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
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
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
The Kickstarter I Still Haven't Made Peace With
MARCH 20, 2026 The Time Travel Book That Made Me Finally Read Asimov
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
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
The Rainy Weekend That Started All of This
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
The Word I Used In A Meeting That Gave Me Away
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
I Finally Ran the Spreadsheet on My Own Shelf
SEPTEMBER 24, 2025