Tyler Morgan

Finding the best chess boards in means sorting through dozens of styles, materials, and weights. Our team spent eight weeks comparing 25 sets across tournaments, club nights, and travel situations to bring you the ten picks below. Tournament play follows the US Chess Federation standard of 2.25 inch squares paired with a king roughly 3.75 … Read more

Picking the best chess sets in is harder than it looks. I have spent the last few months unboxing, weighing and sliding pieces across boards, comparing tournament-grade wooden sets against pocketable travel sets and themed collectibles, so you do not have to. The right chess set changes the feel of every move. A weighted Staunton … Read more

Picking the best Warhammer paint sets used to mean grabbing whatever Citadel pot sat closest to the register at your local Games Workshop. Today the choice is wider, and honestly a bit overwhelming. After spending the last three months running Vallejo, Army Painter, and Games Workshop sets through Space Marines, Stormcast, Tyranids, and a small … Read more

Pulling back the plastic clamshell on a new Warhammer 40k starter set still gives me that little hit of dopamine, the same one I felt when I assembled my first Tactical Marine fifteen years ago. A Warhammer 40k starter set is a boxed product from Games Workshop that contains two opposing armies, the core rules, … Read more

I’ve run D&D games at home, at conventions, and around cramped kitchen tables for years, and the right battle map changes everything. After spending months rolling out, folding up, smudging, scrubbing, and yes, occasionally staining mats in the name of science, I pulled together this guide to the best battle maps for D&D you can … Read more

A Dungeon Master screen is more than decoration at the table. The right DM screen hides surprise rolls, holds quick-reference charts, and keeps your campaign notes where players cannot see them. After running sessions with cardstock, faux leather, and modular panels, our team narrowed down the ten best DM screens worth your money in . … Read more

Pull up a chair, grab some snacks, and clear the coffee table – we are about to find the best family board games for game night in . I have been hosting family game nights in my own home for years, with a mix of kids ranging from age 6 to teens, plus a couple … Read more

Cooperative board games flip the usual table on competition. Instead of hunting down your friends, you team up against the game itself, sharing every win and every loss. Pandemic, The Mind, Spirit Island, Mysterium – these are the best cooperative board games our team has tested across dozens of family game nights, couples weekends, and … Read more

Strategy board games have quietly become the heartbeat of modern game nights, and feels like the year they finally went mainstream. I have spent the last few months hauling boxes to friends’ apartments, dragging a tote bag to board game cafes, and teaching my partner the difference between a eurogame and a war game. The … Read more

Power outages are getting longer and more frequent across the country, and after watching three separate ice-storm blackouts knock out my street last winter, I started treating a whole-house battery backup the same way I treat a furnace – non-optional. The best whole-house battery backup systems in no longer look like hobbyist gadgets. They are … Read more