Esoteric Order of Gamers

It really began back in 2004, when a lifelong interest in boardgaming, roleplaying and miniature gaming was fanned into obsession by the discovery of BoardgameGeek.com. I began to get serious about my boardgame collection.

But one thing annoyed me. Everytime I took a game off the shelf to play, I had to re-familiarise myself with the rules by reading through an entire rulebook. A rulebook often cluttered with background material, examples, illustrations and, sometimes—let's face it—just plain bad writing. And the problem got worse the more games I owned.

So I began summarising and condensing the rules onto a single sheet or two; and as a professional graphic designer, I was compelled to carefully match the graphic design of each game. It wasn't long before I started getting serious about the process, and I was off on a personal crusade to create summary sheets for every game in my collection; and track their development through version numbers.