I'm 33 years old, I live in a small city in Portugal - Leiria. I'm married to Ana and I have a 6 year old daughter named Maria.
I love football and I'm a Sporting Clube de Portugal fan.
I've started to play games as a child. I've played Monopoly a lot and a game published in Portugal called Petroleo.
In the year 2000, following my passion for board games and not seeing them published in Portugal, I've ordered some titles from a French website. It was a blind purchase because I didn't really had access to sufficient information in order to choose those games. I got lucky. I bought Civilization, Settlers of Catan, Serenissima and El Grande. All of them from Descartes. From that time on I've never stopped playing board games.
I went to Spiel 06 and 07 where I met Martin Wallace and Mac Gerdts, these days, my favorite designers.
I like all kinds of games but have some particular interest in heavy ones.
I change my rates all the time. I'm a mood player.
My HOT 10 games are games that could potentialy be at my TOP 10 but for some reason are not.
I run a portuguese blog about boardgames with my gaming friends (
http://spielportugal.blogspot.com/) and we have an annual prize for the best game - "Jogo do Ano" -
http://spielportugal.blogspot.com/2007/08/jogo-do-ano-2006-e...http://spielportugal.blogspot.com/2007/08/walther-mac-gerdts..."Jogo do Ano 2006 - Imperial, by Mac Gerdts"
"Jogo do Ano 2007 - Brass, by Martin Wallace"
Spiel Portugal also organizes an annual convention, LeiriaCon (
http://leiriacon.blogspot.com/)
