Tea and Castle

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Day: December 14, 2023

Pai Sho

This is the first post in a series on fictional board games. If you want to learn more, check out the previous post, as well as the coming 2. I think my first great experience with fictional board games was with this lovely game from Avatar: The Last Airbender, so I think it's only right I talk about this one first. Pai Sho is a strategy game akin to chess, checkers or go, where players take turns placing and moving pieces across a large...

My Favorite Fictional Board Games

I love board games. I love sci-fi/fantasy fiction. So no wonder when the two combine I absolutely love it. This is going to be the introductory article for a small series I am going to do, where I talk about my all-time favorite board games that have come from works of SFF fiction. The three games I am going to talk about are: Pai Sho from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Liar's Dice from Pirates of the Caribbean, and Sabacc from Star Wars. There...