Hello friends: On of Canada’s most well-known miniature tabletop gaming events is now in the books, and can be counted a success.   After t...

My son John was visiting me from BC this summer, and expressed a great interest in my board games collection.   John is a miniatures gamer, ...

A dear friend of mine whose husband died of cancer a week before my own beloved Madame Padre passed away last November said something wise t...

My learning this week is that I shouldn’t have offered to give this game away. If you are an old school board war gamer, you will remember ...

Hello and welcome back to this sadly neglected blog, which I am tempted to rename Dragon Dormant.  Since I returned from La Belle Province d...

Earlier this year, Mad Padre's Man in Madrid managed to find me a copy of the old Avalon Hill classic boardgame Breakout Normandy , whic...

It was another quiet weekend at the Mad Padre's painting chapel, on the edge of the still mostly frozen Canadian prairie. After teasing...

A big shout out to fellow blogger Itinerant Hobbyist for his post last week, noting an interview with Don Greenwood of Avalon Hill on th...