I bought Cartagena from our local game store last Saturday. The game had caught my attention on BoardGameGeek before and when I spotted it in the shelves the decision to bring it home with me was an easy one, as we had been talking about getting a new game with my wife P.

It's the type of game that I tend to like and search for, that is a light board game. It's for 2 to 5 players and the game time is estimated to be from 30 to 45 minutes. It's a race game where you try to get your pirates through the dungeons of Cartagena to the escape boat before other players. You move your pirates by playing cards. The game mechanics and economy are very neat: instead of picking up cards at the beginning of your turn you get extra cards only if you move one of your pirates backwards.

So far I've only played with two players and I can imagine that it will be a lot more chaotic experience with three or more, as the decisions of other players are bound to ruin your own plans. 

There was a story about playing playing rpg's over the 'net with OpenRPG in the Finnish role-playing magazine Roolipelaaja (issue 16). The issue was published about 3 weeks ago. It's a very good article, and why wouldn't it be, as it is written by Vellu from Alt+Games.

The article has a very personal point-of-view which is in part result of Roolipelaaja's editorial line. Vellu writes about our Star Trek: The Next generation game. I also wrote a small text about our online Dust Devils game Kingdoms in Flames. Get the mag if you can and check it out!