The Vaughn Dispatch Board games, books, and whatever else is on the desk this week.

The Vaughn Dispatch

AUGUST 18, 2026

Gardens of the Moon Nearly Broke Me (Then I Loved It)

AUGUST 17, 2026

The Market Row Clogs at Two Players and Nobody Warns You

AUGUST 16, 2026

The Game That Invented the Genre Still Owes You an Apology for the Saboteur

JULY 24, 2026

Picking The Game For Someone Who's Never Played One Of These

JUNE 15, 2026

Marvel Champions Is the Best Two-Handed Solitaire on My Shelf, and I Mean That as a Compliment

JUNE 8, 2026

What Scientific Forestry Taught Me About Spreadsheets

MAY 28, 2026

The Worms Decide More Than They Should

APRIL 23, 2026

Cthulhu: Death May Die Is a Dice Chucker Wearing a Very Expensive Halloween Costume

APRIL 20, 2026

People Are Bad At Odds And I Notice It Constantly Now

APRIL 9, 2026

I Read The Book Everyone Already Watched And Somehow It Still Got Me

MARCH 26, 2026

The Kickstarter I Still Haven't Made Peace With

MARCH 20, 2026

The Time Travel Book That Made Me Finally Read Asimov

MARCH 16, 2026

What's Actually Next to My Bed Right Now

MARCH 12, 2026

A Book That Needed a Better Editor and I Still Can't Stop Thinking About It

MARCH 6, 2026

Why I Don't Buy Anything on Release Day

FEBRUARY 26, 2026

Jaws of the Lion Is the Gloomhaven Tutorial That Made Me Buy Actual Gloomhaven

JANUARY 23, 2026

Five Bucks for a Game I Now Carry Everywhere

JANUARY 21, 2026

The Dummy Player Is Either Fine or the Whole Problem

DECEMBER 23, 2025

The Rainy Weekend That Started All of This

DECEMBER 15, 2025

I Used To Think Rereading A Book Was A Waste Of A Slot

DECEMBER 8, 2025

Elaine Scarry Will Ruin Your Week (In a Good Way)

NOVEMBER 24, 2025

Duel for Middle-earth Took 7 Wonders Duel and Made It the Best Two Player Game On My Shelf

NOVEMBER 14, 2025

The Word I Used In A Meeting That Gave Me Away

NOVEMBER 8, 2025

Every Other Saturday In The Fall, My Street Isn't Really Mine

OCTOBER 25, 2025

A War Novel Told Backwards And Forwards At The Same Time, And It Actually Works

OCTOBER 22, 2025

Rereading the Book That Turned a Lot of Us Into Readers

OCTOBER 18, 2025

Rising Sun Is Gorgeous, Brutal, and One Bad Alliance Away From Deciding Your Fate for You

OCTOBER 8, 2025

The Fall of Rome, In Space, With Zero Interest In Giving You A Main Character

OCTOBER 6, 2025

I Finally Ran the Spreadsheet on My Own Shelf

SEPTEMBER 24, 2025

500 Pages On Your Own Brain, Written By A Guy Who Apparently Has One The Size Of A Planet