My copy of Oath arrived!

And, yeah, post-pandemic I’ve been able to rebuild a small group of board gamers who are willing to engage with me, even on ridiculous games like Oath. So let me tell you some of my thoughts about it.

there’s this difficult moment where I show my wife something I’ve been obsessing over for weeks and she looks at it and nods and goes “uh huh, uh huh, yeah”

it’s happened to me so many times and each time it’s basically exactly like this:

The draft layouts for the combat system in a game I’m fussing with are starting to reveal a problem with it. Reasonably a player could expect to have, like, six pages like this: JUST DENSE TEXT.