Rattlebones - Tabletop and Board Games Review

I have lots of experience with deck building games. They come in lots of different flavors, from more static sets of cards that even the playing field (like Dominion) to collectible card games like Magic: The Gathering. However, Rattlebones certainly deserves kudos for its creative approach to a dice building game. That is right - the primary hook is the ability for players to change the composition of their dice. It is an interesting gimmick that helps to elevate Rattlebones above its fundamental gameplay mechanics.

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Dominion - Tabletop Review

Dominion is a card game that is heavily focused on strategy - but no small amount of luck either. There is no board at play here (or dice for that matter). In fact, in terms of what the game physically has to offer, there is not much outside of the box, the different stacks of cards and the internal shell which can be used as a card sorting mechanism if you use the cardboard strip down the middle to help identify card types. That is yet. It seems simple enough, and it is once you get the hang of the game, but Dominion itself is anything but simple and incredibly addicting.

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