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Stamp Swap

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
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Fury of Dracula 3rd edition

by Mike Bon March 18, 2016
WDR Silver
Fury of Dracula shares much with its fanged protagonist/antagonist it has an eternally youthful demeanour and just when you think its dead, up it pops again with renewed fury and vigour. Originally rising back in the eighties from Games Workshops crypt it was a unique concept meshing theme and mechanics to excellent effect which probably […]
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Who Dares News 18th March 2016

by Mike Bon March 18, 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 […]
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Ominoes

by Mike Bon March 17, 2016
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 […]

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Sub Rosa: Spies For Hire

by Mike Bon March 11, 2016
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 […]
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7th Sea Preview Part Two: The Swiftest at Swordery!

by Charlie Etheridge-Nunnon March 10, 2016
Game by John Wick Presents Preview by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn   “Niech Żyje Książę!” “Long Live the Prince!” Part Two   GM’d by Jacob. Starring: Prince Aleksy Gracjan Nowak, played by Vinnie Domenica Vespucci the fate witch, played by me Ennio Vespucci the flouncy duellist, played by Ash Captain Roberto Gallo, played by Lee Azucena Esquivel […]
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The Final Girl

by Charlie Etheridge-Nunnon March 9, 2016
I’m going to do a dick move by telling you all about an amazing game you probably can’t get, but the experience was so fun that I had to share it. The Final Girl is a tiny RPG book, teeny-tiny, but it’s full of so much potential. We were short a couple of the In-Fighters […]

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A Study In Emerald – 2nd Edition

by Mike Bon March 7, 2016
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 […]
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Hostage Negotiator

by Mike Bon March 4, 2016
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 […]
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Playing With Ourselves

by Mike Bon March 4, 2016
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 […]

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7th Sea Preview Part One: Deploy the Swoon!

by Charlie Etheridge-Nunnon March 3, 2016
7th Sea Preview Part One: Deploy the Swoon! Game by John Wick Presents The In-Fighters were making characters for Dungeon World when the news pinged up on my phone. There was imminently going to be a Kickstarter for the new edition of the 7th Sea role-playing game. All play stopped while the half of the […]
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