Recent Posts Tagged With 'tabletop games'

• Inq. of the Week: Friendly Local Gaming Stores?

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 00:33 in gaming, comics, rpg, featured, tabletop games, inquisition of the week, game store, flgs

  Over the weekend I’ve done my fair share of video game playing, the most fun of which was easily several hours of playing four player New Super Mario Bros. on the Wii. With the great selection of new games that have come out this Fall, it seems...

• Warhammer the Smart Way: How to Play the Game Without Emptying Your Wallet

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 07:59 in Army, hobby, miniatures, featured, games workshop, warhammer, tabletop, tabletop games, warhammer 40k, 40k, warhammer fantasy, science fiction & fantasy

  The most common complaint associated with Games Workshop games is that they are too expensive.  Warhammer and its futuristic cousin Warhammer 40,000 are wonderful games for many reasons, but their ability to drain money from bank accounts is legenda...

• Inq. of the Week: Gaming Women

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 21:56 in video games, women, rpg, gender, featured, tabletop games, inquisition of the week

  Gaming genres were the topic last week, and not altogether unexpectedly, fantasy came out on top, with 95% of voters saying it’s what they enjoyed. Second place, with science fiction, took 72% of the vote, which says I need to get in more Trave...

• Inq. of the Week: On Reviewing

  Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 19:00 in rpg, reviewing, tabletop games, inquisition of the week, adventure modules

  Alternative titles for last week’s poll: “Blood, Sweat, and Tiers”, “Tiers of a Clown”, and “Tiers for Fiers.” 91% of you have played lowish level D&D recently, 27% in the mid to high range, and ......

• Review: Lord of the Rings Risk – Trilogy Edition

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 20:21 in gaming, review, Games, risk, lord of the rings, tolkien, game design, middle earth, Science Fiction & Fantasy, wargame, tabletop games

  Overview Lord of the Rings Risk: Trilogy Edition, a board game by Hasbro and Parker Brothers released in 2003, takes the classic game of Risk and transports it into Tolkien’s Middle Earth.  In addition to ......

• Preview: Magic the Gathering – Planechase

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 06:47 in news, review, preview, featured, magic the gathering, card game, tabletop games, gencon 2009, planechase, mtg plane chase

  While at GenCon this year I got to sit down and play a preview game of the new Magic the Gathering variation called Planechase that Wizards of the Coast is releasing September 4th. Like MtG except there is always one plane in play that drastically c...

• YouTube Tuesday: Well, OK, I Was The Traitor Edition

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 10:36 in werewolf, youtube tuesday, tabletop games, looney labs, are you the traitor

  An ad for the newest Looney Labs party game, “Are You The Traitor?” Not only has it quickly become one of my favorite games (right up there with Werewolf), I worked on it and I ......

• I Am A Liberal Gamer

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 17:53 in editorial, video games, rpg, game design, fallout 3, tabletop games, critical threats, 4e, warhammer fantasy roleplay

  I'm a big proponent of change in game design. If something isn't working, don't just patch it, teardown and rebuild. This puts me in opposition to what I will respectfully call the "Conservative Gamer" contingent, who prefer that games preserve much ...

• Inq. of the Week: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 03:40 in news, conventions, rpg, tabletop games, inquisition of the week, gencon

  I am going to subject you all to another question about what you'd like to see here, but focused on our immediate future. These answers will help us to determine where we should spend our time and energy at GenCon. While we already have a packed sche...

• Origins 2009: Exhibit Hall in Words, Pictures, and Sounds

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 18:16 in news, podcast, rpg, featured, origins, tabletop games, origins 2009

  One of the biggest draws of any big game convention is the exhibit hall, and Origins is no exception. This year saw a return to using the entirety of the exhibit hall for booths. There's always plenty for gamers to spend their hard earned cash on, an...

• Origins Awards 2009

  Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 18:06 in news, rpg, tabletop games, originsawards origins origins2009

  I reported live from the 35th Annual Origins Awards via the Critical Hits twitter feed, but here’s the results, with all the nominees and winners: Play By Mail Atlas Games Play by Post Forums by Atlas Games Heldenwelt ......

• Being a Good New Player

  Posted on Saturday May 9th, 2009 at 08:56 in rpg, player, d&d, Science Fiction & Fantasy, featured, dnd, roleplaying games, dungeons and dragons, dm, tabletop games, character background

  So often the focus of my articles is DMing. However, in a few short weeks I will be doing something unusual: joining The Game’s regular D&D game. I’m going to run through the considerations of making a character for a game that has been ru...

• Monster Manual 2 Spoilers!

  Posted on Tuesday May 5th, 2009 at 23:34 in rpg, preview, d&d, Science Fiction & Fantasy, featured, spoiler, dnd, roleplaying games, sneak peak, tabletop games, 4th edition, monster manual 2

  Wizards of the Coast is releasing some spoilers today for the Monster Manual 2 through various sources, one of which is right here!  I believe the deal is that various sources will be sneak previewing ......

• Origins Awards Nominees 2009: Picks and Commentary

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 11:23 in editorial, news, conventions, rpg, origins, tabletop games, origins awards

  icv2 has published the list of Origins Awards nominees. The nominees are decided by retailers at the GAMA Trade Show, and then attendees of Origins vote on the winners, and are announced at a ceremony on site (which we've covered two years in a row n...

• My 2009 Gathering of Friends Picks

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 11:39 in review, dominion, fits, tabletop games, dominion: intrigue, gathering of friends, space alert

  I’m back from the 2009 Gathering of Friends, the 10 day long boardgaming con. I’m also (mostly) recovered. This year, I focused more on relaxing, hanging out with fellow designers, and playing prototypes moreso than playing ......

• Preview: Ranged Warlord

  Posted on Friday March 27th, 2009 at 16:40 in comics, rpg, d&d, Science Fiction & Fantasy, featured, roleplaying, dungeons and dragons, tabletop games, 4th edition, martial power, ranged warlord

  When preview material for the 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons first started to come out, what excited me the most was probably the addition of the Warlord class. The Races & Monsters preview book described the class alongside pictures of...

• YouTube Tuesday: Hitler’s Locust Edition

  Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 13:33 in humor, rpg, youtube tuesday, tabletop games, battletech

  He puts all other tyrranical game masters to shame....

• Inq. of the Week: Who Watched the Watchmen?

  Posted on Sunday March 8th, 2009 at 23:44 in editorial, movies, comics, Science Fiction & Fantasy, featured, watchmen, tabletop games, inquisition of the week

  My sense when it was being advertised, and especially after seeing it, is that the movie is something of a tough sell. It's long, it's R rated, and it's fairly high concept as far as movies with this kind of advertising budget go. Early box office re...

• Review: Bucephalus Games Initial Lineup

  Posted on Friday February 20th, 2009 at 14:35 in review, tabletop games

  They may have a funny name, but they're not messing around: Bucephalus Games stormed onto the scene last year, quickly putting out a number of board game titles and having an impressive precense at both Origins and Gen Con. A quick look at their web ...