Review: Thunderstone from Alderac Entertainment Group
“Thunderstone” from AEG is a deck-building game built around a dungeon-crawling theme. For those not familiar with the deck-building genre, here is a brief explanation. Rather than starting with a stack of cards to play with (ie Magic: The Gathering), players start with a very small deck of cards. These cards each have a value [...]
Are Role-Playing Games Gambling and Therefore Potentially Addictive?
Gambling is the act of risking something of value on something an unknowable outcome. It is my sincere belief that all role-playing games, even the ones with no obvious random component (ie dice), involve players risking something of value on an unknowable outcome and, therefore, are gambling. Before I get angry comments about diceless or [...]
First Look: Chthonian Stars from Wildfire–Cthulhu Meets Traveller
"Chthonian Stars" (pronounced ‘thonian’ the ‘ch’ is silent) is the new Traveller supplement from Wildfire LLC releasing in October 2010. I spoke with Matthew Grau, vice-president of Wildfire about the upcoming release, the history of Wildfire and what makes "Chthonian Stars" different from Wildfire’s other Mythos-themed release, "Cthulhutech." A bit about the history of Wildfire [...]
GenCon 2010 Exhibitors and Vendor Web Site Directory
Gen Con 2010 draws near and once again here my link list of all of the vendors and exhibitors. The list is a bit longer than last year, which bodes well for the size of the convention and overall health of the gaming community. I could not find a few sites, so if you have [...]
Origins Game Fair 2010 Exhibitor and Vendor Web Sites
Origins Game Fair released the pre-registration book which included the Origins Game Fair 2010 exhibitor and vendor list. Sadly, the list is just text and does not contain links to the various vendor web sites. Since I am not attending Origins this year and wanted to check out all the vendors, I created a vendor [...]
