One of my Special Interests is Tabletop games. Whether they are Role Playing, or games of Chance, or Games of Skill, I enjoy many of them. I was going to write all of them, but I realized as I types, that I really don’t.

I love games of Chance, and Card Games, specifically. I am less enthused about games that deal with strategy and tactics. However, I enjoy them if they have a rich history, like the Chess family of Games. (No, Chess is not 1 game, look it up.)

Where this stems from is my Great Uncle Ross. Uncle Ross would let us play in his basement whenever we visited. I remember shelves and shelves of board games. To my childhood mind, there seemed like hundreds. I have no idea how many he really had.

I do remember loving games like Kerplunk, Clue, Sorry, and Mikado. Kerplunk and Mikado were fascinating because you had to remove sticks, without causing anything else to move or fall. This was particularly hard for me. But the part I loved was the analyzing the options, and trying to understand the physics of the situation.

Clue, Sorry, Snakes and Ladders and other games where a game of chance. If someone won or lost, it was not a matter of me miscalculating, or not reading other people. It was dice rolls, and a chance to talk and laugh.

Games like Monopoly, or Uno did not appeal to me until I was much older. These games seemed to be created for the sole purpose of being vindictive, or mean to each other. I never understood people who enjoyed games by crushing their opponents.

I have grown into Uno. The matching and chaos that can be created by multiple players appeals to me. But I still don’t enjoy vindictive players.

Anyways. As part of my Special interests, I have set up a second Blog. Baldwin Games.
I have been moving my older posts about games from this blog to that one.
I am not complete, but I feel Like I will post there once a week. (1 New, 1 old until it is all moved).
Enjoy!