Observed arrival · 2026-08-23
Elliot Unfiltered
Elliot Rhodes’s personal log of board-game reviews, book reviews, and occasional essays from Kansas City.
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Why it surfaced
The site sets a firm editorial rule: no review copies, no affiliate links, and no rating anything before it has been finished. The writing has a point of view, from calling a fantasy building layer “a spreadsheet in a fantasy costume” to refusing to round a 3/5 up to a 4/5.
Elliot Rhodes’s personal log of board-game reviews, book reviews, and occasional essays from Kansas City.
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