David Rodriguez

Early on in my experience with the board gaming hobby, I came across the app version of a physical deck-building game on my phone. That game was Ascension, and it truly captivated me. I’d never played anything like it before. It perfectly mixed the delight of random card draws while simultaneously mitigating that randomness by … Read more

During the excitement and revelry of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, something sinister was happening. A man calling himself H. H. Holmes began building a hotel. He would hire and fire contractors and construction workers quickly, so no one but he would know the hotel’s full layout. It was full of doors leading nowhere, … Read more

After Dominion arrived on the tabletop scene in 2008, the mechanic of deck-building started appearing everywhere, sometimes with original IPs, and sometimes with a popular license attached.  Since that time, deck-building has often gone from being the sole mechanic in a game to one mechanic amongst many. Cowboy Bebop: Space Serenade is in many ways … Read more