Queens Familiar

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Tabletop game cafe centering local and small publishers with coworking during weekdays 🎲☕ Coming soon to Queens NYC https://queensfamiliar.com/

Godzilla Tokyo Clash has probably been my favorite game this summer. I bought this copy on a whim at the Museum of Nostalgia in the spring. Playing 2-player today, my King Ghidorah is in trouble now that Megalon rushed in. I got a nasty triple beam in last round. *screeeeeech*

Close up of the game board with Megalon on the same space as King GhidorahOverhead view of a 2-player setup of the board game Godzilla: Tokyo Clash on a wood table

I just made the "implied tablebottom games" joke elsewhere and then proceeded to make it my minute's work to repost other people making the joke here. I do wonder about "table" games. Floor time can be lovely, though. Ah, naming!

#1 board game pet peeve: A bad rulebook. There are so many ways to go wrong: hard to navigate, ambiguous, not enough examples or pictures, components not labeled, no index, doesn't follow the game flow. Writing a solid rulebook is a skill and an art, even for simple games, and many fall short.

When I move into a house I am just like anybody else: I like to immediately get settled in and orientate myself by drawing a map of the immediate area, themed entirely around the habits of squirrels.

A map of all the squirrel activity around the area surrounding the house I rented from the beginning of 2014 to the end of 2017