Tobold's Blog

Wartales was already a good game when I played it first in early access in 2021. It got a lot better and had much more content when I playe...

Since 1944, the United States of America dictate the economic world order. First with the Bretton Woods accord, and then with the neoliberal...

In 1942 the economist Joseph Schumpeter described the concept of creative destruction  as the economic process in which innovation makes old...

Yesterday I visited the "Spiel Doch!" board game fair in Dortmund. That is a fair that has about 5,000 visitors per day, compared ...

I crowdfunded another board game today, Six Sojourns , because the previews looked good, and Red Raven Games generally makes good games. But...

I personally believe that in the majority of cases in any country, a left of center government will do a better job of creating the largest ...

A bit over 5 years ago, I was very actively playing Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition. I had two permanent D&D groups for which I was t...

The first major patch of Civilization VII didn't actually fix all that much, but it did try to fix one glaring problem of the third age:...

5 years ago, in March 2020, the first big lockdown waves of the Corona pandemic took place in many countries. Thus my YouTube feed is full o...

Politics and history work on very different time scales. The noisy politics of today will be a footnote of history in a hundred years time. ...

Over the last month I put the kind of hours into Civilization VII that used to be reserved for my day job. I am now 200 hours in, and ready ...

I recently played a rather typical game of Civilization VII: In the antiquity I managed to expand up to my city limit, setting up a good bas...