One of my favourite games is Dungeoneer by Thomas Denmark and published by Atlas Games, partly because of its carefully crafted ruleset, and partly because of its mysterious lore. Dungeoneer is sold as card decks, although it's actually also a board game, with some of the cards in the deck servi...
One of my favourite games is Dungeoneer by Thomas Denmark and published by Atlas Games, partly because of its carefully crafted ruleset, and partly because of its mysterious lore. Dungeoneer is sold as card decks, although it's actually also a board game, with some of the cards in the deck servi...
One of my favourite games is Dungeoneer by Thomas Denmark and published by Atlas Games, partly because of its carefully crafted ruleset, and partly because of its mysterious lore. Dungeoneer is sold as card decks, although it's actually also a board game, with some of the cards in the deck servi...
I was looking for some sci-fi soldiers for a game of Space Station Zero, and I stumbled upon Wargames Atlantic. They had a shipping centre nearby, so I decided to give them a try. The closest thing to generic sci-fi soldiers I could find, at the time, was their Iron Core product line, which then...
One of my favourite games is Dungeoneer by Thomas Denmark and published by Atlas Games, partly because of its carefully crafted ruleset, and partly because of its mysterious lore. Dungeoneer is sold as card decks, although it's actually also a board game, with some of the cards in the deck servi...
A few years ago a skate park got built across the road from my house. I'd always wanted to skate, but never learned how. With a skate park within a 45 second stroll, I figured I had no excuse not to take up a hobby that I'd been considering since childhood.
So I bought a skateboard and started ska...
Imagine everything you think you knew about the cosmos was wrong. Forget what you've learnt from the Forgotten Realms, or from Planescape, or Pathfinder, or Midgard. The Labyrinth can be your new reality.
The Labyrinth is a source book by Kobold Press for Tales of the Valiant or any DnD 5e varia...
In 1923, just a year after the Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter uncovered the tomb of Tutankhamun, Sir Grafton Elliot Smith published Tutankhamen and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter. Being a fan of Egyptology, I decided to read this historical...
Sigmar's Toll is a new series on Warhammer+ and I've been watching it. This review contains spoilers, so don't read on if you haven't seen the first 2 episodes yet. I'm not very well versed in the lore of the Age of Sigmar. So far, I've seen the Double or nothing and Undercity episodes of Ha...
The term "roleplaying" has been long an overloaded term. You can play a Lone Wolf or Fighting Fantasy game book, or a campaign of solo Tunnel & Trolls adventures, or play an RPG with a gaming group, or a computer game, and we call it "roleplaying". Just as people think of "D&D" when they hear...
In an effort to keep better track of what movies I've seen, I'm taking notes on what I watch. This post contains some major spoilers about King Kong (1933). The short version of the post is this: It's a great adventure film combined with horror, featuring some stunning shots, exciting progress in...
Assume there are two approaches to game delivery: Books and boxes. Actually there are other methods but these two methods of defining a game, which somebody can buy off of a shelf, encapsulate a good portion of the market. The difference is that a book is just text, and a box has everything in the b...
I've been running a Tales of the Valiant game for about a year, and it's been a lot of fun. I've thrown all kinds of surprises at the group, and they've certainly surprised me in return. As many of my RPG campaigns are, this one has been a highly unfocused one, with most of my hints at a plot goin...
I love the game Zambicide, and I've written in the past that every wargamer should own a copy. The more I play it, the more I realise that actually every boardgamer ought to have it. Aside from my friends who just don't feel comfortable with horror, everyone I've introduced to Zombicide has an ama...
I've written before about how I play games for mechanics, puzzles, atmosphere, power, and even just for music. There's yet one more thing that attracts me to a game, and that's a good story.
It's pretty widely recognised that we humans are suckers for a good story. We love sharing experi...
Roleplaying games are often thought of as a game about storytelling. With no set script, a conglomerated story emerges even when major milestones and plot points have been predetermined. A story, of course, is a kind of journey from one state to another. A humble villager defeats a notorious villa...