General Rants – Victor Gannon Games

Big Kids 1

My four year loves board games (it’s was destined) So does my eight year old. I could yammer on why that’s a positive but let’s cut to the chase here’s the three step plan Step 1. Get your kids/nieces/nephews interested in board games Step 2. Advise their parents or yourself on what games theyContinue reading “Big Kids 1”

More mod it Monday

Cash and Guns is a pure party game. It was out of print for a long time and the new version is a fine game. However we can make it better… The original version had the option of an undercover cop and THIS turns the game from a throw away filler to something much moreContinue reading “More mod it Monday”

Friends with Benefits

“Mod it Monday” Over the years I’ve come across a number of tweaks and mods for games that IMHO improve them quite a bit. These are usually decent games to start with but some clever folks have applied brain power and made them even better. I’m now going to share a few of those and hopefullyContinue reading “Friends with Benefits”

Happy 6

Jay McKeown is the director of BroCon. A yearly three day cornucopia of board gaming, cosplay, console gaming and all things gaming gaming (yes I said it twice). He’s a Regular at thur night games, is despicably young and has a super power of inhaling rules and being right about them far too often I caught upContinue reading “Happy 6”

Flick it like it’s hot

Ascending Empires is an oddity. It’s a 4x space game with and unusual movement technique…. You flick the pieces to move them. That’s right it subbuteo in space. OK you’re first thoughts are this is dumb until you sit down and play a game. It’s really really good. Play this game if you get aContinue reading “Flick it like it’s hot”

Happy 5 – Games Nights

Harvey O’Brien runs a regular boardgames night in his house every week, he’s a founding member of the South Dublin BoardGamers, he knows a thing or two about games and he has a beard. I’ve had the pleasure of joining him and his guys for games some time back and they’ve now become regulars atContinue reading “Happy 5 – Games Nights”

F@‪#‎K‬ YOU CANCER

Guys, A lot of you will know Ronan the proprietor of Dungeons and Donuts in Galway. He’s organizing a 24-hour Game-a-thon in the shop in Galway on the 17th October here’s why… “This is going to be an event to raise money for cancer care west, where a bunch of volunteer gamers will attempt toContinue reading “F@‪#‎K‬ YOU CANCER”

Happy 4 – Role Playing

Len O’Grady is an artist, colourists, comic book artist and dedicated gamer. Among other things he works at every child’s dream job, “colouring in” and is more than capable of doing it in between the lines. I couldn’t even tell you half the stuff he’s worked on so just take a trip over to his website andContinue reading “Happy 4 – Role Playing”

Happy 3 – Kids

In a continuation of our series on why we love gaming, I’m looking at gaming with your children. Borys Zabinski is a gamer, blogger and manager of the kids corner at Knavecon and Knavekids. He’s a regular gamer at our Thur night gaming sessions and can be relied upon to pull out some weird andContinue reading “Happy 3 – Kids”

Throwback Tuesday

I’m going to go back to a time long past. Imagine what you’re looking at going all uniformly wavy and wobbly and someone pressing one key on a Casio and BOOM you’re back to a time when games were broken, we had no sense and it rained a lot. (an earlier version of now) WelcomeContinue reading “Throwback Tuesday”