Who Dares News 18th March 2016
Waaahhhhh! Newsgasm! OK so if that above image (no not the Newsgasm thing the bloody box above it) doesn’t send you into a frothing twitching fit I don’t know what will. Eric ‘Bloody Blood Rage’ Lang he of the crazy hair and Panda fetish has announced that he’s designed/designing a Godfather game based on the […]
Ominoes
WDR Silver
Like Omar Sharif’s entrance in Lawrence of Arabia, Ominoes has slowly materialised on the horizon building a palpable sense of anticipation and fascination as it took as damn well long as it pleased getting here. And then the other day completely unannounced the bloody thing just dropped on my door mat, Whizzer! Ominoes is the […]
Sub Rosa: Spies For Hire
Sub Rosa is imminently due for release on Kickstarter. I was lucky enough to be furnished with a preview copy by the designer and following are my thoughts. Ever fancied yourself as a Spymaster? Sub Rosa deserves to be set during the 1970’s at the height of those shadowy cold war shenanigans, after all, who […]
A Study In Emerald – 2nd Edition
WDR Silver
What initially drew me to this was not designer Martin Wallace criminally this was my first sampling of his work, but rather its inspiration from the short story by Neil Gaiman. Gaiman’s tale collides the worlds of Doyles Holmes with Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos into the sort of thing to get any self-respecting geek into a […]
Hostage Negotiator
WDR Bronze
Hostage negotiation Hollywood has mined this genre creating some thrilling and nail biting flicks Dog Day Afternoon, Speed, The Negotiator and The Taking of Pelham 123 (the original not the remake) are all excellent examples. All are chockful with twists and turns featuring more cat and mouse shenanigans than a Tom & Jerry marathon. It’s […]
Playing With Ourselves
The board gamer is by choice a social animal, never happier than clustering in groups and shooting the breeze around a table filled with like-minded individuals its the founding principles of what we do. But any true tabletop apostle will at some point in their meeple laden journey partook in a spot of the old […]
Who Dares Rolls Podcast Episode 30 – Time Stories
With the podcast crews numbers decimated by Births, confusion and assorted plagues. Mike and Robbie careen onwards into a discussion on Time Stories. Part role playing game with a dash of choose your own adventure the boys attempt to take a peek up its flux capacitor without having a nasty paradox. Also discussed is Mike’s […]
Show me the money!
Whoot! like a proud father grappling with a fresh pink mewling newborn it gives me great pleasure and a warm comforting feeling in my underwear to announce that our Patreon page has gone live. Now if you’re sat there scratching your head wondering “what is Patreon?” well allow me to clear up any fuzziness that […]
Who Dares Rolls Express 04 – Ghostel
The Who Dares Rolls Express podcast a nutritious and compact nibble of audio delight. In this frightfully amusing episode I take a moment to chat with Bevan Clatworthy (say that three times fast) designer of Ghostel the game of dice chucking and haunted hotels funding on Kickstarter now. We cover the journey it took to […]
Who Dares Rolls Podcast Episode 29 – There and back again and back again…
Its a new year! And we’re late of course. Yes in the usual timely and zip zippity speed in which we like to do these things, here is the fashionably late 2015 look back and what’s cooking in 2016 discussion. We discuss favourite moments of gaming in 2015, the games we enjoyed the most and […]
