Author: Girls Who Like Board Games

How (Not) to Talk About Your Non-Gaming Partner

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By Li0ness 

I want to start out by acknowledging my incredible privilege – I’m a cishet woman married to a cishet man, and I’m lucky enough to share a very important hobby with him: board gaming. In fact, when we met on a dating site, my first very romantic, knock-his-socks-off charming message to him, was, no joke, “Thank god, someone else on here knows what Splendor is.” I love being married to another gamer, our collection is a large and important part of our lives, we plan trips to conventions as vacations, and I always have someone around who’s ready to play when I want to get a game to the table (even if he likes area control games far more than I do.)

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Writing for Girls Who Like Board Games

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20200614_164208Girls Who Like Board Games is a international group of women with a presence on various social and game platforms. I stumbled across them and loved the vibe of the group. I have to say I feel more comfortable chatting with them than other board game groups I’ve tried out. I’m not sure if it’s because the gender identity of the group is female or if it’s just the chemistry of this particular group. When they said, “It’s time to start a blog, who’s in?” or words to that effect, I raised my hand: “me, me, me, me, me!” The group blog was launched and my first piece was published yesterday: Horrified: A Review with a Village Full of Monsters. They liked it so much they’ve asked me to be a regular contributor to the blog.

I’m not a super-experienced gamer with floor to ceiling shelves packed with hundreds of…

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Horrified: A Review with a Village Full of Monsters

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By Ainy Rainwater

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My favorite monster when I was a kid was The Creature From the Black Lagoon. We lived a few houses down from a large drainage gully and not all that far from the Texas Gulf Coast, so an aquatic monster creeping across the backyard at twilight was a lot more plausible than, say, some monster from a lightning-struck castle, Transylvania, or pyramids. I’ve never lost my love of classic monster movies, and my husband loves them too, so when I saw a board game based on all those monsters I had to get it. It’s been less than two years since I started getting back into board games as an adult and the pandemic and consequent lockdown put an end to the 4-6 player weekend board games with the extended family, so I started looking for games my husband and I could play together. If it could play well with the whole family in the post-pandemic era, all the better. 

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