One of my favourite games is Dungeoneer by Thomas Denmark and published by Atlas Games. Dungeoneer is sold as card decks, but it's also a board game, with cards serving as board tiles and character abilities. I own every Dungeoneer deck released, and I'm reviewing them each. In this post, I'm...
For most of my life, a "game master" was the person who ran a game of a roleplaying game. Specifically, it was the "generic" and legally-distinct version of the D&D term "dungeon master." Once I really started playing tabletop games however, I discovered that many games had a kind of game master r...
I'm continuing to rewatch every episode of the Man from UNCLE series from start to finish. This review contains spoilers.
The mafia decides to blow up Las Vegas. The don puts his bumbling nephew Frank Cariago (Bernard Fein) in charge of the operation, both as punishment and as a final chance to...
It's something of a formal fallacy in gaming: If some pen-and-paper game systems are too complex for some players, then physical representations of game components must make a game easy. Of course it's not entirely wrong. In a way, this is why miniatures exist, and why [theoretically] useful product...
In August 2025 in issue 515, White Dwarf magazine published a set of rules for a cooperative mode for Warhammer 40,000, inspired by the breakout hit Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 video game. I'm never one to bury the lede. Space Marine Operations is a great game. It's easily the best way...
I tend to get a lot of use out of the game books I buy, and Pariah Nexus is no exception. I bought this Crusade book for $100 NZD and I've read 44 pages of lore and then spent a whole 2 months playing through its 15 missions in order. This is my review of the Pariah Nexus Crusade book's missio...
I recently got a boxed set of Doctor Who novels, featuring the 9th and 10th Doctors along with Rose Tyler, from a second-hand bookshop. I've been enraptured by them, so I'm reviewing each one. The first book in the set is The Clockwise Man by Justin Richards. This review contains spoilers, so if...
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, but it's really a board game, with some cards serving as board tiles. I own all D...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The fifteenth and final mission is called Final Acquisition.
After some reflection, I've decided that the previous mission was the logical and definitive conclusion to the Pariah Nexus story I was tellin...
I've been actively blogging since 2011 and a tech podcaster since 2006. That's basically 20 years of publishing content, of admittedly variable quality and esoterism, on the world-wide web and other online destinations (such as Gopher). This annual report looks at some trends and influences on w...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The fourteenth and penultimate mission is called Reawakening.
In this mission, there are 5 objectives. The outer 2 are objectives A, the inner 2 are objectives B, and the centre one is objective C.
- O...
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, but it's really a board game, with some cards serving as board tiles. I own all D...
One of my favourite games is Dungeoneer by Thomas Denmark and published by Atlas Games. I own every Dungeoneer set released, and I'm reviewing them one by one. In this post, I'm looking at the characters in the Wrath of the Serpent Goddess set.
Non-player characters
There are several named...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The thirteenth mission is called Into the Tomb.
Before starting this mission, I took time to assemble the archeotech my Adeptus Mechanicus army has [finally] found. I'd mistakenly recalled that you neede...
I'm playing through the missions in the Pariah Nexus Crusade book, in order of appearance. The twelfth mission is called Nullification field.
In this mission, there's a Nullification Field, 12" in diametre, emanating a from the centre of the game board. There are objectives north and south of...
One of my favourite games is Dungeoneer by Thomas Denmark and published by Atlas Games. Dungeoneer is sold as card decks, but it's also a board game, with some of the cards in the deck serving as board tiles. I own every Dungeoneer deck released, and I'm reviewing them one by one. In this post...