The Hobbit: There and Back Again

Before Dr. Reiner Knizia invented areas, everyone and everything was simultaneously co-located and yet distant all at the same time. It was primordial chaos. Movement was effectively impossible, as Xeno demonstrated; then Knizia did don his Bow-Tie of Delineation of Time and Space and constrained and liberated us all at once with his invention of areas.

Games Played Last Week:

00:53 -Dungeons & Dragons: Builders of Baldur's Gate (Matthew Dunstan, WizKids, 2025)

11:40 -Keyflower (Sebastien Bleasdale & Richard Breese, R&D Games, 2012)

15:36 -I'm Out (Masato Uesugi, CMYK, 2025)

20:01 -No Thanks! (Thorsten Gimmler, CMYK, 2025)

25:18 -My Very First Games: Let's Be Veterinarians (Kristin Mückel, HABA, 2024)

27:30 -The Quest for El Dorado: The Golden Temples (Reiner Knizia, Ravensburger, 2019)

31:55 -Peloponnes (Bernd Eisenstein, Irongames, 2009)

News (and why it doesn't matter):

37:48 Renegade reprint of Lords of Waterdeep (with expansion)

39:29 Renegade G.I. Joe Heroscape

43:06 Render unto us your questions! Ask us anything for Omnibus Questions

43:26 Feature Game: The Hobbit: There and Back Again (Reiner Knizia, Office Dog, 2025)

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