What is it about rules and cardboard that draws us in? I never quite understood the imagination that went into many of the board games we see today. That is, until I started looking at myself. I love a good story, one that will have you turning page after page, depriving you of sleep, or having you hold it with knight knuckles. That is when it hit me. board games are like stories with rules. When we follow them, a board game can properly entertain ourselves no matter how abstract it is. I carried around with me for a long time a small black pocket sized book containing my stories and board game ideas, even down to the rules of game play. As a flash of brilliance hit my mind on some story or game I was thinking of, I would pull out my book instantly and take down my ideas, lest I forget and lose my precious gems. I would post these ideas here, but fear begets me. Needless to say, the human mind craves an order but an excitement along with it. Let it be known that a good board game every now and then is good for the soul, especially in the company of dear friends.
Perhaps when I get the courage to finish an idea I will post it here.
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