, Review by David Chapman, Speed Game Filed under: Atlas Games, Card Games, Clades, Clades Prehistoric, Educational Games, Family Games, Grandmother Fish, Pattern Recognition, Prehistoric

Valkyrie (Kickstarter)

October 23, 2019 theratholereviews

Valkyrie is a game I’m torn on. It’s not that I don’t love tactical strategy games, because more often than…

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Posted in: CrowdFUNding Spotlight, Review by David Chapman, Solo Games, Tactical Wargames Filed under: CrowdFUNding, Dan Verssen Games, Kickstarter, Miniature Painting, Miniatures Games, Tactical Games, Tactical Wargames, Valkyrie

Glyph Chess

October 22, 2019 theratholereviews

Glyph Chess is a chessboard-style game adapted from the pages of the Chinese comic book, Tales of Tarsylia. It is…

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Posted in: Board Game, Family Games, Review by David Chapman, Strategy Games Filed under: Abstract Strategy Games, Bluepiper Studio, Board Games, Chess, Glyph, Glyph Chess, Strategy Games, Tales of Tarsylia, two player games

Making Scrolls Magical

October 21, 2019 theratholereviews

I wrote before of ways in which you can make the magic in your game more magical. Today I want…

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Posted in: Campaign Prepper, Column, Renaissance Gamer Filed under: Magic, Renaissance Gamer, Roleplaying Games, RPG, TTRPG

Starfinder (Alien Archive 3)

October 18, 2019 theratholereviews

[EDITORS NOTE: If this is your first experience with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game, you may want to consider starting with our…

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Posted in: Review by David Chapman, Roleplaying Games Filed under: Paizo, PlayRPGs, RPG, Starfinder, StarfinderRPG, TTRPG

Tricky Tides

October 17, 2019 theratholereviews

Are you ready to set sail… FOR ADVENTURE!? This is the only nautical game I have in my pile right…

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Posted in: Board Game, Card Game, Family Games, Review by David Chapman Filed under: Board Games, Card Games, Tricky Tides, Zafty Games

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