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
Tremulus Session Three “Fire” By Charlie Etheridge-Nunn Starring: Lee as “Dusty” Dawes, The Drifter Jacob as Doc Roberts (’Doc’ may actually be his first name instead of his title), The Salesman Vinnie as Fred Barrows, The Gravedigger Ash as Randall “Hands” Hersey, The Criminal Josh as Sam Star, The Entertainer Supporting Cast: Tommy […]
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 […]
Grant Howitt Day! By Charlie Etheridge-Nunn Games by Grant Howitt Who is this man? Why are all these people wearing hats? Who took all my clothes? All of these questions are answered by the name Grant Howitt. He’s a game designer who is the first I’ve decided to run a games day dedicated to […]
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 […]
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 […]
Right now is a surprisingly good time for role-playing games on Kickstarter. I noticed there wasn’t anything on the news section about these but there have been some huge announcements and some little ones which are worth attention, too. APOCALYPSE WORLD SECOND EDITION You may have noticed that I put up an article about Apocalypse […]
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 […]
Well hello there. Its been a while but as there has been such an abundance of news nay an avalanche of the stuff, it’s all over the place clogging up my mailbox and spilling out all over the door mat making a terrible mess. I’ve been sweeping it into a corner but now I’ve lost […]
Tremulus Session Two “Dreams” By Charlie Etheridge-Nunn Starring: Steve as Detective Gerry Tinder, The Detective Lee as “Dusty” Dawes, The Drifter Jacob as Doc Roberts (legally not a doctor), The Salesman Vinnie as Fred Barrows, The Gravedigger Ash as Randall “Hands” Hersey, The Criminal Supporting Cast: Tommy Magellan, Local Gangster Dr. Rodriquez, owner […]
Over this weekend Portal Games has been been running Portal Con. Its a game convention with its focus on Portal Publishing, where they announce how the companies been going over the past year, (which is well it appears) and have lots of tournaments and generally its an excuse to indulge some good old fashioned gaming. […]