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An intro to tabletop gaming as ritual

Every time I unbox a board game it feels as though I’m ‘starting something’. There’s a secure rhythm in drawing out components, shuffling decks, placing pieces; it feels significant in the same way that the placement and positioning of elements in communion or offering feels holy. Mats are laid out,

Thump those pesky meeples out of your way in Bruno Cathala’s new boardgame

Other people’s meeples—those famous, multicolored, wooden board game pieces—have a bad habit of claiming the territory you have your eye on. It can get annoying. So for his Five Tribes, designer Bruno Cathala decided to design a meeple displacement system to help on your path to becoming the dominan