List of all Cosa Bolle in Pentola Interviews

Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #35 - Luca Borsa
Hi gamers was a long time Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? was missing from the BGN pages. I was thinking to have caught almost all Italian designers but luckily they seems to rise like mushrooms after an heavy rain. Most are still not yet really known because I go to…

Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #34 - Gabriele Mari
Hi gamers today I’m going to interview Gabriele “Sandman” Mari, a new Italian designer. His game, Garibaldi: La Trafila, will be published this year by Nexus Games for the bicentenary of Garibaldi. Gabriele is also involved in La Ludoteca dei Cacciatori di Teste, a place in Ravenna that is the…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? # 33 - Francesco Rotta
Hi gamers today I’m going to interview one of the few Italian designers totally devoted to the abstract side of the games hobby and known in Italy in these days for his game, OXXO, distributed together with the monthly magazine Focus Giochi. Here is Francesco Rotta interview:


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #32 - Mattia de Michieli Vitturi
Hi gamers today I’m gone to catch a really new designer. Mattia de Micheli Vitturi is moving his first step on the boardgame scene and he is almost unknown both in Italy and outside. I hope you can enjoy this interview and I hope it could be a nice beginning…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #31 - Walt Castagno
Hi gamers today I’m gone to catch Walt Catsagno, one of the new Italian designers (he designed Canossa). Walt Castagno probably will be the mind behind the Rose & Poison boardgames line. I must admit that before this interview Walt was almost unknown also for me. I have discovered he…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #30 - Dario de Toffoli
Hi gamers is the time of Dario de Toffoli, one of the most profilic and active Italian game designer. He is on the game market from ever and is the founder of Venice Connection, together with Alex Randolph and Leo Colovini. If I had to told you about Dario probably…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #29 - Spartaco Albertarelli
Hi gamers here I’m with my 29th interview. This time I’m gone to catch Spartaco Albertarelli, probably the biggest Italian game designer. I think every Italian gamer has played many of his games. Spartaco was the product manager for the Italian version of Dungeons & Dragons and is the responsible…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #28 - Giacomo Sottocasa
Hi gamers back from Essen and survived to the move in my new house (at least now I have enough space for all my games!) I start again with my interviews. Today I’m gone to catch Giacomo Sottocasa, one of the man running Rose & Poison. The company is more…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #27 - Paolo Mori
Hi gamers with a big final rush (I wasn’t running so fast since from my years of Rugby in the high school) I was able to catch Paolo Mori, the UR designer, just few days before Essen. Paolo is a new designer (since UR is his first game published) but…


Andea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #26 - Emanuele Ornella
Hi gamers finally, after more than 1 year of unseccesfull tries, I was able to get an interview from Emanule Ornella. Emanule is a friend and we use to write each other often, talking about games and his prototypes but we wasn’t able to find time do make the interview…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? # 25 - Gianfranco Sartoretti
Hi gamers I’m running to cover most of the new Italian designers before Essen fair. And so after Claudio Gelosa and Andrea Mainini is now the turn of Gianfranco Sartoretti, a new name. And a new game, High Voltage, that I hope to quick review soon here on BoardGameNews. After…


Andrea “Liga” ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? # 24 - Claudio Gelosa
Hi gamers as promised I’m trying to hurry up covering most of the new Italian designers before Essen. I would like also to try to post some First Impression before the fair, but I’m not sure to able to do it. Claudio Gelosa is really a new designer: his first…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? # 23 - Andrea Mainini
Hi gamers here me again with my series of interview. I’m sorry but organizing ModCon 2006 has took me away most of my free time in these last months. Now the ModCon is over and I can start again to bring you updated about the happenings in the southern part…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue - Acchittocca Web Site
The Acchittocca Games Design Studio has now his own web site. At the moment only the Italian part is active but soon will be available also the English version. Acchittocca are the designers of Leonardo da Vinci, the new daVinci Games game. You can know more about them reading my…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #22 - Andrea Chiarvesio
Hi gamers here me back from my vacation and ready for start again my series of interview. Today I’m gone to catch Andrea Chiarvesio, A very important person in the Italian game scene and now also a game designer. Andrea is also an expert gamer and member of the jury…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #21 - Pier Giorgio Paglia
Hi gamers here again with my series of interview. This time I’m gone to catch Pier Giorgio Paglia, the designer of Wings of War, together with Andrea Angiolino. Pier Giorgio is active in the Italian game world since late in ‘80, writing on magazines and producing RPG expansions and adventures.…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #20 - Walter Obert
Hi gamers after a long break here we are again with my series of interviews. This time I’m been able to catch Walter Obert, one of the most active Italian’s game designer. He has already designed 3 games already published but he also has several project close to be published.…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #19 - Lorenzo Marchetto and Fabio Paulotto
Hi Gamers he we are for interview #19. this time I’m gone to catch two designers a bit out of the standard of this series. Lorenzo and Fabio are more involved in wargames and miniatures topics in ManorHouse Workshop. But it is true that in the last years the gap…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #18 - Marco Donadoni
Hi Gamers here we are at interview #18. This time I’m gone to catch Marco Donadoni, really a famous designer in Italy since most of the Italian’s gamers between 30 and 50 are grown up playing his wargames published by International Team. Zargo’s Lord, together with Idro, was the first…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #17 - Alfredo Genovese
Hi Gamers it is Friday 17 and we are at interview #17. For the fews that still don’t know what I’m talking about, I remember that “Cosa Bolle in Pentola” means, literally, “what is boiling in the pot”, so, what is happening of new in Italian market. I use this…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #16 - Alessandro Zucchini
Hi gamers for this interview I’m gone to catch Alessandro Zucchini, one of the new Italian’s game designers. Alessandro is not only from my town (Modena) but he is living just at the end of the road where my house is! A lot of time I have had (and, luckily,…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? # 15 - Sergio Giovannini
Hi Gamers for this inteview I’m gone to catch Sergio Giovannini, the Rose and Poison graphic man. Rose and Poison is most active in RPGs but it starting also to be involved in boardgames editing ... this year in Essen presented Deus Vult and also there are interesting things for…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #14 - Domenico di Giorgio
Hi Gamers Today I’m going to interview Domenico di Giorgio, the “daVinci” man! With Bang!, King Me and a lot of other good games daVinci is one of the most active Italian publisher. Wednesday was Domenico’s 40th birthday, and so, before starting the interviews, a good “happy birtday”!


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #13 - Silvano Sorrentino
Hi gamers, here we are at #13 ... this time I have interviewed Silvano. Probably most of you know already him for his great work in GiocAreA Online. Silvano is also one of the most active people on it.hobby.giochi newsgroup, the place where I first met him several years ago.


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #12 - Acchittocca group!
Hi gamers Here I’m for may 12 interviews! At least posting 1 interview every month I could cover 1 year! But my aim is to post once a week ... so I’m still at the beginning. And I really don’t know if I’ll been able to find 52 Italian’s designers/publishers…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? # 11 - Paolo Vallerga
Hi gamers here we are! Now is time for Paolo Vallerga and you will discover that is not only a good game designer but it is really involved in a lot of artistic activities!


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #10 - Piero Cioni
Hi Gamers I’m at #10 of my series. I’m really happy to been able to go so far and also the feedback I got by designers and publishers about these interviews is really good. I’m also happy becouse for my 10th interview I have Piero Cioni, a long time friend…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #9 - Leo Colovini
Hi Gamers it’s interview #9 and I’m really happy to been able to get Leo Colovini speak about himself and his projects. I think few of you still don’t know Leo and his games but what about himself and his projects ? What about Cosa Bolle in Pentola ?. Here…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #8 - Mario Sacchi and Matteo Panara
Hi gamers. Is it time (for the first time) to let space in my Cosa Bolle in Pentola for some of the new designers that try to make their climb in the game world! Mario Sacchi and Matteo Panara are tow young crazy designers ... they have only a game,…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #7 - Carlo A. Rossi
Hi Gamers today I’m going to interview Carlo A. Rossi, in my opinion one of the most promising new german style designers we have in Italy. Carlo is from my town (Modena) and I use to play with him sometimes (usually playtesting his games!). We shared the amazing experience of…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #6 - Marco Maggi e Franceso Nepitello
Hi all this time I take two designers with just only one interview! It seems that Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello are a real design team and so they ask me to make a common interview. That’s not bad!


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #5 - Emiliano Sciarra
HI gamers! Here I’m for my 5th interview. I’m quite sure you would prefer longer and deeper interview but this is what I’m able to do at the moment. I prefer to let the job of making real interviews to people more expert in this than me (like the fantastic…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #4 - Andrea Angiolino
Dear gamers! The things are going better and better. I’m getting more and more interviews. Starting this project I was worried about getting news and informations from Italian’s designers and publishers but at the moment I have got and answer from all the peoples I have contacted! So I’m ready…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #3 - Mario Papini
Hi Gamers! Here I’m for my 3rd appointment with Cosa Bolle in Pentola. For the ones (i hope few, now!) that still don’t know, it means what is boiling in the pot ? and it is all about project for the near future. For my 3rd interview I’m gone to…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #2 - Roberto di Meglio
Hi all here again with my second interview. This time I’m going to interview Roberto di Meglio that is both a designer (War of the Ring) and a publisher (Nexus Games). Roberto is also a long time gamer involved in several games projects from late in the’90… I remember you,…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Cosa Bolle in Pentola ? #1 - Angelo Porazzi
Here we are! This is the first of (I hope) a long series of quick interview with Italian’s designers, editors and publishers. Cosa Bolle in Pentola means What is boiling in the pot and, obviously, is about projects for the future. I would like to start from Angelo Porazzi because…


Andrea “Liga” Ligabue: Greetings from Italy
Thank to Rick to give me the possibility to be the herald of what is happening in Italy. I’ll do the best to provide you news, reports, previews and much more. I also try to make short and informal interviews with Italian’s designers, editors and distributors ...

World of Warcraft

Yesterday night me and Busso decided to play a one-vs-one match of World of Warcraft, including the expansion.

We played with two character each: I was the Horde (Warrior and Shaman) and Busso was the Alliance (Priest and Paladin).

The new rules (blue quest, new power and traits, destiny deck) are quite nice and really improve the game. As told before, WoW is a great game but with a really long learning curve, because you need to know your character deck very well and make the right trait/power choices.

Was a long time since I played it and so I was not able to configure well my warrior in the beginning. Busso's Paladin, on the other side, shows again to be one of the strongest characters in the game: just before reaching the IV level was able to roll 6 green and 6 red without using mana.

We decided to stop the game at 23rd turn, after I defeated a blue Doom Guard, making the final battle between us. Alliance's Paladin was a level IV and the Priest a level III; my Warrior was a level IV and my Shaman a level III. I was really well configured for killing monsters (I was able to play something like 4-8 attrition avery turn) but not so good against other players, sinc I was lacking rerolls.

Busso defeated me in 4 combat rounds and win the game.

As usual we noticed that we wait too much before trying heavy quest or attacking the bosses. Probably both of us will already have had opportunity to try to kill the big boss.

I really would like to play it again soon. I think is a nice 2-4 player game : with more than 4 the downtime increase too much.

good play
Liga