Stefan Feld: The Designer Who Made 'Point Salad' a Compliment
There’s a joke in hobbyist board gaming circles: if you can win a game through approximately seventeen different scoring categories and you’re never quite sure which one actually mattered, you’re probably playing a Stefan Feld game. The joke has teeth - but it undersells what Feld actually does. The German designer has been publishing complex Euro games since the mid-2000s, and in that time he’s built one of the most recognisable design signatures in the hobby. Intricate mechanisms, historical European backdrops, dice that actually make decisions interesting, and - yes - multiple overlapping scoring paths that reward players who can hold several plans in their heads at once. ...
