Essen Spiel has ended for another year, but unfortunately, we weren't able to attend. You see, our time machine malfunctioned, so we had to stay back in time to fix it. Seriously, though, due to personal matters involving babies and family, none of us could leave home this year. That made us really sad, but our friends managed to ease our sadness in the best way possible.

This article is quite different from the others. This is something that we have realized after four years of hard work in board game design and publishing. We believe that now is the right time to share it with you and we hope you find it useful. As some of you may know, when we created Age of Rome, we were inexperienced creators diving into uncharted territory.