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ness was nice and i think allowed a little more air even though it was still stiflingly warm at times i d forgotten my battery so the usb fan was a write off but my blue hand fan would still work as long as i had hands split and i arrived in hall four and weaved around trying to go row by row but getting distracted constantly split pointed out sailors of the spectral sea which looked like a lot of fun i booked in a demo on sunday which sadly i d ended up having to bail on but i ll have to check out the game in my own time it s a pbta game where playbooks are made up of two halves it also sold itself as dead gay pirates which feels like it d fit well with paint the town red s sad gay vampires i grabbed a stamp quest sheet as i figured i was seeing most of the stalls at some point to buy things interview them or both i then proceeded to forget i had it for most of the show i m not sure what this guy was up to i d found out on thursday that the star trek adventures game i d signed up for had been cancelled i assume due to the gm being unable to make it or something similar i didn t see any replacement games that i d like so i signed up for indie games on the hour igoth which i always enjoy i played a game of desperation which i love but a scenario i ve not played before about a doomed sea voyage i was the only person who d played desperation before and it was interesting seeing people engaging with the tarot style card drawing and storytelling there were a trio of players who felt new to this sort of thing but immediately went hard with someone making a homunculous out of fish parts it definitely set the tone we drew cards for the locations on the isabel then the cast and we put some interiority into them as well hence the fish homunculus then we played through three phases covering the storm battered ship a journey on lifeboats and finally survival on an island we had one person left at the end the zealously religious woman who gave up her husband god and removed her own arm out of desperation everyone on the ship in desperation where things were just grim rather than doomed the game ended a little early and my ride was playing until midnight so i wandered around looking for a decaf coffee while talking to my beloved there was no coffee but at least i had good company day two saturday a completely normal person in a hat and coat my first experience of big board game conventions involved playing ccg tournaments to the level where i d leave and feel like i d missed a lot of other things for the sake of a couple of full days of a card game i m relatively clean from them only sticking to the arkham horror living card game my friend graham is also a fan of arkham horror and doesn t often get it to the table so when he asked me to join him in an arkham horror game i agreed i ve been experimenting with the new edition of arkham horror actual review coming soon hopefully i brought a couple of decks i spent the night sleeving cards and showed up to the surprisingly chilly hall one we played the blob that ate everything else a print play scenario which i d only just been given the printed version of by graham the day before it expands the already fun and pulpy scenario with a few extra things i ve played the regular version once and this felt quite different as we had a new mission to carry out our arkham game this was an epic multiplayer game so we had expanded health for the blob all seven groups would contribute their clues and damage towards eliminating the blob our scenario involved pushing an armoured car across the blasted wasteland of the invaded town things took time and unfortunately for my character they kicked the bucket the rest of the group were going to follow shortly after but there was a shout and the collective tables had done enough damage to stop the blob the others at the table breathed a sigh of relief and i was pleased my sacrifice wasn t in vain i laid a curse upon myself by saying that hall one had left me a little cold and warmed up almost instantly i still wasn t able to find a copy of magical athlete but did find a discounted final girl season two box it was a sod to carry around and i wasn t sure how i d get it home but it was something which would help store my collection items on the parable games stand i found out about pin quest and started hunting them down although i didn t get far through the quest as it was late in the day and many stalls had already given away their day s budget of them generally the halls were a bit quieter for some of the day compared to friday it was still pretty busy when i was done with the halls and looking for an iced coffee before heading to the hilton most places were out of ice a terrible fate i met the storybrewers over from australia for the con and did my best not to squee too much i had a bit of a chat with them and then tried out a demo of kryptothera my comic writing mentor matt hardy and genius letterer rob jones both wrote stories in an anthology comic currently on kickstarter and suggested i check it out the game has players wandering america looking for cryptids to contain we were only able to play a few rounds but it had some robust mechanics for travel and capture my only criticism is that it felt pretty basic like someone had filed down eldritch horror i was advised that this was the most basic version of it missing out on player powers events and more it s understandable they d be kept out of a demo but it needed a little more pep i d be pleased to try it again with a bit more to it a mysterious cryptid graham heard me talking about my love of flip 7 and bought the fancy version of it when we were hiding from the heat we decided to try it out but needed a third player and that s how i lost a game to a foam block pictured below this loss is in my bg stats now the evening game was one which i played with graham and split as we try to have one game where we re playing together this time it was city of mist a game i ve written a middling review about i figured it was something which could be interesting for all of us and you never know maybe a different gm would win me over it didn t the pre made mystery was not the one i d run before which was a near miss but the gm didn t really engage with the moves just calling for us to roll and often ignoring the partial successes or gm moves we got stuck on the mystery multiple times and i could see my friends despairing as it often felt like we d tried everything we could eventually we timed out and the gm explained what the solution to the mystery was i have some further thoughts we ll see if i put them into anything coherent the room we played city of mist in apparently i didn t take photos of the game we got back to the travelodge and i decided to turn the fan off so i only had the freight train noises while i was hot it definitely helped day three sunday there s always a sense of a rush with sundays at expo given the amount of travel i had to do as i spent most of saturday around the stands with graham i felt like i d not accomplished as much games journalism as i d wanted so i checked out a couple of things and then ran about trying to interview rpg creators i ll cover those interviews separately so here are my thoughts on board games i saw string trains what s not to love play for keeps were showing off a gorgeous collected version of string railway i saw a review of the original on shut up sit down a long time ago and picked a copy up at the uk games expo bring buy the first time i went it s been a good game although playing it with a cat in the house added a tense timer as the game would end when she noticed all the string the re issue is great as it s a game which was out of print when i picked it up and very much in need to a sprucing up it s pretty cheap but i d resolved not to buy anything so i avoided it space hunt matagot hit me up with a review copy and i ll talk about it on casual trek there was also a star trek edition of captain sonar called star trek space hunt it features a federation ship fighting an enemy ship in several different scenarios i imagined something like classic captain sonar where people would take on different duty stations this version was actually two characters on each side normally a captain and first officer i was a little disappointed at that but it looked nicely made and if i had more time i d like to try a demo with that i finished my interviews with pelgrane press i decided not to bother them at an earlier busier time as they ve already got a customer in me and should be selling to other people i got to speak to both cat tobin and gareth ryder hanrahan who are delightful people it was my first time talking to gar who s a giant of a man and a constant source of enthusiasm just like last year with hurricane howitt i realised i was about to miss my coach and had to excuse myself i raced over to the coach stop and back to brighton i didn t stop on my way out of the convention conclusion it s always nice seeing the evolution of a convention over the years i loved the use of space and while the jarringly weird connections between halls meant no suddenly realising you were at a different angle it was nice feeling like most of it was one gigantic hall the air conditioning was terrible one vendor said that she d lucked out by being under a vent and would refuse to leave her spot other people were theorising that they blasted the air conditioning in small doses occasionally to cool things down but they couldn t keep it on as it would break things i missed the wider walkways of dragonmeet and virtually danced across the expanses when there was a rare moment of space overcrowded game tables at the hilton as far as actual negatives some more seating would have been nice as a person with a terrible spine and reception was terrible the convention s stance or lack thereof on ai art is abysmal and it was good to see vendors taking it into their own hands and even sharing signs for their displays which said they didn t use ai stalls which didn t have this were under a bit of scrutiny from me however in the rpg field it tends to be 5e type materials which tend to use it and i avoid those already the wonderful black armada who are of course all human and making games i only played two rpgs and neither mentioned safety tools i hadn t met either gm before and felt in good hands with them but it s a good courtesy and not necessarily the case for everyone there to be able to trust them with people s time i still remember years ago having a game of a post apocalyptic rpg which really needed safety tools and talking to the gm afterwards even he needed safety tools there are better people who have posted videos about this and by the sounds of it they played more rpgs than i did in short it was good busy and still has some work to do which feels like its contingent on the logistics of the place air conditioning seating and culture from the higher ups safety tools ai stance next up from me are some of the interviews i did with creators so check that out soon the mandatory haul pic posted in board games rpg tagged arkham horror board games city of mist desperation flip 7 kryptothera losing a game to a damn polystyrene block pin quest sailors of the spectral sea star trek space hunt string railway tamworth travelodge uk games expo ukge leave a comment poldark the board game posted on june 19 2026 by fakedtales poldark the board game also some whisky to help get through it by marks spencer it had been a while since i ve played a licensed board game from a charity shop so when i saw a poldark board game from m s at the martlet s charity shop for 3 i had to give it a try of course it s a poldark board game from acclaimed board game publisher marks spencer so it took a while to get it to the table i took it to a mini con my friends and i have each year called cabincon but it still didn t get to the table until my partner and i were the only ones left then more to get rid of it from our luggage than anything else she agreed to play it with me i will warn you i have no idea what poldark s actually about i knew it was some kind of steamy period drama with aidan turner and eleanor tomlinson looking hot that s about it so part of my review will also be trying to figure out what poldark is without bothering to check imdb or wikipedia the components the fanciest of the components m s is generally seen as a fancy place in my family and this game rides that line between fancy and cheap there s a pretty solid looking board although the spaces reveal that yes this will be a roll move game at least the spaces aren t numbered so there ll be an element of choice there are a couple of pretty standard dice a few small decks of cards cardboard coins and overly large paper money those notes are the fanciest part of the components sullied only by me realising i didn t have a notepad on me and using three of them for my notes finally there are six pawns which are small photos of the three couples in the cast inserted into plastic standees these are the cheapest part and the only ones where you ll see any photos from the show the cast of poldark now in cardboard form the game plays for 2 6 players with 2 3 controlling a couple each and 4 6 controlling individual characters in a couple there was a moment where i thought it would be fun if the game had you rolling two dice and assigning one to each character apparently not you roll two dice and pick which result to apply to both partners then you move them drawing positive negative or horse cards when you land on those spots you have objectives which will get you money and you can buy shares you ve got to get as much money as you can and park your pieces in truro before the mutually decided upon time is up we picked 35 minutes as it was the shortest they suggested in the book emma took ross and demelza the main couple i took george and elizabeth who looked closer to some villain coded or at least a bit haughtier than the other couple i can t remember their names each couple started in their homes with an objective a horse and some money because we were picking one die for both characters the couples started off travelling together and took a little time before splitting off elizabeth hired a new servant and made five crowns my mission was to get one of the couple to bodmin thrilling i know emma asked me how long was left 24 minutes shares i bought some shares thrilling and ross invested in a mine wow was this what poldark was about we got into doing a lot of pre measuring which helped kill some time during play demelza got a loop of objective cards allowing her to bounce between locations in the south of the map one of ross tenants found a pitch for their market which gave him some money i realised i needed both george and elizabeth in bodmin something which took a while to get into place when i realised i d need both of them to have the right 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