Introducing: the Tabletop Canon

Since expanding the site for more mediums, those mediums will all each get their own canons! My rubric is essentially similar to the one for video games and here's a post that celebrates the initial roster of the canon. Concordia Concordia is a monument to simplistic but deep design and it has so much freshness just from new maps. It's a game that, to me, represents what this hobby is at the sweetest spot. Easy to learn, hard to master, lots of depth. I love the card cycling and the scoring methods and the tension of when to pull your hand back. Fromage For a while this was Tzolk'in, which is still an all timer, but I think Fromage gets you almost all of the same temporal thinkiness but with the killer bonus of being more streamlined and allowing for simultaneous turns. It plays faster which means it's so much easier to get a good game in. I also appreciate a non-traditional theme (although Tzolk'in is still unique) and that it's a little less intimidating for new players. Rokoko…

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