By Stonemaier Games, Paul Saloman I don’t know what it is with games which have really mundane themes, but something always appeals to me about them. Fantasy and science fiction are fine, I’ve got several games about Cthulhu and about zombies, but if you tell me there’s a game about a stamp convention, I’m in. […]
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Star Trek Adventures Second Edition Starter Set Review – Roll to Do a Starfleet!
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Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle Earth
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After Us Review
Mike reviews the game of post-apocalyptic monkey tribe engine-building
May 4th having arrived Fantasy Flight Games took the opportunity to jump on this new round of Star Wars love by announcing a heap of new content. Featuring expansions for both Star Wars Imperial Assault their dungeon crawl and skirmish game set in a galaxy far far away and the much requested Star Wars Rebellion […]
Trump/Putin A Ginger Goat game by Todd Crapper and Chelsea Hamilton Review copy provided by Josh Jordan. I was Donald Trump this weekend, and I may have helped Russia invade Canada. People sometimes say that comics, films and other media should stay out of politics. They should ‘just be entertainment’. The thing is, we […]
In this latest riveting misadventure Ben is away and the boys have found the key to the drinks cabinet. Charlie claims that Arkham Horror might just be better than the LOTR LCG, Nate shows us his Dust Bunnies and Mike admires his Arcadia Quest mini’s. In Room 504 miss a turn mechanics and drinks on […]
Starring: Jacob as the GM Charlie as Effy Varrow, an Avalon soon-to-be famous explorer Lee as Finn Hopkins, the vengeful son of an Avalon privateer Vinnie as Vanya Steiglig, a grizzled Eisen monster hunter Josh as Janina “Nina” Kohrs, a Samartian union leader who makes pacts with honestly-not-devils Amy as Galina Rurick Olgovna V’novgorov, […]
Hello, and in this change to regular programming I talk to Frank West designer of the rather marvellous The City of Kings. We discuss the game and some of the interesting design choices made to bring it realisation, we also dive into what the future might hold for this very cool game. So dive in […]
I was incredibly fortunate to get my mits on a pre-production copy of the spiffy new game Petrichor from the designer hive-mind of David Chircop (Pursuit of Happiness) and David Turczi (Anachrony). Its all about being a cloud and doing cloud stuff like raining and thundering and floating. OK I appreciate that that sounds like […]
Starring: Jacob as the GM Charlie as Effy Varrow, an Avalon soon-to-be famous explorer Lee as Finn Hopkins, the vengeful son of an Avalon privateer Vinnie as Vanya Steiglig, a grizzled Eisen monster hunter Josh as Janina Kohrs, a Samartian union leader who makes pacts with honestly-not-devils Amy as Galina Rurick Olgovna V’novgorov, an Ussuran […]
7th Sea is a swashbuckling fantasy game set in a vague parallel to old Europe, albeit the old Europe of the Musketeers, the Princess Bride and so on. You don’t make characters, you make ‘heroes’. You get bonuses for mixing up the skills you resolve things with, you fight ‘mooks’ and upon taking your first […]
We’re doing something a bit different this time; I’m going to be reporting on a campaign that I’m a player in. Jacob from the In-Fighters will be running the game and has volunteered to provide input where necessary. We’ll be playing John Wick’s 7th Sea Second Edition. The Game The In-Fighters have played the […]
Those lovely Tinkerbot chaps (they made one of our favourite games from last year Ghostel) have just released their first episode of season 3 of the wonderful Tinkerbot Games Podcast and fools that they are they let me on as a special guest! Madness. http://tinkerbotgames.com/were-back-season-3-starts-here-with-special-guest-mike-barnes/