The roll & write or flip & write genre among board games is usually situated at the lighter end of the spectrum, and very frequently also at the cheaper end. There are a bunch of excellent roll & write games you can get for under $20. Sometimes somebody makes a far more heavy and complicated roll/flip & write game, which then is also more expensive, e.g. Hadrian's Wall at $60 MSRP. And then there is Tend. I just got the Deluxe version I backed on Kickstarter, and it was $99 plus shipping plus VAT. It is probably the most outrageously overproduced flip & write game ever.

It manages that by not only including 200 copies each of the two sheets you write on, but also 200 copies of scratch off cards, 36 colored pens that also can stamp, a neoprene mat, the cards you need to flip to play, and a huge box to contain it all. I'm not saying that I really need all that, I probably would have been served well enough by the $69 standard retail version. But the price difference to the deluxe version wasn't that big, and I was amused by the idea of having a game in this genre with that excessive production value. I just hope the gameplay it is as good as all the reviewers said.

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- posted by Tobold @ 1:41 PM Permanent Link