The cookbook of Catan. (Seriously.)

Well, I suppose it was bound to happen.   Check out this article about "Wood For Sheep:  The Unauthorized Settlers Cookbook" which is filled with tons of Catan inspired recipes.   

I wonder if there's a recipe for 'Teuber Tubers'......  

Deconstructed hexagonal salad nicoise

Honestly, I'm not really one to judge.  I've been wearing my Settlers socks for months now.

(Thanks for the tip, Momo...)

Board Game Bash 2014

Coming up on Feb 17th, 2014 (aka "Family Day" in Ontario, Canada) the Kitchener-Waterloo region will be having its first ever board game convention. The event is called the BOARD GAME BASH. Emmanuel Bible College will be hosting the event (100 Fergus Ave., Kitchener, ON). The event will feature some fun tournaments (including a Android: Netrunner tournament at 5pm) and lots of open gaming. We will have a board game lending library free of charge to play games at the event. Also, we will be highlighting some amazing games from our sponsors with some scheduled demo's. FunGamesCafe.Com will have a retail booth setup from 12-6pm so you can purchase that amazing game you just tried in the lending library or demo. FunGamesCafe is offering free pickup for anyone who wants to purchase a specific game and pick it up at the event. Also, the BOARD GAME BASH will be giving away some amazing door prizes at different times throughout the day. And hopefully we will arrange a free math trade for the event too.

MORE INFO AT: BOARDGAMEBASH.CA

Poster below. Please help spread the word. Save the picture and post it on Facebook. Print it out and post it.

Settlers is the new Risk....

For a good laugh, check out this list of nasty things to do while playing Settlers.  Definitely gonna try #2 if I ever get dragged into playing the game again.

(Thanks for the tip, K-Stew....)

My teenage years encapsulated in a picture....

A friend just posted a pic of my old homemade Settlers edition on Facebook which she has held onto for 10+ years.  Back in '96 in northern BC, it was very hard for a 15-year-old to get a copy of Settlers of Catan without a credit card and before the current board game fanaticism brought everything to North America.  So I made my own copy with the rulesets I found online.  I think this picture foreshadows a lot. It's also a tad tragic - barns in farmland???  HA!

Double-click to embiggen the gloriousness

(Thanks, Shannon, for holding on to this piece of history!)

Epic Settlers of Catan boards...

Found on the Settlers Facebook page  - 8- and 9-player Settlers games.  Epic.

(Although I feel like expansion and trading would be remarkably easy and a bit dull....)

Someone must have filmed us playing.....

My net- and game-savvy sister points me to this must-watch video which I think must have been made about MY gaming group.  Very slick and very, very funny.

You know these people, I know you know these people....



(But I still hate Settlers....)

Daily dose of awesomeness....

Big Bang Theory catches on to the age-old "Wood For Sheep" joke from Settlers.... Only for the highly immature and severely dorky.  Um.  Like me.



(Link thanks to the other Eric at BGGNews...)

The promised land...

My friend took a picture for me while she was in Germany of a traveling Settlers of Catan bus (click on it to embiggen the pic). The side of the bus opens to allow people to come in and sit at tables and play hundreds of different games. I really gotta visit this country!