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Enlarge / Let’s brew some potions! Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. Who knew that being a snake-oil salesman was so much fun? Last summer, the board game Die Quacksalber von Quedlinburg won a major award from the German press, and buzz […]
So why Quacks? I read the script and I thought, “That’s actually really funny…”, so I did the pilot. Then it took more than a year before we were all available to get back together, which meant that James [Wood, the writer] had time to work on the scripts. We even rehearsed for a month […]
Imagine having a medical complaint needing surgery and discovering that the “theatre” in which it happens is not the hospital kind, but an actual theatre full of paying punters. There’s no anaesthetic because it hadn’t been invented yet, so you feel the pain as the surgeon cuts into you with implements that he hasn’t bothered […]
