card games – Thomas P. King, author and game designer

End of Year & Top 100 (2025)

End of Year This was a long year for me, spending most of my time working on Winds of the North, editing the text (and it’s quite a lot of text) then rebuilding the graphics and layout. I’ve recently been working on the cover in hopes that I can survive without hiring someone. So, whileContinue reading “End of Year & Top 100 (2025)”

Top 10 New-to-me of 2025

My friend suggested I rank the games new to me in 2025 and post them, so here they are! I was hoping there’d be enough to do a top 10 of 2025 releases, but there weren’t quite enough (I think I played 8 or so from 2025, and I didn’t enjoy Arydia very much, soContinue reading “Top 10 New-to-me of 2025”

Catching Up on Games (12/1/25)

This will be the last big catch up before the annual End of Year wrap-up and new Top 100, so there’s a lot to go through! La Granja My friend and I had played this before on BGA, so we were looking forward to playing the physical copy. However, something about it was… less funContinue reading “Catching Up on Games (12/1/25)”

Catching Up on Games (4/9/25)

Whoops. It’s been a lot longer than I realized. There’s a LOT of catching up to do. Top 100 For those who haven’t seen, I updated my Top 100 games (read here). It was a lot of work, especially since I wasn’t happy with the initial results and re-did the Pub Meeple ranking (which takesContinue reading “Catching Up on Games (4/9/25)”

The Dwarves Are upon You! A Middle-earth CCG Session Report

Our gaming was cancelled this weekend, so here was a different game I played recently. Finally found some time to play some more Middle-earth CCG solo. I made a dwarf deck for a “2-deck game”, built around trying to gear up and slay a dragon (or two) and play some big point cards. Note, thisContinue reading “The Dwarves Are upon You! A Middle-earth CCG Session Report”

Cathing Up on Games (6/10/24)

It’s been a busy time, but an especially good one thanks to the Dungeon Dive’s review of The Unseen World! It was also busy because I did my first game trades. And between the Monday writing group and the once-per-month Thursday writing group, I’ve also been getting some good work done. Time has flip-flopped fromContinue reading “Cathing Up on Games (6/10/24)”