While reading through gaming rulebooks, I started musing on the rules of life. That leads off into many different tangents, as musings tend to do. But what I wanted to focus on was the core concept of the Rule of Law. On the surface, rules exist in order to allow Read more…
I was playing a game of Civilization the other night, a game I’ve played in various forms for almost 30yrs now. I set almost all of the settings to random and ended up with the Maori. I built my first city and started figuring out a win condition based on Read more…
My son has been learning to play Civilization. I’ve loved these games since I was a kid when the first one came out far, far to long ago. Unfortunately for a 7yo, they have grown quite a bit more complex over the years. He loved the exploration and meeting new Read more…
I’ve played through a few games of Civ with the Brave New World expansion. Overall, I’m loving the expansion. Lots of cool new features that really change the end-game dynamic, for the better. I’m going to take a look at the main new features of the game below. Culture/Ideology By Read more…