Imagine you are on the sea. The ocean before you is liberally dotted with various inhabited islands. The sea is calm and the wind is fair. You want to sail from your home island to another, some distance away. The journey will take some time, enough so that this beautiful dawn will have passed into dusk by the time you arrive. There are no pirates or shark-infested waters along your way, just a need to plot a proper course. And for that, all you need is a tall ship and a star to sail her by…

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Thomas Wells wrote a very good review of this game several years ago. His take (from my reading) is that this is more of an art-project, an activity, than truly a game. Some might see it that way. After exploring this little gem, I (and several in my group) see it as more a game than an art-project. Certainly not just an activity. Read on and let me know what you think.

Tranquility is not always Silent…

My wife loves cooperative games. On a recent weekend, our normal game group could not all…

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My man Andy Matthews wrote a review of the Mountain Goats base game a few months ago. After trying the base game on Board Game Arena, I mostly agree with his summary. Mountain Goats is a very simple dice chucker with just enough strategy to warrant your attention when it is your turn. You roll four dice, then use the pips on each six-sided die to move goats in your player color up one of six different mountain tracks to score points. Only one player can have a goat at the top of a mountain; when another player’s goat arrives, your goat moves to the bottom of that hill, and it might take a couple turns to crest again later.

The base game takes about 20 minutes to play. Mountain Goats: Legacy is the new version of the game, and it has ten chapters, a very family-friendly Storybook that is used to provide just enough flavor text to get players from one chapter to the next, a couple of main characters to follow through a story, and almost the exact same gameplay experience offered by the base game.

And, that’s the problem.

For this review, I completed six of the ten chapters; five with my nine-year-old son,…

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