For the vast majority of human civilization, battles have been fought in familiar patterns. Armies marched on armies, by column and by row. Cavalry, archers, terrain, weather -these things all came into important detail. Sometimes the commanders were at the...
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You Should Be Playing… Dread Water drips a steady staccato somewhere in the darkness. By the dim glow seeping in through the windows of the basement, you can make out only a few shadows around you. The smell of dirt...
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Greetings one and all! As members of the board gaming site, The Cardboard Republic, we want to tell you a story. It involves robots. And ninjas. And elves. And factories. And ships. And aliens. And zombies. And sheep. What sort...
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It’s amazing to think that a game can continue to innovate after 20 years of constant play. Sure, there are games that have been around for decades (and even centuries), but to be a game that evolves and changes the...
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Episode 009 Length: 27:35 Subscribe to Show Link: Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast! We’ll be posting new episodes every Thursday, and each episode will be about 20 – 30 minutes long. Firstly, we...
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I’ve been playing a lot of Elder Sign lately because (a) it’s a great game, and (b) it’s one of the few really good, relatively quick co-op games I know (having played Pandemic just about into the ground over the...
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Kings and Queens were very busy people once upon a time. They had entire countries to rule, armies to muster, reigns to secure. It couldn’t have been easy what with massive opulence and power on the one hand, and having...
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Editor’s Note: David Gordon currently writes the You Should Be Playing column regarding tabletop RPG recommendations. This is great for articles about specific games, but sometimes topics come up that fall outside this normal purview or require more in-depth analysis...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes… Halloween is usually a time where people get to dress up and pretend to be whoever or whatever they want. Whether you want to be a mad scientist, a princess, or any sort of spooky...
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Nowadays, the vast majority of the items we see around us are mass produced: they are machined, processed, packaged, and shipped with such uniformity and precision that you’d never be able to tell one designer from another. Prior to the...
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