{"id":128796,"date":"2015-11-14T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/14\/board-games.html"},"modified":"2015-11-16T09:28:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:28:16","slug":"board-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/14\/board-games.html","title":{"rendered":"Board Games!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's always vaguely strange to hear someone enthused about a new trend that you're already in the middle of.<\/p>\n

We've been doing Game Days (focusing on board games) for at least a couple of years now. It was a reaction to our increasing inability to get Role Playing Games going or sustained in our social circle — and to the many cool board games out there that so many of us owned (and, via Kickstarter campaigns, kept adding to).<\/p>\n

"Betrayal at House on the Hill" is a pretty regular fixture for those Game Days, right behind "Settlers of Catan" and about as frequently pulled out as "Password." It's always a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

But having folk over to play games is always a lot of fun, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nBetrayal at House on the Hill and the Golden Age of Board Games<\/a><\/span>
\n“One of your fellow explorers stoops, picks up a scrap of paper from the floor, then mumbles something you can’t quite hear,” a stranger sitting at the tab\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It's always vaguely strange to hear someone enthused about a new trend that you're already in the middle of. We've been doing Game Days (focusing on board games) for at least a couple of years now. 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