When I was 10 I had two best friends, Mikael and Alex, and we would spend all of our time together. One of our favorite activities was playing role playing games. (D&D, TMNT, Ninja’s and Superspies are the three I can remember of the top of my head) . Before we learned about girls we would spend our recesses hunched over a desk rolling die for initiative and combing through the Dungeon Masters Guide.

I’ve grown up some since then, but I still haven’t given up the nerd in me. I channeled that nerd towards technology and put aside the role playing for many years, but a couple of years ago Mary gave me Settlers of Catan for my birthday and I fell in love instantly. How could there be a whole realm of interesting, challenging, fun boardgames that I had never heard of?!? A way to exercise my love of fantasy/sci-fi and role playing without losing friends, personal hygiene and self respect! I was thrilled.

Since then I’ve picked up a number of other titles and have enjoyed them all. My friend Charlotte has organized a gaming group and we get together every couple of weeks, have dinner and play games. This has been a great experience and wonderful way of learning of (and playing) new games. Zombies, Apples to Apples, Puerto Rico, Ticket to Ride, 5 Crowns to name a few.

Long story short, I’ve added a new category for games. In future you can look forward to hearing more about my game playing experiences. Let me know if you’ve got any questions/thoughts about the games I talk about.