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On Board Games and Heraldry, a Blazon Review – Turn Order

When I heard my wife idly mention that someone was doing a boardgame about heraldry, my attention went from dormant to couchant. When I found out it was going to be for sale at GenCon, I became sejant (perhaps...

A Hollywood Style Zombie Shoot-and-Run: Zombicide Season 2 Review – Turn Order

This month, I went back to Gen Con after a few years away from the Midwest in general. My family tends to move around a lot and since we have moved to the West Coast the logistics of planning,...

Where to Play Tabletop RPGs Online – Turn Order

Who doesn’t love TTRPGs? Sitting down with handfuls of dice, your meticulously curated character sheets, and hallucinating an adventure with your friends while sitting around the dining room table. But what if you all can’t make it around that dining...

Kids on Bikes: The System So Obvious It’s Brilliant

In the ever-expanding world of RPGs, it can be hard to find a new system that doesn’t feel like an offshoot of D&D or Powered by the Apocalypse—at least not a system that feels playable. That’s not for nothing;...

Turn Order’s Top 10 Games We’re Excited About From GenCon

Ah, GenCon! For those of us who enjoy our gaming on the tabletop, there really isn’t a bigger convention and expo show than this one. Every year publishers big and small bring their upcoming titles to reveal, demo, and...

Dungeons, Dice & Danger: Roll & Write Survival

Once upon a time, board game critic Dan Thurot tweeted and lightly admonished a sliver of the Board Game Discourse thusly: “Are board games Just Math? Sure. In exactly the same way that books are Just Words, movies are...

Why You Should (Maybe) Buy Root in 2022, Part I: A Turn Order Review

In 2019, a game burst into the world that would catapult Leder Games, and in particular Cole Wehrle and artist Kyle Ferrin, into the tabletop stratosphere. The Cuddly COIN game Root has since become something of a phenomenon, with...

Not Quite Good Enough – Power Rangers: Deck Building Game – Zeo: Stronger Than Before Review

I'm a millennial. And as a millennial, we are prone to endless purchases based on nostalgia. I thought I was above all of that until I saw the Power Rangers: Deck-Building Game – Zeo: Stronger Than Before. My inner...

Checkmate Daddy: A Story Time Chess Review – Turn Order

A month or so ago we took our kids to the local ice cream parlor. While we stood in line my older son (age 6) noticed that some of the tables had playing pieces and a chess board on...

Berried Treasure – A Sweet and Savory Treat

The folks at Restoration Games are ludo-archaeologists. They recover beloved, out-of-print board games, retcon and restore them (natch), then re-release them for the modern game player’s sensibilities. Some Restoration discoveries are as mythic as the Holy Grail – as in...