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My first Broken Token organizer

By Meeple Lady | November 3, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

I finally had some time to assemble the Broken Token organizer for Caverna, both of which I received on my birthday. Caverna is a game with a million little pieces, both in plastic and cardboard form, and having an organizer for it seriously saves like 20 minutes for setup and cleanup of the game. And having the organizer ensures that the piles of resources are contained and don’t get out of hand, thereby saving space at your gaming table.

I first encountered a Broken Token organizer for this game back at Strategicon, and I said to myself that I would never play Caverna without it again. With the organizer, you open the box, pop out the two trays, pass out the tableaus and place the little rooms on the board. Easy peasy!

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Board gaming and a birthday

By Meeple Lady | September 27, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

And I’m back! I took some time off to celebrate my birthday in two states — California and Arizona. I enjoyed spending time with my family and then with my BFF kicking back to awesome bands at the Kaaboo Music Festival. We had a blast and are already seriously thinking about going next year. When I got back to Phoenix, I celebrated this past weekend with my friends by grubbing and playing board games at a house party.

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Popping into Strategicon in Los Angeles

By Meeple Lady | September 9, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

I was packing for my Labor Day weekend trip to LA to visit my parents last Thursday night when I noticed on Twitter that people were getting ready for Strategicon. Whaaa …?? I have a gaming friend who had gone to Strategicon in February, so I naturally assumed that the convention had gone and past. I quickly looked up the convention online and, lo and behold, Strategicon happens three times a year! They all happen during long weekends — Presidents Day weekend, Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend — at the LAX Hilton. Well, well, I totally couldn’t pass up on that!

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Fourth of July binge-gaming

By Meeple Lady | July 6, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

My friends and I decided to do a marathon 2 days of board gaming for July 3 and 4. I haven’t done that much non-stop board gaming since I went to BGG Con. We hunkered down for two days at my friend’s house, complete with 2 medium-sized dogs running around beneath the gaming table, and played some pretty epic heavy games.

We all arrived at 1 p.m. on Friday and first up on the agenda was Fief 1429 France. Oh, Fief … The last time we played Fief, a really tense fight broke out between my friends over one guy telling a new-ish player what do to, which was really to his advantage, and other players got really mad because then it was tipping the scale over game play. So I thought we weren’t going to play that for a while, but, two weeks later, here we are. They rationalized that they wanted to play it again because we now had 6 players, instead of 5 during that game we don’t speak of anymore.

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My top 9 board games

By Meeple Lady | June 23, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

The user @theboardgeek started this hashtag #mytop9boardgames a few days ago on Instagram, and I decided to jump on it and create my own photo grid. I hadn’t actually thought to write down my list in a while. There are just so many games out there! And of course, as you get deeper into the hobby, your tastes and preferences change. If you check out the list, I totally love heavy, crunchy games.

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Recap of International Tabletop Day

By Meeple Lady | April 17, 2015 | Comments 0 Comment

I got to play Lords of Waterdeep for the first time. Here are some of the quests you can collect.

Last Saturday was International Tabletop Day. All my meetup groups around the Valley were hosting their own special event. I ended up going to a friend’s event at his home and then moved over to my usual biweekly gaming group event. It was nice to see friends who don’t usually make it to all the events, so there was some time spent catching up on everybody’s lives.

The first game I played was Lords of Waterdeep. Strangely enough, I’ve never had a chance to play it before. I love the heavy crunchy games, and this game has never been suggested during my usual meetups. It’s a great game though that’s on the short side that introduces the concept of worker placement for new board gamers. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

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