Last Saturday I attended a game of 'Watch The Skies!', hosted by Telford Boardgamers, as one of the umpire roles for the human teams. This was their second game of WTS (dubbed “Watch The Skies – Reloaded!”). Their first run of the game last year was an unmodified version of the original WTS designed by Jim Wallman [1]; for their second run, the fine people at Telford Boardgamers, many of whom were game designers and experienced boardgamers & roleplayers, had decided to make s

Would it be awfully trite to say “Why not?”?. The answer is yes. So instead I am forced to actually write down some reasons. 1. I like to talk about megagames Just ask anyone unlucky enough to share a car ride with me to or from a megagame, and they'll verify that I can chat about these things for hours. It's good to have a place to release all my thoughts onto the world. Especially a place where people are less likely risk jumping out of a vehicle at high-speed from excessiv