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A new Games Blog written by a couple of veteran gamers, on topics from Magic to White Wolf, including Game Reviews, House Rules, Game Strategies, Game Design and more!
View ArticleWreckage Game Review and House Rules
Wreckage by Fantasy Flight Games is a fast-paced and stylish car combat game with great packaging, but can it offer well-tuned gameplay to keep your group happy?
View ArticleTinyWarz and Browser Game Design
TinyWarz 2.0 has launched, and I took a spin in this turn-based strategy browser game to see what it is all about. What I brought back are first impressions of the game, along with thoughts on the...
View ArticleHistory of the World – Games I Play
History of the World – Game Overview History of the World is an Avalon Hill war game for up to six players. History of the World was originally published in 1991 while the most recent version came out...
View ArticleThree-Dragon Ante – Games I Play
Three Dragon Ante – Game Overview Three-Dragon Ante is a simple non-collectible card game produced by Wizards of the Coast. At its core it is meant to be a poker-like gambling game that should feel...
View ArticleReaction and Recovery – A Short Diatribe About My Taste in Games
A few months ago Scott and I started to work on a project categorizing gamers. Essentially we wanted to come up with umbrella terms that scooped gamers into recognizable groups so that it would be...
View ArticleHistory of the World – Balance of Power Variant
The so-called Help the Little Guy Variant was essentially a building block for what I am now calling the Balance of Power Variant. I feel that this new Variant, which uses several of the same rules as...
View ArticleThe State of My Gaming Life
This is fluff. It’s so absolutely, completely, and amusingly fluff that it hardly needs to be read or looked at or edited or posted and it certainly doesn’t need to be written. Of course I have already...
View ArticleKill Doctor Lucky – Why a Binary Win Condition Fails
Recently I had the opportunity to play a newer version of Kill Doctor Lucky (thanks Dan, for having one of those birthday things) and find out how it compares against the original. There are a few...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Skill Challenges
Since the release of Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition there has been a lot of talk about Skill Challenges. A lot of players find the idea to be quite intriguing, allowing more dramatic rules for...
View ArticleHeroscape, Shadowrun and Other Things That Make My Time Disappear
I’ve been working on a number of different projects lately and they have taken up the time I would normally be using for ranting about some random D&D thing… er… I mean “writing for the blog”. I...
View ArticleFat-Free Magic: the Gathering – Without Lands (Channeling Land Variant)
Ever since Magic’s debut, there has been a built-in inefficiency to deck building and play caused by the requirement of including basic land. This always irked me, and here I’ll look at why basic lands...
View ArticleFun and Games
This isn’t a recent post by Yehuda but it’s one I hadn’t read before. I had been meaning to pop over there are start reading through the posts and as I was sitting here thinking about getting my...
View ArticleRisk Revisited Edition – More on House Rules and their Biggest Design Mistake
Our group has been playing the Risk Revised Board Game for the past few weeks and I wanted to do another post about about the game. I have done fairly well at winning this game so it may have skewed my...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Pre-Release Primer
I feel a little bad about the rather minimal time I have spent working on this blog lately and while I have reasons for my absence I can’t say they were all good reasons. Feel free to read my tangent...
View ArticleHow Best to Print Out Minimum Wage
So it’s finally out (announcement here). Phew, it has been a long road to get here but I have finally managed to get Minimum Wage up on the blog for any and all who would like to download and check it...
View ArticleCard Games Cometh
I have several new games I am planning to talk about and review soon and it came to my attention as I was driving to work today that quite a number of them are card games. After making this realization...
View ArticleDominion – Review – Best New Game I Played in 2008
Normally I am rather reluctant to call anything “the best”. This is true both with games and the rest of my life. The reasons are many but it often boils down to my feelings that things feel better at...
View ArticlePath to Victory – Scrap Heaps Game Development
Recently I dug up an old game prototype I made for a card game called Scrap Heaps. There were a number of reasons I liked the overall design, but looking over the game again after years have passed I...
View ArticleScrap Heaps: To Be or Not To Be Collectible
Over the last couple weekends we’ve gotten some playtesting time on Scrap Heaps. Like last time on Scrap Heaps game development I’m continuing to file away the rough edges, with the help of playtest...
View ArticleSome Words from Donald X
This post is sort of a follow up post to what I wrote yesterday about Dominion as we have a bit of information right from The Donald himself. (No… not Trump but he had a pretty cool game too!) For...
View ArticleTom Lehmann’s Review of Dominion – An Example of Something I Would Twitter
Scott has been looking into getting Twitter set up on this blog. One of the main reasons I have been asking for it is things like this post. Generally these posts are simply things I have found amusing...
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