My first post in a while is about a board game that was inspired by the most famous and influencial writer of all time. It was named after the Bard and it plays as a nice, quite thematic, worker-placement game. Shakespeare: a worker placement game for 1-4 aspiring dramatists The Queen has asked you to put on a play in just six days. Managing this feat entails having the best acts and the most elegant costumes of all your rivals. It is hard to make it all happen in such a short time, so you might be forced to cut some corners. Will the quality of your play suffer? Or it will be your troupe's morale which bites the dust? It's all up to you to make all the decisions necessary in order to make the Queen happy. You are William Shakespeare, after all! In case you are not familiar with Shakespeare's time, his plays comprised an all-male cast, just like it was done in Ancient Greek drama, centuries before Shakespeare was even born. This means that the roles of Juliet, Ophelia or Titania and so on were played by male actors. However, the game has taken some poetic license and depicts all the female characters on the cards as women. I am perfectly fine with that. I think you should be, too. The overall artwork is really beautiful.
All in all, Shakespeare is a demanding game time-wise, definitely not a filler. It takes a little while to get accustomed to the rules, but like every other worker placement game, all players -seasoned or first-timers- will soon get the hang of it. Photo credit: BoardGameGeek
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