My First Post

Dear Reader,

Welcome to The Rebel.

I thought, since I have a blogger account and I no longer post on BGG, I might as well start my own blog. Actually, I'm not a giant fan of the blog format. So, hopefully this will be only a temporary measure, because my plan is to at some point start a web site, with a friend of mine, and to host our own print and play game there. If you are very lucky, there will be a podcast as well, but that depends upon how board I am.

I've picked a format with cubes at the top so as to be welcoming to any Euro gamer who wanders in here.

Up until, two months ago, I would not have thought it would be possible to be a board game rebel, but it turns out that it is. It also turns out that I am one. So you can come here to read my rebelious thoughts about board games. But not today.

Instead, dear reader, I'm going to ask you a question. My friend and I are currently trying to rename our print and play game. The game is a variant of Risk, and was named Nuclear Risk. Unfortunately, its name horribly violates trademark, hence the need for a new name. The game adds a deck of cards to Risk. These cards try to represent everything in both real world warfare, and in B science fiction movies set now or in the near future. The game is whimsical, not for the easily offended, and probably the most chaotic game ever created. The game really is not about long term strategy, but about reacting to unforeseen and cataclysmic events. It's also about dishing out cataclysmic events on your enemies. In addition, the game tosses balance out the window. If you like unfair games, it's for you.

So, dear reader, (all two of you) please leave a comment on which of these names is most enticing and would prove irresistable to you, or, if you like, you can suggest your own:

Global Thermonuclear War
Clash of the SuperPowers
Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Folly of War