Welcome to my first article on Eternal Draft. If you checked out all the stuff I’m into on this site, it won’t come as a surprise that I’m super busy, and I don’t get to play Eternal much. If I’m lucky I’ll get to do 4 or 5 Eternal draft a month. Normally this lands […]
We used the same battlefield as last time (http://bradfinlayson.com/heroscape-battle-02-mountain-fate-vs-batcastle/), Ice Mountain vs Castle with a wide river in the middle. There is a bridge crossing the river, and ruins on the flanks. We did a 2v2 team battle this time. Here are the armies: Team Thanos Justin: Thanos (360) + Krav Maga Agents (100) + […]
Shannon Lentz (the founder and organizer of Terminal City Tabletop Convention) and I were interviewed on CBC radio about playing and making games. Check out the awesome article here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/why-people-get-addicted-to-board-games-according-to-a-game-designer-1.4009643 AND the full audio interview here: http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/889866819549
It had been a while since we played Heroscape, and my brother Grant, who had found most of my collection at thrift stores for me, was coming up for visit, so it seemed like a great reason to get a battle in. I still had the castle and ice mountain I had built for a […]
I have weekly game nights at my place, and there is usually one other game night somewhere else another day of the week as well. At my game nights we change between BYOG random tabletop games, and an RPG night where players involved in a campaign show up and we play that exclusively. Currently I […]
I created this deck because I had a bunch of Justice Achievements piled up from a few days offline. Since the achievements didn’t require me to win, but instead counted cards played, influence gained, & damage done, I decided to create this janky Mono Justicew deck to optimize my time. Much to my surprise I […]
I was interviewed on George Jaros’ “People Behind Meeples” blog about game designers. I got number 55! One of my favourite numbers: My number when I was playing hockey, and part of the Fibonacci sequence! http://gjjgames.blogspot.ca/2017/03/people-behind-meeples-episode-55-brad.html Be sure the check out the rest of his awesome content and games while you’re there!
I first started working on Wizard’s WARdrobe as my class project for a game-building class I was teaching at a local school. I spent a couple hours each week with a few different age groups, and guided them through the rudimentary steps of game creation. I started working on Wizard’s WARdrobe during one such course […]
Hey forgers, I wanted to share my favourite deck with you for my first complete deck tech: Ebonflame Thunderskull! I recently went undefeated in multiple 20-card-constructed Weekend Warrior tournaments with a version of this deck, so I’m going to include that as well since the formats do rotate. All I ask is that you concede to […]
Upon introducing Mage Wars to my play group, who are mostly Magic: the Gathering & strategy card game players, they immediately fell in love with it. It’s embodies the total feeling of being a mage in combat, with brilliant, balanced, and easy to remember rules. There was also no losing to bad draws: you pick […]
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